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Here is what I always wanted to say:

= Applications =

For my mind is so little I need to write down software that fascinated me. You can participate by reading!
* analyze source code using doxygen and [http://sourcenav.berlios.de/ SourceNaviGator]
* show a traffic summary on your web server with Wusage
* schedule meetings with www.doodle.ch and Meeting Wizard
* manage the inventory of your datacenter with [http://phpequimon.sf.net phpEquiMon]
* '''lock and unlock your screen automatically with [http://blueproximity.sf.net BlueProximity] (cool idea)'''
* keep a USB disk as backup and sync it with one or several computers with [http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/ Unison]
* plan your appartment furniture with sweet home 3d
* to simulate keypresses, use xautomation

= Essays =

== Innovations ==

All innovations have faced mis-understanding at the beginning. Here are some examples:
* An internet connection cost 8 DM + Traffic when it was introduced. So I said the internet will never gain momentum. Because with the internet, I could write mails for free. With every mail, I could replace a letter for 1.10 DM. So the internet would only pay off if I substituted more than 7 letters to friends by mail. And I never wrote 7 letters in a month!
* I am just digitalizing my video tapes. I saw one from 2000. There they announce Al Bundy' latest sayings on ''video test''.

= My hobby benchmarks =

[[my hobby benchmarks|Here are they]]

= Cool Links =

* [http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Biculturalism.html Joel on Unix' "haughtiness-from-a-position-of-weakness"]
* [http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000339.html Joel on fire and motion]
* [http://www.joelonsoftware.com/uibook/chapters/fog0000000057.html Joel on user interfaces, part 1]
* [http://www.joelonsoftware.com/uibook/chapters/fog0000000059.html Joel on user interfaces, part 3]
: Home of the sentence "And believe you me, users care about a lot less things than you might think. They are using your software to accomplish a task."
* [http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/CamelsandRubberDuckies.html Joel on Pricing Strategies]
* [http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/LeakyAbstractions.html Joel on Leaking Abstractions]
* [http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000020.html Bloatware is not that bad]
* [http://ometer.com/free-software-ui.html there should be an option to disable eating all my email]

= Where I contribute =

There are some open-source projects where I contribute code:
* KDE
* X.org
* mediawiki
Also, I contribute to some wikis:
* ThorstenStaerk on wiki.linuxquestions.org
* ThorstenStaerk on www.man-wiki.net
* ThorstenStaerk on de.wikipedia.org
* ThorstenStaerk on en.wikipedia.org
* Tstaerk on techbase.kde.org
* ThorstenStaerk on userbase.kde.org
* Tstaerk on en.opensuse.org
* tstaerk on wiki.kde.org
Also, here on www.staerk.de/thorsten, you find programs from me, but in case I regard them as useful, I also put them on http://www.freshmeat.net. If I find my tutorials useful, I put them into one of the above wikis.

= Topics =

* [[Our philosophy club]]