I've been tagged. I was first tagged by
Xen sometime last year, but I wasn't able to write about it then. Now I got tagged once again, this time by
Wendong. Since accumulating tags is not a good thing, in honor of Xen and Wendong, here I go with 5 things about me:

  • I was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, a small and beautiful island on the
    Caribbean (east). My father is medical doctor (pediatrician) and my mother a nurse. I've 2 brothers
    (one is a doctor psychology and one in materials engineering) and I have a sister, and I'm the youngest.
    I learned a lot from my older brothers who exposed me to science and astronomy
    and aviation and rocketry and other, they are whom I attribute my tendency
    towards science and engineering. I am married and have 3 children. Currently live in north of Austin Texas,
    where I like it a lot, but summers are extremely hot, which is why you don't
    hear about companies starting in garages here – the equipment (or yourself)
    would stop working either due to excessive heat or humidity :-).
  • I first played with computers when I was in my 9th grade, with a Sinclair kit. But I gave my first shot at programming on a Z-80 machine using the Basic language on CP/M OS (long live Gary Kildall). Those days I remember seeing the Amiga OS running and thinking how advanced it was, which it truly was when compared to any other system out there for desktop.
  • I graduated from the Univ. of PR in 1990, but worked in system administration, and then programming throughout school, which prepared me for post-college work life. Since then, I've programmed on many languages from Basic, Pascal, Lisp, Assembler, Fortran, COBOL, RPG (I hate RPG), C, C++, Java, C#, scripting, Ruby, and other, on all kind of OSes, from mainframes to mid and personal computers, from real-time to batch, and embedded and handsets, from flight-software, SCADA software, multimedia streaming, and robotics, financial systems, and mobility. I've been working on mobile/wireless-and embedded, in one way or another, since 1997.
  • I write articles and code about mobile computing, mobile in handsets, Java ME and Mobile Web,
    and published one of the firsts books dedicated to MIDP back in 2001. I believe
    publishing will be reinvented by the web and online content, indexing and
    searching, and on-demand publishing.
  • I love the sea, like to play basketball, soccer, baseball, tennis, and volleyball, and love skiing. I haven't snowboard yet.

I'm not sure who already have been tagged, but I would like to tag the following people:
Martin (Mobile Society),
Mike (This is Mobility),
Ajit (Open Gardens),
Rudy (m-trends),
Bill Day, and
Anders (Abiro)… if already tagged, just
point to your previous tagged post.

ceo