User:Shardsofmetal

My name is Zach Dennison. I am 17 years old, and I'm a junior in high school. I joined Wikipedia on May 12, 2005, when I was only a freshman. My 2 biggest hobbies are biking and using computers. During the school year, I run indoor and outdoor track. During my sophomore year of school, I got high honors every quarter. My favorite class was computer repair (in case you couldn't tell, I am a geek). The first computers I ever got were old computers, running Windows 3.1 and MS-DOS, which gave me a lot of general knowledge on computers. That also gave me a reason to learn to program batch files. From there, I learned HTML and some PHP. On Wikipedia, I try to help when I can at the technical village pump. I also occasionally help out and ask questions at the computing reference desk.

I am always available for chat. Please don't be afraid to ask me anything on my talk page.

• IBM and Los Alamos National Laboratory break a processing speed record with the world's first petaflop computer, Roadrunner (pictured).
• Following a coal mine collapse in the Donetsk region of Ukraine, 24 miners are rescued with 12 still missing and one reported death.
• Seven people are killed and ten injured in a stabbing spree in Tokyo, Japan.
• The government of Southern Sudan withdraws its mediation efforts at the Juba talks between Uganda and the rebel Lord's Resistance Army.
• In tennis, Rafael Nadal and Ana Ivanović win the singles titles in the 2008 French Open.
• The Diet of Japan recognizes the Ainu as an indigenous people for the first time.
• Israeli minister Shaul Mofaz threatens an attack on Iran's nuclear program.
• Turkey's Constitutional Court reinstates a ban on the hijab in universities, citing the constitution's secular principles.

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