Jaakko J. Wallenius (January 30, 1958 – June 11, 2013) was a

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writer and journalist.

Biography

Jaakko Wallenius was born in

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in 1958. He taught himself to read in

at the age of 6, and later learned

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, and

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.Being Human: Is it finally time to say goodbye?
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/ref> In 1990, he married Marjaliisa Wallenius, and they remained together until his death. He was diagnosed with inoperable cancer in November 2011. In his last entry to his blog Being Human on April 14, 2013, he wrote: He died on June 11, 2013.

Work

Jaakko Wallenius worked mainly in journalism and blogging, as well as computer repair. He had eight blogs in two languages and nearly 40 Facebook fan pages for secular philosophers, writers, and scientists. The Finnish publishing company

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published in the year 2002 Jaakko Wallenius's book on

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– productivity suite called ”''OpenOffice tehokäyttöön”'' of which the second edition was published with the name ”''OpenOffice – koulutuspaketti''” in the year 2004. In the year 2005 Jaakko Wallenius published a website called ”''Rakasta tietokonettasi –kansalaisen tietotekniikkatieto''” or ”''Love your computer''”with the financial aid of ''Journalistisen kulttuurin edistämissäätiö Jokes''-foundation. This work has been published as a web-site Jaakko Wallenius was awarded in year 2008 a grant by The Finnish Association Of Non-Fiction Writers society to write ”''Jäähyväiset jumalille – tieteen haaste uskonnoille''”. These essays have been translated to English and they have been published in the Being Human blog. Jaakko Wallenius was the economics editor in the newspaper '' Länsi-Uusimaa'', which is published in

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, from 1990. In the year 2001 Jaakko Wallenius started a private enterprise called Bittitohtori, which concentrated on the maintenance of home computers and web-design.

Political and philosophical views

Jaakko Wallenius considered himself an

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as well as an

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References

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