| What is your favorite programming language? | Perl |
| What's your favorite waste of time? | Reading |
| What's your favorite movie? | Brazil |
| What's your favorite (active) sport? | Golf |
| What's your favorite sport (couch potato sport)? | Munching peanut snips |
| What's your favorite holiday destination? | Any hot place away from tourists (e.g. Hajjar Mountains, U.A.E). |
| What's your favorite Web site? | www.everything2.org |
| What's your favorite encryption/hashing algorithm? | One time pads |
| What's your favorite computer-related book? | The 'Camel Book' (Programming Perl) |
| What's your favorite non-computer book? | The Name of the Rose (Portuguese edition) |
| What's your favorite junk food? | Instant Thai Noodles
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| Least favorite programming language? | Algol, no Intercal, no... There's so many... |
| Least favorite software manual? | Microsoft Office, the 'see online help' one. |
| Least favorite movie? | Sound of Music |
| Least favorite junk food? | Pizza Hut 'pizza' |
| Least favorite piece of music: | Anything by Burt Bacharach (except that song with Elvis Costello in Austin Powers II). |
| Your five categories for a trivia quiz? | Gem stones, Discworld
novels, Jules Verne, TLAs, photography |
| What's your favorite Computer Game? | Serf City - Life is Feudal; that one even still runs on my old 486 laptop under DOS. |
