User:Tenbaset
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I'm Shannon McCracken. Male, born in 1978, livin' the geek life in Auckland, New Zealand. Stumbled onto wikipedia somehow and haven't quite managed to let go of it yet.... :-)
And, hopefully, I'll write a better description when I'm not supposed to be working..
Personal site: Shannon's Personal Site (http://www.geocities.com/tenbaset2/)
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A poorly maintained list of articles I have made a (non-insgnificant) contribution to
- Hyper-threading
- Pakeha although I'm ashamed about it and should probably subsume/combine it with Culture of New Zealand or somesuch.
- Iwi
Articles I should work on
- ECMA
- Polysaccharide
- BNF - because the dragon book documents it so obiviously it is documented.
- Perhaps I should delete Fictional_universe. (not fictional_realm, of course)
- Culture of New Zealand - rethink the see-also section and link pakeha in somehow
- Add a list of Iwi to Iwi and check the fishing settlement
- Chord (aircraft) - the formulae need <math> markup and explination of what the varables are.
Things I consider done
- Scroll lock - digging though on groups.google.com shows that using scroll lock to pause the scrolling output is actually a modern urban ledgend. Older NG posts in alt.folklaw.computers (circa 1990 and 1993) state that scroll lock causes the window to scroll instead of moving the cursor when you use the arrow keys. Pausing the scrolling output is a new feature; supported bascially under Linux. And, besides, the key causes the window to scroll and not the cursor under Excel. (That's right, Microsoft's flash Excel XP has this little gem harking back to sometime last century..)
Rant
I wish sysops could delete nonsense faster. (This isn't a critizism! This is just a wish, in the same catagory as I wish I had a gold-plated ferrrari to drive to work each day.) It must be difficult trying to defend wikipedia from the nonsense that keeps coming this way.. and trusting these people to have the descretion to unilaterally delete is the only efficient way.
Why do some people find glee in destroying things?
Why do some people in an organisation spend more time organising the organisation or achieving power struggles or whatever else instead of focussing on what the organisation is really trying to achieve? Like they should be?