User:Edward
Edward Betts is a Geek and a Debian developer living in Holloway, London.
His day job is coding Web Applications in Perl.
He is a member of Generation X, and enjoys Generation X literature.
(quick, switch to the first person)
- Check out my namesakes -- ed and Bettsville, Ohio.
- Books I've read: User:Edward/books
- Contribs: User:Edward/contribs
- Todo: User:Edward/todo
- sometimes I update Logarithmic timeline of current events
- IMDB Top 250: User:Edward/top250 (out of date because it changes all the time)
- I used to have this home computer: Magnavox Odyssey²
Bookmarks
- Wikipedia:UK Wikipedians' notice board
- Wikipedia:Welcoming committee
- Wikipedia:Standard user greeting
- User:Angela/useful stuff#Welcome
- Current science and technology events
Interests
Accidents and incidents on commercial airliners, Agile Methods, Alcohol as a fuel, American literature, Atomic Age, Augmented reality, Auto-free zone, BBC Radio 4, Bicycles in warfare, Category:Big Science, Broken arrows, Capitalism, Chip and PIN, City, Cold War, Command line interface, Cyberpunk, Dark fibre, Disasters, Dot-com, ETOPS, Economics, European Union, Ford Nucleon, Free flight (air traffic control), Free software, Generation X, Glocalization, Google, International organisation, Irrational exuberance, LaTeX, Limits to Growth, Microwave power transmission, Military-industrial complex, Moral panic, Noam Chomsky, Northern Ireland conflict, Nuclear accidents, Nuclear accident terminology, Military occupation, PearPC, Politics, Private military contractors, Profit maximization, Public transport, Python programming language, Radioisotope thermoelectric generators, Relaxed stability, Science Fiction, Self-publishing, Semantic web, Simulated reality, Skyline, Social software, Socialism, Techno-utopianism, Technological singularity, Terrorism, Transhumanism, United Nations, Urbanization, Usury, Web development, Webvan, Yield management
Articles to read
I'm going to read these articles, but I haven't got round to it yet.
Bretton Woods system (51.0k), Iraqi resistance (48.8k), Occupation of Iraq, 2003-2004 (45.0k), Blackadder (40.9k), King James Version of the Bible (38.8k), Plastic (35.7k), Copyleft (33.8k), Committee on the Present Danger (32.6k), New Imperialism (29.0k), Hubbert peak (28.8k), Stonehenge (28.4k), Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Booster (28.3k), Pretty Good Privacy (28.1k), Conscription (27.9k), Spacecraft propulsion (27.1k), Obesity (27.0k), Coronation of the British monarch#Coronation banquet (26.5k), Geography of the United Kingdom (25.7k), Harlem Renaissance (24.9k), Manchester (24.3k), Operating system advocacy (23.8k), Scots language (23.4k), Greek Civil War (23.3k), Philip K. Dick (23.3k), United Nations (23.2k), William Shakespeare (23.1k), Occupation of Czechoslovakia (22.0k), Global Positioning System (21.5k), Nanjing Massacre (19.7k), MIPS architecture (19.1k), Toyota Land Cruiser (19.0k), Incandescent light bulb (19.0k), Ebola (18.7k), British Mandate of Palestine (18.3k), Public house (17.9k), Scientific revolution (17.6k), Industrial Revolution (17.5k), Division of Korea (17.4k), Project for the New American Century (16.7k), Portable stove (16.6k), Cowboy Bebop (16.5k), Unlawful combatant (16.4k), Porter J. Goss (16.2k), New Urbanism (16.2k), Strategic bombing (15.6k), Diode (15.4k), Clement Attlee (15.2k), Carbon dioxide (14.8k), M*A*S*H (TV series) (14.7k), Anonymous remailer (14.5k), Funeral (14.3k), Game theory (14.0k), History of Bougainville (13.7k), Bank (12.9k), ECHELON (12.9k), Organic food (12.8k), Taxicab (12.6k), African Union (12.1k), Literacy (12.0k), Fuel cell (12.0k), Greenhouse effect (11.4k), Marcus Garvey (10.7k), John Lilburne (10.6k), Children's literature (10.6k), LL parser (10.6k), Book of Common Prayer (10.3k), Opposition to Castro (10.2k), Leo Strauss (9.9k), ARM architecture (9.8k), Declaration of war by the United States (9.6k), Foreign relations of Libya (9.3k), Landing craft (9.1k), Land Rover (8.9k), Macintosh Finder (8.7k), The Levellers (8.6k), Coca eradication (7.9k), Sausage (7.8k), Soda can stove (7.7k), Derivative security (7.6k), Gordon Brown (7.4k), Grammatical tense (7.4k), Black nationalism (7.0k), Aswan Dam (6.9k), Seven Pillars of Wisdom (6.6k), Esoteric programming language (6.6k), Lettre de cachet (6.4k), Denial-of-service attack (6.4k), Balfour Declaration, 1917 (6.4k), The wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time, and with the wrong enemy (6.3k), GNU Privacy Guard (6.2k), Credit derivative (5.6k), Hydrogenation (2.8k), Over-the-counter trading (2.1k), CQB (1.5k), Occupation of Palestine (0.6k)
add: Kyoto Protocol, Predestination
Pirate (disambiguation), Category:Operations involving special forces, Category:Wire services, Category:Post-World War II
Books I should read
- Strategy of technology -- free online copy
- Engines of Creation -- free online copy
- Ravage (1943) by René Barjavel -- Jef recommends this author
Favourite authors
- Bret Easton Ellis
- Tom Wolfe
- William Gibson
- Vernor Vinge
- Po Bronson
- Lawrence Lessig
- Noam Chomsky
- Jon Courtenay Grimwood
- Steven Levy
- Simon Reeve
- Douglas Coupland
- Neal Stephenson
- Michael Lewis
- Orson Scott Card
- George Orwell
- Larry Niven
- Clifford Stoll
- Ray Kurzweil
Favourite film directors
Todo
- learn Lojban
- learn SAMPA
- write some articles for Simple English Wikipedia