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November 2007

Hai there

Hai! ^^ —Preceding unsigned comment added by Alan rickman freak (talk • contribs) 08:56, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

chabalala

Hi everyone. I am a South African academic, I teach law at a university in Cape Town, and my research interests currently lie in rhetoric and logic, race, legal theory, and legal pedagogy. I also participate as a curator and producer in arts projects relating to sound art, music, carnival and indigenous culture.

I especially hope to contribute to articles on South African law, since there don't seem to be many at the moment.

Please say hi, especially if you share interests!

Chabalala 22:31, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

Oduber History

Dr. Gustavo A. Oduber was born in February of 1928 to Simon “Champi” Quant Oduber and Sarah Oduber Arends. Dr. Oduber was kindly given the name Dolfi by his parents and friends at the time as he grew up on the Dutch Caribbean island of Aruba which is known as the ABC islands which included Curacao and Bonaire. Dr. Oduber went on to study at Mount St. Mary’s College in Emitsburg, Maryland and the youngest graduate from his class at the University of Maryland Dental School in 1953. His eloquence, intellect and commanding character was due to his strong genetics handed down from his distinguished family history and background when the first Oduber arrived from France via Spain during the French revolution in the mid 19th century. The name Oduber was originally spelt “Audubert”. His father was a member of the Panamanian Consulate on the island as well as president of the Rotary Club. As the Chinese immigrated to the Caribbean his father, by Dutch law governing the islands, for the Chinese families to be able to live in Aruba one must have an Aruban “guardian” thus making it legal to acquire residency. So Champi sign off for 5 Chinese families and up to today the descendants of both are well regarded as family for ever (Chinese way for honor + respect). Sarah, his mother was an astute business woman during the 1930’s to well over 1960’s which was very unusual thus making her somewhat ahead of her times. Dr. Oduber became the first dentist along with his friend Dr. Eloy Arends in Aruba as such he was involved in numerous functions in politics and had worked as a dentist for the government for some time. He was a senator for 16 years and at one point president of his party called Partido Patriotico Arubano (PPA). He was elected by the parliament as Minister of Education. During his tenure he was nominated to the first Latin American Congress in 1974 in Venezuela where he joined forces with his relative from Costa Rica Daniel Oduber who later became the first elected democratic president of Costa Rica in 1975. The John F. Kennedy Technical School was the first vocational School in Aruba that Dr. Oduber had the honor to name it after one of the greatest Presidents of the U.S. Dr. Oduber married Julia Leonor Quigley Figueroa from Puerto Rico who he met while in dental school. She was extremely talented and later on became one of the foremost primitive artists on the island. During their marriage they had four children Gustavo II (International Trader - www.transglobalresource.us) who resides today in Miami is also a pen & ink artist, Richard who lives in Frankfurt and is a Master Sergeant with 21 years in the U.S. Army (tours of Duties Gulf War I and Afghanistan), Glenn a contractor today, and of course their beloved sister Carmen who is a successful business woman both residing in Aruba. Today all four children have one of the largest collections of Dutch Caribbean paintings. —Preceding unsigned comment added by TransGlobal (talk • contribs) 10:11, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

ringoo.com.ua

Should I write anything? Hm.. I came from www.ringoo.com.ua - Ukrainnian online store which is specialized in selling mobile goods such as mobile phones, notebooks, memory cards, bluetooth-headsets, acessories ect. www.ringoo.com.ua – это интернет-магазин мобильных решений. Мы продаем мобильные телефоны, аксессуары и портативную технику, которая позволяют сделать вашу жизнь более мобильной. If I violate anything writing this, I'm sorry, I didn't know. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sashik ringoo (talk • contribs) 18:25, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Hello from Washington

I'm new learning the ropes. I'm currently going for my Bachelors in Business Organization and Design. Interests include philosophy, chess, GO, mystery schools, alchemy (yes I have a lab in my garage). Look forward to participating and learning how to create pages. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Overfien (talk • contribs) 20:03, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Whiteandnerdy111

Hello. I am new to Wikepaedia. I would some help with someone teaching me how to edit. Thank You -- (I think its this) Whiteandnerdy111 21:04, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Hi!

Hi everybody, I'm new on Wiki, so i just wanted to get to know some people better!--Bookworm612 15:13, 6 November 2007 (UTC)^{Superscript text}Italic text

Bob Weber

I'm a Sociologist and management consultant. I write about Scenario Planning, Wicked Problems, Entrepreneurship, and related topics at

www.strategykinetics.com

which is the blog/web site of my consulting company

I look forward to contributing to the Wikipedia Weberbob 17:59, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Ted Beaudoin - Donating 3 key chapters of my aviation history / biography / adventure book (on WWII operation known as RAF Ferry Command) to Wikipedia

By way of introduction, I am Ted Beaudoin, a 67-year old (on Nov. 27, 2007) freelance writer and amateur aerospace - aviation history buff in Laval, QC, Canada – a suburb immediately north of Montréal.

I wish to donate to the Wikipedia section dealing with RAF Ferry Command – and later to whatever sections exist on Air Canada and Canadian Pacific Air Lines - three complete chapters about Ferry Command, fully extracted from my first aviation-adventure-biography-history book.

To establish my credentials:

The title and ISBN of my book are: Title: Walking on Air ISBN: 0-921531-00-1 CIP - Cataloguing in Publication, Canada, Type and size – Quality paperback, 300 pages Published: 1986 Paramount House Publishing Ltd., Vernon, B.C., Canada.

Paramount is no longer in business. I am the full owner of © in clear and unfettered title to the contents of the book. I will be re-issuing it soon as a new book, expanded by 100+ pages and will feature never-before-published photographs, perhaps with the same title, but if different, under one of two working titles: As Luck Would Have It … And Did, or as Earth Angels. Further, I have committed to donate the entire contents of Walking on Air to Project Gutenberg, a project on which I have now started to complete. It will run concurrently with progress that I make if my donation to Wikipedia is viewed as legitimate, citable, and accepted.

The new book will also form the basis for my first commercial-and-for-profit 3-hour long dramatic military – civilian aviation adventure movie which will bear a new title to differentiate it from its foundation book: Earth Angels Rising.

I am concurrently blocking out the synopses for both the book and its accompanying movie scenario and script.

Before I go any further, there are a couple of things I think you should know about Walking on Air. The book is no longer in print. I have one of the few remaining copies. It sold nearly 5,000 copies – most of them west of Winnipeg, Manitoba, when first published: almost making it a Canadian best-selling quality paperback book, but not quite. Some copies remain around the world, and are still available for sale from various private book collectors.

I am donating the relevant chapters on Ferry Command (Chapters 7, 8 and 9 – Pages 175 – 228) in Walking on Air as the start of my own personal tribute to the thousands of yet-to-be-fully-recognized men and women in North America and elsewhere – all unsung civilian heroes of the first cut who came to the rescue of all of the Allied Armed Forces during the early and extremely dangerous stages of World War II – when civilian power pulled an interesting twist on who helps who when push comes to shove – the military helping civilians or civilians helping the military: In this case, civilians in many countries came to the aid of military might to help defeat what was then considered world-domineeering Axis powers of Germany and Japan.

I am putting a very human face on our world’s commercial and military aviation history, one that’s been missing for some time.

I want to make this contribution to help these living and now-deceased civilians receive formal thanks and help secure for them some kind of suitable public recognition from free world governments before they all die unheralded.

If all I succeed with my proposed donation to Wikipedia and to Project Gutenburg is provide at least a previously-unpublished and therefore new one-man tribute to them then I will have merited a JWD – Job Well Done: thus the pseudonym as the author of the expanded book and movie, and my e-mail address, J.W. Dunn – jwdunn@sympatico.ca.

With my contribution recognizing some of them and their incredible efforts, these World War II civilians, their families today and their colleagues can now stand tall and proud of having helped this planet survive a vicious unprovoked attack on the very freedoms which I and my children so fully enjoy today. I have never known war. I grew up in Canada in complete and safety from any harm since my birth in 1940.

The major difference, it seems, between the mauraders of yesterday and today’s just-as-frightening terrorism - in whatever name or cause - is simple … we knew the enemy then. We do not know the enemy today. The terrorists of yesteryear were clear in their mission: global conquest. Today’s terrorists only want to destroy and not replace what they destroy with anything better.

We enjoy our freedoms today in the free world thanks to the superb human effort of WW II civilians in coming to the rescue of their Allied Governments and their Allied Armed Forces. The military forces of the Allies then took up the cudgel, blending military and civilian crews from all walks and professions of life. They made possible the greatest air movement the world has ever seen – and hopefully will never need to see again - of nearly 20,000 + aircraft (including 10,000+ bombers) in less than four running years, straight out of American aircraft manufacturing plants where they were made to where they were badly needed the most - over the African / European and Asian theatres of war. (I will be using British English as a writing / spelling standard since this story does come from Canada.)

In closing my submission, I wonder: would donating the entire three chapters on Ferry Command be too much material to include in the web pages of Wikipedia? Perhaps your medium cannot accommodate my offer. Could you advise me please of (1) the viability of my offer, and (2), if acceptable, the work itself?

Thank you for taking the time to read this. I would be more than happen to send to any Wikipedia administrator (yes, I have scanned the welcome pages as thoroughly as I could … good reading, by the way) my current curriculum vitae.

Sincerely, Ted Beaudoin, 4710 Chemin du Souvenir, Laval, QC- H7W 1C8 Tel.: 450 – 978-5250.

somffin

1. REDIRECT Hiya! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gigglin...bethz (talk • contribs) 15:53, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

im here to talk about bands. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mamasaid (talk • contribs) 01:05, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

The Founders Intent

I have a variety of interests, but notably colonial history of America and government, aviation, automobiles, and politics.

My username obvious comes from the premise that the US Constitution as originally conceived by the Founders was basically timeless, but these well-read and well educated men understood the governments of the world and throughout history. They based their choice for the US not primarily on a particular time in history but on the character of men throughout history. They understood well the tendency toward corruption, and attempted to build a constitution to overcome this tendency to the maximum extent possible.

I would also like to be able to help however small to build and improve the accuracy of this online encyclopedia. Contact me anytime if you find a topic in my profile that I can help you with.--The Founders Intent 17:58, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

hiya peace out!!!

hi everyone I'm new here I decided to get a account because I got fed up with how short some of the pages are. like I wanted to know what organ cholestrol is made I typed it in and I got Nana's cookie recipe I'm likw what!?! that doesn't have anything to do with it!!! sorry about that I tend to ramble on a bit !!! I go to Henbury School so if you type in Henbury School and tap on the first link..I edited it!! see ya!!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Indianaprincess (talk • contribs) 18:18, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

Crbr

Interests: global challenges such as climate change; contemporary paradigm shifts that move towards more acknowledgement of systems, complexity, nonlinear dynamics and chaos, as distinct from reductionism and categorization; indigenous studiesCbrb 04:25, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

Miss Pussy Galore

I've edited anonymously for some time and I've finally decided to go ahead and create an account.--Miss Pussy Galore 05:57, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

Hey there.

Grreeeeetings

Hey folks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Reverie Community (talk • contribs) 22:45, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

Hello

The first time I visit the site I know there's gotta be something unique in here. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Eduhello (talk • contribs) 11:58, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

Elziltcho

Hi I am new here. I am a bit nervous that I will screw up.

Hello Elziltcho! Welcome to Wikipedia! :). If you do need help, leave a comment on my talk page. - --Cloggedone 21:48, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

ScooterGrisen

Hi, i will try to write a page about the ...Sym Mio... scooter
Can anyone help me, i have a lot of info on it but im not so good at writing here at wiki cuz my page got deleted.

Fun video

Kitty cat dance
SeeYou :O)

--ScooterGrisen 14:16, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

CALLLING ALL PATRIOTS: to Discover the Spirit of America!

Hi,

I am a Patriot who works at the National Museum of Patriotism headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. I am here mainly to give interesting facts about the National Museum of Patriotism and to keep you updated with all the patriotic happenings. Not all patriots are cool like ourselves but we tend to like America for what she is. Our definition of a Patriot is anyone who makes America a better place to live. By educating yourselves on Patriotism and by practicing good patriotic habits, hopefully, you'll identify yourselves as Patriots. Welcome to the club and see you soon at the National Museum of Patriotism in Atlanta or, at the very least, visit our website often ([1]). —Preceding unsigned comment added by Graduatey2k (talk • contribs) 20:05, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

Hello!

Hi, I'm a newcomer and a full-time student who enjoys writing, reading, learning, computers, ocean liners, tropical fish, severe weather and antique cars. I found Wikipedia when doing a research paper on tornadoes for my Science course. I hope I can help make Wiki the best information source ever. Aurania (talk) 02:16, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

Welcome. I left a few useful links on your talk page — Lost^(talk) 05:35, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

Amit Jain

Hi my name is Amit Jain , I am working with Indian software MNC Polaris Software Lab. I have used Wikipedia extensively, mostly guided to it through Google. Now a days whenever I want to know anything about anything , i just go to google and type that thing and append the word wikipedia to it and it takes me directly to the world of wikipedia. Even when I am watching a movie on my laptop and i dont understand anything , i pause the movie , go to wikipedia read about the movie and then start watching again. Wikipedia is amazing thing happened in this decade.

I am interested in field of Information technology companies working in BFSI(Banking ,Finance,Services , Insurance) , my company is also in same category so I have fair idea of this field , so can contribute but will need some one guidance in doing so or an experienced editor to help me start in that direction.

I am also interested in movies and article related to country India.

What makes Wikipedia so special , in my view, is its self-governance and user driven content. Wikipedia is sea of knowledge :-)

--AmitJain (talk) 23:05, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

Greetings

I'm Bob Alberti, I'm an information security consultant here in Minneapolis, and I'm simply trying to learn more about how Wikipedia operates.

Pallida Mors 76

Greetings! I have been a reader of Wikipedia for a long time. Now I'm finding my way arround here to make some edits/contributions. I find it useful and fun.

I'm an economist, pursuing a PhD program. The theoretical economic field I know more about is Game Theory, though I find myself confortable in any microeconomic topic. I hope I could make some contributions in those areas, specially when I have some more time.

I love to make my bit at the reference desk, whenever I can. I'm able to handle some math stuff, as well as Spanish language questions.

Forgive me any mistake or inappropiate actions I could make here; surely that may happen on ignorance, but not out of bad faith. Pallida  Mors 03:51, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

new

getting the hang of it over here.Photomatt16 (talk) 06:40, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

swifttruman

Hi everyone,

I have just joined this interesting and diverse network. I have been an avid follower of Wiki for quite some time and figured that I should become a member. I write and produce many reports and eBooks all relating to Internet marketing. Also My partner and I have produced several digital software programs that truly benefit all who wish to seek making a tidy living fron online marketing. My work relating to Online marketing has taken me to Russia several times. It was there that we had many of our programs developed. The lads in Russia are hard working and very dedicated to their work and their expertise is equal (if not better)to those of the western world. I would highly recommend them. I shall be searching through this interesting resource and offering, as much as seeking, advice on the variable areas of online marketing.

If you have any questions regarding this subject then please don't hestite to drop me a note. I look forward to meeting many other readers.

Regards to all

MJ —Preceding unsigned comment added by Swifttruman (talk • contribs) 15:27, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

Steven J Thompson

Hi Everybody! I specialize in anime,and character design, music and dance! I look forward to working with you all. Steven J Thompson (talk) 23:13, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

Happy to be on Wikipedia !

Hi Everyone !

My name is Patrick Ribbsaeter.

I'm here to fill all in on my life in the fashion industry as a International model.

Hope you all will like it, and if anyone found some news on me.

I would appreciate your effort to send it in to me.

Thx in advance and god bless you all.

www.ribbsaeter.com —Preceding unsigned comment added by Patrickribbsaeter (talk • contribs) 13:44, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

Patrick Ribbsaeter —Preceding unsigned comment added by Patrickribbsaeter (talk • contribs) 13:28, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

MaR!nA

Wat up dis is marina!!!!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by MaR!nA (talk • contribs) 00:19, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

Pikmin_7890

Hi, My name user name is Pikmin_7890, as you could see, and I am a huge fan Of pikmin. If you ever visited or "Quiztron.com" or "Quizfarm.com" and searched Pikmin quizzes, than you probably would have seen a quiz I made about Pikmin. I also invented an idea for pikmin 3 that is still under editing but can be seen in "Quizilla.com" under "User name: Pikmin_789" and then under "creations". Although, Nintendo has declined my offer fro the idea so it will not become an official game. Another thing is that I love drawing Pikmin cartoons and flip animations. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.4.157.77 (talk) 03:02, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

Pikmin_7890

Hi, My name user name is Pikmin_7890, as you could see, and I am a huge fan Of pikmin. If you ever visited or "Quiztron.com" or "Quizfarm.com" and searched Pikmin quizzes, than you probably would have seen a quiz I made about Pikmin. I also invented an idea for pikmin 3 that is still under editing but can be seen in "Quizilla.com" under "User name: Pikmin_789" and then under "creations". Although, Nintendo has declined my offer fro the idea so it will not become an official game. Another thing is that I love drawing Pikmin cartoons and flip animations. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.4.157.77 (talk) 03:07, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

Hey!!!

Hey I Am A New User But I Have Been On The Site For A Very Loooooonnnnnnggggggg Time.Just Give Me A Tag Sometime And I Will Reply As Soon As I Can!Love To Get To Know You!TTYL - --Tamari369 (talk) 23:49, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

Pejepscot

Hey, I'm new on Wikipedia, I hail from midcoast Maine; I'm a bookseller, a guitarist, a lover of books, writing, and music of all kinds. I'm excited to start editing and creating my own pages. Drop me a line! Pejepscot (talk) 02:44, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

Hi Everyone

Iam kind of new here but I just want to introduce myself here and I would like to get to know everybody and learn how to do things better on Wikipedia.--Sweet100000 (talk) 15:39, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

A warm welcome to you! Anthøny 18:06, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

Learner

19:27, 24 November 2007 (UTC)203.135.21.45 (talk)Hi guys I am a student .I like to learn abot new and new things and happenings going around us.PLEASE help me to find out material about constitution of MAJOR POWERS.I would be thank full to you all

Bobes66

I have been editing for a couple of weeks and I am really enjoying wikipedia. I am very interested in cars - if anyone could tell me of some articles that need editing or making on this subject I would be happy to get involved. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bobes66 (talk • contribs) 19:39, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

Old Yet New

I have acutally been on Wikipedia for a long time, but I was only able to stay for a month before something came up. Since I came back just recently, I want to say hello to everybody. Parent5446^{(Murder me for my actions)} 02:33, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

Hello all!

I'm looking forward to contributing however I can. I'm a jazz buff, and have found myself disappointed in the lack of some lesser known jazz musicians in wikipedia. I look forward to helping to fill out the wikipedia database on that subject and anything else I can help with! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Phatjazzluvr (talk • contribs) 06:29, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

Andy

Hi all, I've been using wikipedia occasionally over the last year, after a friend told me about it. I work in Canada as a Systems Analyst, but my interests in wikipedia will cover topics like: wind energy, telescopes / astronomy, climate science, plus anything else that grabs my attention. I always enjoy browsing through the Discussion page behind an article and am always impressed (mostly) by how civilized we can be and together produce such a powerful repository of knowledge. Walkingstick3 (talk) 23:02, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

Chris The Awesome

Hi. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Chris The Awesome (talk • contribs) 02:29, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

Bookworm Newbie

I adore wikipedia and have used it for awhile now. I don't know if I'll do much editing, as I am a technological neophyte, but I belive my reading, writing, and editorial skills could help contribute to this amazing resource. SkyllaLaFey (talk) 02:13, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

Hello!

My name is Cassandra Pumares. I'm a 24 year old accountant that works in some business (won't mention the name, so as not to look like I'm advertising it). I was born in the Philippines. I'm new to Wikipedia, as well as Wikia. I hope to be more active with other Wikimedia projects, but for now, my time is between Wikipedia and Wikia. Thanks, again! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cassie Puma (talk • contribs) 02:43, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

Hi

Hi guys. Used Wikipedia for ages but only got round to start editing now. Really interested in things like Law, History, Politics. Still getting the hang of editing and what not at the momoment though. Cheers.

December 2007

Hello!

Hi, I'm Mimura_flavor. Japanese Wikipedian. Nice to meat you. Mimura flavor 01:01, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

Oziriz

Just saying hi, been using Wikipedia for ages, but only today did I decide to sign up.

Oziriz 00:01, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

Why is this so busy?

This is a very busy instrument. This needs to be more user friendly. How do you email other people? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jltownsend (talk • contribs) 19:20, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

Hi,

I am new to this sight and my head hurts. This is the fourth time that I have visited this site so that I may share with my class and my head hurts. This is annoying. I dont normally complain this much but GEE Whiz! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jltownsend (talk • contribs) 19:24, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

Salutations

I've been using Wikipedia for a few years now and I recently decided to become a member. I would like to thank Grand Roi des Citrouilles for posting a welcome message on my talk page just 42 hours after I joined. So, how do you find new users? I would like to find out so I can help out with welcoming them as well. Also, you may want to consider archiving a portion of this page. I don't mean to complain, but it is really long (153 kb+) and annoying to scroll through. Do you mind if I do the archive?
Anyway, I was just wondering if there is a page that lists some common edit summary shorthand words. I try to write summaries for all my posts, but I'm not very familiar with the edit summary shorthand.
Thanks, Thingg 04:56, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
P.S. Please respond on my talk page. Thanks (not trying to be rude/arrogant, just easier that way.)

Glad to be here

Hi everyone,

My name is Peggy Brennan. I am from Troy, Michigan, am married and have 3 grown children. My husband and I founded a grassroots environmental organization called Great Lakes Green Initiative in 2005.

A little background: I learned about wikis when completing a library and information science degree at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (2005), and was very excited about the idea of such a collaborative project. I actually developed my own wikis well before adding anything to Wikipedia (Great Lakes Green Initiative and Fr. Jack website). Once I learned wiki editing, there was no turning back to traditional website editing!

My husband and I went to Wikimania 2 years ago to celebrate our 28th wedding anniversary, and had a great time.

I have put a couple of small links into wikipedia, such as a link to Great Lakes Green Initiative's rain barrel page on your rain barrel page, but only last week finally put up an entire page: John A. Trese.

Thanks so much for all the hard work you all do! You are an inspiration to me. --Peggy Brennan 20:37, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

Bleeding Blue

Well, I'm a student at Boise State University in Idaho, and have been reading WP for a long time. I finally decided to take a stab at contributing to it.

My interests include sports (Mostly MLB and NFL), video games (Nintendo), and some math/logic stuff. I also play a lot of cards. After I get a hang of this thing hopefully I'll become a regular contributor in those areas.

The name comes from the fact that all of my sports teams (Seahawks, Mariners, BSU Broncos) use blue as their primary color, seemed clever at the time I guess. Here's hoping for smooth sailing! Bleeding Blue (talk) 03:29, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

BREW Ninja has arrived

Hey! So, I primarily joined since I wanted to give due credit to a collegue which created the Tux Paint educational software. He's well known in the programming industry, but no entry has been made for his red link in the article.

I'm a Quality Assurance technician for a mobile games and application firm in the San Francisco Bay Area in California, and a full time student at the University of Phoenix working on my Bachelor's in Computer Science.

My interest are varied, but mostly center around gaming and video/film production.

I can be found on YouTube as the BREW Ninja as well.

I've spent the better part of the last four years in my field of Computer Science, working in various video game companies throughout Northern and Southern California. I'm also a freelance fiction writer, but have yet to get anything "officially" published. I am working on it, though...

BREW Ninja (talk) 06:29, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Deborah Masterson

I am a TaKeTiNa teacher, trying various avenues of getting the word out about What exactly IS TaKeTiNa?? Stay tuned for "My First Wikipedia article" on the topic. Also, look for TaKeTiNa on YouTube in 2008.

US-TAKETINA (talk) 07:50, 5 December 2007 (UTC)Deborah Masterson

Hello, I'm Mado.Kong from China. Now I'm in Finland, a beautiful country!

mario0man —Preceding comment was added at 05:08, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

Hello! Guys! This is my first time trying to add something on Wiki! I began to know Wiki from a colleague one year ago, it is a good tools and helped me find many useful thing. I hope I can also contribute to it one day! Although I have worked in Telecome area for years and also use internet, but I have very limited experience on Web Editor! Hope I can learn it step by step! Mado kongmado (talk) 07:27, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

Andrew E. joining the Wikipedia editors' group

Hi, my name is Andrew. I live in Fort Mc Murray, Alberta, Canada. I contributed one Wikipedia entry already, for which a stub was provided. Hope to add another one, for which there is no stub, so I have to browse through the help pages to find out how this is done. Hope to see your contributions! Aernyes (talk) 03:13, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

Siddhartha

Hi all,

I am Siddhartha from Mumbai, India. I had been a user of all wiki's such as wikipedia and wikimapia and I dont know how I came to know about them since they have been so popular and giving such an excellent content whenever I have searched for an article, place or anything else.

My interest have been in the area of software design and architecture. I thought of contributing for an article on Front Controller which I did not see in english in Wikipedia.

So thats about me.

bye —Preceding unsigned comment added by Findsidd (talk • contribs) 08:19, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

Brett Leaford

Hi. I'm new here, so thought I'd just drop by and say hello. Brett Leaford (talk) 12:13, 10 December 2007 (UTC)