User:Alex

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This user is a member of the Association of Inclusionist Wikipedians The motto of the AIW is Conservata veritate, which translates to, "With the preserved truth" This motto reflects the inclusionist desire to change Wikipedia only when no knowledge would be lost as a result.

Nothing much here but some of the pages I've edited/have a passing interest in. I have a homepage [1] with nothing on it (but I do have my own wiki :-) and apparently at one time I was the 189th most active wikipedian. Nowadays I pop by and edit every now and then - like now.

Contents 1 Userboxes 2 Tech stuff 3 People and Places 4 Drugs and Health 5 Everything else

[edit] Userboxes

Just to give you an idea of of who I am and what I belive in handy in iconographic form I'm a scientist by training. I respect peoples right to belive in something else but I don't feel that constrains me from debating with them when I disagree.

Who I am This user is male. A This user is an adult. This user lives in the United Kingdom. This user is a scientist. This user is a software engineer. This user is proud to be British. This user is proud to be English. This user is proud to be a Wikipedian.

What I Believe This user supports the European Union. This user supports recycling. This user believes that the Flying Spaghetti Monster is as likely as creationism. This user is interested in religion. This user believes in the separation of church and state.

My Geek Stats This user clicks on Random article way too often. prog-3 This user is an advanced programmer. asm This user can program in Assembler. C-4 This user is an expert C programmer. c++-3 This user is an advanced C++ programmer. Perl-2 This user is an intermediate Perl programmer. bash This user can program in Bash. Emacs This user is interested in the Church of Emacs.

[edit] Tech stuff

• Atari and the Atari ST
• Asynchronous Transfer Mode
• BIOS
• Cache
• Demo Scene (including Atari Demos)
  • The Lost Boys
  • The Exceptions
  • Inner Circle
  • The Carebears
• Digital Subscriber Line
• Dragon 32 and Dragon 64
• Home computers
• Linux
• Mozilla
• Real-time operating system
• Static code analysis
• Video game console
• Relakks

[edit] People and Places

• The Angry Brigade
• Berlin, Irving
• Boyle, Danny
• Cambridge
• Clapton, Eric
• Fac 51 Hacienda
• Fravia
• Jochen Hippel
• Harvey, Brian
• Manchester (including Madchester)
• Marconi
• Thalion Software
• UMIST
• Korner, Alexis

[edit] Drugs and Health

• British National Formulary
• Cannabis
• Ecstasy
• Ethanol
• Influenza
• Paroxetine

[edit] Everything else

• Artex
• Dragon
• Live-action roleplaying games
• Plumbing
• Punt
• Special forces
• The Doha Declaration

The original version of this page, with complete history, is available at User:Alex/old