About

Hi. My name is Olivier Cleynen and I’m your host on this site.

I enjoy: Taking the train, the smell of cinnamon, sitting by a river, photographing birds in flight, going fast downhill on a mountain bike, a quiet morning to myself, skimming the waters pulled by the wind (windsurfing!), hiking, listening to a lot of music, chocolate ice cream, and re-discovering things.

I don’t enjoy: things that can’t be fixed, wasting food, the sound and sight of TV, unreliable bus timetables, programming, and British weather.

I have made : images, conference talks, a teaching course, dreams, websites (1, 2, 3 and more), a model wind turbine, projects, and mistakes.

Contact

My email is olivier.cleynen -preceeding- ariadacapo.net and my PGP key is 3D9E4880. There’s also a convenient contact form.

Why “ariadacapo”

If you enjoy music by J.S. Bach you probably are familiar with the Goldberg Variations, a long series of short music pieces for keyboard instrument. The composition starts with the aria (theme), followed by thirty unique variations which keep the same construction. The return of the theme is called aria da capo.

Photos and Licensing

Except for the homepage, all of the content on this website, including the photos, is licensed under a Creative Commons BY-SA license. It means you are free to do what you want with it (including making money), except 1. omitting to credit me appropriately and/or 2. not licensing it under the same license (depriving others from the freedoms you enjoy). I’d really enjoy it if you gave me notice of re-use.