List of hobbies (incomplete, random order)
- Software Languages
- Metalanguages
- Transformation languages
- General purpose high level programming languages
- Scripting languages
- Fourth generation programming languages
- Markup, data definition, configuration languages
- Modelling languages
- Computers
- Twitter
- Terminology
- Inspired by the initiative of Prof. Dr. Tom Mens, I’m slowly composing a table of grammar-related terms.
- At the moment mostly interested completing the Russian part and then enforcing it.
- Also learning the German part as I go.
- Wiki technology
- Wikipedia: the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit.
- Wikiquote: the free quote compendium that anyone can edit.
- Wikimedia Commons: a database of freely usable media files to which anyone can contribute.
- Wikibooks: the open-content textbooks collection that anyone can edit.
- Wikisource: the free library that anyone can improve.
- Wiktionary: the free dictionary.
- Wikiversity: set learning free.
- Wikisource: the free library that anyone can improve.
- Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.: nonprofit organization dedicated to development and distribution of free content
- Wikia: wiki communities for everyone.
- Contributor since 19 November 2006, ~10000 edits by 2011.
- Sysop since 8 December 2006.
- Double sysop since 15 July 2007.
- Triple sysop since 16 May 2010.
- Wikidot guru since 2007, conference web/wiki administrator since 30 June 2008, publicity chair since 3 October 2010, pro user since 22 October 2010. [Profile] [GTTSE]
- PBworks user and administrator since 1 October 2006, quite inactive since 2008.
- Online communities
- The biggest hacking community in Russia. CoModerator in 16.04.1998–16.10.2000. [ru.hacker]
- Software language engineering and processing community, quite active in 2000–2005. Founder in 2000, gardener ever since. [ru.programming.languages]
- Got introduced to the idea of Software Engineering & Research 2.0 on 6 July 2009. [SER]
- Grammarware communities kinda gardened by yours truly: [Plaxo] [SciPeople]
- The incomplete yet most comprehensive list of the places I can be spotted online: [Contact]
- Linguistics
- History
- Moderating a history discussion board since 2004.
- Established relationships with 929 of my direct ancestors, the oldest of which is 141 generations away from me. [DFA]
- Some of the castles, fortresses & fortifications I’ve been to:
- Blues
- The list of instruments that I play or have played at some point in my life include violin, piano, trombone, tremolo harmonica, blues harp, jawharp and acoustic guitar.
- However, I haven’t played any musical instrument seriously since 1994 when I finished the musical school.
- I still call myself a “professional music consumer”, having 700+ CDs and SACDs at home and attending many concerts.
- Very recently I started collecting signed CDs. So far I got:
- Russian articles I’ve written on the subject: [Leadbelly] [Bukka White] [Tommy McClennan]
- Online board maintained by yours truly: [Blues Inbox]
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