User:Cspurrier
About Me
[edit]I am not really active anymore on any of the Wikimedia projects. Work and other interests leave very little time for them. I now live in Richmond, Va. If there is anything interesting occurring in this area, please feel free to message me and I will try to cover it.
I discovered Wikinews in mid-March 2005 while trying to start a Wiki based news website. I had just finished getting my site set up when I found Wikinews. I was very happy to discover I would not need to be the one to start it. :) I joined Wikinews and made my first edit on March 15 2005. I became an admin on 25 May 2005. On 3 October 2005 I became a bureaucrat. I am a former member of the Wikinews Arbcom and I have Checkuser status. I am a former Steward.
I am interested in stories about technology, law, Fiji and the rest of the South Pacific.
Contacting Me
[edit]If you need me, please leave a note on my talk page or send me an e-mail.
My Projects
[edit]I created the Wikinews:Print edition and used to update it.
Awards and Things
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Articles I wrote (or started)
[edit]- Jetstar to offer iPads as an in-flight entertainment option
- Prime Minister of Vanuatu loses seat over paperwork error (rewrite)
- Wikimania 2009 held in Buenos Aires
- Six charged with the attempted assassination of Fijian coup leader
- 65th running of the Aiken Trials held
- Explosion near Afganistan base kills at least 19, U.S. Vice President may have been target
- Day 1 report of Wikimania 2006
- EBay buys VeriSign payment service division
- Yahoo launches new Podcast Search
- VeriSign acquires Weblogs.com
- Oracle buys Innobase
- First virus to affect handheld gaming console found
- Australia's High Court rules mod-chips are legal
- Autodesk to buy Alias
- UK cable TV operator NTL acquires Telewest
- Microsoft Office 12 will support PDFs
- US rejects EU proposal to give control of the Internet to the UN
- RIAA files 757 lawsuits against file sharers
- Apple agrees to replace iPod nanos with scratched screens
- New ten dollar bill for the US
- FCC extends 911 deadline for VoIP
- StarOffice 8 launched
- Microsoft launches MSN adCenter
- Google Toolbar for Firefox now out of beta
- New Palm Treo will run Windows Mobile
- Delta Air Lines to cut up to 9,000 jobs
- Arizona applies ban on autodialers to mobile phone spam
- Google prepares to launch WiFi service
- Sprint/RealNetworks to provide cell phone Internet radio and podcasts in US
- IDG cancels Macworld Boston
- Stolen laptop with personal data of more than 98,000 students recovered
- Dell to drop Itanium-based servers
- Microsoft announces Xbox 360 launch dates
- Lexmark releases printer with built-in CD burner
- Oracle to acquire Siebel for USD 5.85bn
- US FEMA aid site only supports Windows with Internet Explorer
- Google hires Vint Cerf, the "father of the Internet”
- Sony breaks UK sale records with launch of PlayStation Portable
- Munich delays switch to Linux
- Linux installed on 2,460 desktop computers in Italian schools
- Microsoft enters VoIP market with the acquisition of Teleo Inc
- Microsoft announces name of new version of Windows: Vista
- Tsunami Warning issued for Indian Ocean due to large earthquake I wrote a significant part, but many others have worked on this story
- Spyware is changing users' online habits
- Fiji "running out of patience" with Vanuatu over ban on Fijian biscuits
- Crown Prince of Kuwait admitted to hospital
- New top level domain approved
- FCC requires VoIP providers to have 911 service
- BBC begins trial program allowing legal TV and radio downloads
- MPAA sues six BitTorrent sites linking to TV shows
- Apple updates iMac line
- Time Warner loses personal data on 600,000 employees
- Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy movie in theaters
- Lawsuits filed against students accused of illegally sharing files over the Internet2
- VoIP penetrates emergency calling infrastructure
- Proposed bill could force federal weather data offline
- Iran shuts down Al-Jazeera bureau
- New version of Opera web browser released
- Adobe to Purchase Macromedia for $3.4 Billion
- Survey finds Spam tolerance growing
- Microsoft releases low-cost Windows XP Starter Edition in Brazil
- New top-level domain names created
- Suspect in Atlanta courthouse shooting appears at hearing