User:Ksoileau

INTERESTS

My primary interests include:

Mathematics and mathematicians
Forteana, i.e. interesting unexplained phenomena
Theist apologetics
Orbital mechanics, especially rendezvous

WEB PRESENCE

Personal Website

Social Media

Online Papers

PHP

This user can code PHP.

Java

This user can program in Java.

vb

This user is a Visual Basic programmer.

C-3

This user is an advanced C programmer.

xslt

This user is an XSL Transformations programmer.

This user has a Flickr account as @ksoileau.

D

This user reads Dilbert.

This user does not smoke.

This user is a fan of Monty Python!

This user is a carnivore.

This user enjoys playing chess.

This user enjoys solving
Sudoku puzzles.

This user enjoys bicycling.

This user knows that 42 is the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything.

This user uses Google as a primary search engine.

This user contributes using Microsoft Windows XP.

This user contributes using Microsoft Windows Vista.

This user's life occurs in
real time.

This user is male.

Tip of the moment...

Wikimedia links and shortcuts

Internal links work for linking to other wikis, and bypasses the need to paste in URLs (which tend to be both long and cryptic and make source text harder to read). This also avoids the appearance of the external link arrow ( ).

Here are the prefixes and shortcuts for creating links to Wikipedia's sister projects:

Project	Example	Shortcut	Example
`[[wikibooks:]]`	wikibooks:	`[[b:]]`	b:
`[[commons:]]`	commons:	`[[c:]]`	c:
`[[wikidata:]]`	wikidata:	`[[d:]]`	d:
`[[meta:]]`	meta:	`[[m:]]`	m:
`[[wikinews:]]`	wikinews:	`[[n:]]`	n:
`[[phabricator:]]`	phabricator:	`[[phab:]]`	phab:
`[[wikiquote:]]`	wikiquote:	`[[q:]]`	q:
`[[wikisource:]]`	wikisource:	`[[s:]]`	s:
`[[wikispecies:]]`	wikispecies:	`[[species:]]`	species:
`[[wikiversity:]]`	wikiversity:	`[[v:]]`	v:
`[[wikivoyage:]]`	wikivoyage:	`[[voy:]]`	voy:
`[[wikipedia:]]`	[[wikipedia:]]	`[[w:]]`	w:
`[[wiktionary:]]`	wiktionary:	`[[wikt:]]`	wikt:

The long form does not work within the same project. The shortcut works everywhere.

Links to foreign-language Wikiprojects can be made by prefixing the language code: [[:de:s:]] will link to the German-language Wikisource, [[:fr:wikt:]] to the French-language Wiktionary, etc. You can use piped links ( "|" ) to avoid seeing the colons in the link.

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