Home page of Thomas Horsten

Welcome, and thanks for visiting my home page.

This is a small placeholder page, with some information about myself, just so I can claim I have a home page.. (I used to write it was Under Development, but after 810 years that gets old..)

E-mail: For a while I didn't use my primary email address email address shown as an image to prevent spam due to spam problems, however I have recently found a solution and you can now use that address again.

About me

I was born in 1973, in Copenhagen, Denmark. Married Athena in 1999. I currently live in Cambridge, UK, and work for MIPS Technologies, writing Linux code and leading the tools team. Before that I worked with Symbian OS for a number of years. Although I am not currently looking for work, my C.V. is available on request. You can also check my LinkedIn profile.

Our daughter Alanah Louise was born on 7th September 2006.

We have a dog called Freja (a Norse goddess). She is a yellow Labrador Retriever born on 29 August 2005.

I have a Linux page with stuff I've written for Linux.

Links

These are a few of my favourite places on the net, in no particular order.

Google - the best search engine, and proof that commercial success on the net is achieved through technical know-how and understanding of the users' needs, not flashy banner-ads and popups.
BBC News - one of my primary sources of news.
DR Nyheder Online - news from Denmark (in Danish).
Wikipedia - A massive online encyclopedia which is an amazing collaborative work.
The Register - News from the IT/Internet world.
Slashdot.org - "News for nerds. Stuff that matters", as they say.
Merchant Empires - an open source, web based multiplayer online game that I helped write.
Archive for Danish Literature - in Danish. Lots of good classics, I particularly like Johan Herman Wessel.
Horsten.com - portal for the Horsten family.
Newcam Aerials - this guy did an amazing job on our aerial and I support local business

And some things I don't like:

SCO - the biggest scammers in the world, trying to boost their shares by taking credit for the voluntary work of thousands of people. Background here and here. Fortunately it's all falling apart lately. (I wrote that in 2005, and as of November 2007 they are still soldiering on.. Gah..)
VeriSign - a company that tried to hijack the entire .com and .net TLD's that they had been entrusted to safeguard, and only reluctantly relented when ordered to do so by ICANN, the global Internet authority on domain names.

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