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Bjørn Graabek

Looking rather gloomy (and in need of a haircut) during Novell's Brainshare '96 technical conference in Utah.

The most recent passport photo I have. The passport office wouldn't accept it for my new passport...

The other members of my family are: my wife Rikke, Michelle, Kimberley and Sebastian. We are all Danish citizens even though Kimberley claims to be British based on the fact that she was born in the UK. Click here for a family album. Here are some (very) brief details about me:

December 1963	Born in Copenhagen, Denmark.
1970	Started in "Sct. Petri skole" (german speaking school) in Copenhagen, Denmark.
1974	My parents (and I) moved from Copenhagen to the countryside and I went to "Susåskolen" in Skelby, Denmark.
1976	Won prices in the "Philips contest for young scientists and inventors". One of the prices was membership of the Danish inventors association (link is in Danish). I was very small for my age (12 at the time), so the newspapers almost all featured pictures of me and the 1'st price winner who was quite tall. Later that year I won another price for the same project. That also caused lots of newspaper articles and some radio interviews.
1977	Susåskolen was a small school with only 7 classes. 8'th year the class went to "Glumsø skole" in Glumsø, Denmark.
September 1978	Lived in the US for almost a year and attended "Alta High School" in Sandy, Utah, USA as a freshman.
1979	When I got back home, I went to "Fuglebjerg skole", Denmark.
1980	And when that was finished, I went to Næstved Gymnasium og HF, Næstved, Denmark.
October 1983	I then got religion and served as a Mormon missionary in southern Germany and Austria.
December 1985	Got home and started working in the computer industry. My first job I was a Pascal programmer
January 1988	Married Rikke.
November 1988	Elisabeth was born. Sadly she died in January 1989.
November 1989	Michelle was born.
July 1991	We all moved to "Sonning Common" in Oxfordshire, United Kingdom.
November 1991	Kimberley was born.
June 1997	For four months we lived in Dublin, Ireland.
November 1997	Moved to Denmark. Two months later we bought a farm from 1912 in Fårdrup (click here for a map), a tiny village in western Sjælland. No fields left, but we do have 2239 square meters to keep free of weeds.
December 1998	Sebastian was born.

Lots of things are important in my life, my wife, my kids, but also my activity in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, also known as the "Mormons". As a member of this church, I served two years as a missionary in the Germany Munich mission comprising southern Germany and parts of Austria.

Some of my interests are:

Reading.
Fell-walking, particularly in Scotland. My family and I have also hiked around in "Arches" and "Canyonlands" national parks located in southern Utah. My friend Phil Hatch has some excellent information about hiking so-called "slot canyons". Ireland is another place we have hiked in.
Genealogy.
Photography. My main camera used to be a Sigma SA-300 35 mm. SLR. Despite the advantages, I miss the days of analogue photography. My first digital camera was a Canon Powershot A20. My main camera is now a Canon S2 IS.
Information technology, computers, specifically networks and datacommunications.

I have travelled quite a bit, mostly on business, below are maps showing the countries I have visited:

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...And this might be where I'm currently at:

Last updated: 18. February 2004 by Bjørn Graabek