Just an Average Horny Little Devil


A tough guy, a helpless dancer.
A romantic, is it me for a moment?
A bloody lunatic, I'll even carry your bags.
A beggar, a hypocrite, love reign over me.

Schizophrenic? I'm Bleeding Quadrophenic.

The Who: Quadrophenia

At Fuji-san (c) TJ 2007 Named Ari Mäkelä though usually called Arska or even Hauva. Finnish male unix geek. Speaks Finnish and English, enough Japanese in order to say Hajimemashite. Ari desu. Dōzo yoroshiku." and has forgotten almost all his Swedish and knows enough French and Portuguese to get hit by a lady. Writes C, Java, Perl, Python and sh. Besides furfeet, cooking, chess and sailing likes Good Company, Islay malt whiskies, unix and Winnie-the-Pooh.

I work mostly with Perl, sh, Linux and Apache but sometimes I tinker with Java, Solaris, Oracle and PostgreSQL. I'm very interested in open source and I have made some very small contributions to some commonly used software but by far my most important work has been the Finnish Linux HOWTO but it seems to me that time has passed Linux Documentation Project and at least Finnish Linux HOWTO. There are some things I'd like to update, though.

Amusingly my first name Ari stands for angry in Swedish (spelling is actually arg but the pronounciation is identical). In Japanese ari stands for ant. The kanji for ant is 蟻.


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