I'm a 1997 graduate of the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Journalism. I was a regular newspaper columnist in the Columbia Missourian newspaper in 1996 and 1997, and my articles have appeared in publications such as Compute, Computer Shopper UK, and The O'Reilly Network.
My first book, Optimizing Windows for Games, Graphics, and Multimedia, was published by O'Reilly in 1999.
I can't program but I love writing and I love history, so contributing to the Wikipedia is my way of giving back to the open-source community that gave me Linux and so much great software to run on it.
Frustrations: Britney Spears had an entry before Daniel O'Connell, and her entry is more extensive than that of Andrew Carnegie. Bands that nobody will remember in five years have entries, but Tip O'Neill doesn't yet. (Recent correction: He finally does, but it's a stub.)
My biggest crime against the Wikipedia: Changes I made to the Kmart Corporation entry led to someone making further changes, which mentioned Martha Stewart. Next thing you know, she has an entry. I hope not all of the blame for that will rest on me.
You can visit my Weblog, The Silicon Underground, at dfarq.homeip.net.
Selected contributions (articles I either originally wrote or made contributions to):