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I had an internship at a Swedish company who promised me a paid internship. But now they are saying that they never promised me that, and I'm not going to take it so now I'm looking for a place to do my internship in London between 16april and 16 October as I'm tired of the Swedish weather and want to spread my wings a little.
Relevant work experience: I'm currently working as an tutor for the first year students and so far Ive had "Introduction To Computer Programming", "Introduction to Object Oriented Programming", "Algorithms and Datastructures" and "Introduction to databases".
The iPhone-app Hitta Pizza(http://itunes.apple.com/se/app/hitta-pizza/id387973084?mt=8)Porting a ASP site to ASP.NET and redesigning the underlying database (www.tryckeriguiden.se)
Backup and Unix administrator at AstraZeneca.*Driven an project at the Kosta Boda concern where a couple of hundred computers where to be replaced and I was in charge of the installation, distribution of software and integrating with the network.
So, if you know a company that's looking for an intern or your company is, do tell! I will be in the UK between the 24:th and 28:th March to meet up.
I can only work at places that offer paid internship as Im not currently able to survive without food, concert tickets and shelter. If you have a cure for that I would be glad to hear from you too!
A little about myself: I have been drawn to computers for literally as long as I can remember. When I was a child I played with the computer all the time and once a month they were forced to call in a guy to fix the computer after I deleted some files just to see what would happen, rearrange the windows folder, fiddled with the BIOS setup etc. etc. etc. etc. Finally my family got fed up and got a Windows 95 install CD and said "You fuck it, you fix it. Otherwise no allowance for you Mr!". That certainly did the trick on me as I was a huge candy addict, so I could say my computer career started as a 8 year old afraid to not get money for my junk!
Since then my computer interest grew and soon I found myself codig hideous websites with lots and lots of gifs, borrowing books about computers at the school library and spending all my allowance on computer magazines and copying example code from them and making small changes to see what would happen.
At the age of 15, broadband finally allowed me to download a Slackware iso. And boy did I get sold on this Linux stuff. Here was a operating system that run smother than Windows, made my friends think i was hacking someones computer when I mounted a cdrom and had all the programs and compilers I could ever want, free and available by a couple of key strokes. What more could you ask for?
But my life is not all about computers. I play electric guitar in a band and record a lot of stuff solo at home(math rock, prog rock, kraut rock´ish things, noise, ambient, electro) and I enjoy riding my fixie bike and skateboard.
On my spare time right now I'm building a computer from the awesome cource TECS(http://pramode.net/2011/01/03/the-most-amazing-cs-course-i-have-seen/), gathering information about fluid math to write a multi core water simulator and playing around with Pure Data.
Thanks for taking the time to read this long! Here is a nice tune for you :) http://vimeo.com/13279606
Edit: Here is my CV!
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VTEr8XiySD4L7id6bGLdoTGx0hR7P10lTEGjzAT57BA/edit?hl=en&pli=1#
There are some threads about what you listen to when you´re programming, so I thought that it might be fun to find out what you like when your not programming, or when your programming. :-)
I love all kind of music but lately Ive been really into German music.
My favorite band at the moment is Tetragon http://rateyourmusic.com/artist/tetragon The record Nature is awesome, and the first track Fugue is epic.
Hendrik Schaper (mainly organ and piano) and Rolf Rettberg(bass) where in a band together before Tetragon named Trikolon that released a live session from 1969 named Cluster where they play an early version of Fugue without guitar. Also good stuff.
Other German music I also like is Kraftwerk. If you really listen to the music and think about what year the old stuff was recorded in, its pretty cool. Don't forget Tone Float from when they were named Organisation. Florian Schneider plays some cool flute. :-)
Some other good German stuff
Can: http://rateyourmusic.com/artist/trikolon#/search?searchterm=Can&searchtype=a
Ton Steine Scherben: http://rateyourmusic.com/artist/ton_steine_scherben
I have begun looking into Jazz lately and mainly from 59 :-) From that year i like;
Charles Mingus - Ah Um : http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/charles_mingus/mingus_ah_um/
Ornette Coleman - A Shape Of Jazz To Come : http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/ornette_coleman/the_shape_of_jazz_to_come/
Dave Brubeck Quartet - Time Out : http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/dave_brubeck_quartet/time_out/
Basically just look at top albums for 1959 and you get some real cool stuff. http://rateyourmusic.com/customchart?page=1&chart_type=top&type=album&year=1959&genre_include=1&genres=&include=both&origin_countries=&limit=none&countries=
I'm looking for more, how should i put it, esoteric jazz, so if you know some please share!
"Crazy"-Genre music I would recommend is
Venetian Snares (Winter in the Belly of a Snake and Hospitality are really nice!) : http://rateyourmusic.com/artist/venetian_snares
Hans Appelqvist (Swedish guy who makes, hmm, avante garde pop): http://rateyourmusic.com/artist/hans_appelqvist
Mit Nye Band: http://rateyourmusic.com/artist/mit_nye_band
Wyo Stars: http://www.myspace.com/badband69 (if you talk to the record store Rundgång, dennis@rundgong.se, I bet they can send you a copy of their record, its really good :-D)
Oh I could go on all night, haha.