wamckee

user since
Tue May 29 2001 at 22:09:35 (7.5 years ago )
last seen
Tue Jul 8 2008 at 22:11:59 (4.4 months ago )
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mission drive within everything
To chronicle my life so others will avoid the mistakes I have made.
specialties
computer hardware and software
school/company
cjkware.com inc. / Asia Communications Quebec Inc.
motto
Life is a balancing act.
most recent writeup
Photography and religion
Name: William A. McKee
Email: wamckee@msn.com
Web: http://www.william.mckee.name/
MSN Messenger: wamckee@msn.com
Postcard: P.O. Box 535, Station B, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1P 5P6

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I am a computer programmer amoung other things.

My life's work, since 1978, has been to create useful software and to that end I have been working (since 1984) on an Chinese/Japanese/Korean (CJK) language learning tool which works like a text editor and dictionary only better.

Favorite comic:

  • Calvin sees both sides of an argument and gets sucked into a cubist version of the comic.
  • Dilbert (I get it delivered fresh to my inbox daily.)

    • I love coffee. I drink it in the morning. My nick on DALnet is coffeeman when I was into that sort of thing. I am pleased to see that it has node_id=13020, a nice low value. The Women's Petition Against Coffee is yet another reason I love coffee since I am also a man.

    I find spelling most perplexing:

      <wamckee> weird is a weird word ... isn't it i before e except after c or when it sounds like "a"
      <boi_toi> if you're a freaking English teacher from the 1950s
      <karmaflux> Neither is "protein." BUT WE LEARN TO LIVE WITH IT.
      <grundoon> there's five exceptions to that rule in the english language and I wish LIKE HELL!! I could remember them.
      <TenMinJoe> That damned rule is totally worthless
      <TenMinJoe> More like "i before e, except sometimes."
      ...
      <ReiToei> wherein
      <karmaflux> "Wherein" doesn't count, poop face.
      <boi_toi> "wherein" is just plain freaking cheating. PLAY FAIR :-P
      ...
      [Ed. we also see deity, vein and their come up in the chatterbox.]

    My twaddle content, like my weight, is a little on the high side. My New Year's Resolution is to lose weight and write more factual nodes.

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