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Hey, you've found my space.  I like to write about places and things in southern [[Ontario]]. I also usually have a good eye for spelling and [[typo]]s, and I like to correct them wherever I find them.
* Name: [[Timothy]] [[Ryan]] [[William]] [[Coleman]]
* Birth Date: [[October 31]], [[1976]] ([[Hallowe'en]])
* Birth Place: [[Kitchener, Ontario]] ([[Grand River Hospital]])
* Current Place of Residence: [[Waterloo, Ontario]]

==License==
After much consideration, I have decided to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages and any images uploaded, as described below:
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==Biography==
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Image:Tim Coleman with William Coleman.jpg|Tim Coleman with his son William, taken [[July 12]], [[2004]].
Image:William John Anthony Coleman.jpg|William John Anthony Coleman, born [[July 9]], [[2004]].
Image:Nathan Ryan Lawrence Coleman.jpg|Nathan Ryan Lawrence Coleman, born [[March 7]], [[2006]].
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There aren't really a lot of interesting things to know about me; I consider myself pretty ordinary as far as people go.  I've even been called ''normal'' on more than one occasion.  I was born on [[Halloween]] which seems to amuse a lot of people.  Not only was I born on Halloween, but I was born on the evening that [[Daylight Savings Time]] ended in [[1976]], at 0200, which became 0100 and so my mother worked an extra hour for naught.

I have one [[brother]], Eric, who lives in Toronto.  He is a talented [[comic book]] artist.   

I am currently employed as a [[software developer]] and [[technical consultant]] for [[Waterloo, Ontario|Waterloo]]-based [[Open Text Corporation]], a manufacturer of enterprise [[content management]] software.  My initial experience with Open Text was in network operations where I served four months as a [[co-operative education|co-op student]] from January to April 2000.  In August 2000, I returned as a co-op developer with '''b2bScene''', a division of Open Text dedicated to developing [[B2B|business-to-business]] software.  Finally, in April 2001, I became a permanent full-time employee.  b2bScene no longer exists, and has been known as '''Hosted and Managed Solutions''', the '''Global Delivery Centre''', and now '''Global Services Development''', a part of the larger '''Global Services''' organization at Open Text.  My job is basically customizing our principal product, ''Livelink'', to suit the needs of customers.  It involves some technical skills, business knowledge, and tact.  I like to think that I'm pretty good at it.

My wife, Denise, and I have been happily married since [[August 11]], [[2001]]. We have a [[cat]], Cole, and we live together in our house in [[Waterloo, Ontario]].
On [[July 9]], [[2004]], Denise gave birth to our new son, William John Anthony Coleman.  He weighed in at 4.26 kg (9 lbs. 6½ oz.), and was 56 cm (22") long at birth.  Like his father, William was born at [[Grand River Hospital]] K-W Health Centre (previously known as the K-W General Hospital) in [[Kitchener, Ontario]].  Photographs of little William can be found at [http://gallery.epenguin.org/20040709/].

==Wikipedia==
[[Image:Wikistress1.png|right|thumb|Mostly a product of how many customers I am fighting fires with at any given time.]]
As of [[November 30]], [[2004]], I have made 4932 edits to Wikipedia as a named user.

* #1: Created [[Golden Horseshoe]] on [[July 18]], [[2003]]. [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Golden_Horseshoe&oldid=4232847]
* #1000: Disambiguated a link in [[Las Vegas Strip]] on [[June 2]], [[2004]]. [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Las_Vegas_Strip&diff=3948622&oldid=3842695]
* #2000: Wikified [[Geography of Guam]] on [[June 23]], [[2004]]. [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Geography_of_Guam&diff=5313528&oldid=4239671]
* #3000: Added a category to [[To Kill a Mockingbird]] on [[July 17]], [[2004]]. [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=To_Kill_a_Mockingbird&diff=4863763&oldid=4696916]
* #4000: Made a minor image markup change to [[Mess]] on [[August 25]], [[2004]]. [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Mess&diff=6636432&oldid=5435837]

===Oddities===
* [[User:Timc/House of Fraser|House of Fraser]] - baboonery.

===Articles I have written===
These are some of the articles I have created for Wikipedia:
* [[2005 World Women's Curling Championship]]
* [[2006 Scott Tournament of Hearts]]
* [[Bob O'Billovich]]
* [[Cambridge (electoral district)]]
* [[Carolina Dodge Dealers 400]]
* [[Cris Collinsworth]]
* [[Delta State]]
* [[Golden Horseshoe]]
* [[Grand River Hospital]]
* [[List of current NASCAR races]]
* [[List of NASCAR race tracks]]
* [[Mountain Dew Southern 500]]
* [[Open Text Corporation]]
* [[Ontario provincial highway 7]]
* [[Ontario provincial highway 11]]
* [[Pinball Clemons]]
* [[Queen's Park, Toronto]]
* [[Rick Hendrick]]
* [[Royal Bank Plaza]]
* [[Royal Troon Golf Club]]
* [[Simple Outline XML]]
* [[Staples Business Depot]]
* [[Subway 400]]
* [[User:UBX/User drinks Dr Pepper]]

===Articles of interest===
These are some of the articles which interest me and which I have contributed to:
* [[Curling]]
* [[Kitchener, Ontario]]
* [[List of Ontario provincial highways]]
* [[NASCAR]]
* [[Waterloo, Ontario]]
* [[University of Waterloo]]
* [[Wilfrid Laurier University]]

===Adminship===
I became a [[Wikipedia:Administrator|Wikipedia administrator]] on [[November 24]], [[2004]].  I will endeavour to uphold my duties graciously and responsibly, and promise to use my powers for good or for awesome.  Feel free to read [[Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Timc|my request for adminship]].

==Distractions==
''All work and no play...'' 

I enjoy several distractions outside of the computer realm.  Here are encyclopedic links to some of them.

===Card games===
* [[President (game)|Asshole]]
* [[Canasta]]
* [[Contract bridge|Bridge]]
* [[Euchre]]
* [[Gin rummy|Gin]]
* [[Oh Hell]]
* [[Hearts]]
* [[Rummy]]
* [[Whist]]
* Others

===Board games===
* [[Monopoly (game)|Monopoly]]
* [[Risk (game)|Risk]]
* [[Scrabble]]
* [[Trivial Pursuit]]
* Others

==Education==
I received a [[Bachelor's Degree]] in [[Mathematics]] from the [[University of Waterloo]] in 2001.  I majored in ''[[Combinatorics]] and [[Optimization]]'' with a minor in ''[[Computer Science]]''.  I also spent a considerable number of hours honing my skills at the game of [[contract bridge]], something which I haven't had as much chance to do since the end of my university days.

==Software development==
My career is in software development, and I have worked with a number of languages, systems, and organizations.  

===Programming languages===
Here are some of the programming languages that I have worked with.

* [[BASIC]]
* [[C (programming language)|C]]
* [[C++]]
* [[C Sharp (programming language)|C#]]
* [[COBOL]]
* [[Haskell (programming language)|Haskell]]
* [[Java (programming language)|Java]]
* [[MATLAB]]
* [[Modula-3]]
* [[Pascal (programming language)|Pascal]]
* [[Perl]]
* [[PHP]]
* [[Scheme (programming language)|Scheme]]

===Standards===
As is the case with many programmers, I encounter a number of system standards in my day-to-day life.  Among others, I have become proficient with:
* [[HTML|HyperText Markup Language (HTML)]]
* [[SOAP|Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)]]
* [[SQL|Structured Query Language (SQL)]]
* [[XML|Extensible Markup Language (XML)]]
* [[XSD|XML Schema Definition (XSD)]]
* [[XSLT|XML Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT)]]

===Database systems===
* [[dBASE]]
* [[IBM DB2|DB2]]
* [[Informix]]
* [[Microsoft SQL Server]]
* [[MySQL]]
* [[Oracle database|Oracle]]
* [[PostgreSQL]]
* [[Sybase SQL Server]]

===Organizations===
* [[AGF Management]]
* [[The Cooperators Insurance Group]]
* [[The Economical Insurance Group]]
* [[Open Text Corporation]]
* [[Safety-Kleen]]

===Other projects===
I have been involved with other projects to a small or large degree.

* [[Linux]] [[Kernel (computer science)|kernel]]
* [[Mono (software)|Mono]]

==Things to do==
* [[Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links]] - Disambiguate
* [[Special:Newpages]] - Watch new pages
* Categorize players from [[List of major league baseball players]].  I have currently completed up to [[Ernie Banks]].
* [[User:Yann/Untagged Images|Tagging images]]

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