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My name is Tony Walton, and I edit Misplaced Pages.
Things I have Decided:
"Never Edit Sober" is bnot a gooidea
I need to discover Unicode, so I can say "☺" (☺) instead of ":-)" It's been pointed out to me that 'Alt+1" makes a ☺'. I'm told Windows works this way, but on this 'ere MacBook Alt+1 makes '¡". Unicode is more of a bugger to type but is platform-neutral.
Use the Pipe trick at every conceivable opportunity, because it rocks.
Tell everybody I know about the Pipe trick, including writing "http://en.wikipedia.org/Help:Pipe_trick" on the wall of the Gents' at the pub.
Where another editor prefers to put his willy is a matter of supreme indifference to me regarding the quality of their contribution(s) to this encyclopædia. Same applies to what another editor prefers to do with her ladyparts.
I worked for Sun Microsystems until May 5, 2006, on which date they made me redundant after 11½ years. So if anyone has any job going for a Unix sysop and knowledge engineer in the UK (or possibly Germany), drop me an email... Ah well, worth a try.
I don't appear to be related to anyone famous, except possibly Kinmont Willie Armstrong but that's only what my mother has told me, and she tells lies.
In a busy world, it's easy to do just the minimum, but you go the extra mile. Thank you for taking the time to explain things to new users. It counts! --Minetruly (talk) 02:07, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
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