User:Todd Allen

Good day! My name is Todd Allen. I recently reached thirty years old, live in Colorado, and am engaged to the most wonderful woman I've ever met. My background is strongly in computers. Since about the age of ten, encountering Apple IIe systems at school and writing Logo scripts, I've thought they were fascinating. When I was about thirteen, a family friend who worked at Radio Shack brought me an old Tandy. The system did not have a hard drive, and booted straight to a BASIC prompt if no floppy was inserted (a floppy was necessary even to save the program!) I started to learn programming at this point, and wrote some simple games and scripts to help with homework.

Since then, I've continued my interest in the technology field, and now work in the field of computer programming. I also have interests in technology in general, the sciences (especially chemistry, physics, and sociology), literature and reading, music (everything from Mozart to Megadeth), history, and in learning about anything at all.

As I am largely self-taught and was able to find work on this basis, I have not yet finished college. However, as my current employer does offer tuition reimbursement, it is my hope to be able to start on school again next year.

I initially learned of this project through conversations on the English Wikipedia, and I have worked on that project for several years. I do not believe that Wikipedia is a "bad" project, or anything of the sort-something that has brought so much knowledge to so many people cannot possibly be a bad thing, and is indeed a very good one. However, the lack of a "final authority" on that project in so many areas has created quite a few flaws, and without anyone to definitively say "Enough!", those flaws may turn out to be very difficult to address in such a large community. It's come time for me that I would like to try a different method of writing an online resource work, and I think this one just might work.