user strat     <div align="center"> <table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td style="border: 1px dotted"><b>homepage:</b></td> <td style="border-top: 1px dotted; border-right: 1px dotted; border-bottom: 1px dotted"><a href="http://www.fabiani.net/" target="_blank">http://www.fabiani.net/</a> (available only in German)</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="border-right: 1px dotted; border-left: 1px dotted"><b>country:</b></td> <td style="border-right: 1px dotted; border-bottom: 1px dotted">Germany (but was born and grew up somewhere in <a href="http://www.koessen.at/" target="_blank">Tyrol/Austria</a>)</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="border: 1px dotted"><b>city:</b></td> <td style="border-right: 1px dotted; border-bottom: 1px dotted"><a href="http://www.koeln.de/" target="_blank">Cologne</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="border-right: 1px dotted; border-left: 1px dotted; border-bottom: 1px dotted;"><b>profession:</b></td> <td style="border-right: 1px dotted; border-bottom: 1px dotted">Software Engineer</td> </tr> </table> </div> <p>When I entered the Internet in 1995, I suddenly needed a nick for IRC chat and so on. Since I used to play a lot of Blues and Rock on my favourite electric guitar (a black and white Fender Stratocaster), the first nickname that popped up into my mind was Strat. I still have got the guitar, but hardly play any more, because I recently (=1998) found out that perl is by far the better "game". So the nick is alive, while the reason for it nearly is dead... (Update: I started playing the guitar again...)</p> <table border="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td valign="top" width="50%"> <h3>Links at perlmonks:</h3> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node=best%20nodes&lastnode_id=33990" target="_blank">Best Nodes</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node=worst%20nodes&lastnode_id=33990" target="_blank">Worst Nodes</a></li> <li>Homenodes: <ul> <li><a href="http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node=Epoptai" target="_blank">Epoptai</a></li> <li>[turnstep]</li> </ul> </li> <li>Good Nodes: <ul> <li>[japhy's Obfuscation Review]</li> <li>[Where and how to start learning Perl]</li> <li>[A Guide to Installing Modules]</li> <li>[DBI recipes]</li> </ul> </li> </ul> </td> <td valign="top" width="50%"> <h3>Links to other pages:</h3> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.perl-community.de/" target="_newpage">www.perl-community.de</a> (german, the successor of the former perl forum at www.perl.de)</li> <li><a href="http://www.frankfurt-pm.org/" target="_blank">Frankfurt Perl Mongers</a></li> </ul> </td> </tr> </table> <hr> <table border="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td valign="top" width="50%"> <h3>Monks I've met so far:</h3> <p> <a href="http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node=Aristotle" target="_blank">Aristotle</a> <a href="http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node=betterworld" target="_blank">betterworld</a> <a href="http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node=brian_d_foy" target="_blank">brian_d_foy</a> <a href="http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node=busunsl" target="_newpage">busunsl</a> <a href="http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node=Corion" target="_blank">Corion</a> <a href="http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node=Crian" target="_blank">Crian</a> <a href="http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node=davorg" target="_newpage">davorg</a> <a href="http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node=demerphq" target="_blank">demerphq</a> <a href="http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node=esskar" target="_blank">esskar</a> <a href="http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node=happy-the-monk" target="_blank">Happy-The-Monk</a> <a href="http://perlmonks.org/?node=Joost" target="_blank">Joost</a> <a href="http://perlmonks.org/?node=Jouke" target="_blank">Jouke</a> <a href="http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node=Juerd" target="_newpage">Juerd</a> <a href="http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node=kabel" target="_newpage">kabel</a> <a href="http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node=mdupont" target="_newpage">mdupont</a> <a href="http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node=phaylon" target="_newpage">phaylon</a> <a href="http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node=pKai" target="_newpage">pKai</a> <a href="http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node=reneeb" target="_newpage">reneeb</a> <a href="http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node=shmem" target="_newpage">shmem</a> <a href="http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node=snadra" target="_newpage">snadra</a> <a href="http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node=sri" target="_newpage">sri</a> <a href="http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node=TheDamian" target="_newpage">TheDamian</a> <a href="http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node=TimToady" target="_newpage">TimToady</a> <a href="http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node=tinita" target="_newpage">tinita</a> <br/>(If I missed somebody, please tell me) </p> </td> <td width="50%"> <table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"> <tr><th colspan="3" style="border: 1px dotted">Levels:</th></tr> <tr><td>1</td><td>Initiate</td><td>November 7, 2001</td></tr> <tr><td>2</td><td>Novice</td><td>December 5, 2001</td></tr> <tr><td>3</td><td>Acolyte</td><td>???</td></tr> <tr><td>4</td><td>Scribe</td><td>???</td></tr> <tr><td>5</td><td>Monk</td><td>February 27, 2002</td></tr> <tr><td>6</td><td>Friar</td><td>March 11, 2002</td></tr> <tr><td>7</td><td>Abbot</td><td>April 3, 2002</td></tr> <tr><td>8</td><td>Bishop</td><td>May 15, 2002</td></tr> <tr><td>9</td><td>Pontiff</td><td>July 29, 2002</td></tr> <tr><td>10</td><td>Saint</td><td>November 04, 2002</td></tr> <tr><td colspan="3" style="border: 1px dotted"><b><center>GAME OVER ;-)</center></b></td></tr> <tr><td>5000</td><td>Saint</td><td>June 15, 2003</td></tr> <tr><td>10000</td><td>Saint</td><td>Oct 27, 2004</td></tr> <tr><td>16000</td><td>Abbot</td><td>May 10, 2006</td></tr> <tr><td>22000</td><td>Canon</td><td>Feb 05, 2008</td></tr> </table> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?lastnode_id=864&node_id=23288" target="_newpage">Level Stats<a></li> <li><a href="http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node=Voting%2FExperience%20System&lastnode_id=123953" target="_newpage">Voting/Experience System</a></li> <li><a href="http://tinymicros.com/pm/index.php?goto=MonkStats&start=50&" target="_newpage">Monks ordered by XP</a> </ul> <a href="http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?lastnode_id=6364&node_id=155986" target="_newpage">I am fond of statistics somehow :-)</a> </td> </tr> </table> <hr> Sorry for my bad English, for I'm not a native speaker; but I will go on learning :-) <hr> 2013-02-21 05:44:18 26007 358722 0 538 l=Cologne,c=DE 2 on