I'm a developer, operator and innovator, a computer systems guru who knows the strangest stuff about the wierdest things, I'm an entrepreneour, a pioner, a passionate gourmet cook, a father and a skilled grower, breeder and absolute lover of exotic chilies.

I really love good Scottish single-malt whiskey, like Talisker, Cragganmore, Bowmore, McAllan and Glenlivit. A lot of those who knows a lot about whiskey prefers those from Islay, but I don't know much about whiskey yet - I just know what I like, then I'll take it from there..

And Chili, boy do I like a good pot of hot Chili, so strong it makes me sweat (and that SO hot that the compound are closer to nuclear waste than food) - on the other hand, when I'm cooking Chili - it's so pungent that only a few of my friends can eat it, so not only does it have very culinarial properties, it could do as a fine drain-cleaner replacement too..

I have just about a million hobbies..

I love to restore my house, working with masonry, casting floors and bases for construction, joining and spicing wood into structural elements, stemming out intricate shapes to allow for interlocking and work with respect for the living materials. There's work with making drywalls and ceilings, laying floors, insulating with consideration for moisture's ability to escape and to allow for ventilation, there's re-planning the floor-plan, moving doorways, altering spaces, digging out basements under the existing building and dirty stuff like that.
Then there's a whole science of draining for excess water, both on the altual surface of the house and in the ground around the house, not always easy getting mother nature and the force of gravity to work to your advantage.

I love to work in my garden, leveling the grassfields every spring, padding and seeding new where winter killed what were there, germinating strawberries in the middle of the winter and tomatoes and peppers in the early spring, forming hedges, pruning trees and bushes..

I love reading books, many different types of books, I like science fiction books that lures you into a yet unknown future, fantasy (like Discworld, Good Omens or Lord Of The Rings), work-related books (like Extreme Programming, The FreeBSD Handbook or the Apache manual), cookbooks (both books about cooking techniques and books with recipes in them) and quite many other subjects, it's almost like getting a little slurp of wisdon to calm my eternal thirst.

I edit movies, working with cutting, joining, recompressing, applying special fade-effects or bluescreen artifacts, I convert old VHS movies to digital format, I also have a mediaserver in the house with 1.8 TB of diskspace on it to serve as a library for all the converted movies.

As I wrote, I like a million things, some of whom (over time) will get their own pages somewhere..