Subject: How are you, what's the weather like 19. ***** Q: I would like to ask you some personal questions and/or know more about Finland and Vaasa. What kind of weather do you have over there? What is your field? How come you are interested in programming? What are the main fields of University of Vaasa, and so on? A: Please see http://www.uwasa.fi/~ts/personal.html A2: It is very nice of you to ask. I hope that you understand that for practical reasons (an FTP site moderator's load) it is difficult for me to reply individually to these friendly questions. Instead, I have to refer you to my WWW home page http://www.uwasa.fi/~ts/ its many links and to some material available in Garbo's /pc/ts/ directory. The file ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/vaasa.inf will give you information about Finland, Vaasa, the University of Vaasa, our faculty, and even me. Also see vaasa2.inf. The gif pictures ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/gif/euro01e.gif and euro01v.gif will show you where Vaasa is located. As for my own background, please see my home page and the current ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/vaasa.inf, then tsfcom.inf which is part of the /pc/ts/tsfcom24.zip package. I have also put in writing some of my thoughts on programming in tsgmeb.inf in the /pc/ts/tsgmeb17.zip package. You also might be interested in ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/pd2/garbohis.zip. Additionally, some items in the Garbo information files /pc/pd2/tspost*.zip (* = 01,02,...) would be of interest you. The file tspost00.zip gives the index. A3: If you wish to ask questions about Finland, the Finnish language or the Finnish culture, please post your questions to news:soc.culture.nordic. Even if I very much like to communicate, and try to be of help, I am usually far too pressed for time. --------------------------------------------------------------------