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Hey, you've found my space. I like to write about places and things in southern Ontario. I also usually have a good eye for spelling and typos, and I like to correct them wherever I find them.

License

After much consideration, I have decided to multi-license all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages and any images uploaded, as described below:

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Biography

Image:Tim Coleman with William Coleman.jpg|Tim Coleman with his son William, taken July 12, 2004.

Image:William John Anthony Coleman.jpg|William John Anthony Coleman, born July 9, 2004.

Image:Nathan Ryan Lawrence Coleman.jpg|Nathan Ryan Lawrence Coleman, born March 7, 2006.


There aren't really a lot of interesting things to know about me; I consider myself pretty ordinary as far as people go. I've even been called normal on more than one occasion. I was born on Halloween which seems to amuse a lot of people. Not only was I born on Halloween, but I was born on the evening that Daylight Savings Time ended in 1976, at 0200, which became 0100 and so my mother worked an extra hour for naught.

I have one brother, Eric, who lives in Toronto. He is a talented comic book artist.

I am currently employed as a software developer and technical consultant for Waterloo-based Open Text Corporation, a manufacturer of enterprise content management software. My initial experience with Open Text was in network operations where I served four months as a co-op student from January to April 2000. In August 2000, I returned as a co-op developer with b2bScene, a division of Open Text dedicated to developing business-to-business software. Finally, in April 2001, I became a permanent full-time employee. b2bScene no longer exists, and has been known as Hosted and Managed Solutions, the Global Delivery Centre, and now Global Services Development, a part of the larger Global Services organization at Open Text. My job is basically customizing our principal product, Livelink, to suit the needs of customers. It involves some technical skills, business knowledge, and tact. I like to think that I'm pretty good at it.

My wife, Denise, and I have been happily married since August 11, 2001. We have a cat, Cole, and we live together in our house in Waterloo, Ontario.

On July 9, 2004, Denise gave birth to our new son, William John Anthony Coleman. He weighed in at 4.26 kg (9 lbs. 6½ oz.), and was 56 cm (22") long at birth. Like his father, William was born at Grand River Hospital K-W Health Centre (previously known as the K-W General Hospital) in Kitchener, Ontario. Photographs of little William can be found at [http://gallery.epenguin.org/20040709/].

Wikipedia

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As of November 30, 2004, I have made 4932 edits to Wikipedia as a named user.

  • #1: Created Golden Horseshoe on July 18, 2003. [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Golden_Horseshoe&oldid=4232847]
  • #1000: Disambiguated a link in Las Vegas Strip on June 2, 2004. [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Las_Vegas_Strip&diff=3948622&oldid=3842695]
  • #2000: Wikified Geography of Guam on June 23, 2004. [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Geography_of_Guam&diff=5313528&oldid=4239671]
  • #3000: Added a category to To Kill a Mockingbird on July 17, 2004. [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=To_Kill_a_Mockingbird&diff=4863763&oldid=4696916]
  • #4000: Made a minor image markup change to Mess on August 25, 2004. [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Mess&diff=6636432&oldid=5435837]

=Oddities=

=Articles I have written=

These are some of the articles I have created for Wikipedia:

=Articles of interest=

These are some of the articles which interest me and which I have contributed to:

=Adminship=

I became a Wikipedia administrator on November 24, 2004. I will endeavour to uphold my duties graciously and responsibly, and promise to use my powers for good or for awesome. Feel free to read my request for adminship.

Distractions

All work and no play...

I enjoy several distractions outside of the computer realm. Here are encyclopedic links to some of them.

=Card games=

=Board games=

Education

I received a Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics from the University of Waterloo in 2001. I majored in Combinatorics and Optimization with a minor in Computer Science. I also spent a considerable number of hours honing my skills at the game of contract bridge, something which I haven't had as much chance to do since the end of my university days.

Software development

My career is in software development, and I have worked with a number of languages, systems, and organizations.

=Programming languages=

Here are some of the programming languages that I have worked with.

=Standards=

As is the case with many programmers, I encounter a number of system standards in my day-to-day life. Among others, I have become proficient with:

=Database systems=

=Organizations=

=Other projects=

I have been involved with other projects to a small or large degree.

Things to do

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