About
Below you'll find a little information about me and this website.
About Me
My name is Andreas Lagerkvist. I'm a web developer born in Hong Kong, raised in Sweden and currently living in -London, UK where I work for Yahoo! as a front-end web developer- Stockholm where I freelance from home :)
Exscale.se is my online playground. A place where I can put my ideas and creations and also develop all the new cool stuff I learn daily through my work and from web professionals over the web like the people in my blog roll.
When I'm not at work or working on this site I like to play snooker, watch films or go to the pub ;). I did quite a lot of 3D-stuff before, hence the 3D-section, but I haven't done anything in some time now.
If you want more details you can also find me on LinkedIn.
Places I've Been
I did quite a lot of traveling before I started working a full-time job. I still love traveling and hope that in the future I'll be able to do more of it.
Here's a list of places I've been to.
And if you have Javascript enabled there should a little map too.
Please note that dates and locations (if the map is there) (or if CSS is off (you'll see some geo-data)) aren't 100%. Some of the islands weren't named on the Yahoo! Maps (which I used to retrieve the GEO-data) and I don't really remember the dates to the day. Also, I haven't marked up every place I've been to, just the bigger cities. Nevertheless, here it is:
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Bartending in London
2000-06-01 → 2000-12-01
Stockholm, Sweden 59.33318942659219 18.03955078125 → London, UK 51.50959718054334 -0.127716064453125 → Stockholm, Sweden 59.33318942659219 18.03955078125
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Ferry hopping in Greece
2001-06-01 → 2001-07-15
Stockholm, Sweden 59.33318942659219 18.03955078125 → Athens, Greece 37.97884504049711 23.731842041015625 → Kos, Greece 37.735969208590504 26.806640625 → Rhodes, Greece 37.05736900011469 25.48004150390625 → Mykhonos, Greece 37.448696585910376 25.3564453125 → Athens, Greece 37.97884504049711 23.731842041015625 → Stockholm, Sweden 59.33318942659219 18.03955078125
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Doing Asia
2002-02-01 → 2002-03-15
Stockholm, Sweden 59.33318942659219 18.03955078125 → Bangkok, Thailand 13.728712877085782 100.49468994140625 → Koh Chang, Thailand 12.042006714207925 102.34176635742188 → Chiang Mai, Thailand 18.812717856407765 98.975830078125 → Chiang Rai, Thailand 19.90621864448085 99.8272705078125 → Luang Prabang, Laos 19.8907230239969 102.1343994140625 → Vientiane, Laos 17.97350807906879 102.6123046875 → Bangkok, Thailand 13.728712877085782 100.49468994140625 → Stockholm, Sweden 59.33318942659219 18.03955078125
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Mexico & Central America
2002-09-27 → 2002-12-23
Stockholm, Sweden 59.33318942659219 18.03955078125 → Mexico City, Mexico 19.435514339097814 -99.140625 → Puebla, Mexico 19.06211788351465 -98.228759765625 → Puerto Cortez, Mexico 16.206762442296206 -98.16558837890625 → Santiago Atitlan, Guatemala 14.626108798876837 -91.23046875 → Antigua, Guatemala 14.579596282748454 -90.74020385742188 → San Pedro Sula, Honduras 15.47485740268724 -88.0224609375 → Puerto Cortes, Honduras 15.853031409959831 -87.94281005859375 → The Bay Islands, Honduras 16.376803364259764 -86.44729614257812 → Belize, Belize 17.5078670964508 -88.1927490234375 → Caye Caulker, Belize 17.48560127086678 -88.07464599609375 → Palenque, Mexico 17.518344187852207 -91.9720458984375 → Oaxaca, Mexico 17.077789606545373 -96.7236328125 → Puerto Escondido, Mexico 15.850389275322568 -97.0697021484375 → Mexico City, Mexico 19.435514339097814 -99.140625 → Stockholm, Sweden 59.33318942659219 18.03955078125
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Doing Asia... again!
2003-03-27 → 2003-05-25
Stockholm, Sweden 59.33318942659219 18.03955078125 → Bangkok, Thailand 13.728712877085782 100.49468994140625 → Koh Chang, Thailand 12.042006714207925 102.34176635742188 → Koh Pha Ngang, Thailand 18.812717856407765 98.975830078125 → Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 3.1597131272736587 101.7059326171875 → Banda Aceh, Sumatra, Indonesia 5.550380568997958 95.3118896484375 → Pulau Weh, Sumatra, Indonesia 5.618719211551529 95.1470947265625 → Bangkok, Thailand 13.728712877085782 100.49468994140625 → Stockholm, Sweden 59.33318942659219 18.03955078125
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A trip to India
2004-09-01 → 2004-11-17
Stockholm, Sweden 59.33318942659219 18.03955078125 → New Delhi, India 28.603814407841316 77.2064208984375 → Chandigarh, India 30.746556862773613 76.7724609375 → Jodhpur, India 26.288490072961157 73.0206298828125 → Mumbai, India 18.979025953255274 72.8173828125 → Goa, India 14.646704053055382 74.2840576171875 → Kerala, India 10.020243719192827 76.21490478515625 → Bangalore, India 12.972442010578378 77.552490234375 → New Delhi, India 28.603814407841316 77.2064208984375 → Stockholm, Sweden 59.33318942659219 18.03955078125
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Voy a Espana!
2005-08-01 → 2005-11-01
Stockholm, Sweden 59.33318942659219 18.03955078125 → Valencia, Spain 39.47224533091448 -0.3810882568359375 → Stockholm, Sweden 59.33318942659219 18.03955078125
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Back to India
2006-04-01 → 2006-05-01
Stockholm, Sweden 59.33318942659219 18.03955078125 → New Delhi, India 28.603814407841316 77.2064208984375 → Mumbai, India 18.979025953255274 72.8173828125 → Goa, India 14.646704053055382 74.2840576171875 → New Delhi, India 28.603814407841316 77.2064208984375 → Stockholm, Sweden 59.33318942659219 18.03955078125
About the Site
The site's name, "exscale studios", is a few years old. Originally it was a mate and mine's programming-group but we never really programmed anything as a group so I took the name for my personal website instead.
I came up with the name "exscale" while working on a basic image-resizing-function in C many years ago where I had a variable called YScale and another called XScale. I thought XScale sounded kind of cool at the time (mind you, this was before the new millenium) so I slapped an "e" in front of it and took it as my own. A couple of years later Intel released a processor called "xscale", I thought that was kind of funny.
Geeky Stuff
Exscale.se runs on aBlog, a blogging software built on top of my framework, aFrameWork (I know, I'm rubbish at coming up with names for things).
I'm constantly working on improving aFrameWork as well as aBlog and plan to eventually release it/them to the public, but there is still quite a lot of work to be done. For one I don't even have an admin, I'm writing this in PHPMyAdmin!
If you want some geeky information, try adding ?debug to any URL.
Accessibility
I've done the best I can to make the site as accessible as possible to everyone, regardless of browsing device. Please let me know if you find anything you believe can be improved.
Alternative Styles
There are two high contrast styles available, white on black and black on white.
You can also choose from a range of other styles should you not like the one currently selected. The Style Switcher allows you to switch style and can be accessed from any page.
Print and handheld stylesheets are also included on this page to ease your mobile browsing and printing-needs.
Accesskeys
Exscale.se does not use accesskeys due to the known issues with doing so.
Web Standards
This site is built using XHTML 1.0 Strict for structure, CSS for presentation and JavaScript (together with the lovely jQuery) for behavior.
A modern browser like Firefox is required to make the most out of this site but should your device not support one of these layers it will still have access to everything thanks to the use of progressive enhancement throughout the entire site.
Contact Information
I use ICQ (26557799) and MSN (sk8ant {at} hotmail {dot} com), I also have an email but to avoid filling my inbox with spam I'd rather you use my contact form if you want to email me.
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