I am a finnish citizen, but I really can't say where my "home" is. I was born in Espoo, Finland, after which my parents moved to Belgium due to work related stuff. After a short time we moved to Germany, and so I spent my childhood in a german kindergarten, as well as the few first classes of basic school. Suddenly we moved back to Finland, due to work related stuff of my dad again, and I continued the basic school in the "Deutsche Schule Helsinki" - a german language based school in the capitol of Finland. After that, the same thing happened again, and we moved back to Germany, where I then finished my graduate and visited the technical university. Then I got a recruitment call from the finnish government, so I moved back to Finland and completed my army duty, apparently as a bit older generation, but I kinda enjoyed it. Then I found a job at big global company (I was working for the same company in Germany during my studying too), and have been loyal to them for almost 20 years now (including summer jobs, studying time side-jobs and permanent job). Hey, I am "only" 36 :) Beside my main job, I also establised my own company - Siipi Finland, which I exercise on my freetime. After checking all legal and political aspects of overlapping and concurrent issues, I was given green light to go on with it from my main employer. Some people say I speak better german than finnish, which is probably true from the grammatical aspect, but I tend to think that I speak both languages as worse, and my english is also improving continuously, as I communicate with the people in the world mostly in english. Then I had some french and swedish lessons in school too, but I don't really need them for anything, so they have been naturally become slacked. My personal interest is nowadays in learning mandarin chinese, because I admire also the chinese people and culture. Talking about languages, I started programming back when I was about 12 years old. My first computer was a SELMA 1 industrial process system (it's still in use in many ships, paper machines, etc...). Since then I have learned around 50 programming languages, of which I can immediately program in about 25, with a bit memory refresh around 35. Some people don't recognize all of them as programming languages like for example HTML and VRML, but according to Wiki they are enlisted as programming languages. E-Mail: Mika Heinonen