User:Cenobite

Cenobite
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Name	Cal Harding
Born	1983-09-26
Current location	South Africa
Family and friends
Marital status	Unmarried
Education and employment
Occupation	Student
University	UNISA
Hobbies, favourites and beliefs
Religion	Discordianism
Contact info
Email	calvin.harding@gmail.com

Location
This user comes from South Africa.
PMBThis user is a resident of 'Pietermaritzburg'.
This user's time zone is UTC+2.
00:00This user uses 24-hour time.
This user prefers the metric system.

Language
Wikipedia:Babel en-5This user can contribute with a professional level of English. afHierdie gebruiker se moedertaal is Afrikaans. la-4Hic usor simile nativi latine loquitur atque contribuere potest. de-2Dieser Benutzer hat fortgeschrittene Deutschkenntnisse. Search user languages
OEDThis user uses Oxford spelling.
ipa-2 əThis user has an intermediate understanding of the International Phonetic Alphabet.
laHic usor latine loquitur atque contribuere potest.

Computers
This user contributes using GNU/Linux, but doesn't care what other people call it.
This user contributes using Firefox.
This user contributes using Vim.
C++This user can program in C++.
Template:User perl
This user can program in Python.

Wikipedia
This editor is a WikiGnome.
tyop typo This user is a member of the Wikipedia Typo Team.
This user is a participant in WikiProject Cricket.

This user page is currently under construction, hence its hideous appearance. I'm using it as my own, personal little sandbox in order to learn more about the intricacies of the wiki-markup. It will be updated, improved, and refined until it's acceptable for public consumption. As you can tell, I have a fondness for userboxes: they are terse, easy to read, and pretty to look at. Unfortunately, they're also rather unwieldy and I'll be culling their numbers as I incorporate the relevant information into this page in a more appropriate fashion.

All userboxes located to the right, below my personal information, (with the inclusion of the Public Domain notice at the bottom of this page) provide information relevant to my contributions to Wikipedia, such as my choice of spelling style, general areas of knowledge and expertise, and Wikipedia group affiliations. All other userboxes located below offer more general and/or light hearted information about myself and my interests.

About myself

General

I consider myself a consummate geek. In 1991, after I had taught myself BASIC on my trusty Commodore 64 (a language I have since disowned, the learning of which I consider an embarrassing faux pas), I first connected to the Internet at a blinding 1200 baud. I believe I may be the first person from my city, if not my whole country, to have needlessly flamed someone on a BBS.

After taking that first evolutionary step and going "online" all those years ago, I have encountered a few things on the Internet which have no less than filled me with awe and excitement, some of which include: my first discovery of Usenet, my first game of NetHack, my first naive steps in using Unix and, of course, my first visit to Wikipedia.

Education

I'm currently a student at the University of South Africa with a double-major in philosophy and economics, and I am complementing my studies with the aid of MIT's fantastic OpenCourseWare initiative. My further interests and passions lie in computer programming, artificial intelligence and linguistics.

Charity

My favourite charity is Child's Play and I am presently campaigning to get the Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital in Cape Town listed as a partnered hospital. The hospital is the largest of its kind in the country, and often receives patients from foreign and overseas countries into its specialized care. Unfortunately, government funding for the hospital was recently cut and it now survives primarily on donations, currently requiring approximately another R10 million to upgrade its fifty-year-old theatre complex to meet modern standards.

Wikipedia

I've been using Wikipedia for a few years now, but have only made minor contributions in the vein of spelling and grammar correction, and so forth. Since Wikipedia has proven itself to be a most invaluable resource to some of my recent academic work, I have decided to give back by stepping up my commitment to its gradual yet inexorable improvement by contributing more frequently and diligently.

Cricket

Cricket is my favourite sport and, as a member of WikiProject Cricket, I echo the project's sentiment that the number of cricket-related articles can always increase and be better organized. Sadly, many cricket-related articles on Wikipedia are of little more than mediocre quality, which is certainly not what such a sublime and sophisticated sport deserves.

It is my desire to see many more cricketing articles achieve Featured Article status and appear on the front page in order to potentially spread cricket's exposure to people who may otherwise have no knowledge of, or interest in it.

Cricket-related articles to which I'm currently committing a great deal of work include:

• Makhaya Ntini
• Lord's Cricket Ground
• Melbourne Cricket Ground

Planned future cricket-related projects include:

• Pietermaritzburg Oval
• Paul Adams
• History of women's cricket

Userbox lameness

This user is a bibliophile.

This user is interested in ancient civilizations.

This user studies at the University of South Africa. gkThis user is a geek.

@ This user plays NetHack. This user enjoys playing poker. This user identifies with hacker culture.

farkThis user is a farker. This user is a cat lover. This user opposes all forms of racism and admires Nelson Mandela.

C2H5OH-0This user is a non-drinker. This user does not smoke. ubx-5This user uses entirely too many userboxes.

This user is interested in linguistics. This user is interested in space sciences. This user plays the guitar.

cRap This user can't stand rap music. This user likes most types of music. ¡This user knows the Chewbacca Defense and is not afraid to use it!

This user thinks 2001: A Space Odyssey is the best film ever made. This user supports the South Africa national cricket team. This user is a fan of Monty Python!

This user is a captive on the Satellite of Love. This user is a fan of The Sopranos. rvb This user is a Red vs. Blue fanatic.

RDThis user is full of smeg. Good news, everyone! This user is a fan of Futurama!

This user is a skeptic. /.This user has a Slashdot account. This user prefers using userboxes to fill up his user page instead of actually writing something useful.

Genuine and Authentic Discordian Pope. So please treat him/her right. This user is drug-free.

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nws-3This user newspeaks goodwise. BS-NThis user is a native speaker of Bullshit. LE-0This individual still maintains a shred of dignity in this insane world by adhering to correct spelling, grammar, punctuation and capitalisation.

...This user would like to be able to speak many more languages. ... in.Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which this user will not put. whomThis user insists upon using whom wherever it is called for, and fixes the errors of whomever he sees.

they he or sheThis user considers the singular they to be substandard English usage. . TheThis user does not put two spaces after a full stop. A, B, and A and BThis user prefers to use the serial comma only when its omission can be confusing.

"…"This user favours typewriter style quotation marks over typographic ones. This user enjoys overcast weather.

All contributions by this user are hereby released into the public domain

I, the author, hereby agree to waive all claim of copyright (economic and moral) in all content contributed by me, the user, and immediately place any and all contributions by me into the public domain, unless otherwise noted. I grant anyone the right to use my work for any purpose, without any conditions, to be changed or destroyed in any manner whatsoever without any attribution or notification.