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Personal Information Name Doug Glidden Current Home Washington, D.C. metropolitan area Place of Origin Portland, Maine, USA Background Software engineer with two bachelor's degrees in the fields of computer science and computer engineering from LeTourneau University in Longview, Texas.  Amateur musician with proficiency in piano and voice and significant interest in composition and conducting. Areas of Interest Articles on subjects related to computers, mathematics, engineering, Maine and New England, automobiles and automobilia, pianos, classical music, and my alma mater, LeTourneau University.  As the son of an English teacher and an avid amateur grammarian, I often browse around for ways I can make grammatical and stylistic improvements to existing articles on any subject (typically using the "Random article" link).

Userboxes Language Boxes enThis user is a native speaker of the English language. de-1Dieser Benutzer hat grundlegende Deutschkenntnisse. Style Boxes This user employs a more formal style of writing in articles than in talk pages. “…”This user favors curly quotation marks over straight style. Grammar and Usage Boxes Majority ≠ right This user recognizes that even if 300,000,000 people make the same mistake, it's still a mistake. əThis user is a Grammar Nazi. ’sThi's user know's that not every word that end's with s need's an apostrophe and will remove misused apostrophe's from Wikipedia with extreme prejudice. its it'sIt's really not that hard to use each word in its proper manner. their there they'reThis user thinks that there are too many people who don’t know that they're worse than their own children at spelling! your you'reThis user thinks that if your grammar is incorrect, then you're in need of help. than thenThis user understands the difference between using "than" and "then." You and MeThis user thinks that if you believe it is incorrect to use "you and me" as the object of a sentence, a little talk needs to be had by you and me... “,;:’This user is a punctuation stickler. ,This user fixes comma-splices; they are annoying. infin¦ itiveThis user chooses never to split infinitives. they he or sheThis user considers the singular they to be substandard English usage. whomThis user insists upon using whom wherever it is called for, and fixes the errors of whomever he sees. A, B, and CThis user prefers the serial comma. Latin Plurals: "Data is are..." This user uses "data", "media", "memoranda", "criteria", and "agenda" as the plurals of "datum", "medium", "memorandum", "criterion", and "agendum". .  TheThis user puts two spaces after a period. byThe passive voice may be used by this user. ... in.Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which this user will not put. man- kindRegarding gender, this user prefers the vernacular, not what is politically correct. Other Boxes This user is not British, but can speak with a British accent. AIM-AbleThis user understands AIM talk perfectly well, and sometimes uses it, but not excessively. C-1This user is a beginning C programmer. cpp-2This user is an intermediate C++ programmer. Java-3This user is an advanced Java programmer. asm-2This user is an intermediate assembly language programmer. BASICThis user can program in BASIC. LVThis user is a LabVIEW wireworker. MATThis user is a MATLAB programmer and user. css-2This user is an intermediate Cascading Style Sheets user. HTML-3This user is an advanced HTML user. {{Wiki}}This user can write in the MediaWiki language. USage declineThis user uses American English, but is appalled at its rapid and continuing deterioration.

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