The often used screen name for David S. Cargo (escargo@skypoint.com and david_cargo@xiotech.com). My home IP address is often 199.86.45.178 (from home) or 207.250.72.2 (from work), and will appear when looking at [Recent Changes]. ''Updated slightly on 05/05/05 since it's such a funny date.'' ''Initials? Why would I prefer to use initials with a handle like this?'' I have been coding in tcl, tk, and expect since 1996. For a few years I was a [Multics] [http://www.multicians.org/] user, and have also used (in ancient times) CP/M-80, MS-DOS, VAX VMS, TOPS-10, old Honeywell minicomputer systems, ModComp Systems. More recently I have used CrayOS, Solaris, Microsoft Windows (starting at 3.1), and Linux. I did manage to attend the Tcl 2002 conference in Vancouver. Very nice. ---- I have started a few pages, including one with an application: * [wish-reaper] and others more philosophical * [Meta-object Protocol] ---- For $25/yr you can be escargot@slug.org. (That's the yearly membership for slug.org) '''PSE''' ---- For not much more than that I can get my own domain name. I'm not sure a snail should be consorting with slugs. They are fellow mollusks, but still.... ---- '''Pet Peeves''' I may wind up doing some minor editorial (copyediting) changes to wiki pages that I see that have the following problems. * The use of "it's" instead of "its" (where the possessive is intended) * The use of "its" instead of "it's" (where the contraction is intended) * The use of "lets" instead of "let's" (where the contraction is appropriate) * The use of "which" instead of "that" (nonrestrictive versus restrictive) * Misspellings ("alot") I won't mark these changes since I don't think they will change the meaning. [EKB] I support you in this effort, but mention that the rules for "which" vs. "that" are different in the UK and the US. [escargo] I know that, so I like to check to see which kind of quotations might be used ('') versus ("") to guess which kind of localization needs to be done. My tendencies toward punctuation correction have led two different people to give me a copy of ''Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation'', by Lynne Truss. ---- Messages to escargo: * [Zarutian] 2005-07-25-15:34 meet me on the tclers' chat. * [Zarutian] 2005-07-25-16:07 well, I have to go off the chat for now but I will probably be on it again between 23:00 GMT and 00:00 GMT tonight. * Sorry; I don't chat, but feel free to send me e-mail at the addresses above. [Category Person]