About me

I am quite passionate about technology. Someone even calls me a geek. Especially like technology with an LCD displays like computers and various gadgets. Any blinking lights is a plus. I have been programming on computers since childhood starting with text adventure games in BASIC, moving to assembler code and AmigaE later, onto Pascal, C, C++, Java, C# and ObjC 2.0 decades later.

Programming is very rewarding - both as a hobby and professionally. Geekcorp and SmartBee host my most "active" home projects.

It so happens that I am lucky to be programming as a day/night job, too. Since 1999, I have been having fun programming at a cool search engine company, FAST Search & Transfer.

In addition to information retrieval topics, I am fascinated by distributed computing as well as storage technology (we got to store the indices somewhere). My thesis was on Maintaining and Administrating a Distributed Extensible File System. It was a blast, a few unecessary reboots perhaps. That file system was "active" in the sense that one could save a plain file in an editor. A file system hook would then zip the file, encrypt it and upload it various nodes. Of course, this was in 1998. Kids today have FUSE and sure fewer reboots :-)

Other hobbies include astronomy, books, movies and radio-controlled cars.

I live near Lillestrøm in Norway with my beautiful wife and dog.

Have fun and smile,
Sveinar Rasmussen