welocome.html<title> <link rel=stylesheet href="./stylesheet.css" type="text/css" media="screen, print"> </head> <body> <div id="content"> <h1>Hobbies</h1> <h2>Reading</h2> <p>I taught myself to read at the ripe age of four, when my mom refused to read Donald Ducks to me - because Uncle Scrooge was a rich capitalist who exploits poor Donald. Or that she was busy with my little sister <i>and</i> brother. Another contributing factor may have been that my long-time friend had learnt to read a few months earlier, but I distinctly remember that it was a DD that I "read" when I Got It, and then just kept on actually <i>reading</i>.</p> <p>So I read. Plenty. Not as much as I used to... but still plenty. SciFi, fantasy, selected crime/detective stuff, fiction - not just anything, mind you.</p> <p>To name names and such, Andrew Vachss, Robert Heinlein, Neal Stephenson, Raymond E. Feist, William Gibson, Ian Rankin... you know. Maybe you don't.</p> <h2>Motorcycling</h2> <p>Drove my card at 16, had a '87 125 Kawasaki KMX for a summer, then, for a few more summers I had a '88 Honda NS-125R. Which I sold, and bought a cell-phone. <b>Stupid, stupid, stupid.</b></p> <p>Nowadays I drive '08 Suzuki GSX-650F, although I still have its predecessor, '98 Suzuki GS 500 E... which I should sell. At the garage sits also my ever-project, '82 Yamaha XS 400 Seca - US model. I'll fix it sometime. I promise.</p> <h2>Other Stuff</h2> <p>There's this thing we crazy Finns call - or at least used to - ATK. Ever since I got my first Amstrad 1640 PC with Dos 2.11 and GEM, around '89 or so, I've done something with PCs. When my mom started a business, she stole the Amstrad. I didn't complain; I got a 286 in the trade. Wasn't all that special, comparing to today's stuff, but back then it was <i>cool</i>. And fast.</p> <p> Eventually I drifted into other things for a few years, but 1996 I started anew - then Pentium was new-ish. It took me almost a year to get my own new gear, 166MHz P-MMX with hefty 64M of RAM. When I did, I messed up royally and took up an OS OS - and thereby started learning stuff that have kept me in bread for a good while now. With that box I taught myself loads of stuff about everything 'puting and networking, security and much, much more.</p> <p>Yeah, and I play sometimes too.</p> </div> </div> </body> </html>