Me
Hi, I'm 36 years old and I live near Minneapolis, Minnesota. I do computer programming, mostly in Java, for a living. I have a B.S. in Computer Science and Mathematics, 1991, from the U of MN.
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I had found Wikipedia pages before for references, found by Google, but didn't realize the potential for editting them by anyone! It seems radical, but with the possibility of saving all historical copies and allowing people watch pages they've worked on, gives the pages integity. I'm still worried about quality, but I very much like the concept.
Math, science, astronomy, history, and election methods have been my strongest interests, and I'm sure they will dominate any pages I add or edit.
Good technical writing is a difficult art. I tend to write-up things for my own reference as I learn, but having a public place will encourage me to work on user-friendly writing that others may value as well.
Adding pictures/diagrams is actually very important to me. Pictures can't improve bad writing, but they can help demonstrate simple details quickly, and help motive people to look into a subject.
I've got a nice digital camera. I also can design simple diagrams in MSPaint. I also wrote a slick astronomy program written in Borland Delphi (Windows Pascal) which reproduces astronomy views from any place and time in the solar system.
I've added a number of pages already, and some pictures/diagrams to help some. Sometimes I think it may be good to get something fair in here, and improvements can be added later by myself and others.
There are already so many good pages on subjects of interest to me! I'm very impressed!
This looks like a big time-waster actually, but I can't think of a more fun place to be online when I have some spare time!
I'll get some links here to pages I've worked on sometime soon....
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