I've spent countless hours in front of a computer, coding, writing emails and surfing the web. So you may call me a nerd and I won't be offended. On the other hand, I like to travel, ride my bicycle (even during the winter when it may be -15°C and snowing!) and do a wide range of other sports.
I also like taking photographs. I'm often too busy (or lazy) to update my site, but new pictures appear at least occasionally on my party and travel pages.
Starting from October 2007, I'm again working at CSC. I also worked there earlier from October 2003 until June 2006, participating in various grid projects, M-grid in particular. In June 2006 I quit my job to live for some time as an independent traveller. :-)
Before joining CSC, I studied computer science at Helsinki University of Technology and particularly enjoyed my exchange years at INSA, Lyon, France and Image Information Science laboratory at Kanazawa University, Japan. In the past, I also spent two wonderful summers at CERN, Switzerland, worked for Helsinki Institute of Physics and was a sysadmin of MikroPC.net. I also used to write articles for the MikroPC magazine, but haven't had time for that lately. Some of my earlier works are available on my writings page.
For more details and official stuff, I have a cv too.
I have a tendency to get involved in too many associations and free time activities. My affiliations include:
I'm not specially talented in visual design so I try to avoid special tricks and keep these pages simple and standards compliant. At least now the main pages finally use style sheets (css). :-) They should scale to the width of your browser window (well, most of them do) and respect your font size preferences. They should all go through the W3C html validator and be readable with any browser. If you find one that doesn't or have any other comments, please drop me a note.