This is the place where I am my own publisher and where I can publish texts and programs about all my areas of interest. I hold a Masters Degree (Magister Artium) with two majors in Prehistoric Archaeology and Physical Anthropology. Under the research
menu item I am going to install some scripts related to demography and computer simulation and I maintain an area about the history of parlour games (I have collected a few hundred books on that ranging chronologically from the ancient Orient to the Baroque).
Another issue is programming (Perl, C++, PHP, JavaScript, HTML, XML, XSLT, MySQL, CSS, LaTeΧ). From a technical point of view this site is far over the top for a personal homepage but I aim to keep me up to date with the rapidly developing web technology. If you are interested in the design and technology please head over to the IBML page. As a bibliophile I was disappointed of most standard web layouts.
Furthermore I am a tournament chess player and licensed trainer and arbiter. The corresponding area contains material related to competitive chess in contrast to the more academic habits in the research/parlour-games path. 1 The majority of the items collected in the miscellanea
section is somehow connected to my main areas of interest but does not meet them exactly.
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After prolonged hesitation I dare to provide a comment section. But I allow for factual comments only! For insults, spam, conspiracy theories and so on go elsewhere!
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Notes
1I love footnotes!