About - );sse's Personal Open Mind Pages

About me

My name is );sse. I was created mid 1978. Now I am a third year student in IT at the Hogeschool van Amsterdam (Netherlands) following classes in the evening hours. I'd like to drink lemonade in the summer and hot chocolate in the winter. I'm working as junior Linux/HP-UX/Windows System- and Network Administrator and PHP-developer, for a small but influential :) company called Open Solution Providers.

In my younger years I did experiment with some drugs - the results are shown in the picture. You may think I'm normal though when you meet me in real life.

My goals are to be free of mind, see as many beautiful ladies in various countries, to be social even though - due to my computer hobby - I'm not doing the job very well, and spread the Holy Word of Open Source.

Why this Open mind Open Source thing?

Well, it was generally the idea of sharing knowledge (more specifically the sharing of the programming source of software) that was drawing me towards open source software which is nowadays largely represented by the GNU/Linux project. I installed SuSE Linux on my computer in 2000 (yes, I'm a newbie) and was relieved (for a couple of seconds) that after years using M$ Windows, I finally had the chance be in control of my computer. From then on I was becoming the freak I may be right now ...

I admire the effort of the thousands of programmers all over the world working together voluntarily to improve open source software.

The 'open mind' aspect of this I find in the freedom an open source developer has, in not keeping his/her own work for him/herself, but sharing it with the rest of the world (Hello World). It's the same aspect I found in the buddhistic view of life - especially in the tradition of the boddhisattva's - buddha's who decide to choose for reincarnation instead of enlightenment, to assist mankind in its way to salvation.

Scientists say randomness produced an orderly universe. What's the chance of that happening?

The Shambhala Warrior by Joanna Mercy