Five more things…

Jonathan tagged me while we were chatting, so here are my five things you may not know about me (although I know a few readers do):

1. While Jonathan has let slip that I’m a musician, he didn’t mention that I am a failed pop-star wannabe. Our band was the first signing to an Australian Sony subsidiary label, and I quit two weeks before our national tour supporting the winners of a reality-tv band competition. A few months later, colleagues informed me that they were busily denying my existence in online interviews…Ah, the cutthroat world of the music business.
2. I *did* write my first program when I was 10 years old, on an Atari 600XL.
3. My surname is an anglicisation of a francification (if that’s a word) of a Breton name, which roughly translates to ‘Skinner’. Quinert was ‘Le Quiniat’, which was ‘Ar Kignat’.
4. I keep fish. I think the black ghost knife fish may be the coolest fish one can own. Ours is called ‘Hoover’, and anyone who owns one can probably guess why.
5. I started my testing career in video games, as evidenced on mobygames.