Hi, I've been a member of Wikipedia since June 2006.
I'm known locally for my interest in a rapid transit system for Winnipeg, and maintain a resource website about Winnipeg Transit history. I've also had a strong interest for a long time about Canadian broadcasting history, and have collected much information about this since the early 1980s in the form of newspaper and magazine articles, pamphlets, etc...
I live in downtown Winnipeg and see all that happens there — the good and the bad. I read the Winnipeg Sun and Winnipeg Free Press on most days.
One of my favourite books is Knowlton Nash's The Microphone Wars (ISBN 0771067127), a history of the CBC.
I've added some to the History section of the article on MTS &mash; history and equipment, also to create the initial article about the Millennium Library in downtown Winnipeg.
At home I use the Fedora Core 10 Linux distro. (moving to Fedora 14 soon), the Firefox 3 web browser, and the GIMP image editing application.
Since May 2009 I have had a spiritual awakening where I have since become open to spiritual concepts like the 'transmigration' of the soul/reincarnation, that it is our Spirit Guides who show us our past lives via the Book of Life. Through several different meditations I have seen myself as 4 different animals:
During my first past life session in June 2009 I saw myself living between the years 1850 and 1875 in the Cotswolds region of England where I lived on a farm. I used to ride by horse to and from the town public Library by myself and I liked the serenity of those trips. One day on my horse ride trip back home from the town Library I thought that maybe this particular horse was fast enough to race. Our family had 2 but not enough to spare to race. I didn't get my wish.
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[edit] Broadcasting
[edit] Telecommunications
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[edit] Within Metropolitan Winnipeg
[edit] Non-Metropolitan Winnipeg
[edit] Urban Transportation
[edit] Researching for Wikipedia
I've been using the Access.NewspaperArchive.com website, accessible from any Winnipeg Public Library branch in the metro area to do all this research using old copies of the Winnipeg Free Press. It would have been much more difficult to do otherwise.
You can find this website by going to a library terminal, and from the WPL main page select "Databases" from the top of the navigation bar. Then select the "Newspaper Archive" link near the top of the list. From there you can view a PDF image of the newspaper, and for 15 cents make a photocopy at the print station.
However, they have only (so far) made available issues from 1874–1981. Finding material from the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s, requires the ProQuest database which is text only. To get to that, select "Databases" as before, and then "Canadian Newsstand - Major Dailies". Amazing technology.
[edit] Fellow Wikipedian Friends & Acquaintances
I have known fellow Wikipedian User:Wtshymanski for over 20 years — since the mid-1980s, going back to the Ariel II BBS in Winnipeg. I met Bill in the early-90s when I was into 2 metres amateur radio. Hi Bill.
Since editing Wikipedia & uploading videos to YouTube, I've also met a new acquaintance that I hope to meet soon — User:PsychoJason, also from Winnipeg. Jason and I share an interest in local broadcasting history.
I also work with User:Jdobbin on articles having to do with various suburbs within metropolitan Winnipeg.
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