About Jarno and Python owns us

My name is Jarno Virtanen and I write to a weblog named Python owns us. I live in Helsinki, Finland with two lovely girls, my wife, Taina and my daughter, Telma. I will be 30 years this spring, in 2005.

I am a software developer of sorts, currently working for Alma Media Interactive where I mostly fix Java code and make some Java code from scratch too (to be fixed, by me, at some later point, of course). We are basically a Perl/Java house, but I do get to use some Python and Jython there too. (But that's not too important to me. Though I love Python, I do dig Java, and to some extent, even Perl.)

My weblog, Python owns us

I've been writing my weblog for nearly three years now [1], and I have acquired a decent amount of readers (your mileage may vary, of course); mostly people who are enthusiastic about Python. For concrete numbers, there are around 170 subscribers in Bloglines, and about the same with other RSS readers. But I don't know how many of those are actively reading POU. Also, POU gets linked by Daily Python URL from time to time, though very rarely nowadays, which generates around thousand unique visitors (according to logs, anyway).

(My point in giving you concrete numbers is that you can get a rough picture of the size of the readership of this kind of weblog. But remember that we're not doing this for the numbers. Well, at least for such low numbers. ;-)

I started with Blogger (the Python owns us Blogger site still lives and presumably gets a lot of hits still, but I can't help about it, I think), moved to my own hack (which involved Emacs, Elisp and external Python program called from the Elisp code) and finally to NewsBruiser, which rocks. (I wish I had more time and energy and skills to tweak NewsBruiser myself, but that remains to be just a wish, at the moment.)

[1] And I'm not claiming that back then, three years ago, weblogging was way more un-popular.

10.2.2005, Jarno Virtanen. Python owns us, my weblog. Contact me at jajvirta@gmail.com