About Mink Machine

Mink Machine is a personal web site, serving the finest blend of freshly brewed HTML to the unsuspecting world since 1994.

It is primarily used as a creative outlet featuring blog entries, photos, writings and various projects.

The mink abides

I started this site in 1994. The web was a lot different those days. I typed the markup in Emacs on Solaris and viewed the result in the Mosaic browser, since neither Netscape or Internet Explorer were yet released. The wild years of DHTML abuse followed and even this site was littered with a fair share of it.

Then Dave Shea invented CSS Zen Garden in 2001 and soon afterwards Jeffrey Zeldman released the infamous blue beanie book. I was spellbound by the world of web standards, swiftly proceeded to eliminate all table layout and never looked back.

All these years later, I still love the web and use it daily in a multitude of ways. This site uses some CSS3 voodoo in a HTML5 document but I still sleep good at night.

The name is a homage to Kraftwerk’s epic song "Man Machine" and the world’s most adorable little critter. Although minks are lovely furry creatures mostly living in your basement, their skills involving covert ops should not be underestimated.

Mink Machine has two evil siblings:

• Dubbeldissarklubben – Swedish movie rants from 1999 to 2010
• Impulse HQ – Lair of the demo crew Impulse since 1994

One more thing

As always, this is a personal website and does not reflect the views of my employer. That’s right, when I say that Josh Hartnett suck big time – it’s just me.