User:Timc

Hey, you've found my space. I like to write about places and things in southern Ontario. I also usually have a good eye for spelling and typos, and I like to correct them wherever I find them.
 * Name: Timothy Ryan William Coleman
 * Birth Date: October 31, 1976 (Hallowe'en)
 * Birth Place: Kitchener, Ontario (Grand River Hospital)
 * Current Place of Residence: Waterloo, Ontario

License
After much consideration, I have decided to multi-license all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages and any images uploaded, as described below:

Biography
 There aren't really a lot of interesting things to know about me; I consider myself pretty ordinary as far as people go. I've even been called normal on more than one occasion. I was born on Halloween which seems to amuse a lot of people. Not only was I born on Halloween, but I was born on the evening that Daylight Savings Time ended in 1976, at 0200, which became 0100 and so my mother worked an extra hour for naught.

I have one brother, Eric, who lives in Toronto. He is a talented comic book artist.

I am currently employed as a software developer and technical consultant for Waterloo-based Open Text Corporation, a manufacturer of enterprise content management software. My initial experience with Open Text was in network operations where I served four months as a co-op student from January to April 2000. In August 2000, I returned as a co-op developer with b2bScene, a division of Open Text dedicated to developing business-to-business software. Finally, in April 2001, I became a permanent full-time employee. b2bScene no longer exists, and has been known as Hosted and Managed Solutions, the Global Delivery Centre, and now Global Services Development, a part of the larger Global Services organization at Open Text. My job is basically customizing our principal product, Livelink, to suit the needs of customers. It involves some technical skills, business knowledge, and tact. I like to think that I'm pretty good at it.

My wife, Denise, and I have been happily married since August 11, 2001. We have a cat, Cole, and we live together in our house in Waterloo, Ontario. On July 9, 2004, Denise gave birth to our new son, William John Anthony Coleman. He weighed in at 4.26 kg (9 lbs. 6½ oz.), and was 56 cm (22") long at birth. Like his father, William was born at Grand River Hospital K-W Health Centre (previously known as the K-W General Hospital) in Kitchener, Ontario.  Photographs of little William can be found at.

Wikipedia
As of November 30, 2004, I have made 4932 edits to Wikipedia as a named user.


 * #1: Created Golden Horseshoe on July 18, 2003.
 * #1000: Disambiguated a link in Las Vegas Strip on June 2, 2004.
 * #2000: Wikified Geography of Guam on June 23, 2004.
 * #3000: Added a category to To Kill a Mockingbird on July 17, 2004.
 * #4000: Made a minor image markup change to Mess on August 25, 2004.

Oddities

 * House of Fraser - baboonery.

Articles I have written
These are some of the articles I have created for Wikipedia:
 * 2005 World Women's Curling Championship
 * 2006 Scott Tournament of Hearts
 * Bob O'Billovich
 * Cambridge (electoral district)
 * Carolina Dodge Dealers 400
 * Cris Collinsworth
 * Delta State
 * Golden Horseshoe
 * Grand River Hospital
 * List of current NASCAR races
 * List of NASCAR race tracks
 * Mountain Dew Southern 500
 * Open Text Corporation
 * Ontario provincial highway 7
 * Ontario provincial highway 11
 * Pinball Clemons
 * Queen's Park, Toronto
 * Rick Hendrick
 * Royal Bank Plaza
 * Royal Troon Golf Club
 * Simple Outline XML
 * Staples Business Depot
 * Subway 400
 * User:UBX/User drinks Dr Pepper

Articles of interest
These are some of the articles which interest me and which I have contributed to:
 * Curling
 * Kitchener, Ontario
 * List of Ontario provincial highways
 * NASCAR
 * Waterloo, Ontario
 * University of Waterloo
 * Wilfrid Laurier University

Adminship
I became a Wikipedia administrator on November 24, 2004. I will endeavour to uphold my duties graciously and responsibly, and promise to use my powers for good or for awesome. Feel free to read my request for adminship.

Distractions
All work and no play...

I enjoy several distractions outside of the computer realm. Here are encyclopedic links to some of them.

Card games

 * Asshole
 * Canasta
 * Bridge
 * Euchre
 * Gin
 * Oh Hell
 * Hearts
 * Rummy
 * Whist
 * Others

Board games

 * Monopoly
 * Risk
 * Scrabble
 * Trivial Pursuit
 * Others

Education
I received a Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics from the University of Waterloo in 2001. I majored in Combinatorics and Optimization with a minor in Computer Science. I also spent a considerable number of hours honing my skills at the game of contract bridge, something which I haven't had as much chance to do since the end of my university days.

Software development
My career is in software development, and I have worked with a number of languages, systems, and organizations.

Programming languages
Here are some of the programming languages that I have worked with.


 * BASIC
 * C
 * C++
 * C#
 * COBOL
 * Haskell
 * Java
 * MATLAB
 * Modula-3
 * Pascal
 * Perl
 * PHP
 * Scheme

Standards
As is the case with many programmers, I encounter a number of system standards in my day-to-day life. Among others, I have become proficient with:
 * HyperText Markup Language (HTML)
 * Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
 * Structured Query Language (SQL)
 * Extensible Markup Language (XML)
 * XML Schema Definition (XSD)
 * XML Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT)

Database systems

 * dBASE
 * DB2
 * Informix
 * Microsoft SQL Server
 * MySQL
 * Oracle
 * PostgreSQL
 * Sybase SQL Server

Organizations

 * AGF Management
 * The Cooperators Insurance Group
 * The Economical Insurance Group
 * Open Text Corporation
 * Safety-Kleen

Other projects
I have been involved with other projects to a small or large degree.


 * Linux kernel
 * Mono

Things to do

 * Disambiguation pages with links - Disambiguate
 * Special:Newpages - Watch new pages
 * Categorize players from List of major league baseball players. I have currently completed up to Ernie Banks.
 * Tagging images