Blog-Tagging or How-To Push Your Blog’s PageRank
My dear friend Raffy Marty has Blog-Tagged me. 
Well, so far I have not heard about this. So, what is it? When you get Blog-Tagged, you have to write five not commonly known things about yourself to your blog and then you name the next five “victims”. The basic idea is that your blog readers get to know you a bit better.
So what kind of implications or additional benefits has Blog-Tagging? It is a way to increase your Google PageRank, which is obviously a good thing if you want to grow your audience. Since you most likely refer back to the blog which has Blog-Tagged you the original blog gets an additional backlink. When all your “victims” will do the same with your blog, you get an additional five backlinks. Since not everybody knows about Blog-Tagging, additional backlinks to explaining blogs or sites will occur.
Not being a killjoy, I will now give my five “confessions” 
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- I wrote my first computer program when I was about 10 years old. At that time my father has bought a Commodore C64 and has taught himself BASIC. I sort of trailed the path and slipped naturally into computer technology. My first program was a series of block character graphics which told a little story about Alex the duck.
- You might remember those little albums in primary school days where you drew nice pictures and wrote rhymes and poems to your best friend’s album? There have been some in questionnaire style: “What is your dream job?” Well, my answers were: Computer Specialist or Astronaut.
- In 1992, when I still was an electronics technician apprentice, I got interested in Linux. A coworker showed me a report in the c’t magazine about this new operating system. I was hooked right away since I thought Windows sucks and playing on the company’s Ultrix and Solaris workstation was more geeky. Since there were no commercial Linux distros available at the time, we ordered QIC tapes from the operator of the Swiss academic network (SWITCH) with a copy of the Slackware Linux FTP mirror. We then copied the disk images to about forty 5 ¼ inch floppy disks and played disk jockey all night.
- I have been a radio amateur since 1993 and my call sign is HB9KOP. I was very active on packet radio and participated in building the local packet radio station HB9CC. Internet technology fascinated me at the time and I wanted to toy with it. Since Internet was too expensive in those days, the only way to do so was using TCP/IP over packet radio. That is how I got to know the Internet basics.
- I am a science fiction fan. My most favorite TV series are Babylon 5, Taken and The 4400. Currently my most favorite science fiction author is Michael Cordy. He wrote several page-turner thriller novels with biotechnology as the core theme. In his books he tries to envision the course of the world when mankind has reached a sufficient level in playing the genes for better and for worse. In my opinion his best books are Crime Zero and The Miracale Strain.
I will now nominate the next round of Blog-Tag “victims” 
– Drum roll - The winners are: