User:Peter Ellis

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User:Peter Ellis & Andrew Alder meet in Canberra, Sat. 9 April 2005.

Firstly, I an not one of these people with the same name.

First impressions can be so deflating, and then I go and put a photo of myself here just before I self-nominated (a fizzer) to be an Wikipedia:Administrators.

What foolishness! I should have cranked up the Geek factor weeks before that. GEEK CODE

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[edit] Interests

In my professional life I would be described as a "project manager", and my recent academic accomplishments bear this out as does my membership of the Australian Institute of Project Management (AIPM). However, people seeing me in my work clothes would think otherwise... and you are left to draw your own conclusions the material that's here.

I am interested in places I live and have lived, and things I know about. I admit it: I'm the 'marginal' person, interested in some VERY odd things:

I know Linux and I run three seperate boxen - SuSE x 2, Fedora Core 3 (for the not-Linux crowd, 'boxen' is geek plural of 'box');
- I have met Andrew Tridgell on various occasions, because:
  - I interviewed him for my community radio network, and
  - I am a subscribed list-watching member of the local Linux User Group;
  - I am a paid-up member of my local "PC Users Group";
I regularly moderate at Slashdot [1] and read Groklaw [2] daily;
My BOINC SETI@Home total credits topped 100,000 on 28 November 2006, and 125,000 on 15 April 2007, and 150,000 on 9 September [[2007].

I have been hand-coding since starting on an IBM Model 1180 with its magnificant magnetic-ring memory!
I am webmaster for three organisations, in which I hand-code:
- a PHP-based site, and
- two flat-file based sites;

plus I contribute content to several other sites including being an assistant admin of a site with hand-coding some of the content that goes in via a submission-tool;

I have hand-coded the content for several parts of my work intranet;
I have several blogs, one that I keep fairly active;

... and you're welcome to ask me for the URLs (if you know Wiki well enough);

I took delivery of one of the first clone TRS-80 units in Australia after sleeping in my car outside the nearest Dick Smith Electronics store;
I have conversed with Australian Living Treasures, Dick Smith, on several occasions (and... have email access to him), and my father flew with him on various occasions;
I own several GPS units, one installed in my car;

POTY 2006

This is a Time magazine
Person of the Year 2006

en	This user is a native speaker of English.

AU	This user speaks Australian English.

This user contributes using Mozilla Firefox.

ADFA

This user is a student or graduate of the Australian Defence Force Academy (UNSW)

SCIENTIA To Lead To Excel

UNSW

This user is a student or graduate of the The University of New South Wales.

This user is crunching numbers using BOINC.

HTML-3

This user is an advanced HTML user.

php-1

This user is a beginning PHP programmer.

vln-3

This user is an advanced violinist.

voc-3

This user is an advanced vocalist.

mnd-2

This user is an intermediate mandolinist.

This user contributes using Microsoft Windows .

This user contributes using Linux.

This user enjoys electronics or is an electronics hobbyist.

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This user is a member of WikiProject Canberra.

This user is a Christian.

This user is a Freemason.

This user has an amateur radio license.

Conserve

I am a contributing, certifiable conservative.

This user is a fan of
The West Wing.

IANAL

I am a peri-legal at
Donnell, Young, Dole and Frutt and
Crane, Poole & Schmidt.

My Wikistress

I am a welded-on fan of The West Wing and anything Star Trek;
And... Amateur Radio was geek before the word was invented!
and I have previously mentioned: violin that is 'my' instument, but I'll get a note out of almost any string instruments and most others, too; Royal Australian Navy; reptiles because a son keeps several, and I assist; satellites because studying about them keeps my mind active; Christianity because I believe; broadcasting, radio, community radio station Radio 1RPH and the Australian Amateur Radio national news service, because I like the sound of my own mind; Canberra just is!; plus Choir singing of major choral works, Freemasonry because it's 'cool'.
In my spare time, I regularly write for several magazines.

And, you guessed it, "Get a life" is an alien concept.

[edit] Wikipedia:Are_You_a_Wikipediholic_Test online version

180 Peter Ellis 20:06, 20 January 2006 (UTC) - and probably conservative
126 Peter Ellis 01:28, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC) - conservative in retrospect!

[edit] Kate's tool

As at 29 March 2006 (after just over 2 years of editing) my data from Kate's tool is:

Total edits: 2328

Image uploads: 111 (109 cur, 2 old)

Distinct pages edited: 937

Edits/page (avg): 2.48

Edits by namespace: Articles 1518

Deleted edits: 53

First edit: 2004-03-17 03:42:12

[edit] Academic

Master of Management Studies (MMgtStudies) in Project Management - University of New South Wales through the Australian Defence Force Academy in Canberra, the Capital city of Australia Australian Capital Territory

Subjects that I particularly enjoyed included: Human Resource Management, System Dynamic Modelling, Microeconomics for Managers, Facility and Property Management, Communicatuions and Information Systems, Fundamentals of Surveillance Technologies, Legal Process and Procedure, Satellite Communications, Strategic Management, Project Management Body of Knowledge

Diploma of Applied Science (DipApSci) - Royal Australian Navy College, Jervis Bay, New South Wales

And, I have the itch to do a PhD on a field of economic / social / government administration (although I've been advised to write a book on a part of the subject first, in order to cure the itch.)

[edit] Wiki contributions

List of Contributions

As of February 2007, my aim will be to raise the grading / status of the pages I have written. Template:Grading_scheme

[edit] Articles I have written (established) include...

[edit] Written for... (inc. edited...)

Uniting Church in Australia; Act of God; List of Christian scientists; Sydney Bertram Carter; Compton Gamma Ray Observatory; Royal Australian Navy; Amateur radio; Michael Jeffery; Royal Military College, Duntroon; Uniting Aboriginal and Islander Christian Congress; ; Andrew Tridgell; International Telecommunication Union; HMAS Albatross; Nigel Kennedy - violinist; Richard Butler (diplomat); Advance Australia Fair; List of Canberra suburbs; The Iguanas; Cyclone Tracy; Hydrogen-5 and Hydrogen; Timeline of underwater technology; Crumhorn; Charmaine Reid; Apollo moon landing hoax accusations; Philip K. Chapman (the first Australian astronaut); Paul D. Scully-Power (oceanographer and NASA Mission Specialist); Andy Thomas (astronaut); Baking; Shiraz grape; Grange wine; Render (cement surface, and bagging); William-Adolphe Bouguereau; Barge (as in 'barge pole'); Crossbar switch; Project Mogul; Cyclone Tracy; Tasman Bridge; Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race; Alain Caron (bass player); Uzeb; Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance; University of Pavia; Burley; Burleigh; Gold Coast, Queensland; Earl of Anglesey; Walter Womersley proving persistence is necessary, and rewarding; Ship of Fools (website); Simon Jenkins; Event-related potential; Ringer; Canberra Deep Space Communications Complex ; Patrick Steptoe ; Seth Carlo Chandler; Chandler wobble ; Hopman Cup; International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service ; Slash_(punctuation)#Computing; Ricky Ponting; Wiradjuri; "Money for old rope."; Marián Calfa; Kerala state, India; List of state leaders in 1421; 1421 theory; Wikipedia:Book sources; Azem Hajdari; Christopher Columbus; Women's Tennis Association; Mark Latham; John Howard; List of state leaders in 1574; Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers; Easter; Maritza Sayalero; Royal Mail Ship; Egon Eiermann; Treaty of Tordesillas; 6600; Lotus 78; Leptosiaphos; Australian Open; Proteus (disambiguation); Inter-faithism; Fox co 2d bn 23d marines; Denis Thatcher; Boulton, Watt and Murdoch and associated pages; Gustafs skål added MIDI link; Edward Guilford; Battle on the Ice; Tegel; Pope - resignation; Danny John-Jules actor; The Necks; Continuity error in Ep 1 of Lost (2004 television series); WACY; William McIlvanney; Lateran Palace; Maurice LaMarche; Pierre Bouguer & Antonio de Ulloa - the halo; VeggieTales rapidly reverted/removed, but see Talk:VeggieTales; Duke of Marlborough; William Dobell artist; Aluminium; Side of a bus advertising, adding image; Australian Army; Michael Leunig; Wikicities > Religion > Liturgy; John Cain; Richard McGarvie; James Gobbo; John Landy; 2005 Sumatran earthquake; Australian Defence Force; Platypus; Prime Minister of Australia; Radio reading service; Gall-Peters projection section about the mention in The West Wing, while not logged in as myself; Thomas Blamey; Limiting magnitude / International Dark-Sky Association; Keith Payne VC and Edward Kenna VC; One-room school; Robert Menzies; Versus; Bolide; Public service announcement; Newcastle, New South Wales; Sebaceous gland; The meromictic Lake Fidler (Tasmania); RSL; Wikipedia:New articles (Australia); Parade; The Pentagon Wars; Anchor; Guy Sebastian; Steven Donato to try to stave off deletion; Paradise Community Church; Planet Shakers; Sanctus; Naval officer ranks; William Blake; Wikipedia:Neutral point of view/BCE-CE Debate; Cate Blanchett; Mary, the mother of Jesus; The Cancer Council Australia; Southern Cross; Southern Cloud memorial at Avro 618 Ten; Wright; Armstrong Siddeley; Cooma, New South Wales; Doctor Who; Angus Houston; revert [[3]] on Parachute; Coolangatta, Queensland; Mount Warning; Bar (landform); Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom; National Maritime Museum, UK; Lifeboat; Raft; Skitube Alpine Railway; Kosciuszko National Park; Burger; Cornelia Rau; International Whaling Commission; The Dish ; List of prominent jurists; Geoff Shepherd; STS-114; Britny Fox; Carmina Burana; Carlton Draught; Sergei Avdeyev; Sergei K. Krikalev; Expedition 11; List of cricket terms; Billy Bowden (the international cricket umpire); The Aunty Jack Show; Collect (a form of prayer); Justice Susan Crennan; NASA's New Horizons spacecraft (to Pluto and Charon); Canberra Raiders and Canberra Stadium; Floriade, Canberra; University of Western Australia ; Canberra Nature Park ; Movietone News; Kokoda Track; Bottlebrush (Callistemon) plants; Attack on Sydney Harbour; Keith Urban; Template:WalkleyAwards; Ludwig van Beethoven's Große Fuge manuscript; List of works by Beethoven; Bolide on 3 December 2005; Mental As Anything, the 1980s+ Australian band; HMAS Stalwart; Iceberg B-15 (the Earth's largest known floating object); SETI; (uncredited, 13 December 2005) Naval officer ranks and Chaplain; Mount Bogong; List of schools in Victoria#B 2; Pig; Tuggerah Lake; Falls Creek, Victoria; Magna Carta; Robert Burns (statue in Canberra); Hawk-Eye sport tracking device; Edward 'Weary' Dunlop sculpture [4] (2nd edition detail); put 'official' pictures (from High Court of Australia web site) in entries on Chief Justice Murray Gleeson, and Justices William Gummow, Michael Kirby, Kenneth Hayne, Ian Callinan, and Dyson Heydon (but none yet available for Justice Susan Crennan); Manly, New South Wales; created redirection to (correctly spelled) HMAS Queenborough (G30) from wrongly spelled HMAS Queensborough; Baal-zephon; William Ellis Green cartoonist (not related); Venetia Phair (nee Burney) who named Pluto; Tales of the Reaching Moon; Pyrazolopyrimidine; Intermodulation noise; List of Australian television series; Safeguard; Bruce Spence; Australia Day; Daphne Akhurst; Sputnik program; Opportunity International; Smallholding#Hobby Farm; CKOI-FM; World Alliance of Reformed Churches; Reformed Ecumenical Council; Fuel oil; List of business schools in Asia; Women's National Basketball League; Two-factor authentication; Fosterite / Peridot (mineral - picture of mineral captured in space by Stardust spacecraft; Robert McCallum, Jr.; Cathy Freeman and Nick Bideau; HyShot rocket; Education in the Australian Capital Territory; Military rank (star ranks); Police Commisioner Mick Keelty; Cyclone Larry recovery; Len Beadell, surveyor and explorer; and fiddled with [Tropical cyclone]; Voyager 1; Cooneyites (Christian sect); The Wiggles' honours; Talk:List of Freemasons/citation / List of Freemasons; Tor - a hill; Nino Randazzo, the Aussie Italian politician; Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang, and Metafiction, etc; Three Peaks Challenge; Fourth wall; Three Peaks Challenge; HM Prison Risdon - April 2006 seige; (Quamby / Symonston) Periodic Detention Centre, ACT; President of the United Nations General Assembly fixing grammar; Box wine; Visoko (a town in Bosnia, with impressive pyramids); Beaconsfield mine collapse; Cameron's Corner; Stonehenge; Abbotsbury Swannery; Irrelevance principle; Peace symbol; Australian of the Year Walk; Waterloo Bridge; Commonwealth Avenue, Canberra; Sonic hedgehog (protein/gene); Llano de Chajnantor Observatory (radio), Chile; Operation Astute (Australian Defence Force deployment to East Timor, 2006); Donald Rumsfeld; Ozymandias (disambiguation); Argonauts; Ronald Fairbairn and Nicholas Fairbairn; 1956_Summer_Olympics; Chalice (cup); Italian Australians; Répétiteur; Batt Reef; Steve Irwin; Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Telescope; Vrba-Wetzler report; STS-125; Repository; Shibboleth; James Alexander Allan, poet; Periodic table & Peter Schickele; Barrington Tops National Park; F-35 Lightning II; Czech Dream (hoax TV show); Mills Cross Telescope ; Inertial Upper Stage; Digital Radio Mondiale; Barrel organ & Book music; Palmanova, Italy (a star fort); Gwen Meredith; Australian Council of Social Service; Taj El-Din Hilaly; Fijian military officers Commodore Frank Bainimarama and LTCOL Meli Saubulinayau; Ediacaran geological period; Halimeda algae forming the Great Barrier reef; Marulan, New South Wales; Air guitar; HMQS Gayundah; Damascus steel; David Martin (Governor); William Rooke Creswell; Little Whinging (from the Harry Potter universe); Hartsfield's Landing (episode 58 of West Wing); Royal Regiment of Australian Artillery; Canon John Neale Dalton; Five hundred meter Aperture Spherical Telescope; HMAS Kanimbla (L-51); Engineer#Military Engineers; World Council of Churches; Eugene Carson Blake ; Consultation on Church Union; Quark star; Color temperature; Scripture Union; Glebe Park, Canberra ; Domestic violence ; Codpiece ; Marketown, Newcastle ; Jasper Conran & Bruce Chatwin; Swimming pool; Mike Ketley; Jose "Pepi" Diaz; Sean Yazbeck; Sin radio; Terence Conran; Verner Suomi; Pigpen cipher; Brick stitch & Peyote stitch; 2007 Hopman Cup; Anne, Princess Royal; Happy Feet; Northampton; Otto Erich Deutsch ; Kings Avenue, Canberra; List of buildings and structures in the Australian Capital Territory; Margaret Reid; Summernats; Torres Strait; Seaman Dan; RocKwiz; Guernsey (clothing); History of knitting; 2006 Winter Olympics; Stephanie Pearl-McPhee; Pullover; Sweater; Metro Rail Transit; Eden Park; Master (form of address); Office (disambiguation); Reese's white chocolate; Bunnings Warehouse; Çumra; Campbell Park, Australia; Roderick Haig-Brown Provincial Park; Royal Company of Archers; Robert Fergusson; Oppian Hill; Gens; Sergio Badilla Castillo; Jessica Paré; Strong Arm Steady; Vulchitrun treasure; Klaus Knopper; Blindness; Milo (drink); Thomas Mayne; Naval Air Station Whidbey Island; HMAS Manoora (1935); Mount Graham ; Vatican Observatory; Pearl Aviation; Nigel S. Rodley; List of Howard University people; Corbeau; Shrove Tuesday; Randy Stonehill; Larry Norman; Australian International Hotel School; Vitis vinifera; Conservapedia; Garuda Indonesia Flight 200; Compass; Montalcino; Military uniform; Automated Transfer Vehicle; Saturn; Peter Pace; David Petraeus; Hat-trick; Twin; NASA's Automated Transfer Vehicle; Nguyen Hong Nhi; Parachute; Gerardus Mercator; Réunion hotspot; Charles Bartley; P)eter Churchill; Adelaide Girls Choir; Pavel Tichý; Sydney Theatre Company; Towrang, New South Wales; Hume Highway; Dr. Sarojini Sahoo, Indian feminist author; The "Esther Williams Trophy"; Laurence Spitters, industrialist;

[edit] Useful text

Wikipedia:Citing sources ^[1]

[edit] Making a goose of myself!

Just after the opening of the 2006 Commonwealth Games I was talking to a family member who their knows ducks and geese and who swore to me that it was a goose rather than a duck that was used in connection with the Michael Leunig storyline. Accordingly, I inserted, "(A live white goose was substituted, presumably because it would be easier to handle and better visible by cameras.)" That person has since seen footage of the duck in question and has recognised the error of the ways. Accordingly, I too must take responsibility and apologise to the Wikipedia community in general and the Games organisers in particular. Peter Ellis 11:24, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "10 random pages" that I'm working with

Note: I do not necessarily touch or 'fix' things that I could!

For the archive, see User:Peter Ellis/10 random pages.

Current...
- Sixteenth (18 November 2006): Thir - disambig; John_Newlove - poet; Fare Thee Well - disambig; Mario Teaches Typing - mmmario; Sadanand Joshi - petropublishing; John Neale Dalton - a cleric; Neural ensemble - all in the mind; Bount - character; Little Whinging sends you 'potty'; Illinois' 6th congressional district - politics.

[edit] Copyrights User:Peter Ellis/Copyrights

I am proud of my substantive contributions to Wikipedia, many listed below, and I appreciate other people's work.

I am referring to Wikipedia from several web sites that I maintain, because I realise the usefulness of the articles and the intellectual rigor achieved by collective work (whatever the doubters and gain-sayers dredge up from time to time.)

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