User:Dan Koehl
Egil Skallagrimsson: Björn var farmaður mikill, var stundum í víking, en stundum í kaupferðum; Björn var hinn gervilegasti maður.
english: Björn was a great traveller; sometimes as viking, sometimes as tradesman.
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I was born in Stockholm, Sweden where I still have family, but I am also circulating between Vienna in Austria (where I also have family), Bulawayo in Zimbabwe, and Johannesburg in South Africa.
Professionally I work as an elephant trainer, presently in Kolmården Zoo in Sweden, and my second profession is webdesign or rather programming in PHP. Those professions are pretty much the same - it's input and output. Sometimes, in the case of the elephants, you just have to locate and remove the bugs and the script is running again.
I am an active user and admin at the Swedish Wikipedia and my activities here on the English Wikipedia are rather small. I sometimes drop in to check that articles on the Swedish Wikipedia are properly interlinked, and I also actively follow some projects here, where I have a deeper engagement. Now and then I scan what is written about old Swedish kings and other things written about medieval history, which helps me to be sure I have a life.
Since English is not my mother language, I have a tendency to make a remark on discussion pages when I find an error, rather than actually change things; I know it sounds stupid, but I feel more comfortable this way, since I always feel a little bit uncertain. I'd be glad for any comment or question though.
On the other hand, I do speak and write English, as well as German, and of course, Swedish and some of the other Scandinavian languages. But I often write too fast, which is why my spelling is not perfect...
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