What else is there in this site? Well, it started out as a blog in 2003 and the old blog posts are still accessible in /blog, also sorted into categories. Note that there is a wild language mix. If you know Swedish, you can for example read about one of my observing runs at a big telescope on the Canary Islands.

I have written a few HowTo-texts, product reviews and real-life linux stories. Find them here.

Then there is my picture archive, in case you want to click through gazillions of not generally interesting pictures. And my list of travels. If you want to come visit, there are directions available.

My name is Thomas Marquart and I was born in 1978 in southern Germany, close to Aschaffenburg where I finished secondary school ("Gymnasium"). I studied physics at Heidelberg University and got a masters degree ("Diplom"). During my year abroad I got in touch with the astronomy department in Uppsala, Sweden, where I later applied for and got a position as a PhD-student. In total I have now been living in Sweden for over seven years.

In my free time, I write several blogs, run a one-man company, do photography and enjoy having guests. Via networks such as HospitalityClub and CouchSurfing, I have had over a hundred guests from all over the world, staying at my place for free during the last years, and met many wonderful people.

Language skills:

• German, mother tongue
• English, fluent.
• Swedish, fluent.
• French, intermediate.
• Latin, almost dead.

I am currently finishing my PhD in astronomy at both Uppsala and Stockholm university. I might soon write something about the topic here. Meanwhile, you can look at the source or at a nice picture that I have made:

ivh: Cleaning my office, throwing out old stuff, because I will share it with a collegue.

See original: Cleaning my office, throwing out old stuff, because I will share it with a collegue.

ivh: Endlich mal wieder auf fiket.de gebloggt. Zwei Wochen Pause waren lang.

See original: Endlich mal wieder auf fiket.de gebloggt. Zwei Wochen Pause waren lang.

Schweden im frühen 18. Jahrhundert. Der große nordische Krieg ist vorbei, Karl XII. ist tot und die Zeit Schwedens als Großmacht ist vorüber.
Die vier Stände – Adel, Bürger, Bauern und Priester – schafften es 1719/20, den Thron zu entmachten und die gesetzgebende Gewalt auf den Reichstag zu übertragen, in dem Beschlüsse [...]

See original: Wort der Woche: Hattarna & mössorna

Ein Bild von heute morgen.

See original: Svamp

Nach zwei Wochen Blog- und Nachrichtenabstinenz meinerseits ist es Zeit für einen Rückblick darüber, was unterdessen in Schweden so passiert ist und in den Medien war. Ich gehe dazu chronologisch durch die Schlagzeilen von Radio Schweden und gebe meinen Senf zu einigen davon ab.
29. 09. Bildt besorgt über Rechtsruck in Österreich. Der schwedische Außenminister Carl [...]

See original: Vad har hänt?

ivh: @statist when? :)

See original: @statist when? :)

ivh: Started playing Monkey Island 2. Left Scabb island and remembered the cheat-code for the lucky wheel on Phatt island.

See original: Started playing Monkey Island 2. Left Scabb island and remembered the cheat-code for the lucky wheel on Phatt island.

See original: Downloads — Cleversafe.org

See original: Overview — Sphinx v0.4.2 documentation

ivh: Back at work in uppsala. Kind of nice to be home, although Crete was both successful and fun.

See original: Back at work in uppsala. Kind of nice to be home, although Crete was both successful and fun.

See original: High Priority Free Software Projects - Free Software Foundation