Brendan Mark Hide

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My interests are very wide, dealing mostly with physics of the universe, game theory, information and physical security, constructs of society, philosophy and general science and knowledge. The full list would take too long to type, and I'm not that patient.

For now, I'll probably be editing whatever page I happen to stumble on that I know is either false/has poor grammar/misspelled/ and so on.

My programming experience covers mostly C (Linux mostly), bash (Linux), assembly (for windows), PowerShell, and Pascal (for DOS). Yes, I know, programming Assembly for Win32 is not easy. I'm not masochistic – I'm just very curious as to how the small stuff actually works.

My web sites (not all active) http://swiftspirit.co.za/ and http://brendan.za.net/ User: Brendansa/sandbox

About Me

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 This user comes from
South Africa.
 This user lives in
Cape Town
 This user is of Norwegian ancestry.
 This user is of English ancestry.
 This user is male.
 This user's time zone is GMT+2.

Programming

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C-2This user is an intermediate C programmer.
asm-3This user is an advanced assembly language programmer.
bash-3This user is an advanced Bash programmer.
bat-3This user is an advanced Batch programmer.
HTML-2This user is an intermediate HTML user.
XML-2This user is an intermediate XML coder.
xhtml-2This user is an intermediate XHTML user.

Grammar Preferences

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w/eThis user prefers to be referred to by whatever gender pronoun makes you feel comfortable.
A, B, and CThis user prefers the serial comma.
infin¦
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This user chooses never to split infinitives.
 This user uses Commonwealth spelling.

World/Religious/Political Views

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  This user is opposed to online censorship.
 This user supports recycling.
evol-4 This user is absolutely certain of the theory of evolution.
 This user realizes that the Earth isn't an oblate spheroid, but rather a close approximation of one.
 This user realizes that people from the Middle Ages already thought that the Earth was spherical.
 This user prefers the metric system.

Personality/Hobbies

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 This user enjoys photography.
 This user enjoys skygazing and astronomy.
 This user enjoys chess.

Computer Use

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 This user uses Google as a primary search engine.
+This user enjoys playing retro games.   
nulThis user has no alignment.
@ This user plays NetHack.

Licensing

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