Seven Things - I have been Tagged by Remi Woler

Apparently there is a new game going around the neighborhood. It's a pyramid game where you post a blog with seven facts (known/unknown) about yourself, then tag seven friends at the end, hoping they will continue the campaign.

If it weren't for good friends like Matthew Weier O'Phinney and Remi Woler having been tagged in the previous steps of this game, I am not sure I would have joined. In the old days, we used to get chain letters delivered by the actual mail - snail mail that is. Then when email appeared, the annoying chain letters changed medium (but remained annoying nonetheless). Now it's a Blog chain - what's next - a Twitter chain?

So seven facts about me:

• I am a Green Card holder, moved to the US 4 years ago, and I love it here!
• The first two programming languages I ever used were Basic and Fortran 77 in this order.
• I am allergic to cats. The first cat I owned (I was not allergic to him) was called Gustav.
  
• My first job was as an assembly line person, in a plastic caps manufacturing factory. I collected the caps, 50 at a time, and placed them in cardboard boxes. I was 14 at the time, and it was my first summer job.
  
• I love Photography (duh).
  
• Before working for Zend as Marketing Programs Manager, I founded and ran my own online store, that specialized in "haute couture" for babies and kids - it was called CuteLittleClothes and my former partner bought me out ans is still successfully running it!
• I can't pronounce Remi Woler's real name :)

And here are the Bloggers I can think of tagging :

• Etay Gafni - my one and only!
  
• Mark De Visser - my former one-of-a-kind boss (I miss you)!
• My very good friend Cal Evans (I miss you too..)
• And also back to Matthew (are there any rules about the same blogger being tagged more than once?)
  

And here are the rules I'm supposed to pass on to the above bloggers:

• Link your original tagger(s), and list these rules on your blog.
• Share seven facts about yourself in the post - some random, some wierd.
• Tag seven people at the end of your post by leaving their names and the links to their blogs.
• Let them know they've been tagged by leaving a comment on their blogs and/or Twitter.