Hello
My name is Andy Mikhailenko. I'm from Russia. It's somewhere to the East of Europe, you know. Europe is somewhere on the map. The map is somewhere else. We have maps in Russia. I have a couple of maps, too. That's endless recursion, man.
Education
- M.A. in Political Science
- Faculty of International Relations of Ural State University
- Yekaterinburg, Russia
- 2000—2006
- scope: regional studies (Southern Europe, French language)
- Language courses
- English (2002, 2 weeks)
- Italian (2002, 1 month)
- Czech (2007—2008, 1 semester)
- German (2008)
Experience
I'm a web developer.
I had also implemented a municipal data processing/storage system in 2006—2007.
| skill | experience |
|---|---|
| HTML; XHTML+CSS | 2000—present |
| Perl | 2001—2007 |
| Python (Django) | 2007—present |
| GNU/Linux | 2004—present |
| FreeBSD | 2006—present |
For detailed information please see my Development page.
Other interests
Aside from my education and job, these domains of knowledge or culture are of particular interest for me:
Science
- Cognitive science as:
- Psychology
- Biology, Neuroscience
- Artificial Intelligence
- Synergetics
Culture
- Music
- Design
- «casual Linguistics» (hm)
- Philosophy (which scientifical role is mentioned above as Synergetics)
- Free software
Beliefs
- Tao (as philosophy, though I didn't actually study it well)
- Agnosticism and "lazy evaluation" (don't judge until you have to)
- Vegetarianism
- Liberalism (you are only free when you set others free; wúwéi — watch and don't touch)
- Tolerance
- You never know your tomorrow, have fun.
Misc.
Check my favourite... pages where I mention some stuff I like. Maybe you will too...
Contact information
- E-mail and Jabber
- andy@neithere.net
- Location
- Russia, Yekaterinburg