| Name | Martin Blom | | Known aliases | Leviticus, Pom-pom, Designdiktatorn, Mañana-Martin | | Date of birth | 10 March 1974 | | Address |
Luftvärnsgatan 42
SE-587 34 Linköping
Sweden | | E-mail address | <martin@blom.org> | | Phone | +46-13-260044 | | Office address | FOI
Olaus Magnus väg 42
Box 1165
SE-581 11 Linköping
Sweden | | Office phone | +46-13-378467 | | Mobile phone | +46-709-260044 | | PGP/SSL keys | Look here ... |
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I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your
works are wonderful, I know that full well. (Ps 139:14)
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Salvete!
I'm Martin Blom, and - guess what? - this is my home
page. Here, you will find information about me and my life, my
education and work. Soon, I hope to publish a few poems and other
literary works, some jokes, computers source code and other things
I have produced during the years.
You willnot, on the other hand, find tons of images, link
collections, JavaScript or Java applets, neither will you find my
personal bookmarks here. Please visit some other random home page
for that. Most of them will do.
I was born in 1974, in a city called Jönköping in the
south of the kingdom of Sweden. For several years, this
city was the place where I lived and studied, laughed and cried,
ate and vomited. For the first two years, me and my parents lived
at a place calledÖsterängen. Later, we moved to a
suburb of Jönköping, calledHovslätt. Our first home in
this very small village was onHägervägen, where we
lived for about ten years. After that, in 1987, we moved from the
appartment to ahouse of our own. At
this time, I wasn't an only child anymore; I had (and still have!)
two brothers and one sister.
In 1993, I had finished upper secondary technical school, and
was ready for something new. I went to Linköping in
order to begin my studies at Linköping Institute of Technology, part of Linköping University. I studied (and in fact, I still do) Computer Science and Engineering and am thus a member of D-sektionen, even
though I'm not particular active.
After two years at the University, in 1995, it was time to take a
break for the military service, or, in my case, the civil service.
For a couple of month, I lived in Jokkmokk, a small town
in the far north, and learned how to run water power
plants. Although many of my friends from that time might disagree
with me, I rather enjoyed the visit.
Staring early 1996, still doing my civil service, I lived inSköldinge, a small, boring hole not far from Katrineholm. In Sköldinge, I was supposed to gain some practical
experince from electric power distribution by working at an
outpost of Vattenfall. Yeah, right. All I learned
was how to freeze and replace oil in transformers. It
sucked. Anyway, at the end of this period, my supervisor should
send some testimonials back to Jokkmokk. I gave him a fewsuggestions, which were really not
that far-fetched.
I was "released" from the civil service in March 1996. During the
next five months, I spend my time on personal projects. I set out
to design and build an Amiga sound card, featuring a fast Motorola
DSP, 16 MB RAM plus some SRAM and separate, shielded AD/DA modules,
but unfortunately, that project was never finished. Instead, I
spent much time desiging and implementing the first public relase
of AHI, a retargetable audio subsystem for AmigaOS.
AHI quickly became the de facto RTA system and is still the only
system available. In 1997, I was awarded the AAA Award
for the system.
I resumed my studies at the University in fall 1996, focusing on
electronics. In May 1999, I had read all courses that I wanted,
although there were a couple that I've not yet passed. I had not
begun my thesis work yet, but I was aiming at starting that fall.
That didn't quite work out as planned.
Instead, I began working at a company called Mediate AB, which
I was also a partner in. I was involved in Mediate since fall
1997. Most of my efforts were spent on the Novelty Application Server,
which was a powerful XML-driven supplement to web servers.
XML is a cousin of HTML, the markup language that is used to
create web pages. However, XML is much more flexible and powerful
than HTML, since it is often used to defineinformation
rather than layout. For example, the very web page you're looking
at is dynamically generated from an XML document, translated into
HTML and images on the fly by the Novelty Application Server. The
application server offers much more than is used on this simple
page, of course, including session management, database
connectivity, inter-webserver communication, business diagrams and
much more.
Novelty was quite cool for its time. The way we handled and
processed XML was just years ahead of the competition. Unfortunately,
it was also years ahead of our customers. I left Mediate late April
2001 and had three wonderful summer months of "vacation" before I
began doing my final thesis at FOI, Swedish Defence
Research Agency. (Mediate finally filed for bankruptcy in April 2002,
and was later bought by iBusiness, and some of the
remaining Mediate employees began working for them instead.)
At FOI, I developed a coherent oscillator bank
for the UHF radar LORA, which makes it possible to operate LORA in the
VHF band, like its predecessor CARABAS. It was loads of fun, doing
both digital and analog RF electronics design. In February 2002, I
became a full-time employee at FOI.
So, what else? Well, I except for computers, I likemotorcycles. I sometimesskydive. And, finally, I have the
most wonderful girlfriend, Alejandra Lobillo, who I met in early
2003.
"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that
whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world,
but to save the world through him. Whoever believes in him is not
condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already
because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son.
This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved
darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. Everyone
who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for
fear that his deeds will be exposed. But whoever lives by the truth
comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he
has done has been done through God."
John 3:16-21
