About me

Something about me, Morten Liebach, geek at large and author of this website. For the professional side of me you can look at my Curriculum Vitae (“Resumé” in American), the more personal side is covered below.

This page is in need of a major overhaul, it is very disorganized by now. The factual information is up to date though.

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Picture of Morten Liebach in Dyrehaven, October 2004 I'm 37 years old, 1.78 m tall (5′10″), 87 kg (192 lbs), dark hair, green/blue/grey eyes with a little brown in them (I'm never sure about my exact eyecolor). I'm a Myers Briggs type INTJ with strong ‘I’ and ‘T’, weak ‘N’ and ‘J’. I'm pretty sure I'm a NLP type 5, “The Investigator”, but I haven't read enough to be sure.

I am married to Mette Marie since 2005-08-06, exactly 50 years after the atom bomb over Hiroshima. We have a son together, Tobias, born on 2006-09-19. Tobias was born 10 days late as is normal for the first child, had he been only 2 days late it would've been on the 5th anniversary of 9/11 and been nicely within the spirit of our wedding date. And possibly a little too ominous, even for me. And I'm not superstitious at all.

A few years ago I was a pretty good triathlete, I did my first Ironman distance race in 1994 in 11:31′50″, again in 1996 in 11:17′08″ and my best and last race in 1997 in 10:07′17″ where I was coached by Seamus Granell. It was also the open European Championships, and I made it to 37th place, just inside the best 25%, in the 21–34 agegroup, averaging 35.32 km/h on the bike and just under a 3:45′ marathon. My resting heartrate was 30 and my maximum heartrate was tested to 210 BPM on the bike, around 200 BPM running, which is highly unusual, normally the running maximum is the highest, but I never was a runner at all, my weight never getting lower than 79 kg (174 lbs).

For various reasons I didn't get back to training before very recently, an 8-year hiatus. In May 2005 I bought a bike and started riding it, and enjoyed it very much. In the summer of 2006 I rode my bike even more, and finally felt like it was time for triathlon again, and started training for real late October. But time didn't permit training at a satisfying level, so I decided to just run, but since early 2008 I've been back on a triathlon plan that says sprint triathlons in 2008, Olympic distance triathlons in 2009, half Ironman triathlons in 2010, and then Ironman again in 2011 when I'm 40. Damn good plan, but subject to change as family, work and personal enthusiasm dictates.

My love

Picture of Mette Marie Sinding Sørensen, June 2004 I live with my wife Mette Marie and our son Tobias, born 2006-09-19, in Universitetshaven on Islands Brygge, Copenhagen, Denmark. It's a part of the new Ørestad in Copenhagen, and right next to Islands Brygge Metro station. Almost everything is less than 5 years old.

We fell in love with each other in May 2003, and in December the same year I moved in with her, we were always together anyway, and it was meaningless to live seperately. We got married in Holstebro 2005-08-06.

Mette Marie is a social educator working with mentally and physically handicapped adults at Kamager. The picture was taken just before her graduation ceremony from Københavns Pædagogseminarium in the summer 2004.

“Where do you come from?”

I'm always slightly annoyed by that question. Try the following for an answer:

I was born on a Sunday morning, February 7th, 1971 in Thisted, the north-western corner of Denmark. Three months later we moved to Odder south of Århus. Three years later, just after my mother gave birth to my little sister Ellen and my parents divorced we moved to Brande in central Jutland, 30 km south of Herning. Ten years later we moved back to Thy, this time Vestervig, 45 km south of Thisted. My mother still lives in the area. At 17 I moved to Aalborg for a year, 2 years in Dronninglund, then to Thisted for 3 years, and then Århus for 7 years, and the last 5 years I've lived in the Copenhagen area.

So, when people ask me where I come from I either give them a version of the above or I pick at random either Århus or Thy, which feels a little like lying.

Computers and I

I think I'm a pretty atypical computer geek. I bought my first computer in 1998 when I was 27, an AMD K6-2 300 MHz machine with 64 MB RAM and 6 GB harddisk, 17″ monitor. I had a StofaNet 1 Mbit connection and I've never suffered anything slower than 512 Kbit ADSL, so I guess I've been kind of privileged.

I was studying for lab technician at the time and bought my computer for that, but in less than a year I realized how bad Windows 98 was and started dual-booting with Linux, and for nearly 2 years I ran SuSE Linux, spent a year struggling with Debian before i got tired of the mess that most Linux distributions are and installed OpenBSD and I've been hooked on BSD ever since.

Professionally I'm blessed with mostly FreeBSD systems.

That's it folks, no more random info for now.