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"Morals and lights are our first necessities." - Simon Bolivar

About Me

Short Bio

I was born on 23.02.1979 in the regional hospital in Varna, Bulgaria. I was my mother's (Aneta) and father's (Georgi) first-born child and according to my family's tradition, I was named after my father's father - Simeon Georgiev Simeonov.

When I was 5, my mother moved to Bulgaria's capital - Sofia. After spending 2 years with my grandmother and grandfather in Varna, I also moved to Sofia. I went to school and later high-school in Sofia.

At the age of 15, I moved permanently to Oslo, Norway where I lived with my father. In Oslo I became interested in programming and guitar playing and after graduating from high-school ("Lambertseter" vgs.) I began studying computer-science in Narvik, Norway. I went through the bachelor and later the master's engineering program. Here I was introduced to free-software and my life changed.

February 2006, I moved back to Oslo in hope to fulfill my life-quest...

Additional Info

Internet aliases: Blackmore

Social aliases: Moni, Blacky

Interests: computers, music, chess, history, sports...

Spoken languages: Bulgarian, English, Norwegian, Russian, Spanish (Castilian)

Why Blackmore?

When I was 16, I was drawn towards hard rock music and especially Deep Purple, featuring guitar player Ritchie Blackmore. At the same time I was also introduced to the Internet and IRC. Choosing Blackmore as my alias is probably not the wisest decision, but the name stuck and most of my friends on the net refer to me as "Blackmore". There is no turning back now... Karma.