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<p>Merriam: Undo revision 13703 by 173.65.117.92 (Talk)</p> <hr /> <div>==Introduction to Woozles==<br /> A [[wikipedia:woozle|woozle]] is a phenomenon caused by obsessively following one's own footsteps while thinking you are covering new ground. The presence of a woozle generally can be taken as an indication that you have become too focused on your immediate task and need to take a look at the larger picture in order to see where you have gone wrong.<br /> ==Introduction to This Woozle==<br /> This particular woozle can be found in [[Durham]], NC and various places on the internet. More contact info (including mailing address and instant messaging) is [[Contact|here]].<br /> <br /> (Woozle's internal/notes page is [[User:Woozle|here]], but most of it probably won't mean anything to anyone else.)<br /> <br /> Woozle is now switching to first person for the rest of this page. Do not adjust your sets.<br /> ==Projects==<br /> ===Commercial===<br /> My commercial projects include:<br /> * [[vbz.net]], an online store which is operating but under reconstruction.<br /> * Various computer services which will eventually have a web site of their own:<br /> ** On-site computer service (including Windows and Linux)<br /> ** Web site programming (MediaWiki, MySQL, and PHP a specialty)<br /> <br /> I'm available for more work in either of these areas, though my time is currently more limited than I like -- mostly due to time spent on [[Josh]], Harena's autistic teenaged son. We are making progress in this area and I'm hoping that my time will be significantly expanded by this summer (I'm writing this in January 2008).<br /> ===Community &amp; Discussion===<br /> My non-commercial / community-related projects include:<br /> * [[HTYP]], a wiki-based online &quot;directory of everything&quot; and &quot;technical manual for the universe&quot;<br /> ** [[HTYP:User:Woozle|My user page]]<br /> * [[Issuepedia]], a wiki-based site for discussing and documenting public issues (including [[Issuepedia:Durham, NC|local ones]]) and [[issuepedia:User:Woozle/Position Statement|personal opinions]]<br /> ** [[Issuepedia:User:Woozle|My user page]]<br /> <br /> Both of these sites are advertising-free, with no registration required to edit. (I wrote my own [[htyp:SpamFerret|spam filter]] from scratch so that I wouldn't have to restrict editing in order to prevent [[htyp:wikispam|wikispam]].)<br /> <br /> * [http://www.intensedebate.com/people/Woozle My comments] on IntenseDebate, the forum service used by [http://change.gov Change.gov] &amp;ndash; i.e. you can see all the comments I made at Change.gov by going to that link.<br /> ** I also installed IntenseDebate on [[Issuepedia:project:IntenseDebate|Issuepedia]] as an experiment; it will probably turn out to be more useful as a source of ideas for debate software than as actual software to use<br /> <br /> ===Creative===<br /> * I write and record music. I've also been in a couple of bands which didn't go anywhere but recorded some stuff maybe worth listening to.<br /> ** My original recordings are [[Woozalia:Main Page|here]]<br /> ** Recordings from my first band, MoG, are [[MoG|here]]<br /> ** A couple of other musical projects are not yet online<br /> ** Some other not-really-musical recordings will be available [[Woozle's Audio Weirdness|here]] soon<br /> * [[Clarence the Rock]], a comic I drew on my computer in 1992 or so (using Windows 3.0 and Microsoft Paint!)<br /> <br /> ===Opportunities===<br /> There are a number of things I'd like to be doing but lack one or more critical elements.<br /> * '''Recording studio''': I have enough equipment to set up a small but income-generating recording studio; I lack the space, and I also wouldn't have the time to run it on a daily basis (at least until the [[Josh]] situation improves). I could, however, help get it set up and put some time into technical maintenance.<br /> * '''VBZ expansion''': I ultimately want to make [[vbz.net]] easier to run and hand over its daily operation to someone else; eventually I'd like to see it move into a physical storefront, and expand from there. I would also like to offer more work by local artists and musicians, as this is why I got into online retail in the first place.<br /> ===Other Places===<br /> You can also find me at:<br /> * [[wikipedia:user:woozle|Wikipedia]] et al.<br /> * [[issuepedia:user:woozle|Issuepedia]]: political/philosophical positions<br /> * [[htyp:user:woozle|HTYP]]: product reviews, software<br /> * [http://lesswrong.com/user/woozle LessWrong]: discussion about rationality<br /> * [http://www.bjaodn.org/wiki/User:Woozle BJaoDN] (mainly for the purpose of communicating about wiki vandalism)<br /> * ''probably other places I can't think of at the moment''<br /> <br /> ==Family==<br /> * There are pictures of my daughter [[Anna Nikola]] [[:category:Anna Nikola|here]]; she lives in [[Athens]] with her mom.<br /> * I'm not related, as far as I know, to [http://www.staddonfamily.com/about/ these folks] ([http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/13/AR2009111303900.html?hpid=sec-religion 2009-11-13 news item]) or to [http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/zimbabwe/content/story/335560.html Stanley Staddon of Zimbabwe]</div>

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