In case you are wondering who I am :

My name is Alex Boschmans, and I’m an (ex)IT guy mostly doing project management for a large bank in Belgium, happily living with my family consisting of Dolores, our sons Tom and Sam, and our cat. I was born in Australia and have some family and friends there, although I haven’t seen them in ages. I still want to go back and visit, but that’ll have to wait until our children are older.

My hobbies are :

• reading science-fiction, fantasy (lots) and the occasional scientific or psychological book (group dynamics are interesting!)
• mucking about with the web (this very site, for example)
• anything geeky like computers and linux and mysql and apache and mac and games and new tech developments

I go swimming regularly and have a hate-love-hate relationship with ski-ing :
I hate it, curse it and fear it before, during and after , but I love it for those few blissful moments when body and mind get together and the skiing goes ‘zen’ . Hard to explain really, but that’s how it is for me.

According to this questionnaire that I answered, my jung typology temperament is INFJ : Introverted (11%), iNtuitive (38%), Feeling (25%), Judging (11%). That questionnaire was taken in 2005.

However, I recently (2009) participated in a self-scoring test at work where I scored ENTJ, which is just about the opposite of the spectrum (Extraverted, iNtuitive, Thinking, Judging) – and when I asked Dolores which of those two profiles fits me more, she immediately said ENTJ.
So it seems I’m of a dual nature: personally I feel like an INFJ but externally (or at least at work) I act and perform like an ENTJ. I think that people evolve and adapt (to their workplace, for example) but I still feel the need to have ‘time off’ for myself to recharge. At the same time working with like-minded people motivates me and gives me energy.

You can read about what this means on the relevant page. I also keep a page about people I remember.

Oh, and I want to put back a header on this blog – my favourite picture was taken in the Algarve region, Portugal in 2004. With the new theme I made using Artisteer, it’s now a picture of the Turkish coastline, which is nice as well.