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This is my personal website. The views expressed here are my personal views, not those of the Atlantis open source development Crew. This site, which is coded by hand and frames free, contains valid HTML, thus should be viewable with any browser, including Lynx. Some parts are written in Perl. This website doesn't relay on any non-valid content which may require proprietary plugins, like Adobe FlashPlayer. This website is coded with the KISS principle in mind. If you experience any problems using this site, please let me know. Links to Norwegian sites are marked with "(Norwegian)", and links which require Adobe Flashplayer are marked with "(Flash)". A light version of this website is also available, written in WML for WAP-browsers. You may want to take a look at the introduction to this site.


Hypotheses non fingo. -- "I do not assert that any hypotheses are true."

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Who

This is a picture of me. Photo by Magne Fuglestad.

Name: Stian Skjæveland.
Year of birth: 1984.
Location: My apartment, Klepp, Norway.
Occupation: Healthcare.
Marital status: Single.
Religion: Lutheran christian. Here's my church (Norwegian). I'm also involved in Ichtus (Norwegian) where young adults meet once a month.
E-mail: 'stian at atlantiscrew period net', and 'stianskj at gmail period com'.
MSN-address: Ask me.
Phone number: I have to say, like Larry Wall: "I hate my telephone. Please don't ask for my phone number." If I get phone calls and I don't know the phone number, I won't answer. Send me an e-mail or SMS (text-message; you'll probably find my phone number if you really want to) first and explain who you are and why you want to get in touch with me.
Profiles around the web: Facebook (quite active), MySpace (not very active), Twitter (somewhat active).
Pictures: Me, my family, other.
Other information: View biography, A note about religion and philosophy, All kinds of interesting and uninteresting facts about me, I'm a Five (Observer, Thinker, Investigator) with a Four Wing - My personality type according to the Enneagram, The thinker - My personality type according to The Personality Page. My weblog is available here (Norwegian). You may sign my guestbook here.

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Projects

Projects that I'm a part of: Other/personal projects/stuff/pages located on this site (that should be updated regularly): Back to site map.

Interests

I like to write/read fiction (poems, short stories and novels, mostly related to crime/horror/fantasy/drama) and facts (e.g. psychology, philosophy, religion, art, culture, politics, local history and mythology).

I'm into Japanese martial arts as well. I was training Judo for several years, now I am training Shotokan Karate-do in the dojo of Lura Karateklubb (Norwegian). I'm an 8. kyu. View a picture of me in my gi (40KB). Photo taken by my Master, Trond Grønnestad. My Sensei is Geir Arild Larsen.

I like music: rock/metal (e.g. Black Sabbath, Darkthrone, Deathspell Omega, Katharsis, Koldbrann, Led Zeppelin, Lifelover, Pink Floyd, Tool, and Xasthur). I like some electronica (e.g. Drexciya, Faithless, Kraftwerk (Flash), Massive Attack, Mortiis, and Underworld). I even like some modern pop music (e.g. Avril Lavigne (Flash), Coldplay, Katie Melua (Flash) and Kent).

I like movies: giallo, crime, horror, thriller, sci-fi and drama (e.g. A Blade in the Dark, Alien, The Beyond, Brokeback Mountain, Cruel Intentions, Donnie Darko, Lost in Translation, Profondo Rosso, The Silence of the Lambs, and Suspiria). My favorite TV-series is The X-Files, The 4400, Roswell, and Band of Brothers.

I like beer (mostly british stout) and whisk(e)y (mostly scottish and irish). I especially prefer scottish single malt whisky from the following regions: Highland, Islay and Speyside. Occationaly I drink cognac, gin, mead, sherry, vodka and wine as well, although I tend to prefer beer and whisk(e)y. If I had to choose one favorite whisky, I would say Ardbeg 10 Y.O. Islay single malt. I'm trying to drink responsibly (with varying degree of success).

I like numerous pipe-tobaccos, including Amphora, Kong Frederik IX's, Brookfield, MacBaren and Sir William. Usually I don't smoke cigarettes, but I like the taste of Lucky Strike and Camel. Note however that I don't use illegal substances.

Other activities that I find enjoyable includes walking in the forest, swimming in fresh water (not in the ocean), playing chess (I own four different chess-boards), shooting (I own a crosman 1088, and an MP-40 machine gun in softgun-format), and probably a lot more.

The following are mentioned because of my fascination/obsession: Animals with silly walks (e.g. penguins, crabs and turtles), watching people arguing - or watching people in love with each other, a dry sense of humor, people with comb overs, paintings/pictures/drawings of desolated and/or abandoded places/people, numbers (e.g. the binary and hexadecimal numeral systems), colors (e.g. black and green) and shapes (e.g. pentagrams, hexagrams and octagrams).

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Friends

From real life: Kjetil B., Kjetil N. (a.k.a. thenes) and Ioana, Marit Mathilde, Olav and Karianne, Stian and Panida, Thomas (a.k.a. nosxifaf) and Vinni (a.k.a. Melpomene/smyril), and Tommy (a.k.a. Iminzilion/Iminzil/XeLix) (Norwegian).

From IRC: DALnet: Arhuanion, joba7, MacMagnus, and ksw.

Other IRC-networks: donty, Niladuial, PirateRaff, Sandman, and techie

... And many, many more, on all kinds of IRC-networks.

Want your name/nickname/personal website to be added/updated/removed on this page? - send me an e-mail.

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Computer stuff

I have a screenshot (292KB) of my desktop (from my main computer; "xasthur"), and an Ogg-file (28KB) of me prounoncing the word "Linux" in Norwegian.

The glider: an Appropriate Hacker Emblem.

I'm on the DALnet, Freenode and EFnet IRC-networks (occasionally I'm on others as well). My nickname is stunix.

Here's my Irssi-theme. See the screenshot above for details.

My Firefox persona themes are avaiable here. I've been using GIMP to create them.

My main computer currently is an Intel Pentium Dual-core E5200 2.5GHz with 4GB DDR2 RAM.

I'm a registered Linux user, my ID is #338091.

Here's the decryption key used for (most) HD-DVD movies: 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0

Here's information about decryption keys for blu-ray.

(Please don't ask me questions about the decryption keys, I have never used them myself.)

Here's my Geek Code:

-----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-----
Version: 3.1
GP/CM/MU/CS/L/SS d- s:+ a- C+++(++)>++++ UBSL+++ P++++ L+++ E-(--) 
W+(++) N* !o K- w-- !O M V-(--) PS+ PE-() Y+ PGP+>++ t+ 5 X+++ 
R-(*) tv@ b++(+)>++++ DI+++ D+(----) G-(++) e+>++$ h+$()>++$ r-(--) !y
------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------

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Fun stuff

Online comics: Ctrl+Alt+Del | Dilbert | Hackles | InkTank | Kernel Panic | Little Gamers | Todays Cartoon | UserFriendly

Other: Hello World. | The truth about learning VI | The Church of the SubGenius | Humor in Linux kernel code | Humorix | Linux is NOT Windows | Whisky Or Whiskey? | Talk Like A Pirate Day | CAPS LOCK DAY | Weebl & Bob (Flash) | The Best Page In The Universe

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Serious stuff

64 bit Linux Flash/Shockwave players petition to Macromedia, Inc. (The beta version works fine!) | Amnesty: Be irrepressible | Amnesty: Death Penalty violates the right to life | Windows 7 Sins | Stopping Microsoft Windows Vista adoption by promoting free software | The Blue Ribbon Online Free Speech Campaign | Boycott AACS (HD-DVD and Blu-ray) | Boycot SCO | Marijuana Law Reform | Fight Back Against Spammers | Fight for coders' rights | Fight for webloger's rights | Freedom to Tinker | Groklaw - Digging for Truth | Join the FSF campaign to eliminate DRM | OOXML is defective by design | The Open Rights Group | Open Source Initiative | Petition for a Software Patent Free Europe | End Software Patents | Put an End to Word Attachments | Right to Create | Save the internet: Fighting for internet freedom | Support file-sharing | Play Ogg | I vote for Venstre - The Liberal Party of Norway | I'm a member of Young Liberals of Norway (Norwegian)

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This page was last modified Tuesday, 09-Mar-2010 07:40:15 CET (ChangeLog).
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