User:Bstepno

I'm a former newspaper guy who fell into "online" after writing a 1988 master's thesis about hypertext, then deciding to go for a PhD so that I could have a better Internet connection.

I've poked around Wikipedia for a couple of years, logged on or not, creating or contributing to pages about places where I've worked (Nando.net, The Hartford Courant and MultiMate) or simply fixing typographical and factual errors.

I've edited or added pages about my birthday, about weblogs, RSS, podcasts, folk music and other areas I know something about, all in pursuit of keeping myself amused and away from the work I'm being paid to do elsewhere.

Because my Wikipedia sessions often involve an "I really should be doing something else" factor, I sometimes leave things with less than the most Wikisophisticated layout or link structures -- I do a better job of checking my facts than I do checking the Wikipedia docs to make sure I'm sticking to accepted formats. I promise to keep learning...

[Bob http://stepno.com]