Wcrowe

(Aka The Dogfather)

I've been involved in computers for nearly 30 years. I specialize in the IBM AS400/iSeries, but also program in Visual Basic, Perl, PHP and do webpage and networking support. I'm old enough to have been called a hacker, before it became a pejorative term (my first computer was a Heathkit and my first programming language was Fortran). All in all, I think I liked computers better when I was the only guy I knew who had one.

My canine companion is [Josie], a black Standard Poodle. She's a smart pooch and has her CGC and [TDI] certificates, and works as a therapy dog. In April, 2005 Josie was awarded the AKC CD title, after qualifying in each of her first three trials, and winning first place in each one.

I am a voracious reader, and have interests in language, cultures, computers, theology, Eastern Orthodoxy, dog breeds and training, and sporting clays. I am a veteran of the U.S. Navy and a student of Military History.

Here are my Wikipedia topic contributions. Some of these have been heavily edited since I wrote the original stub:

• United Kennel Club
• Dog park (dogs)
• Water dog
• Setter
• Irish Setter
• Irish Red and White Setter
• Therapy dog
• Ghoti
• Sporting Clays
• Mossberg 500
• Brittany_(dog)
• Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever
• William J. Crowe (no relation, but I used to get some of his mail and phone calls)
• .410 gauge
• Canine Good Citizen
• Irish Water Spaniel
• Colt 1903 .32 ACP
• Companion Dog Title
• Marcel
• Epagneul Pont-Audemer
• iSeries QSHELL

I've also added bits to the following topics:

• Poodle
• RPG (programming language)
• AS/400 Command Language
• Forearm (firearm component)
• Trap
• Fortran
• Hunting dog
• United States Naval Academy
• Plymouth Brethren
• American Water Spaniel
• Nicodemus
• Atonement

This user is a participant in WikiProject Eastern Orthodoxy.