:User:Ke4roh

I'm author of [http://home.hiwaay.net/~jimes/necktie/ The Necktie Repository] and [http://docs.rinet.ru/UNIXi/ch33.htm UNIX Unleashed IRIX FAQ] ({{ISBN|0672312050}}), among other things. I like taking pictures (I've submitted some), and I take [http://www.jumpthemoonphoto.com/ horse event pictures] as a diversion from programming computers (my day job) and contributing to Wikipedia.

Image:Zip-line over rainforest treetops 15 March 2002, Costa Rica2.jpg trips above treetops in Costa Rica on March 15, 2003.]]

I'm an amateur radio operator, a native of Huntsville, Alabama, a resident of Apex, North Carolina, and a recovering Wikipediaholic. I have attended Randolph School ('91), The University of Alabama in Huntsville ('97), and North Carolina State University where I worked on a masters degree in computer science with emphasis on software engineering.

I've participated in Students for the Exploration and Development of Space, the National Space Society, and The Association for Computing Machinery.

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Space Missions
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Writing Captions
• /Surviving German Rocket Scientists
• /Flat Floor Facility

Things for which I (at some point) was a major contributor:

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There are [https://tools.wmflabs.org/xtools/pages/index.php?user=Ke4roh&project=en.wikipedia.org&namespace=all&redirects=noredirects others I started], too. My interest in those topics varies.

File:AlabamaJubilee90.jpg

File:Wakeboarding with boat.jpg

File:Personal water craft family spout.jpg

File:Arenal volcano day.jpg

File:Arenal volcano night.jpg ‎

File:Ice storm sheath.jpg

File:Ice storm arabesque.jpg

File:Miss Baker's Gravestone bw.JPG

File:Redstone Test Stand with USSRC tour bus.JPG

File:Narrow cobblestone street in Taxco with parked car.jpg

File:Kombi in Taxco showing passenger door.jpg

File:Berrocal minis.JPG

File:Quick Plane.jpg

File:USSRC Rocket Park.JPG

File:Raleigh Acorn Drop.jpg

File:Apex NC Town Hall (historic).jpg

File:Apex NC Town Hall (historic) entrance.jpg

== Misc ==

[http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/html/guide/entities.html HTML Entity Names] can be useful for formatting.

I used to keep Template:Opentask up to date with captions needing attention and keep an eye on Wikipedia:Tomorrow's featured article to see that it has good captions, but now I let others see about that.

I often find myself helping others set up their computers, and I have a little checklist of the /Basic computer setup for Windows machines.

[https://tools.wmflabs.org/xtools/pcount/index.php?user=Ke4roh&project=en.wikipedia.org my edit count]

I also [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Ke4roh upload pictures to Commons] and categorize things over there so they can be found for Wikipedia articles.

I am not interested in being a Wikipedia administrator for a couple of reasons. First, I do not have, nor will I ever attain, the requisite number of edits. This is probably because my contributions tend to be content rather than admin-type things. That said, I do revert vandalism when it appears on my watchlist, and if need be, ask for admin help. During my most recent RfA (nominated by a new editor), the argument came up that if I used the admin privileges at least once, it would be a net-positive. I disagree. I'd need to use the admin privileges at least enough to make up for the effort of the RfA. A few of my hours were burned over that RfA, and several of other users as well. It's safe to say that some tens of hours were consumed considering that RfA, hours that could have been better spent on content or combating vandalism. Were I to accept a nomination, it would bring about even more scrutiny, consuming hundreds, perhaps thousands of hours for its consideration. I would need to put a considerable burden on the existing administrator league to make it worth everyone's time to make me an admin to offload my own impact, that or change my modus operandi to carry out more admin activities, and that's not likely.

These may be of general interest, or they may be here so I can keep up with them as I move among computers.

• [http://westofhtml.blogspot.com/ West of HTML: the Blog]
• [http://www.touchgraph.com/TGGoogleBrowser.html TouchGraph GoogleBrowser] graphs Google's related links
• [http://www.cookingforengineers.com/ Cooking for Engineers]
• [http://www.mistupid.com/animals/groups.htm Words for groups of animals]
• [http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/~checkout~/platform-ui-home/rcp/index.html Eclipse Rich Client Platform]
• [http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=366431 JFaceDBC Eclipse DB plugin]
• [http://www.genesis-umc.org/ Genesis UMC, Cary, NC]
• [http://www.archive.org/details/ComputerNetworks_TheHeraldsOfResourceSharing Computer Networks: The Heralds of Resource Sharing] 1972 video on ARPANet
• [http://psd.tutsplus.com/articles/web/50-totally-free-lessons-in-graphic-design-theory/ 50 free lessons in graphic design theory]
• [http://openfontlibrary.fontly.org/ Free fonts]

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