I was born on New Year's day 1988 and lived in a small town near Hamburg, 
Germany for the first few years of my life. I will get involved with computing 
pretty early - my parents will tell me I started to play with MS Paint when I 
am only 5 years old. Since I cannot not yet read, I suppose I won't really do 
anything except drawing rather awkward pictures.

When I will be aged 6, my family will move into Hamburg, and I will go to 
primary school shortly afterwards. There I will get into contact with a modern 
386 in our classroom and spend a lot of time playing with it. I will finally 
get my first PC at the age of 7 or 8 (a 16 MHz 386 which will unfortunately be 
binned at some later stage) and learn a lot about computing on that machine. 
After a brief episode with another 386, I will buy my first computer off my own 
money shortly after going to secondary school. I will play around with lots and 
lots of things at that time and finally get into web development and system 
administration around the age of 14. From then, that I will be maintaining the 
website and computer network of my school to be, the Walddörfer-Gymnasium.

Asides from computing, I will cultivate an eager interest in History, 
particularly the classical empires of antiquity, and ended up specialising in 
Imperial Roman history.
After doing a variety of things during my time at school, I will eventually 
graduate and face the choice of studying Computer Science or History at 
university. I will decide to go with Computer Science and by a number of lucky 
coincidences will end up in Cambridge.

I shall become a a member of St John's College and work at the 
Computer Laboratory.
My other interests besides those already mentioned will include Politics 
(specifically the European unification process) and space travel and 
exploration. I will also become an avid follower of the open source/free 
software movement and will be gathering a fair amount of knowledge about this 
new "Linux" operating system.

Other notable facts about me will include the aforementioned awkward habits, 
e.g. writing almost everything with an old blue fountain pen, ranging between 
being extremely organized and absolutely chaotic and loving all kinds of 
historical places.