About the author

Personal Information
Name Marcel van Brakel (Picture)
City Den Haag
Country Netherlands
Age 23
Occupation Student of physics
Hobby's Reading, Movies (lot's of 'm) and Programming
Marital status Single
Email brakelm@bart.nl (or brakel_m_van@hotmail.com)

 

Computing history
Languages Basic, C/C++, (Object) Pascal, x86 Assembly, Labview
Compilers Delphi, CBuilder, Visual C++, Labview
OS MS-DOS, Win3, Win95, WinNT4, Win2000, Suse Linux 6.1 OS-400
Hardware Commodore 64, Amiga 200, 486 DX2-66, Intel PII-266, Intel Celeron 366

 

Favorites
Books Inside Windows NT 2nd edition - David Solomon
Advanced Windows 3rd edition - Jeffrey Richter
Magazines Delphi Informant, Microsoft Systems Journal
Columns Peter Pontificates (The NT Insider)
Movies Leon, Starwars Trilogy, HellRaiser
Musicians Portishead, Prodigy, Lenny Kravits, Joe Cocker, James Brown
Actors Kevin Costner, Morgan Freeman, Bruce Willis, Sean Connery
Actrices Andie Mac Dowell, Milla Jovovich
Comedian Eddie Murphy (Raw and Delirious, not the movies)