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I'm a college student studying [[Mathematics]] and [[Computer science]], but I have many other interests, especially in communication and [[ergonomics]].

My ideals are broad but center around a theme of [[libertarianism]]; I vote Libertarian, [[Non-interventionism|don't support wars unless attacked]], and I value civil liberties over the Bush administration's idea of "security". [[Thomas Jefferson]] is the person I most agree with. I identify myself as a [[Brights movement|Bright]] but don't particularly care what I am labeled as: atheist, humanist, free-thinker, all of them describe me.

I speak French at an intermediate level and love the ideas behind [[Esperanto]] (if not the language itself). A lot of this stems from my interest in communication; I love the idea of a precise grammar and unambiguous language. I identify strongly with the French ideal of searching for ''le mot juste''.

I can program if need be in C, Obj-C, C++ (boo), and Java. I am interested in [[XML]]-based standards (like the [[Resource Description Framework]]) and wish they were used more often. Speaking of such, I support the OASIS [[OpenDocument]] format and dislike Microsoft's [[cruft]]y [[Office Open XML|OOXML]]. I like software licensed under the [[GPL]] or [[LGPL]] but I don't view closed-source software as "wrong".

I bought an [[iBook]] in [[2004]] and fell in love with [[Mac OS X]]. So many good ideas are collected in one operating system that it's a pleasure to use. I was even happier to discover that most of the ideas I loved in OS X ([[Services menu]], the [[Dock (computing)|Dock]], [[Bundle (NEXTSTEP)|Bundle]]s, [[Objective-C]], [[Property list]]s, a logical filesystem hierarchy, ad infinitum) were inherited from [[NEXTSTEP]], and thus could be found in [[GNUstep]]. I dream of a full-fledged GNUstep [[Linux distribution|distro]] as the best computing environment.



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