Wow!  I can really edit pages!

In few words, I am software engineer who is fond of mesembs (family of plants from Southern Africa) and amateur astronomy.

I live in small town Berdsk in West Siberia (not Serbia), Russia.  Berdsk is a suburb of Novosibirsk, 3rd largest city of Russia.

Programming

I work at Novosibirsk Regional Center of Geoinformatics Technologies at Institute of Geology and Mineralogy of Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Science as software engineer where my main programming language is now IDL (Interactive Data Language, not Interface Definition Language).  I develop custom software for image processing, but sometimes I do supplementary tasks like specialized website development with Google Maps and OpenLayers.

I’m also author of some open source libraries in Common Lisp and, recently, JavaScript, and made minor contributions to some other projects like SLIME and Gnus.  I use Gentoo Linux at home (AMD Phenom x4) and work, and my favorite text editor is Emacs, but I use vim for quick editing in command line (config files etc).

Sometimes when my workload at main workplace permits, I work as freelancer.

Astronomy

I am an amauter astronomer. I liked astronomy since my childhood (I read a lot of astronomy books), but recently my interest revived, and in February 2009 I bought second-hand 130-mm newtonian reflector telescope.

Plants

For several years I grow mesembs — succulent plants of Aizoaceae family that grow mostly from Southern Africa (RSA and Namibia).  I run bilingual website about mesembs: http://mesemb.ru/index.en (its English part is in fact abandoned, I have time for Russian part only).  I’m have no plans to write about these plants in this blog.