User:Edward
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Hi, I'm Edward Betts, I'm a Geek and a Debian developer living in Holloway, London.
My day job is coding Web Applications in Perl.
- Check out my namesakes -- ed and Bettsville, Ohio.
- Books I've read: User:Edward/books
- Contribs: User:Edward/contribs
- Todo: User:Edward/Articles to extend and User:Edward/Missing articles
- articles I'm going to read: User:Edward/toread
- IMDB Top 250: User:Edward/top250 (out of date because it changes all the time)
- I used to have this home computer: Magnavox Odyssey²
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Bookmarks
- Wikipedia:UK Wikipedians' notice board
- Wikipedia:Welcoming committee
- Wikipedia:Standard user greeting
- User:Angela/useful stuff#Welcome
- Current science and technology events
- Wikipedia:How to add content with minimal effort
- Wikipedia:Avoiding common mistakes
- Wikipedia:Image copyright tags
- Template:prettytable
- Template:Otheruses
- Template:Otheruses2
- Alexa Wikipedia statistics (http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?&range=3m&size=large&compare_sites=&y=t&url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page)
Interests
Accidents and incidents on commercial airliners, Agile Methods, Alcohol as a fuel, American literature, Asymmetric warfare, Atomic Age, Augmented reality, Auto-free zone, BBC Radio 4, Bicycles in warfare, Category:Big Science, Broken arrows, Capitalism, Chip and PIN, City, Cold War, Command line interface, Communist state, Cyberpunk, Dark fibre, Disasters, Dot-com, ETOPS, Economics, Electricity liberalization, EURion constellation, European Union, Ford Nucleon, Free flight (air traffic control), Free software, Gaia theory (science), Generation X, Glocalization, Google, Greenspun's Tenth Rule, International organisation, International trade, Irrational exuberance, LaTeX, Limits to Growth, London, Microwave power transmission, Military-industrial complex, Moral panic, Noam Chomsky, Nuclear accidents, Nuclear accident terminology, Mean center of U.S. population, Military occupation, PearPC, Politics, Private military contractors, Profit maximization, Public transport, Python programming language, Radioisotope thermoelectric generators, Relaxed stability, RFID, Science Fiction, Self-publishing, Semantic web, Simulated reality, Skyline, Social software, Socialism, Soviet Union Techno-utopianism, Technological singularity, Terrorism, Transhumanism, United Nations, Urbanization, Usury, Web development, Webvan, Yield management
Communist state imitations
I was born in 1981, I remember seeing the Berlin Wall on TV. The cold war fascinates me, what if we still had the Soviet Union, what would the world be like today? Would Soviet citizens be allowed on the Internet? Would they write blogs?
I like how they were always trying to copy the west. Here is a table with a list of examples.
Books I should read
- Strategy of technology -- free online copy
- Engines of Creation -- free online copy
- Ravage (1943) by René Barjavel -- Jef recommends this author
Favourite authors
- Bret Easton Ellis
- Tom Wolfe
- William Gibson
- Vernor Vinge
- Po Bronson
- Lawrence Lessig
- Noam Chomsky
- Jon Courtenay Grimwood
- Steven Levy
- Simon Reeve
- Douglas Coupland
- Neal Stephenson
- Michael Lewis
- Orson Scott Card
- George Orwell
- Larry Niven
- Clifford Stoll
- Ray Kurzweil
Favourite film directors
Todo
- learn Lojban
- learn SAMPA
- learn MetaPost and use it to draw diagrams for Wikipedia
- write some articles for Simple English Wikipedia (http://simple.wikipedia.org/)
Licensing
I agree to multi-license all my contributions, as described below: Template:MultiLicensePD