User:Johantheghost

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Note: the real world has intruded into this user's wikilife in the form of a job. Johan's wiki-time has therefore been severely curtailed, as well as his ability to have fun in general. We apologise for the lack of maintenance to Johan's contributions here, but he figures that if he earns enough, then he can give society the finger once and for all. Maybe then he can relax, have fun, and stop talking about himself in the third person. Until then, we apologise for any inconvenience that this may cause.



Currently working on

 * Not much — see above.

Significant contributions

 * My pictures on Commons
 * My user page on Wiktionary
 * My user page on Meta
 * My user page on MediaWiki


 * [[Image:LinkFA-star.png|14px|right]]U.S. Navy Marine Mammal Program — Basically new article — Today's featured article, December 20, 2005!


 * Efficient Probabilistic Public-Key Encryption Scheme — new article


 * Solar eclipse — re-org


 * Veterans Memorial Centennial Bridge — new article


 * Decay chain — diagram


 * Instituted the Panama Canal series of articles:
 * Template:Panama Canal — new template to group related articles
 * [[Image:LinkFA-star.png|14px|right]]Panama Canal — cleanup and expand — Today's featured article, February 23, 2006!
 * History of the Panama Canal — split off from main article, big expansion
 * Health measures during the construction of the Panama Canal — cleanup and expand
 * Panama Railway — cleanup and expand, history
 * Gaillard Cut — cleanup and expand
 * Gatun Dam — major expansion
 * Panama Canal Locks — new article
 * Panamax — cleanup and expand
 * Bridge of the Americas — expand
 * Centennial Bridge, Panama — new article
 * Panama Canal Authority — new article


 * Nicaragua Canal — cleanup and expand


 * Georef — new article


 * The Impostors — new article


 * Category:Single-handed sailing — new category
 * Category:Single-handed sailors — new category
 * Single-handed sailing — new article
 * Krystyna Chojnowska-Liskiewicz — new article — the first article I wrote but can't pronounce
 * Naomi James — clarify
 * Great capes — new article
 * Vito Dumas — new stub
 * Category:Argentine sailors — new category
 * Category:Zimbabwean sailors — new category
 * Alfred "Centennial" Johnson — new article
 * Howard Blackburn — new article
 * VELUX 5 Oceans Race — major cleanup and expand
 * Vendée Globe — cleanup and expand
 * International Monohull Open Classes Association — new article
 * Philippe Jeantot — new article
 * Single-Handed Trans-Atlantic Race — major expansion
 * [[Image:LinkFA-star.png|14px|right]]Sunday Times Golden Globe Race — major expansion — Today's featured article, July 1, 2006!
 * Alain Gerbault — major expansion


 * Liz and Pete Fordred — new article
 * circumnavigation — new maps, definitions
 * antipodes — re-org, new map
 * clipper route — new article
 * [[Image:LinkFA-star.png|14px|right]]Cape Horn — expand, organise and cite references — Today's featured article, March 21, 2006!
 * Le Maire Strait — new stub
 * yacht racing — organise and expand
 * Lightning (clipper) — split off new article
 * Mola (art form) — cleanup and expand
 * Westsail 32 — major expansion
 * USS Hornet (CV-12) — expansion, organised, space info
 * Essex class aircraft carrier — new space section
 * HMS Friday — new article

To do

 * Sailing
 * Cruising (maritime) — expand
 * Nigel Tetley
 * Hal Roth
 * Alain Gautier
 * Mike Golding
 * Loïck Peyron
 * Yves Parlier
 * Catherine Chabaud
 * Michel Desjoyeaux
 * Route du Rhum
 * Transat Jacques Vabre
 * Mini Transat
 * Mini Class
 * ORMA
 * Vito Dumas — expand
 * Bruno Peyron — expand
 * Pete Goss — expand

Proposals

 * Annotated categories instead of lists

Tech info

 * Citing sources in articles

Ranting and raving

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Current location

 * Here

My web sites

 * My Commons user page with list of contributions


 * Eclipses


 * Sailing
 * Note: my old domain moonrise.ws is defunct (it got stolen); the new domain is http://www.moonblink.info/.

Logname comes from here

My background

 * 1984: Honours degree, Computers and Cybernetics, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK


 * 1984-1986: Worked on real-time assembly-coded device drivers, boot systems, etc. at Burroughs (as was). Lots (over 100k lines) of Byzantine proprietary assembly code.


 * 1987-1989: Helped to develop a fully (hardware) fault-tolerant, open, Unix-based, general-purpose computer system at ITL, PLC, in Hemel Hempstead. C, MC680x0.  This system was capable of recovering from any single-point hardware fault with no loss of user-space data and no significant loss of service (a few seconds to reconfigure).  The software side was also highly resilient.  The company crashed shortly after a successful demo to potential customers.


 * 1990-1993: Systematica PLC / VSF Ltd., working on knowledge-based meta-modelling tools, in ADA, and then C++. Wrote a complete Prolog interpreter.


 * 1994-1996: GPT, working on telecomms management systems. C, C++, Java.  Did (most of) a MSc-level telecomms course.


 * 1997-2003: Wind River Systems, Alameda, California, working on embedded products. Developed their web server, headed the team which developed an embedded web browser, then worked on XML technologies for a while.  Then became the chief architect for Wind River's embedded high-availability operating system, including design responsibility for the high-availability comms backbone.


 * 2003-2004: Sailing.

Did you notice that most of those companies are dead?

(It wasn't me! Honest!)