1. 06 February 2006

    About

    My about section sucks, so I’m cutting it back to nothing and putting what I had here for posterity’s sake.

    So, who are you?

    Kjell Olsen, in case you were wondering. Get in touch. Read on if you care to do so.

    I like computers, the internet, listening to music, taking pictures, doing things and going places. I love playing sports, especially soccer, skiing, and biking. I think everyone should have a sharp mind and fit body, along with complete control over both.

    I’m a bit of a computer nerd. When I was just a wee fifth grader, I got selected to do a project with the walker art center on interactive media, which is how I convinced my parents to get this crazy thing called the Internet. That was about 1997, on the linked page it says I was 11. It was fun, and I got to go see their new media lab, where there were some artist/hackers doing cool stuff that piqued my interests. I got the internet, then broadband a few years later. After borderline obsessive gaming for a few years, around ninth grade I walked away from medievia and never went back. For awhile I managed to have quite the social life, before getting bored and spending all too much time on the computer again, this time reading lots and playing around.

    I taught myself basic web design, played around with it for awhile, and eventually decided I’d move on to programming. Learning ruby was one of my new years resolutions for 2004, I chose it because it looked cool. I’d done a bit with php before that, but never liked it. Ruby proved to be a great choice, it’s really gaining popularity, probably the most talked about programming language around right now. I wish I was better at it. I managed to catch the ruby on rails train before it picked up too much steam, and have lately been enjoying that. If I could, I’d probably marry any of the 37signals.

    I’ve been an apple fanboy since my family upgraded the Commodore 64 to a performa sometime before I started kindergarten. I decided to start flamewars in fifth grade (although I didn’t know they weren’t called as such) along with a friend against anyone dumb enough to contend that PC’s were indeed better then Mac. I got a powerbook this summer, and it completely rocks. I quit a job mostly because I had to use a PC.

    my headshot

    And hey, for reading this far, I think you deserve a photo. I really hate having my picture taken, you can tell I was a little bit surprised at the camera going off in my face. This was my 18th birthday, 1/11/2005.

    I sincerely hope putting all this shit up on the internet doesn’t earn me any stalkers. But I’m really all too boring, and don’t worry about it too much. I also have this crazy philosophy that I shouldn’t do anything that I’d be ashamed of telling the world about, and having a website holds me to that a little bit.

    Why have a website?

    I got lucky and bought into textdrive, a web hosting company, as a member of the VC 200. I decided that $200 for the life of the company was a gamble I was willing to take. Textdrive got going and kicks ass. But that’s the real reason for this site – lots of storage and bandwidth and really nothing to do with it but play.

    Site Composition

    I made this site up by hand, with a little help from textpattern, a terrific little blog/cms written in php.

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