Firstly, I an not one of these people with the same name.First impressions can be so deflating, and then I go and put a photo of myself here just before I self-nominated (a fizzer) to be an Wikipedia:Administrators.What foolishness! I should have cranked up the Geek factor weeks before that. GEEK CODEBEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCKVersion: 3.12GG/MU/CC/MC/SS d+ s++:+ a+ C++ U+ P+ L++ E? W++ N++ o? K w O M V? PS PE++ Y PGP t++ 5++ R- tv++ b+++ DI++ D? G e+++ h---- r+++ y++++END GEEK CODE BLOCK InterestsIn my professional life I would be described as a "project manager", and my recent academic accomplishments bear this out as does my membership of the Australian Institute of Project Management (AIPM). However, people seeing me in my work clothes would think otherwise... and you are left to draw your own conclusions the material that's here.I am interested in places I live and have lived, and things I know about. I admit it: I'm the 'marginal' person, interested in some VERY odd things:I know Linux and I run three seperate boxen - SuSE x 2, Fedora Core 3 (for the not-Linux crowd, 'boxen' is geek plural of 'box');I have met Andrew Tridgell on various occasions, because:I interviewed him for my community radio network, andI am a subscribed list-watching member of the local Linux User Group;I am a paid-up member of my local "PC Users Group";I regularly moderate at Slashdot and read Groklaw daily;My BOINC SETI@Home total credits topped 100,000 on 28 November 2006, and 125,000 on 15 April 2007, and 150,000 on 9 September .I have been hand-coding since starting on an IBM Model 1180 with its magnificant magnetic-ring memory!I am webmaster for three organisations, in which I hand-code:a PHP-based site, andtwo flat-file based sites;plus I contribute content to several other sites including being an assistant admin of a site with hand-coding some of the content that goes in via a submission-tool;I have hand-coded the content for several parts of my work intranet;I have several blogs, one that I keep fairly active;... and you're welcome to ask me for the URLs (if you know Wiki well enough);I took delivery of one of the first clone TRS-80 units in Australia after sleeping in my car outside the nearest Dick Smith Electronics store;I have conversed with Australian Living Treasures, Dick Smith, on several occasions (and... have email access to him), and my father flew with him on various occasions;I own several GPS units, one installed in my car;I am a welded-on fan of The West Wing and anything Star Trek;And... Amateur Radio was geek before the word was invented!and I have previously mentioned: violin that is 'my' instument, but I'll get a note out of almost any string instruments and most others, too; Royal Australian Navy; reptiles because a son keeps several, and I assist; satellites because studying about them keeps my mind active; Christianity because I believe; broadcasting, radio, community radio station Radio 1RPH and the Australian Amateur Radio national news service, because I like the sound of my own mind; Canberra just is!; plus Choir singing of major choral works, Freemasonry because it's 'cool'.In my spare time, I regularly write for several magazines.And, you guessed it, "Get a life" is an alien concept. Wikipedia:Are_You_a_Wikipediholic_Test online version180 Peter Ellis 20:06, 20 January 2006 (UTC) - and probably conservative126 Peter Ellis 01:28, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC) - conservative in retrospect! Kate's toolAs at 29 March 2006 (after just over 2 years of editing) my data from Kate's tool is: AcademicMaster of Management Studies (MMgtStudies) in Project Management - University of New South Wales through the Australian Defence Force Academy in Canberra, the Capital city of Australia Australian Capital TerritorySubjects that I particularly enjoyed included: Human Resource Management, System Dynamic Modelling, Microeconomics for Managers, Facility and Property Management, Communicatuions and Information Systems, Fundamentals of Surveillance Technologies, Legal Process and Procedure, Satellite Communications, Strategic Management, Project Management Body of KnowledgeDiploma of Applied Science (DipApSci) - Royal Australian Navy College, Jervis Bay, New South WalesAnd, I have the itch to do a PhD on a field of economic / social / government administration (although I've been advised to write a book on a part of the subject first, in order to cure the itch.) Wiki contributionsList of ContributionsAs of February 2007, my aim will be to raise the grading / status of the pages I have written. Template:Grading_scheme Articles I have written (established) include...Lake_George,_New_South_Wales; Brake (box and pan); Jervis Bay Territory; Bruce Beresford; John Bell (actor); Press corps; Walkley Award that became Walkley Awards; Laurie Oakes; Dean Drayton; Sargent and Greenleaf; Canberra Region (now Canberra wine region); Ronald Wilson; Phillip Adams; Australian Living Treasures; Radio Print Handicapped Network; Paul Davies; Chris Ritchie; Australian Defence Force Academy; John Templeton; Templeton Prize; Wardroom; Commanding officer; Uniting Aboriginal and Islander Christian Congress; Secondary Ionisation (SIMS); International Amateur Radio Union; Nowra; Logie Award; List of Logie Award winners 2004; Guarneri family of violin makers; Scott Cao - modern violin maker; Belconnen (district); North Canberra (district); Child stealing; Montana Barbaro; Fairey Gannet; Robyn Williams; Malcolm Mackerras; Elizabeth Blackburn; Bogong Moth; Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions; US/Australia Parliamentary Friendship Group; Remembrance Driveway (Australia); Govie (Canberra); User:Peter_Ellis/Copyrights; Armstrong Siddeley Double Mamba turboprop aircraft engine (for Fairey Gannet); Armstrong Siddeley Mamba; Friends of Australia Congressional Caucus; George Newnes - publisher; Stan Grant (Wiradjuri elder) and his son Stan Grant (journalist); John Rudder; John Williams (water scientist); Harry Hopman; List of highest towns by country; Cabramurra; Alicia Molik; William Grant Broughton; June Bronhill; Fiona Wood; Bertil Schmüll; Leptosiaphos koutoui; Mitsubishi Sigma; Cabin (ship); Davis McCaughey; Don Burrows; David Fleay; Phoenix Prize for spiritual art; Alan Jones (radio broadcaster); Shark 02; Dalton, New South Wales; ANZAC Avenue, Canberra; National Emergency Services Memorial, Canberra; Australian-American Memorial; Walk to Emmaus and Emmaus Walk redirects to Cursillo; Lake Fidler (Tasmania); Royal Australian Air Force Memorial, Canberra; Vietnam Forces National Memorial, Canberra; Royal Australian Navy Memorial, Canberra; Australian Army Memorial, Canberra; Hellenic Memorial, Canberra; Kemal Atatürk Memorial, Canberra; Australia-New Zealand Memorial, Canberra; Mounted Memorial, Canberra; Foundation stone; Rats of Tobruk Memorial, Canberra; Australian Service Nurses National Memorial, Canberra; Korean War Memorial, Canberra; Australian Merchant Navy Memorial, Canberra; Blake Prize for Religious Art; Avro 618 Ten; Vice Admiral Russ Shalders; Air Vice Marshall Geoff Shepherd; Australian National Maritime Museum; Australian Hospital Ship AHS Centaur; Bullocks Flat, New South Wales; Helen Gibbins, a leading woman from New Zealand; Norah Head, New South Wales; Catherine Hill Bay; Cornell H. Mayer, planetary astronomer; Template:User_freemason; User:UBX/amateur-radio; RAN Remote Area Nurse (television) series; Remote Area Nurse; Damage control; Bill Loader (theologian); Frank W. Boreham (theologian); Australian reproductive doctor, Professor John F. Kerin; James Dutton Jr, NASA Astronaut; Australian Defence College; Reverend Senator John Woodley; Bush Telegraph radio show; Marco Fedi, the Aussie Italian politician; Nerds FC - a footbal club of nerds (TV show); Jack Robinson, as a unit of (short) time; (early NASA); Three Peaks Race (in Tasmania); Jane Rutter, flautist; Musica Viva Australia; Irrelevance principle (in economics); Anne Plunkett (Australian Ambassador to the Holy See and the Republic of Ireland); Million Paws Walk; Canberra Peace Park; Kippax Uniting Church; Hamper; Cross Keys, New Jersey; Deseado; National Christian Youth Convention (Australia); Lieutenant Colonel Mick Mumford; USS Ardent (MCM-12); USS Dextrous (MCM-13); Portuguese Irregular Verbs (novel); The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs (novel); At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances (novel); Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld (character); The Speculative Society; Campos Novos Dam adapted from French Wikipedia article; List of Australian military memorials and anyone is welcome to contribute photos; National Marine Science Centre, Australia; Eastern NSW bushfires, Sep '06; Karen Middleton, journalist; National Police Memorial Australia; Steve Parish, photographer; APNG-2 (cable system), (Aust-PNG); Sea Patrol (TV series); K-line (spectrometry); Lin Hatfield Dodds; Disher Challenge Cup, rowing; VX381 Fairey Firefly wreck; Naval Chapel, Garden Island NSW; Buffer (navy); TacSat-2; Sydney sandstone; Philip Potter (church leader); Children's Special Service Mission (inc. Beach Mission; Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture; DefCom Australia; David Nigel de Lorentz Young; River Styx Magazine; Adriane Knoppix; Edward Bright; Goler T. Butcher; Catharni Stern; Lent Event ; James Haire; Tom Frame (bishop); Gerhard Schwehm; Make and mend; Telstra un-named (cable system); Barbara Jefferis (author); Don Fry (Australian engineer); Gore (segment); Teeny Ted from Turnip Town (world's smallest book); Canberra Theatre; Robyn Archer; Woden Valley Youth Choir; Old Tote Theatre Company; Meryl Tankard; Margaret Fulton, chef and writer; Curtain raiser; Anina (model), a fashion model (because I came late to her story on NerdTV); Judge Peter Openshaw; Victoria Police Academy; Corpus Christi College, Melbourne; Clerk of the Australian House of Representatives; Kuma Kogen Astronomical Observatory in Japan; Holden Airship; Suparna Bhattacharya (Indian Linux kernel developer); 100 point check; Stephen Hatfield Dodds (economist); Parker McKenzie (Kiowa Indian leader); HMAS Wyatt Earp, NOT the person!; Ante Dabro (sculptor); Gate guard (the decommissioned military stuff -- guns, planes, etc -- at the entrance to bases); Written for... (inc. edited...)Uniting Church in Australia; Act of God; List of Christian scientists; Sydney Bertram Carter; Compton Gamma Ray Observatory; Royal Australian Navy; Amateur radio; Michael Jeffery; Royal Military College, Duntroon; Uniting Aboriginal and Islander Christian Congress; ; Andrew Tridgell; International Telecommunication Union; HMAS Albatross; Nigel Kennedy - violinist; Richard Butler (diplomat); Advance Australia Fair; List of Canberra suburbs; The Iguanas; Cyclone Tracy; Hydrogen-5 and Hydrogen; Timeline of underwater technology; Crumhorn; Charmaine Reid; Apollo moon landing hoax accusations; Philip K. Chapman (the first Australian astronaut); Paul D. Scully-Power (oceanographer and N