Cool Things You've Done (Brag Thread)
herval: hah! No big feats to brag about here, but I'll join the game anyway :-)* started my first 'gig' translating books/magazines, printing them in a borrowed dot-matrix printer and selling around the town (at age 9). Also wrote original pieces about videogames and stuff (sold around 100-200 copies, heh)* got my first programming-related 'prize' at school (age 11): won a couple of books because of an RPG game I did in LOGO (self taught) for a science fair* rooted two ISPs back in the 90's - one by going through their garbage bins and finding password info, other by cold-calling at night and convincing the security guy to hand in some info. No harm done, but it was fun fun fun* founded and leaded a programming 'association' (PBJug, a Java User Group) - the first one in my hometown's region (now with 500 people signed up)* got a couple of articles published as reference material on PhD and Msc thesis of people I don't even know. I'm a college dropout, btw* had access to a lot of prototype mobile phones from two different makers. Now THAT's something to brag, for a gadget-addict* programmed an easter egg into a very popular mobile phone - you'd see me (and the rest of the dev team) by pressing 666# while in the file browser app. They've added easter eggs on new phones after that, to keep up with the 'tradition' fixed a bug in a finance system that saved 4mi euros from 
one customer. Got a "thank's from noticing" from middle management and that was about it* went from nothing (born in a small town w/ a relatively poor family) to live and work abroad, in some very respected companies (IBM, Siemens and the like), despite everyone saying I was crazy for even trying.* went from working to high profile companies to starting up, despite everyone saying I was crazy for leaving those jobs behind* founded 4 companies so far, all on software (different areas - one still open, just starting the 4th one)* survived from death at least a dozen times: one from drowning at sea, one car crash, couple of very strong electric shocks, mugged (with a gun) twice, jumped into a pool with some electrical wire hanging on and almost drown/got electrocuted. Still alive and very proud of my nine-lives syndrome* travelled 100k miles in a single year* lost 40kg in 6 months* drove at 200km/h in a German highway. Priceless!* married an amazing woman and got the cutest dog on earth (named Frodo) :-)