User:Pterre

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Currently taking a short Wikibreak, I will be back later in the month.

I am an exiled 6th-generation Londoner living in Hampshire, England. I have worked as a Town Planner in London and in the computer industry in the Thames Valley. I'm currently putting my feet up due to ill health. Did my first trivial edit in November 2006, but only started making regular contributions in September 2007.

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[edit] Interests

  • Local history, particularly the industrial history of London and the Port of London. As a geographer I take a wide definition of London, including Greater London, the surrounding area where the economy is closely linked to London, its port and airports, and the wide ring of towns grown large due to London leap-frogging the artificial constriction of the greenbelt.
  • Computing. I've messed about with computers on and off since my first Digi-Comp I in 1967, did a Postgrad Certificate in Computing in the 1980s and a Masters in GIS in the 90s. Along the way owned ZX80, ZX81, ZX Spectrum and numerous PCs from CP/M onwards, and worked with Vax, ICL and IBM mainframes, Unix and embedded systems.
  • Science, particularly geomorphology, geology, evolution and climate change.
  • Photography. I've been taking photos for about 40 years and got my first digital SLR in 2005. Quite a few of my photos have been added to Wikipedia or Commons either by me or by others from the Geograph project.

[edit] Userboxes

The London Eye
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WikiProject London
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WikiProject UK geography
This user is a member of WikiProject Geology.
This user is interested in his or her local history.
This user is interested in maps.
This user is an amateur photographer.
This user lives in England.
This user lives in the United Kingdom.
UK This user uses British English.
This user studied/studies at the University of Exeter
BSc This user has a Bachelor of Science degree in Geography and Geology.
MSc This user has a Master of Science degree in GIS.
pcl This user studied at the
Polytechnic of Central London.
PNL This user studied at the Polytechnic of North London.
UoH This user is an alumnus of University of Huddersfield.
This user believes that the Flying Spaghetti Monster is as likely as creationism.
This user is interested in religion as a sociological and psychological phenomenon.
This user knows that
Richard Dawkins is the
one and only God.
’s Thi's user know's that not every word that end's with s need's an apostrophe and will remove misused apostrophe's from Wikipedia with extreme prejudice.
its & it’s This user understands the difference between its and it’s. So should you.
their / there / they’re This user thinks that there are too many people who don’t know that they’re worse than their own children at spelling!
your/ you’re This user thinks that if your grammar is incorrect, then you’re in need of help.
. The This user does not put two spaces after a full stop.
A, B, and
A and B		 This user prefers to use the serial comma only when its omission can be confusing.
This user is an IT professional.
This user is a software engineer.
cobol This user can program in COBOL.
C This user can program in C.
vb This user is a Visual Basic programmer.
vb.net-0 This person does not understand Visual Basic .NET (or does not want to program in vb.net).
sql This user can program in SQL.
<html> This user can write HTML.
.css This user can write Cascading Style Sheets.
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