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Random Wisdom
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I never let my schooling interfere with my education. - Mark Twain
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This page contains very important information about myself and what I do in life.
It may or may not be of any interest to anyone but myself. You might be thinking
"How does this guy have the time to make all these pages?" or "Don't you have a life?".
Well, I practically live on the internet and instead of wasting my off-work time doing
something productive like watching TV, I surf web pages and create web pages.
I hope to someday develop technology that will allow one to transfer their very essence
into digital form and forever float freely in the data streams of the internet, hence
gaining immortality.
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I am happily married with 1 child, Daniel. You can check out his picture website
here. I have a younger sister.
My dad has a tiny website located here.
In case you didn't know, I changed my last name shortly before I got married.
It used to be "Haapaneva". That is the family name that my grandfather in
Finland picked during the war... as they had to change their last name for
some odd reason. My great-grandfathers last name was "Vidberg". I have always
had problems with people not being able to spell or pronounce "Haapaneva", so
I thought a good time to change it would be when my wife-to-be would change
hers also (to mine). So, no, I am not in a witness protection program or
anything. I just changed my name because I wanted to. Hopefully, google will
pick up this page and anyone searching for me will be able to find me
(unless you are some crazy stalker then forget what you just
read and go away).
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I currently work as an independent web developer, programming the back-ends to web sites.
I have been doing this since early 2002. Previously I've had jobs as a web application developer,
a system administrator, a computer technician, etc... I am kind of a computer handy man I guess.
See my resume here.
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Well, lets see... the computer/internet thing is obvious if you have read this far. Other things
I enjoy (in no particular order) are day-tripping, exploring, trying foods from different cultures, hanging out with my wife and son, reading, listening to music,
watching movies, and burning things (well, mostly my mouth with
hot sauces).
I've done some
geocaching, a great
family activity for the summer weekends. Click the following links to see
geocaches that I've hidden:
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Also, check out my page of GPS locations.
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I tend to read mostly fantasy, horror and computer books. I occasionaly read sci-fi, fiction, religious, political
and philosophy books.
Click here
to see a partial list of books that I currently have sitting on my book shelf.
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Some things in life that really bug me are:
- Drivers who speed and cram into tiny gaps in traffic
- Drivers who don't know how to park their car in between the lines in parking lots
- The driving habits of people that drive pick-up trucks
- The driving habits of immature teenagers
I used to have a link in the top menu bar to my "Opinions" page, but I think
it is a bit too negative to be featured so prominently... so I've kind of
buried it.
You can still get to it here if you
really want to read my ramblings.
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Everybody loves the annoying animated wavy flags!
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