I had never even heard of Wikipedia until I ran across this story on Slashdot congratulating it on its 100,000th article. Since then Wikipedia has enjoyed enormous success, increasing its article count more than five-fold and threatening to become the Internet's fixture reference work. At the same time Wikipedia explodes in breadth I hope it can attain new profundities of depth, and begin measuring itself against the same rigorous standards of quality as scholarly reference works are judged by.
I came to the Bay Area in 1997 as a student and have remained here since, working as a software developer for the same company that first hired me. Unlike most of my peers I chose not to join a start-up, and so the closest I came to the dotcom excitement of the era was paying off my student loans with some of the stock options I managed to cash out at an opportune moment.
My current areas of interest include historiography, media analysis, and future Nobel laureate Philip Roth (hey Oslo, he ain't getting any younger!).
Some of the more successful articles I've been been responsible for are: