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I am a civilian employee of the US Department of Defense. I spent two years in Stuttgart and another two years living in Eltville. You can see the view from my former next-door neighbor's webcam (when it's working).
I have moved back to Maryland.
Articles I would like to write
Others have done a better job than I could have done on all the topics I previously had listed here.
Why I'm a Wikipedian
Basically because of the manner in which an article was written about Jeffrey Vernon Merkey. The way in which the Wikipedia community handled such a controversial subject, in spite of Mr. Merkey's provocations and the actions of his more irresponsible critics, was very impressive.
As a result of watching how the community originally dealt with Merkey, I became interested in the actions of other vandals and largely restricted my activities to RC patrol and other vandal fighting actions.
As a result of later actions concerning Merkey, I have also become very interested in the Wikipedia power structure.
Accounts on other sites
In the past, I have very rarely posted on the SCOX message board as "mediamangler" and, even more rarely, on Groklaw as "MediaMangler".
Signature quote
I've used the following as an Email signature for many years: "Life is just one long software upgrade."
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