User:AlexWasFirst

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This user is a member of the Association of Inclusionist Wikipedians. The motto of the AIW is conservata veritate, which translates to "with the preserved truth". This motto reflects the inclusionist desire to change Wikipedia only when no knowledge would be lost as a result.

Nothing much here but some of the pages I've edited/have a passing interest in. I have a homepage with nothing on it (although at one point I ran my own wiki :-). Apparently at one time I was the 189th most active wikipedian. Nowadays I pop by and edit every now and then - like now.

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Just to give you an idea of of who I am and what I believe in handy in iconographic form I'm a scientist by training. I respect people's right to believe in something else but I don't feel that constrains me from debating with them when I disagree.

Who I am This user is male. 18+This user is an adult. This user lives in the United Kingdom. This user is a scientist. This user is a software engineer. This user is proud to be British. This user is proud to be English. This user is proud to be a Wikipedian. This user has been editing Wikipedia for more than 15 years.

What I Believe This user supports the European Union. This user supports recycling. This user believes that the Flying Spaghetti Monster is as likely as creationism. This user is interested in religion. This user believes in the separation of church and state.

My Geek Stats This user clicks on Random article way too often. prog-3This user is an advanced programmer. asmThis user can program in assembly language. C-4This user is an expert C programmer. c++-3This user is an advanced C++ programmer. Perl-2This user is an intermediate Perl programmer. bashThis user can program in Bash. EmacsThis user is interested in the Church of Emacs.

Tech stuff

• Atari and the Atari ST
• Asynchronous Transfer Mode
• BIOS
• Cache
• Demo Scene (including Atari Demos) a bunch of these have since been deleted by deletionists
  • The Lost Boys - removed by deletionists
  • The Exceptions
  • Inner Circle - removed by deletionists
  • The Carebears - was removed by deletionists, an attempt to rebuild with better references is here
• Digital Subscriber Line
• Dragon 32 and Dragon 64
• Home computers
• Linux
• Mozilla
• Real-time operating system
• Static code analysis
• Video game console
• Relakks

People and Places

• The Angry Brigade
• Berlin, Irving
• Boyle, Danny
• Cambridge
• Clapton, Eric
• Fac 51 Hacienda
• Fravia
• Jochen Hippel
• Harvey, Brian
• Manchester (including Madchester)
• Marconi
• Thalion Software
• UMIST
• Korner, Alexis

Drugs and Health

• British National Formulary
• Cannabis
• Ecstasy
• Ethanol
• Influenza
• Paroxetine

Everything else

• Artex
• Dragon
• Live-action roleplaying games
• Plumbing
• Punt
• Special forces
• The Doha Declaration

The original version of this page, with complete history, is available at User:Alex/old