About me
Hi there. My name is Toni (friends know me better as Ude). I’m a 50-something former draftsman and web designer living in Helsinki, Finland. My current job is marketing the capital of Finland in the World Wide Web. I made my first web page in 1996 and I’ve been blogging since the year 2000 (sorry, the early stuff has been archived offline).
Despite the blog’s name Merciful House, this is not a religious site, it’s just a variation of Merciful Release, a music label related to the rock band The Sisters of Mercy, one of my favourite bands back then. Actually it was my stated location in BBSes that predated the Internet.
The visual theme of the site is inspired by Japanese aesthetics. The Japanese family crest used in this site was randomly picked for purely decorative purposes. Later I learned that the crest’s name is Nadeshiko.
Hobbies include(d) drawing with pencils, painting with water colours, listening to music, taking photographs, drinking tea, learning Japanese and playing video games. I was once such a fan of Japan, that I wrote a travelogue of my first trips there.
I’m also on Mastodon.
This blog is riddled with spelling mistakes and aimless posts. I just blog for the fun of it. Nobody is forcing you to read this.
This image is unrelated to the theme of this page.
A Finn living in Helsinki, Finland. Writes random thoughts about music, movies, video games and other things of interest. Don't take it too seriously.