About the site and author

mjjzfThis is the site of Morten Juhl-Johansen Zölde-Fejér.

The author is a writer aspiring to be inspiring and inspired.

  • Born on November 25th, 1976 in Nyborg, Denmark.
  • Currently based in Brooklyn, New York in the United States.
    For simplicity’s sake I present myself as Morten Zolde here.
  • I am the general manager of the Danish-American Chamber of Commerce and the office manager of the law firm Miller Rosenfalck NY.
  • Married to Juliánna, father of Matthias.
  • Beast of literary burden: The son of a school teacher and a librarian. So I read. After moving I don’t have too many books, but I have a lot on my Kindle (which I wrote about here). I listen to audiobooks, too – mostly from Podiobooks.
  • A BA degree in Russian Language, History and Literature – based on a thesis about the Russian Liberation Movement. To be translated into English and published under a CC license At Some Point(tm).
  • GNU/Linux user with a personal preference for Slackware.
  • Linguist by trade and inclination: Besides knowing Russian, interested in Esperanto due to ideals and an elegant construction, Arabic due to working with refugees and Japanese due to overdosing on medieval Japan in the teenage years.
  • Fencing at Sheridan Fencing Academy.
  • I play chess at Gameknot under the usual nick mjjzf. Feel free to challenge me!
  • Previously a teacher of languages and technology.
  • Software translator.
    Danish translator of the word processor Abiword, the media player Pragha and the website Filmaster, currently looking at translating the Phreebooks accounting system.
    Was active in proofreading the translation of Xfce desktop environment.

Contact

My email is my first name, an @ sign and the writtenandread.net domain, although email address-harvesting spammers can contact me at ByUsingThisAddressIOweMortenAMillionDollars@writtenandread.net.

I also have a LinkedIn and Facebook profile and an account on the microblogging service Identi.ca, where I am the admin of the Denmark, Leonard Cohen, Books, Subgenius, Suck Less, Dragora, Open Library, Gajim, Fencing, Isaac Asimov, 1-liner novels, Battle for Wesnoth, Slackbuilds, Abiword, Wolvix, Podiobooks, OpenStreetmap, audiobooks, LinuxVoid and linguists groups.