About Jani

I'm just a guy interested in hitech stuff, living in Tampere, Finland. Here's some past and current stuff about things around me.

I got a new hobby when we bought an old house in fall 2000. Redecorating the house and working on the garden took most of our free time then. After three years of work we bought a new house in fall 2003. Built in the 1920's, the house now needs a complete restoration/redecoration.

There was some information and pictures about the old property, including stuff about repairs and redecoration, but it was removed at the request of the new owner. There's some preliminary stuff about the new house here.

To get some money for the repairs, I spend my days leading a test automation group for Symbian platform at Nokia.

Before that, I developed Internet services and in-house process stuff at Elisa Internet, a part of Elisa Group then.


In the previous life I was working at the Digital Media Institute of TUT and Nokia Research Center for the Finnish Multimedia Programme (KAMU). I was involved in the project Integrated Publishing in Multimedia Networks, or IMU. The final report of the project was published in the spring '99 and when I last heard of those people, they were finishing IMU-2 project. IMU was also presented at the Eighth International World Wide Web Conference held in Toronto on May 1999.

Tietovalta - currently a part of TJ Group - was one of the leading multimedia applications producers in Finland. When the web was still young, I spent a couple of years designing web applications for them. The Tietovalta staff was great, and they really knew how to have great parties. Now, some of the key persons have started a new consulting office Steerco and then moved on to other ventures, like media conglomerate Tuovinen Tuominen Oyj.

I'm studying (whenever I have time...) at the Tampere University of Technology, majoring in software engineering. I also take some courses at the University of Tampere, Department of journalism and mass communication and Hypermedia Laboratory. I have great hopes in graduating before the turn of the next millennium.

I served obligatory 11 months in the Finnish Defence Forces at the Armoured Brigade in Parolannummi. Currently I'm a member of the local student reserve officers' club TaKoRU and also take part in voluntary defence training.

Although European Union, endorsed by the Finnish Government, makes its best to make every gun owner's life a bit harder, practical shooting is an excellent way to concentrate, communicate and compete. If you step out of the dark bunkers and basements and stay in the open air, you'll get exercise and sun tan instead of lead poisoning. Actually, IPSC has lost it's feeling when it became a sport of nanosecond resolution. The Finnish sovellettu reserviläisammunta is much like IPSC was in the good old days.

While not doing anything useful I try to find a chance to just idle in Modeemi club room. Modeemi is a local computer club with a lot of interesting people doing a lot of interesting stuff not necessarily related to computers at all.

The Internet Movie Database has nearly all of the women of my life: Demi, Elizabeth, Helen, Sandra and especially Jennifer. The one missing from the database is my very own Sirpa. After graduation, my sister Jaana moved to the US and worked at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute as research scientist. Now she's back in Europe, working in a small biotech startup Agendia, in the Netherlands.

A few years ago I ended up crafting a WWW information service for the 1995 World Rowing Championships organized by The Finnish Rowing Federation. The best parts on the site were the real-time results service (data from the official timing system by Peter Jirca, Austria) and the weather and water monitor (data from the metering station by Reino Rehn of Rehn Instruments), so you might want to take a look at them even nowadays.