User:Wtmitchell

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Wtmitchell
Name Bill Mitchell
Gender Male
Sexuality Hetero
Birth date March 2, 1943
Birthplace Chicago, IL, U.S.
Location Boracay Island, Philippines
Occupation Layabout
Education School of Hard Knocks
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This user lives in the Philippines.

This user is a Commercial airplane pilot with Instrument & Multi-engine ratings.


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on June 11, 2008.

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Hi.

I'm familiarly known as Bill.

I've been living on the Philippine island of Boracay since retiring here 1996. My wife, Solina, and I used to own and operate a small Boracay resort/hotel called Michelle's Bungalows, but that was one of the several resorts destroyed in the Boracay fire of January 21, 2005. At present, I'm mostly a layabout. I did spend some time in 2006 putting up a Boracay website (www.boracayinfo.net), and I currently maintain that site.

I used to be fairly active in the soc.culture.filipino usenet newsgroup, where I'm still known as Boracay Bill. My participation level there has dropped off severely since senseless name-calling and flame wars have become the rule rather than the exception.

Before I gave up working for a living, I had a long hardware/software engineering/technical career with Motorola. Even earlier, I was a Philco TechRep for about nine years, mostly doing contract work for various US Govt agencies in Vietnam during the unpleasantness there.

I was one of the early members of the Debian Linux project, working on the project for its first three years or so in 1993-1996.

Creating this Wikipedia user page seemed to me to be the proper thing to do after I found myself occasionally creating and editing various Wikipedia content pages. I created this user page in 2004, but my activity level on WP was pretty low up until mid-2006. Since then, I've been increasingly active.

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Quadell has awarded you a Bronze Wiki for your tireless disambiguation work. You may proudly boast of your laurels, but resting on them is discouraged.


The Special Barnstar
I'm awarding you with this Barnstar as a sign of appreciation on helping me fix the Article New Bilibid Prison Thanks for the fix! Monzonda c",) 01:32, 25 May 2008 (UTC)