Ron Mertens' home page

Hey, you reached my home page... welcome!

About Me

Well, I'm 32 years old (and getting older), live in Herzelia in Israel, with my wife Michal (who's studying Chinese medicine) and daughter Abigail.

I'm a software engineer (currently looking for a job). In my spare time I run Metalgrass - which does software products (windows shareware), publishes some web sites (the large ones are oled-info and mram-info) and also develops web widgets and toolbars (and ready to do some development services on these platforms).

What I like

I like traveling, and taking photos (hop over to my travel page). My recent trips include New Zealand, India, Samoa, Ireland, Costa Rica and switzerland.

I also like reading (here's a list of my favorite books), and listening to music (and, you guessed it, here's a list of my favorite bands). I also like playing the piano, and composing as well. I recently released my first album, check it out here.

Other things I like: Ski, trekking and scuba diving. And probably some more stuff that I can't really think of.

My blog

Yeah, I have succumbed to public pressure and have started my own blog at www.RonMertens.com/blog. Enjoy!

Guides

Following popular demand (no, really!) I decided to sit and write a few web-page related guides. How to write your page, how to make money from it, where to host, how to choose domains, AdSense, SEO, and more. It's all rather basic stuff, but a lot of people asked me for it.

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