Who's this "Olofson"...?

Well... I'm basically a stubborn, creative perfectionist - at least with regard to things I care about. (I tend to entirely avoid things I don't care about. :-) I'd say I'm generally a bit lazy, but I can work very hard for long periods of time for something I really want. Unfortunately, I'm also perfectly capable of taking on too many projects at once, working myself until I drop. Can't have it all... ;-)

Once a programmer, always a programmer.

I started programming at the age of ten, and that was in 1985. (You get to do the math! ;-) I've never been able to completely stay away from it for any longer periods. It's highly addictive and creatively satisfying.

Sound and music became more and more interesting, and eventually, I got an Amiga, and got into "modules". Then Pandora (see below) ruined my games programming plans! ;-) During the next few years, I more or less dropped programming for music, and switched to real synthesizers. I decided to start singing, and "sort of" learned from scratch in two years.

Lots of stuff happened. Started working with real time programming and control engineering, started hacking an audio sequencer for Windows, got totally fed up with Windows, almost gave up programing, got into RTLinux and consequently Linux, and got more serious than ever about programming. Since then I've been playing around with some game projects, but most of my spare time is probably spent hacking audio related stuff these days.

Universal machines.

I'll always be a programmer, and when I'm prevented from fixing something I don't like, I feel frustrated, helpless, angry and basically just sick. Computers are universal machines - not some toys that should do only what "Big Brother" wants them to. It is indeed very alarming to see that the vast majority of computer users these days have no clue about this. People think a computer is "Windows and Internet Explorer". Well, it's not! A computer is processing power, memory and a bunch of interfaces to the outside world. When you buy one, you should be allowed to use it in any way you like. That what it's designed for! Please, do not forget this.

Some links...

• Pandora Swedish techno queen who to some extent is to blame for this:
• David Olofson on SoundClick My music on SoundClick, some of which used to be available at mp3.com. Only free downloads so far.
• Kokoro-Kai Warberg A nice Shotokan Karate club that I trained with years ago, and returned to, after moving back to Varberg.
• Linux Audio Development Home of a very nice mailing list for Linux audio developers.
• Real Time Linux Foundation, of which I'm a director.
• Reologica Instruments AB is where I work as an embedded systems programmer.

I am a Thrust-ship. I am small and tricky - where you think I am, I probably am not. I can work very fast, but I tend to go about things in a round about way, which often leaves me effectively standing still. I hate rocks. Bloody rocks. What Video Game Character Are You?