User:Edward/contribs

These lists are very incomplete.

Articles I started[edit]

Misuse of Drugs Act 1971
Ten Tors - dartmoor hiking challenge
Datamation - computer magazine - stub
Simon Reeve - author - stub
Cube farm - stub
Backwell - village where my parents live
Megabus
Slopping out - stub
Robert X. Cringely - technology author and broadcaster
South Central Los Angeles
Greg Critser - author and journalist - stub
Breadmaker - Home appliance
Pret a Manger - UK sandwich retailer
Jon Courtenay Grimwood - cyberpunk author and journalist
Katie Hafner - author / journalist - stub
Dragon Runner - military robot - stub
Gernot Zippe - centrifuge engineer
Zippe-type centrifuge - nuclear fuel centrifuge
The Money Programme - finance and business affairs television programme on BBC2
Package holiday - transport and accommodation advertised and sold together by a tour operator.

Categories[edit]

Articles which I've improved[edit]

Swingometer - added mention of Peter Snow
Wired magazine - added Katie Hafner to list of contributers
updated Logarithmic timeline of current events
easyJet - initially telephone booking, moved to internet booking
British Airways - Union Flag, tail fin repaint, Margaret Thatcher
Wheel clamp - mention the guy with the angle grinder
crosslinked The Hunt For Red October and Crazy Ivan
Pakora - In the United Kingdom, Pakora is sold in fast food takeaways as an alternative to chips or a kebab during the evening and early morning.
Atacama - The European Southern Observatory operates two major observatories in the Atacama desert
Doogie Howser, M.D. - The show was set in Los Angeles. It was created by Steven Bochco and David E. Kelley; Trademarks of the show include Doogie's best friend Vinnie climbing in through his window, and Doogie writing his diary on his computer at the end of each episode.
Geek canon - Film - add Office Space
Near Field Communication - link to Wired article
Maluku link RMS to Republik Maluku Selatan
Toyota Prius - Bluetooth
Goldfish - In the United Kingdom they have traditionally been given as prizes at Fairgrounds, but new laws mean it is now illegal to give live animals as a prize.
Yellow - In Canada and the United States School buses are almost uniformly painted a bright yellow color (often referred to as "school bus yellow")
Richard Ottaway - He attended Backwell School, and studied Law at Bristol University, graduating in 1974.
New Journalism - added Further reading: New Journalism, Tom Wolfe, ISBN 0060471832
Dijon - birthplace of Charles Le Temeraire duke of Burgundy
Magna Carta - Ross Perot bought a copy in 1984
Biggin Hill - It is the home of London Biggin Hill Airport.
Sky News - featured in The Day After Tomorrow
Aircraft carrier - Aircraft carriers in fiction
Answering machine - Answer machines in fiction
Viewdata - added some text about how viewdata is used in the Travel industry in the United Kingdom
Foot and mouth disease - Many sporting events and leisure activities like Ten Tors were cancelled.
Chewing gum - Many modern chewing gums use petroleum based plastic instead of chicle.
Montrose, Angus - The population in the 2001 census was 10,845.
Blue screen of death - added a photo of a bluescreened payphone and some text about embedded systems bluescreening
Aloha Flight 243 - The made for TV movie Miracle Landing is based on this incident.
Cable spaghetti - some text + photo.
Camera phone - as of 2004 typically 0.3 megapixels
Orange Prize for Fiction - added winners for 2003 and 2004
Louise Woodward - wrote about the trial being shown on TV in the United Kingdom.
John Koza - added some more stuff about the lottery, biggest computer cluster owned by an individual and an external link

Diagrams[edit]

UK Income Tax and National insurance as a % of Salary (2004-2005)	UK Income Tax and National insurance (2004-2005)
FTSE 100 Index (19 July 1987 through 19 January 1988)	Dow Jones (19 July 1987 through 19 January 1988).
LNUX stock chart	Lastminute.com share price over a year.
File:Lightcone.png Light cone

Photos I took[edit]

Blue Screen of Death	Cable spaghetti	British Library gate
Glasgow Subway	Woodlands, Glasgow	The Media Centre at Lord's Cricket Ground
File:Applestorelondon.jpg Apple retail store openning in London	Abbey Head office	Stone that marks the entrance to the Backwell
Village of the year sign	York Road tube station	Wellcome Trust
UNISON head office	Photo of phone box with smashed tempered glass in Holloway	Great Portland Street tube station
Rolltop desk	Breadmaker
File:Online poker adverts on London Underground.jpg Online poker adverts on the wall of a Central Line platform at Tottenham Court Road tube station	Emirates Stadium under construction	File:Emirates Stadium artists impression.jpg Artists impression of the unfinished Emirates Stadium

Other people's photos I've uploaded with permission[edit]

Glasgow Central	Sony PSP and Nintendo DS	File:Copenhagen underground station.jpg Copenhagen Metro taken in February 2005
Dragon Runner	People walking in New York City during the 2003 North America blackout