User:Tenbaset

I'm Shannon McCracken. Male, born in 1978, livin' the geek life in Auckland, New Zealand. Stumbled onto wikipedia somehow and haven't quite managed to let go of it yet.... :-)

And, hopefully, I'll write a better description when I'm not supposed to be working..

Personal site: Shannon's Personal Site (http://www.geocities.com/tenbaset2/)

Table of contents 1 A poorly maintained list of articles I have made a (non-insgnificant) contribution to 2 Articles I should work on 3 Things I consider done 4 Advice

A poorly maintained list of articles I have made a (non-insgnificant) contribution to

• Hyper-threading
• Pakeha although I'm ashamed about it and should probably subsume/combine it with Culture of New Zealand or somesuch.
• Iwi

Articles I should work on

• ECMA
• Polysaccharide
• Double redirects to First_Past_the_Post_electoral_system
• BNF - because the dragon book documents it so obiviously it is documented.
• Perhaps I should delete Fictional_universe. (not fictional_realm, of course)
• Culture of New Zealand - rethink the see-also section and link pakeha in somehow
• Evaulate [1] (/w/wiki.phtml?title=Crop_circle&diff=837450&oldid=837442) this edit
• Add a list of Iwi to Iwi and check the plurals and the fishing settlement
• Chord (aircraft) - the formulae need <math> markup and explination of what the varables are.

Things I consider done

• Scroll lock - digging though on groups.google.com shows that using scroll lock to pause the scrolling output is actually a modern urban ledgend. Older NG posts in alt.folklaw.computers (circa 1990 and 1993) state that scroll lock causes the window to scroll instead of moving the cursor when you use the arrow keys. Pausing the scrolling output is a new feature; supported bascially under Linux. And, besides, the key causes the window to scroll and not the cursor under Excel. (That's right, Microsoft's flash Excel XP has this little gem harking back to sometime last century..)

Advice Being a silent watcher in the latest Wikipeida soap opera episode, I do offer this one piece of advice from the slashdot world. Don't Feed The Troll.

I've no idea what Trolls want. I suspect it's attention. Howsabout not providing them with it?

That's one thing I learnt in Livejournal adventures with one problematic character. It took a measure of self control[?] to simply not respond to anything he wrote and, eventually, he did go away.