User:Peter Ellis

First impressions can be SO deflating, and then I go and put a photo of myself here just before I self-nominated (a fizzer) to be an Wikipedia:Administrators.

What foolishness! I should have cranked up the Geek factor weeks before that.

Contents

1 Interests 2 Wikipedia:Are_You_a_Wikipediholic_Test 3 Academic 4 Pages I have written (established) include... 5 Written for 6 "10 random pages" that I'm working with 7 Copyrights User:Peter Ellis/Copyrights

Interests

In my professional life I would be described as a "project manager", and my recent academic accomplishments bear this out as does my membership of the Australian Institute of Project Management (AIPM) (http://www.aipm.com.au). However, people seeing me in my work clothes would think otherwise... and you are left to draw your own conclusions the material that's here.

I am interested in places I live and have lived, and things I know about. I admit it: I'm the 'marginal' person, interested in some VERY odd things:

• I know Linux and I run three seperate boxen - SuSE x 2, Fedora Core 3 (for the not-Linux crowd, 'boxen' is geek plural of 'box');
  • I have met Andrew Tridgell on various occasions, because:
    • I interviewed him for my community radio network, and
    • I am a subscribed list-watching member of the local Linux User Group;
    • I am a paid-up member of my local "PC Users Group";
• I regularly moderate at Slashdot [1] (http://slashdot.org) and read Groklaw [2] (http://www.groklaw.net) daily;
• I am webmaster for three organisations, in which I hand-code:
  • a PHP-based site, and
  • two flat-file based sites;
• I have several blogs, one that I keep fairly active;

... and you're welcome to ask me for the URLs (if you know Wiki well enough);

• I assist with the admin of another site, hand-coding some of the content that goes in via a submission-tool;
• I have hand-coded the content for several parts of my work intranet;
• I took delivery of one of the first clone TRS-80 units in Australia after sleeping in my car outside the nearest Dick Smith Electronics store;
• I have conversed with Australian Living Treasures, Dick Smith, on several occasions (and... have email access to him), and my father flew with him on various occasions;
• I have been hand-coding since starting on an IBM Model 1180 with its magnificant magnetic-ring memory!
• I own several GPS units, one installed in my car;
• I am a welded-on fan of The West Wing and anything Star Trek;
• And... Amateur Radio was geek before the word was invented!
• and I have previously mentioned: violin that is 'my' instument, but I'll get a note out of almost any string instruments and most others, too; Royal Australian Navy; reptiles because a son keeps several, and I assist; satellites because studying about them keeps my mind active; Christianity because I believe; broadcasting, radio, community radio station Radio 1RPH and the Australian Amateur Radio national news service, because I like the sound of my own mind; Canberra just is!; plus Choir singing of major choral works, Freemasonry because it's 'cool'.
• In my spare time, I regularly write for several magazines.

And, you guessed it, "Get a life" is an alien concept.

Wikipedia:Are_You_a_Wikipediholic_Test

• 126 Peter Ellis 01:28, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC) - conservative in retrospect!

Academic

Master of Management Studies (MMgtStudies) in Project Management - University of New South Wales through the Australian Defence Force Academy in Canberra, the Capital city of Australia Australian Capital Territory

• Subjects that I particularly enjoyed included: Human Resource Management, System Dynamic Modelling, Microeconomics for Managers, Facility and Property Management, Communicatuions and Information Systems, Fundamentals of Surveillance Technologies, Legal Process and Procedure, Satellite Communications, Strategic Management, Project Management Body of Knowledge

Diploma of Applied Science (DipApSci) - Royal Australian Navy College, Jervis Bay, New South Wales

And, I have the itch to do a PhD on a field of economic / social / government administration (although I've been advised to write a book on a part of the subject first, in order to cure the itch.)

Pages I have written (established) include...

Lake_George,_New_South_Wales; Brake (box and pan); Jervis Bay Territory; Bruce Beresford; John Bell (actor); Press corps; Walkley Award that became Walkley Awards; Laurie Oakes; Dean Drayton; Sargent and Greenleaf; Canberra Region (now Canberra wine region); Ronald Wilson; Phillip Adams; Australian Living Treasures; Radio Print Handicapped Network; Paul Davies; Chris Ritchie; Australian Defence Force Academy; John Templeton; Templeton Prize; Wardroom; Commanding officer; Uniting Aboriginal and Islander Christian Congress; Secondary Ionisation (SIMS); International Amateur Radio Union; Nowra; Logie Award; List of Logie Award winners 2004; Guarneri family of violin makers; Scott Cao - modern violin maker; Belconnen (district); North Canberra (district); Child stealing; Montana Barbaro; Fairey Gannet; Robyn Williams; Malcolm Mackerras; Elizabeth Blackburn; Bogong Moth; Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions; US/Australia Parliamentary Friendship Group; Remembrance Driveway (Australia); Govie (Canberra); User:Peter_Ellis/Copyrights; Armstrong-Siddeley Double Mamba turboprop aircraft engine (for Fairey Gannet); Armstrong-Siddeley Mamba; Friends of Australia Congressional Caucus; George Newnes - publisher; Stan Grant; Stan Grant (junior); John Rudder; John Williams (water scientist); Harry Hopman; List of highest towns by country; Cabramurra; Alicia Molik; William Grant Broughton; June Bronhill; Fiona Wood; Bertil Schmüll; Leptosiaphos koutoui; Mitsubishi Sigma; Cabin (ship); Davis McCaughey; Don Burrows; David Fleay; Phoenix Prize for spiritual art; Alan Jones (radio); Shark 02; Dalton, New South Wales; ANZAC Avenue, Canberra; National Emergency Services Memorial, Canberra; Australian-American Memorial; Walk to Emmaus and Emmaus Walk redirects to Cursillo; Lake Fidler (Tasmania); Royal Australian Air Force Memorial, Canberra; Vietnam Forces National Memorial, Canberra; Royal Australian Navy Memorial, Canberra; Australian Army Memorial, Canberra; Hellenic Memorial, Canberra; Kemal Atatürk Memorial, Canberra; Australia-New Zealand Memorial, Canberra; Mounted Memorial, Canberra; Foundation stone; Rats of Tobruk Memorial, Canberra; Australian Service Nurses National Memorial, Canberra; Korean War Memorial, Canberra; Australian Merchant Navy Memorial, Canberra; Blake Prize for Religious Art; Avro 618 Ten; Vice Admiral Russ Shalders; Air Vice Marshall Geoff Shepherd; Australian National Maritime Museum; Australian Hospital Ship AHS Centaur; Bullocks Flat, New South Wales;

Written for

Uniting Church in Australia; Act of God; List of Christian scientists; Sydney Bertram Carter; Compton Gamma Ray Observatory; Royal Australian Navy; Amateur radio; Michael Jeffery; Royal Military College, Duntroon; Uniting Aboriginal and Islander Christian Congress; ; Andrew Tridgell; International Telecommunication Union; HMAS Albatross; Nigel Kennedy - violinist; Richard Butler (diplomat); Advance Australia Fair; List of Canberra suburbs; The Iguanas; Cyclone Tracy; Hydrogen-5 and Hydrogen; Timeline of underwater technology; Crumhorn; Charmaine Reid; Apollo moon landing hoax accusations; Philip K. Chapman (the first Australian astronaut); Paul D. Scully-Power (oceanographer and NASA Mission Specialist); Andy Thomas (astronaut); Baking; Shiraz grape; Grange wine; Render (cement surface, and bagging); William-Adolphe_Bouguereau; Barge (as in 'barge pole'); Crossbar switch; Project Mogul; Cyclone Tracy; Tasman Bridge; Sydney_to_Hobart Yacht Race; Alain Caron (bass player); Uzeb; Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance; University of Pavia; Burley; Burleigh; Gold Coast, Queensland; Earl of Anglesey; Walter Womersley proving persistence is necessary, and rewarding; Ship of Fools (website); Simon Jenkins; Event-related potential; Ringer; Canberra Deep Space Communications Complex ; Patrick Steptoe ; Seth Carlo Chandler; Chandler wobble ; Hopman Cup; International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service ; Slash_(punctuation)#Computing; Ricky Ponting; Wiradjuri; "Money for old rope." (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/English_proverbs#M); Marián Calfa; Kerala state, India; List of state leaders in 1421; 1421 theory; Wikipedia:Book sources; Azem Hajdari; Christopher Columbus; Women's Tennis Association; Mark Latham; John Howard; List of state leaders in 1574; Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers; Easter; Maritza Sayalero; Royal Mail Ship; Egon Eiermann; Treaty of Tordesillas; 6600; Lotus 78; Leptosiaphos; Australian Open; Proteus (disambiguation); Inter-faithism; Fox co 2d bn 23d marines; Denis Thatcher; Boulton, Watt and Murdoch and associated pages; Gustafs skål added MIDI link; Edward Guilford; Battle on the Ice; Tegel; Pope - resignation; Danny John-Jules actor; The Necks; Continuity error in Ep 1 of Lost (2004 television series); WACY; William McIlvanney; Lateran Palace; Maurice LaMarche; Pierre Bouguer & Antonio de Ulloa - the halo; VeggieTales rapidly reverted/removed, but see Talk:VeggieTales; Duke of Marlborough; William Dobell artist; Aluminium; Side of a bus advertising, adding image; Australian Army; Michael Leunig; Wikicities > Religion > Liturgy (http://religion.wikicities.com/wiki/Liturgy:Main_page); John Cain; Richard McGarvie; James Gobbo; John Landy; 2005 Sumatran earthquake; Australian Defence Force; Platypus; Prime Minister of Australia; Radio reading service; Gall-Peters projection section about the mention in The West Wing, while not logged in as myself; Thomas Blamey; Limiting magnitude / International Dark-Sky Association; Keith Payne VC and Edward Kenna VC; One-room school; Robert Menzies; Versus; Bolide; Public service announcement; Newcastle, New South Wales; Sebaceous gland; The meromictic Lake Fidler (Tasmania); RSL; Wikipedia:New articles (Australia); Parade; The Pentagon Wars; Anchor; Guy Sebastian; Steven Donato to try to stave off deletion; Paradise Community Church; Planet Shakers; Sanctus; Naval officer ranks; William Blake; Wikipedia:Neutral point of view/BCE-CE Debate; Cate Blanchett; Mary, the mother of Jesus; The Cancer Council Australia; Southern Cross; Southern Cloud memorial at Avro 618 Ten; Wright; Armstrong Siddeley; Cooma, New South Wales; Doctor Who; Angus Houston; revert [[3] (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Parachute&oldid=14195959|vandalism)] on Parachute; Coolangatta, Queensland; Mount Warning; Bar (landform); Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom; National Maritime Museum, UK; Lifeboat; Raft; Skitube Alpine Railway; Kosciuszko National Park; Burger; Cornelia Rau; International Whaling Commission;

"10 random pages" that I'm working with

Note: I do not necessarily touch or 'fix' things that I could!

For the archive, see User:Peter Ellis/10 random pages.

• Current - Fourteenth (27 April 2005): Welland - a disambig.; Bojonegoro - an Indonesian town that someone must have visited!; Rafe Champion - an Australian writer who I've never heard of before, but I had probably should have; Banco do Brasil - obvious, really; Adriean Videanu - a Mayor; Winter Quarters, Nebraska - a saintly place?; Front-runner - a leading article; Chris Hecker - a game-boy; Kathalijne Buitenweg - a substitute article (read iot to get the allusion); Circus (2000 movie) - gone but (not) forgotten;

Copyrights User:Peter Ellis/Copyrights

I am proud of my substantive contributions to Wikipedia, many listed below, and I appreciate other people's work.

I am referring to Wikipedia from several web sites that I maintain, because I realise the usefulness of the articles and the intellectual rigor achieved by collective work (whatever the doubters and gain-sayers dredge up from time to time.)

I agree to multi-license all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below: Template:DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual Template:WikimediaAllLicensing