User:Jim77742

Summary

C-4 This user is an expert C programmer.

SI This user prefers the metric system of measurement.

This user is an advanced mathematician.

This user knows 250 digits of pi.

This user is a drummer.

This user plays the guitar.

This user is interested in astronomy.

This user is interested in Celestial mechanics and Astronautics

?met? This user prefers metric units and cannot figure out why Americans have such a hard time with them.

This user enjoys electronics or is an electronics hobbyist.

This user plays golf.

This user plays snooker.

BSc This user has a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science (Hons).

BSc This user has a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics.

ath This user is an atheist.

This user believes the world would be a happier, safer and saner place without religion.

This user believes that the Flying Spaghetti Monster is as likely as creationism.

This user enjoys photography.

This user enjoys Geocaching.

ipa ə-0 This user does not understand the International Phonetic Alphabet.

loose  lose Not enough people know the difference between loose and lose. Do you?

• Have been quietly looking and editing articles for around a year. Would like to have done more, but I do have a job.

• Only now have begun to appreciate what work a good wikipedian does.

• Still learning and discovering all the options and tools.

• The signal to noise ratio is surprisingly good. Logically, wikipedia should not work. This surprises me every day.

• I live in the best place in the world. But I can't tell you where - because if lots of people find out they'll come here and ruin it. It's a long way from most places though.

• I'm an accredited Rules of Golf official.

• I play chess and enjoy chess problems. Is the one I invented below in 1981 the simplest one possible?

• I'm an experienced amateur photographer. Check out http:///jimpalfreyman.com for some of my successful shots. If you think a Wikipedia article needs a good photo donated and I am in a position to take it - send me a note.

• Things in wikipedia that annoy me:

• Poor readability. Especially conversion of units. SI is used across the world and putting little known units in all articles to cater for three countries and 4% of the population (and under 16% of the English speaking population) is just bizarre.
• Non neutral point of view. But I admit it's harder to write than it looks.
• Incorrect use of the apostrophe on words ending in "s":

Jim's house - the house belongs to Jim.

James's house - the house belongs to James.

The student's house - the house belongs to a student.

The students' house - the house belongs to not one student but a group of students.

James' house - the house belongs to not one Jame but a group of James. (This only makes sense if Jame is say a surname!)

Jim Palfreyman

Simplest chess problem of all time?

	a	b	c	d	e	f	g	h
8									8
7									7
6									6
5									5
4									4
3									3
2									2
1									1
	a	b	c	d	e	f	g	h

White to move and mate in two.