Modified 2005-02-07 09:01
My name is Simon Kågström, and I live in Karlskrona, Sweden. I work as a PhD student at Blekinge Tekniska Högskola where I am researching operating systems. Ronneby is a big town in Blekinge, but also a very small town by Swedish/international standards.
Previously, I have lived in Lund and Umeå (where I was born). Lund is a city of students in southern Sweden and Umeå is a city of students in northern Sweden. At least that's what they appear to be. Now, enough about geography.
Some data on myself can be found in tabular form below:
| Name(s) | {Lars, Simon, Markus, Kågström}, of which I use {Simon, Kågström} |
| Age | 27 (born 1976) |
| Height | 175 cm |
| Weight | 66-72Kg |
| Current eye-status | Left: -4.25, right: -3.0 |
| Occupation | PhD Student, Computer Science |
| Girlfriend status | Yes, Linda Ramstedt |
| Favourite animal: | Rådjur |
| Listens to | Sisters of Mercy, Front 242, The Clash, Van Morrison, Morrissey, Imperiet, Thåström, Enya, Cornelis Vreeswijk, the Mission, Bauhaus and more. I listen to what I like :-) |
Computers, computers, computers. Basically. I like programming, especially in non-productive projects. Like computer games. For obsolete PDAs, without resources. With buggy compilers, using an emulator in emulated MS Windows. Which is also buggy. Oh, sorry. More about this at the REX 6000 page.
A few years ago, when I lived in Umeå, I was engaged in local hacker-meetings, called "Hackernätter", which was great fun. As you probably know, hacking (coding...) is best done in the early morning (without sleep of course), so we (10-30 of us) stayed awake during the night, playing Doom and coding making music etc. Fun, fun. This thing died out though, and as far as I know, there haven't been any "Hackernätter" since 96/97 sometime. Of course, there are still other meetings in Umeå, mostly arranged by the local Amiga users. These are much bigger than the "Hackernätter", but are not as spontaneous as they were... Well...
I try to do some exercise at times. Sometimes running, somethimes going to the gym and at othertimes something else!
I also like to cook on weekends, and some links to recepies can be found on the links page. I am semi-vegetarian, which means that I eat meat when I cannot avoid it but otherwise only vegetarian food. I don't cook meat anymore. Why vegetarian? Because it feels better - at least for my consciuousness.
Finally, I like photography. See the images page.
I've had a few different jobs over the years, none of which have been permanent since I've been studying all my life (that's almost true, actually).
I currently work/study as a PhD student at BTH. For more information about that, check my work homepage.
Before, I've done some other things:
First, after the military service (which I didn't like, I'm not going back there - ever), I worked at the "Umeå busstation" as a terminal worker. Terminal working basically means sorting packages and receiving payments from people. I did that for 3 summers (so its something I kind of know).
I have since moved to Lund, and during the summer 1999 I got at job as a truck driver (delivering bread) at Pågen. The Pågen bakery is situated in Malmö but I delivered bread within Lund. So I know the way between Lund and Malmö by now. This was also a job with rather high salary, but the mornings were a bit too early for my liking.
During the summer 2000 I had a job at Axis Communications in Lund at the networked camera division, where I wrote test programs for the JFFS filesystem. This didn't take quite the whole summer, so by the end of the summer I was involved in the release of the 2120 network camera where I extended the "event handling" program to support motion detection (that is, I didn't implement the actual motion detection). I worked part time on Axis until June 2001, when they ran out of money for part timers like me. The work at Axis was nice, you got to work with (and on) Linux which is really what I want to do in the future (Linux/UNIX).
I have also been working at the University of Karlsruhe in Germany (Baden-Württemberg). I was working within the L4Ka microkernel project, implementing operating system features above the microkernel. I also did my masters' thesis there. This was fun, the development environment is Linux of course, and I like Karlsruhe. I guess that I might have learned some more German as well.
Besides these jobs, I've also been working part time as an assistant to the undergraduates in CS (both in the first course and a course in low-level programming ("Maskinnära programmering")), and I have also done some teaching in Windows-usage for Studieförbundet Vuxenskolan. And yes, if some CS-student from Lund happens to step by here, I really think Maskinnära programmering is the best course at CS/Lu.
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