User:Mikeblas

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This user is a native programmer.

sql

This user uses SQL queries to locate car keys.

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This user is a fluent C++ programmer.

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This user eats, breathes and sleeps in assembler.

C#	This user can program in C#.

vb	This user is a fluent Visual Basic user.

M-3

This user is an advanced Mathematica programmer.

Perl-3

This user is an advanced Perl programmer.

This user has a dual monitor configuration

This user uses Windows Vista.

This user contributes using Microsoft Windows XP.

SI	This user uses the metric system of measurement.

This user supports Formula One.

This user tracks his or her money on Where's George?

en	This user is a native speaker of English.

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この利用者は少しだけ日本語を話すことができます。

The correct title of this article is User:mikeblas. The initial letter is shown capitalized due to technical restrictions.

[edit] Position

Yeah, I'm the guy who wrote the letter to the editors that appeared in the April, 2007 issue of Business 2.0 about the magazine's overstatement of the size and accuracy of Wikipedia.[1]

I wrote the letter because I'm tired of reading articles here that are wrong, unreferenced, or about meaningless subjects. I'm weary of people insisting that Wikipeida is useful. While it's a marvelous concept, the execution has left us with lots of problems. Are we concerned enough with fixing them to make it right before some damage is done?

We learn that Wikipedia is used by more and more people every day,[2] and used as a primary reference, despite disclaimers that the information isn't accurate--or, is at least--fluid and unverified.

From media outlets to school children, people are relying on this information -- they're educating themselves and formulating opinions and learning. But because Wikipedia is so lax in assuring it is correct, and because people have been conditioned to "walk through" disclaimers and just get their work done, what they're learning and reading and thinking about is most likely incorrect.

If we let Wikipedia continue to publish and grow without fixing what it has, we're slowly poisoning the common knowledge of the people. An incorrect fact published here, gone unverified, given the credibility, replication, and reach the site has, means that bad information is spreading very fast. And it's lodging in people, where it's possibly the hardest to work out.

I hope you can help Wikipedia avoid becoming a bigger problem than it already is: either by working to correct and improve existing pages, having marginal information eradicated altogether, or by working to improve the policies that govern the site and cause these fundamental problems.

[edit] Interests

I like to race cars, drift around on my boat with my wife, dabble with electronics, and take pictures. I work as a software architect. I want to learn how to weld, and get better at flippin' wrenches.

[edit] History

Before creating an account here, I made contributions as 24.17.192.30. If I forget to login, I might edit as 76.22.61.245.

[edit] Awards

Working Man's Barnstar

		The Working Man's Barnstar
		For your work disambiguating links Dina 18:53, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Queues

This section helps me keep track of AfD, prods, copyvios, and other "Come back" work I've intiated. Too bad there isn't an automated way to do this in the Wikipedia UI, huh?

[edit] AfD queue

empty

[edit] Prod queue

empty

[edit] Copyvio queue

New Zealand Top 20 Singles of 2006

[edit] Merege queue

Miss Skeggs into The Vicar of Wakefield
You're Ever So Inviting into You're Ever So Inviting
Regards to Myself into Define the Great Line
W2XBS into WNBC
W2XAB into WCBS-TV
Db4o (object database) and Db4o

[edit] Personal sites

This is a list of websites I maintain. Or, pay for -- maintain would imply that I work on them:

[edit] Notes to self (and maybe you too)

{{Redirect}} is a handy list of redirect templates
{{tl}} is a neat way to link to templates without typing a bunch of punctuation

[edit] My machines

These lists are a little ostentatious; you'll never catch me with something like this in my sig in a forum. But it turns out I actually find it helpful to remember what machines I have, and which are doing what with which parts. I hope you'll indulge me, then.

Machine	Operating System	Motherboard or OEM model	Processor(s)	Memory	OS Disk	Storage Disk	Video	Case
burner	Windows XP Pro SP2	P4C800-E Deluxe	Pentium 4 3.2 GHz at 3.36 GHz	2048 megs	120 gigs	500 gigs	RADEON 9800 Pro	LianLi PC-V1000B
caliper	Windows Vista Ultimate	Asus G1	Core 2 Duo T7400 2.17 GHz	2048 megs	160 gigs		NVIDIA GeForceGo 7700	Laptop
chicane	Windows XP Pro SP2	Intel D845PEBT2	Pentium 4 2.66 GHz	1024 megs	120 gigs	150 gigs, 500 gigs RAID 0	NVIDIA Vanta	LianLi PC-V1200B
dexter	Windows 2003 Server	Tyan S2882	Opteron 254 x2	4096 megs	160 gigs RAID 1	2300 gigs RAID 0	ATI RAGE XL	LianLi PC-V2000BplusII
downstairs	Windows XP Pro SP2	Asus P4B533-VM	Pentium 4 2.20 GHz	1024 megs	300 gigs	—	NVIDIA 6200	Cooler Master ATCS Home Theater case
enduro	Windows XP Pro SP2	Asus P5AD2 Deluxe	Pentium 4 3.2 GHz at 3.76 GHz	3072 megs	150 gigs	600 gigs RAID 0	NVIDIA 6800	LianLi PC-V1200B
mikeb	Windows XP Pro SP2	Asus P5W DH Deluxe	Core 2 Duo QX6700 2.66 GHz	4096 megs	250 gigs	250 gigs	88000GTX 768 MB	Antec Sonata
mikeblas-hp	Windows XP Pro SP2	HP Pavilion ze5700	Pentium M 3.0 GHz	1024 megs	60 gigs	—	RADEON IGM 354M	Laptop
mikeblas2	Windows XP Pro SP2	Dell PowerEdge 600SC	Pentium 4 2.4 GHz	1664 megs	40 gigs	100 gigs, 100 gigs	ATI Rage XL	Dell mini-tower
tester	Windows Vista Ultimate	Asus A8N-E	Athlon 64 X2 4400+	2048 megs	300 gigs	—	NVIDIA 6800	LianLi PC-60BplusII
mikeblas5	Windows Vista Ultimate	Asus P4P800	Intel Pentium 4 3.0 GHz	2048 megs	200 gigs	200 gigs	RADEON 9550	Generic mini-tower
montoya	Windows 2003 Server	Dell PowerEdge 600SC	Pentium 4 2.4 GHz	1152 megs	150 gigs RAID 1	600 gigs RAID 0	ATI Rage XL	Dell mini-tower
musicroom	Windows XP Pro SP2	Asus P4S533	Pentium 4 2.66 GHz	1024 megs	120 gigs	—	RADEON 8500	Generic desktop
paddock	Windows 2003 Server	Tyan S2460	Athlon MP 1800+ x2	2048 megs	160 gigs	160 gigs	RADEON 9600	Chieftech Tower

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