User:Khym Chanur

I currently live in Berkeley, California, where I grew up. Politically/philosophically, I am primarily libertarian.

Instant messaging:
 * AIM handle: Khym Chanur
 * ICQ number: 132152059
 * XMPP handle: Khym_Chanur@jabber.org

Wikipedia articles of Interest

 * The whole Sollog kerfuffle is rather amusing, especially the talk page, where Sollog and/or his supporters engaged in edit wars, accused Wikipedians of hate-crimes, threatened lawsuits, and claimed that a court has ordered the article to be deleted (by a "court" which is part of Sollog's religious organization). I'm soooo tempted to poke Sollog with a pointy stick to get him to personally threaten me with a lawsuit, but that would be rather immature.


 * I did poke a user claiming to be Sollog (User:Sollog), but the consensus is that it's a regullar Wikipedian pretending to be Sollog, so I'm just playing along...

Quick Reference

 * MediaWiki custom messages, MediaWiki custom elements, MediaWiki namespace, Article_series
 * List of articles frequently visited through Google
 * Press coverage

Interests/hobbies

 * Computers
 * Spam fighting
 * Open Source computing
 * The game Nethack and its variants
 * Anime and manga
 * Reading and writing, especially fantasy and science fiction

Favorite authors

 * Steven Brust
 * C. J. Cherryh
 * CLAMP
 * Glen Cook
 * Neil Gaiman
 * Terry Pratchett
 * Rumiko Takahashi

Favorite fictional series

 * Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series
 * Babylon 5
 * Card Captor Sakura
 * The Chanur Novels
 * The Dark Tower series
 * The Discworld series
 * Fruits Basket
 * Inu-Yasha
 * Love Hina
 * Magic Knight Rayearth
 * Ranma 1/2
 * The Sandman
 * The Tick
 * The Vlad Taltos series
 * The X-Files

Other projects

 * The SpamAssassin spam filtering, on which I'm a coder.
 * The Icesus MUD, on which I'm a coder and low-level admin.