I am a programmer with 9 years of computer science studies in the University of Cambridge (B.A., M.Phil. and Ph.D.) and 15 years of IT industry experience (internet, banking, telecomms—see CV for details).
I was born in Oslo in 1964, and grew up in Kolbotn just ouside this city, but have lived for 19 years in England (studying in Cambridge, working in London) and moved to Barcelona in 2007.
I am a gay man and met my partner, Josep-Anton Fernàndez, in Cambridge in 1992.
I am currently working in Migoa, the internet start-up company behind the Nuroa vertical search engine for the property markets in Spain and Germany (nuroa.es, nuroa.de).
When I am not working I tend to be studying Catalan, going out in the mountains and countryside of Catalonia, taking photos, keeping in shape, or enjoying life in Barcelona.
The index page contains links to other pages on my domain, eihek.com, and pages with my material on public sites (like picasaweb.com, for example).
The background photo was taken in Nordmarka, the large forest North of Oslo, on 15 Dec 2008. I was skiing (cross-country) from the Voksenkollen metro station to Kobberhaughytta. There are more pictures from this trip here. I used Gimp to reduce the image to a 4-colour palette for the graphical effect and faster download.
The font used for the graphical links is Good Times from the Larabie Fonts. This is a great collection of fonts created by Ray Larabie, who has—very generously—made them freely available for download. (I got it from 1001 Free Fonts.)
As there is still no way to include web fonts reliably on the Internet, I created small SVG files for the link images (example) and used Inkscape to convert these to PNG format.
Besides this, these pages have been written old-school-fashion, editing the HTML, CSS and JavaScript files directly in Emacs on a Ubuntu system, and using mainly Firefox for testing. I will try to correct problems that may occur on the inferior browser (i.e., Internet Explorer, if there were any doubt) if and when I discover them.
Eirik Hektoen,
Barcelona 2009-02-08
