User:Pmaccabe
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Most information about me is available at My Family Website
- I now work for Imagine Learning, a great company that makes software for English Language Learners.
- I graduated from Brigham Young University, with a Bachelor's degree in Information Technology.
As you can see from my contributions below, my interests are quite varied. I of course am a big technology buff, but my other interests include history, politics/current events, law, music of quite a wide variety, film, and emergency medicine. To name just a few.
[edit] Some of my contributions
[edit] Created
- Uinta Ground Squirrel
- Shelflife Records
- Halestorm Entertainment
- The Arrogants
- American Hot Wax
- List of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States
- Radia Perlman. It is just completely wrong that such a page did not exist already.
- Michael Quinion
- Douglas Crockford
- Cole Haan
- Foreign Service Specialist
- Pages on Input capture and Output compare in Embedded systems
- The page on Andrea Santoro and small edits in pages about the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy on pages related to it.
[edit] Significant Edits
- Added an analysis of PRNGs for TCP/IP sequence numbers in various operating systems as a practical example to Pseudorandom number generator, as well as a follow-up showing some developments in various PRNG implementations. The articles are available here and here.
- Wikified links on various pages: Great Gold Robbery of 1855, RPR (disambiguation)
- Some notes about the Samuel Alito Supreme Court nomination
- Notes about Cp index and Cpk index as well as Process capability (studying for my Statistics exam)
- Jewel Staite's marriage information.
- Notes on IEEE 802.11i security and related terms. (preparing for a lecture on the subject)
- Added the actual text of the compromise to the Gang of 14 article.
- Added SCOTUSblog to the Supreme Court of the United States page. Argued for it being kept after its removal.
- Added bits and pieces of information about events surrounding Hurricane Katrina and its political effects.
- Added information to the article on Eva Cassidy regarding a recently released DVD of her performances and the use of her songs in several films. Also added some formatting.
- Added references to court opinions and several questionnairres by John G. Roberts, Jr. after his nomination to the Supreme Court.
- Added some quotes by Don McLean on the meaning of his famous song American Pie.
- Posted the Free-space loss equation when I was studying it for a Broadband Communications class.
- I make more minor edits as well, I tend to be a bit of a spelling Nazi so as I use Wikipedia I enjoy the opportunity to contribute.
