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I'm a software engineer working at Mozilla Corporation on the Firefox browser. Previously, I worked on the GNU project for many years, first at Apple Computer doing the oft-disbelieved port of GCC to the System 7 Mac, then Cygnus Solutions working on GDB, then Apple again working on GCC and GDB for Mac OS X. In my younger days I got a PhD doing research on Lisp implementation techniques.


My personal interests are varied and include software, stamp collecting, sailing ships, ship models, history (particularly ancient history and military history), rock climbing, mountaineering, languages, literature (novels mostly), botany (particularly desert plants), fish, and entomology (particularly beetles).

I can read German, but struggle with French and Italian.

Dumping my life's accumulated factoids into Wikipedia seems like a fun thing to do, we'll see how it goes.

  • Two weeks after first edit (mid-February 2003) - it's like being an ADD-afflicted magpie in a bottle cap factory!
  • August 2003 - it's consuming nearly all of my waking moments...
  • August 2004 - not as many of the waking moments, but I think about it a lot when doing other things.
  • July 2005 - monitoring a lengthy watchlist (19,000 pages), but not writing so much; mostly taking plant pictures for commons.
  • May 2006 - finally got tired of the old watchlist and erased it (vandals everywhere rejoice), will be gradually rebuilding it.
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User:Stan Shebs/Articles - User:Stan Shebs/Grove Sample - User:Stan Shebs/Philatelic accounts - User:Stan Shebs/Gallery - User:Stan Shebs/Ship tables - User:Stan Shebs/Plant taxa - User:Stan Shebs/Game collection

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Ancient history - List of ancient Greeks - List of ancient Greek cities - List of ancient Romans - List of Republican Roman Consuls - List of Early Imperial Roman Consuls - List of Late Imperial Roman Consuls - List of Roman legions - List of Roman praenomina - List of Roman nomina - List of Roman cognomina

Philately - Category:Philately - Stamp collecting - Postage stamp - List of philatelic topics - List of entities that have issued postage stamps - List of people on stamps - List of ships on stamps

Climbing - Category:Climbing - List of climbers - List of climbing areas

Science - List of fish families - List of fish common names - List of garden plants

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For an astonishing amount of contributions of the highest quality to all sorts of articles, I, Mark Dingemanse award you the Tireless Contributor Barnstar. Wear it with pride, and keep up the great work! (KC)
For an astonishing amount of contributions of the highest quality to all sorts of articles, I, Mark Dingemanse award you the Tireless Contributor Barnstar. Wear it with pride, and keep up the great work! (KC)

- Whitesmiths C - Mt Lykabettos add - sea bass add - blowfish/pufferfish/puffer sort out - Mary Everest Boole - Baillie Tolkien/Christopher Tolkien/Simon Tolkien story - German colonies organize - Diego Suarez/Diego Diaz/Hernan Suarez/Fernan Soares problem - Charles Wilkes and United States Exploring Expedition - Jeremiah O'Brien - investigate reputed Zimbabwe Rhodesia overprints - Phalaris - truth maintenance system add - Ortler Alps - CCG ship Alexander Henry and MV Bart Roberts - improve steamboat vs steamship - different Eudoxias - Heliodorus mess - Degas paintings donated by A. S. F. Gow - Michael Pexenfelder - Elephant Island and related pics in de: - Bill Schelter expand - Intrepid dab - severus/serenus/sammonicus? - Florus/Julius Florus/Publius Annius Florus confusion - Bonifatius/Bonifacius - Wikipedia:Facebook add - HMS Torbay at Quiberon (Neptune renamed) - GDR Schubert/Schumann 1956 as example of postage stamp design error - Aegineta/Paulus Aegineta - Jacob Micyllus - Julia Barlow Platt on de: (?) - APS philatelist bios - Henry Perrine and sisal story - Expand and bulletin pic for The Mountaineers (Pacific NW) - Check on images uploaded by User:Mattay - Baedeker book covers - postage stamp copyright

WikiProject Philately This user is a member of WikiProject Philately, a WikiProject which aims to develop and expand Wikipedia's coverage of the science of philately. Please feel free to join us.

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