Who am I?

I'm from Sweden - living in Malmo (which is connected to Denmark's capital city Copenhagen by the brand new Oresound bridge). For about 11 years I've been a computer technician, starting the first 7 or 8 (at Compro AB, ScandBiz AB, Mr Data AB and Mr Data Syd AB - in chronological order) with various home computers, like C-64, Atari and Amiga. The last 3-4 years I worked more and more with PC's instead, which wasn't as fun as the old machines since there is hardly any real technical skills required any more - you just exchange complete units, like interface cards, motherboards etc instead of repairing at component level. Besides the repairing, I've been in charge of customer support (hardware and software), as well as every now and then making service visits to customers. I've also had to build new PC's - something that's among the most boring things to do (at least after a couple of hundred).

I quit at Mr Data in March -98 and began working at the international company DataLogic AB, where I've worked as a hardware engineer - repairing and installing barcode scanners (mostly industrial scanners). I've also been more deeply involved in some projects and worked partly as a project manager. Part of the service department was outsourced from Datalogic during the spring '99 and moved to another company, dns it AB, where I worked for a couple of months to get things started. Now, when everything is working ok, the people there have been educated and we've established a good working relationship, I've moved back to Datalogic again.

So far my profession - now to my time after work.
Recently, I started a spare-time business selling computer and music equipment, as well as making some special services available. From the start, I mainly focused on Atari owners, since the constant decay of retailers made life hard for them and for nostalgic reasons, I don't want to abandon them. Now, I'm moving the focus toward the PC market, mainly on pro music equipment and other things that are hard to come by in "normal" computer shops. I manage this business in my spare time, since the computer market has too many actors - so trying to make it a full-time job for the moment has a very small chance of success, but naturally I have hopes to be able to make a living on either this business or my music in a not-to-distant future... Even though the Atari market is in decay, I continue to keep some important products available to the nordic market. My business is called
Holmerup Musik & Data (the homepage is entirely in swedish for the time being).

I've been playing the bass for about 25 of my 39 years on this earth. I grew tired of playing in different bands a couple of years ago (because of all the compromises you have to make), so now I'm on my own making music.
During the years, I've also worked part-time as a sound technician both at live performances and in studio recordings, as well as doing some producing and music arrangements, playing the bass and singing backing vocals - both at amateur and professional levels. I also make jingles for radio commercials occationally.
I'm lucky, since I have a very understanding girlfriend who shares my musical interest and usually sings the lead vocals in my songs.

Some songs I've written, as well as some covers I've arranged for my girlfriend can be enjoyed at www.swebmusic.com - the place where you can find swedish music on the web, presented by the composers themselves... Read more on my NEWS-page or better still, just go there and see for yourself…

 

Me and my girlfriend

A picture of me and my girlfriend, when we were best man and brides' maid at my brothers' wedding.
By the way - if you ever go to Thailand in the vicinity of Pattaya and Jomtien, I'd recommend that you visit Canali Tailors in Jomtien to get your clothes made. My Tails suit and my girlfriend's dress were made by Canali and are of extremely high quality both in material and workmanship.