This is a legacy page. What you see below represents an earlier phase of my life, as indeed do all my contributions to the
WikiWikiWeb. I would like to extend my thanks and fond wishes to everyone on this site whom I had beneficial interactions with over the last decade. It was an invaluable experience and an education that money can't buy.
All the best, and thanks for visiting.
--
EarleMartin
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Freelance
PerlLanguage programmer based in
LondonTown. I arrived here as one of the
VisitorsInZeroZero. Mainly interested in
SemanticWeb stuff.
In other places:
My non-email contact details, including accounts on the major IM networks and several IRC networks (as well as old-fashioned stuff like telephones and fax) are at
http://downlode.org/Metadata/Contact/ .
IdentifyingSignal: edits from me when I do not have a
UserName cookie set will mostly appear from 87.194.39.109 (...bethere.co.uk).
I enjoy playing
NomicGame and
GameOfGo.
I am a
VolunteerHousekeeper, and a
WikiReductionist. However, rather than force outright deletion, I started
TheAdjunct to take some of the pressure off. I'm fairly fond of
WikiOnWiki, although I'm hoping not to be struck by the
CurseOfMeta.
Some of my favorite pages here that I feel are key to the Wiki experience, arranged as a sort of rudimentary map:
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- WabiSabi, LessIsMore, DoTheSimplestThingThatCouldPossiblyWork, SpikeSolutions
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- ReFactoring - closely linked to MentalStateCalledFlow, HackingAtNight
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- PerpetualNow/ThingsOnWikisMind, WikiWay/WhyWikiWorks (SoftSecurity)
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- WebsitePatterns, UserInterfacePatterns, PatternLanguages in general
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- QwanYin, ZenAndTheArtOfMotorcycleMaintenance, EasternThought
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- SystemsAsLivingThings, GardeningMetaphor
Various pages that I just like:
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- GalacticWiki, TestRunnerAsPrayerWheel, MetaSyntacticWossnames
Ideas from earlier iterations of
WikiTime that I feel could do with some new attention:
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- ExampleStuffInMouth, YabbitsAndAntiYabbits
The most attractive page on
WikiWikiWeb?:
http:wikiSig?LongPages
Current gnoming tasks:
[Tools: http:shorts.cgi http:orphanWikiPages http:wantedWikiPages?n=6 http:longs.cgi]
Thoughts for this site:
On tech:
- I think the first keyboard I ever used was my mother's SelectricTypewriter, when I was a little kid. I still love the physical feedback you get from one when typing - and you just have to love that golfball.
- I *heart* my PalmPilot. It's a lifesaver.
- There's something about code, and something about wiki, that gets into my HeadSpace?. I often dream about, or even in, PerlLanguage after a heavy session - I guess you could call them WeirdDeveloperDreams. Sometimes after a long bout of editing here I have dreams about ChoosingWikiNames and RefactoringWikiPages.
- What is it about TetrisGame that makes it so damn good?
On programming:
I am a Perl "hacker", according to
http://prometheus.frii.com/~gnat/yapc/2000-stages/slide36.html.
I have to admit to my bookshelves being littered with things I started but couldn't finish somehow, like
SiCp. Quite a lot of the technical discussion here, I have to admit, evades me - I've only been programming for six years or so (in a language like Perl, I mean, come
on, that's like cheating), so I guess it's a case of more time needing to pass. But I've definitely been getting the feel of pages here more in recent months.
Awhile back I was having quite a few
MyBrainIsFull moments and not enough
AhHa moments. Too much coffee, too much
HackingAtNight. The solution was painfully simple: just take a break. Get some sunshine. Ride a bike!
ProgrammersBurnout seems to very much be a
CantSeeTheForestForTheTrees problem. I hope more people can realize this quicker than I did. It doesn't have to be
HardWork.
Damning with faint praise...
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- It must be true, that you never sleep. -- GunnarZarncke
http://hex.hates-software.com/2004/03/30/77e7b0fc.html
I read it and was grinning like mad, it's so delightful, I love the last paragraph most. Then I thought to myself "Hey, Earle HAS GOT to read this" and that's when I noticed your name. LOL
Heh, thanks. I still feel the same way.
[I don't use OS X, but: you curmudgeon!!! :-) I see
PeterdaSilva responded; I used to know him. He used to wiki here, too. -- Doug]
Hi, Earle. I've been learning
PerlLanguage with
BeginningPerl, 1st ed., and some other online materials. Head on over to
BubbleSortChallenge. I've posted an amazing
BubbleSort there. It uses
RegularExpressions instead of arrays. Very Perlish, indeed. --
ElizabethWiethoff
Hi Liz - that is a curiosity indeed! I'll have a play with it tomorrow. Cheers -- Earle
I would rather have Earle as a steward than put up any more with the interminable prattle from others who think posturing about mythical rights and censorship should take precedence over making this a place where it is possible to have interesting discussions.
The whole point of having a steward is to allow them to prevent or otherwise deal with the stuff that caused a steward to be needed in the first place.
Earle may, from his writings here, seem to be fresh out of patience sometimes. Given what's happened and is happening, though, that seems not unreasonable.
Thanks -- Earle
Thank you for the recent entries on
TheAdjunct. --
JohnFletcher
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