About

When I am not being stared at by a mountain cow, I make a living either sitting in front of a computer myself, or talking with people who do.

A few years ago I finished my computer science studies at the TU Munich. During the good ol' days I was occupied with expanding a theorem prover named Isabelle, writing compiler tools for newly developed programming languages, and localizing educational software for the German market. Nowadays I use SQL, Tcl and Java to build database-backed Web applications at Red Hat. Besides that, I tend my collection of homegrown software, like LetMeType.

Among the things I enjoy more than telling a machine how to get a task done are travelling, taking pictures, books, music and aviation.

If you want to leave some virtual graffiti, you can sign my visitors' book, or use one of the many "Add a comment" links you'll find throughout the site. And if you are lost, the site map, local search, or the What's New? page may be what you are looking for.

News about this site can be found Carsten Clasohm's Blog. If you're looking for older news article, check the news archive. And if you are a Web archaeologist, you might be interested in these even older static news items:

06-May-2000

My homepage now is powered by a PostgreSQL-based installation of the ArsDigita Community System, and has moved to a new machine. This means that I no longer have to work on filling this site with content - which instead is done by the community members. At least that's how it's supposed to work. :-)

18-Feb-2000

Worked a bit on the Wendelstein page.

23-Jan-2000

Converted the cow pages to the new layout, and added more pictures to the Software section.

21-Jan-2000

Added Related Links to the main Aviation and Hiking pages using BooHoo.

 8-Dec-1999

Added a prototype of the Software section.

18-Nov-1999

Updated the LetMeType section layout.

12-Oct-1999

Updated the Photo section layout.

22-Sep-1999

Updated the Aviation section layout.

28-Jul-1999

Added full-text search and modified the layout a bit.

20-Apr-1999

Added LeanWeb.

 1-Mar-1999

Made it again: The top placement for keyword cow at search.msn.com. (Beating 11579 other pages.)

26-Feb-1999

Retouched the Lübeck and Winter pages.

25-Feb-1999

Converted all pages to WML.

30-Jan-1999

Mayor layout overhaul. Removed graphical navigation panel from the left and added a banner to the top of each page.

 5-Jan-1999

Added Grindelwald to the hiking section.

28-Dec-1998

Added The Last Village to the hiking section, and LookupIP to the list of downloadable software.

11-Nov-1998

Added the Almabtrieb page and three Swiss pictures to the Cow section.

 7-Nov-1998

Added pictures to the Hiking Logbook and created the Fauna and Flora page.

 4-Nov-1998

Reopened the Aviation section with newly scanned pictures.

26-Oct-1998

Added The Complete Guide to Cows.

25-Oct-1998

Added the Botanical Garden page.

13-Oct-1998

Added LinkExchange banners to the Cows and Aviation page.

11-Oct-1998

Extensive work on the LetMeType pages, finally adding an English version.

12-Jul-1998

Renovated the Wendelstein page.

 6-Apr-1998

Mayor layout overhaul. Added navigation bars (left and bottom) to most of the pages.

 4-Feb-1998

Today I got a mail from the Deutsche Museum about aircraft pictures taken at their exhibition which read: [...] we demand you to remove the fotos immediately. Minutes later, the most favorite page of my site was history. [Today, the Cow page gets more hits than the Aviation page ever did, and I also reopened the latter one with new pictures. 11/17/98]

21-Oct-1997

The pages have moved again - this time to my own domain.

27-Sep-1997

At last I can use such wonderful things as subdirectories and long filenames on my server. I've made heavy use of this and renamed or moved almost every file. Cascading Style Sheets have been added to all pages.

23-Feb-1997

Updated my email address. So much for "life long email addresses".

24-Jan-1997

Received the first mail from a visitor. Thanks for the info about the Stearman, Ryan!

18-Jan-1997

Laberberg and Kampenwand pages were added.

 8-Jan-1997

This log was started. During the last days I've created the Lübeck page and split up the hiking page.

11-Dec-1996

The first visitor found his or her way to my pages.

14-Nov-1996

I got my first Photo CD and began building this site.