User:Wayfarer

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My name is Tadej Persic, I am 33 years old and I was born on July 13, 1980. I grew up and still live in Ljubljana, the capital city of Slovenia, which is a country located in the center of Europe. In general I see myself as a critical thinker, skeptic and rationalist, and also a pretty liberal person and somewhat pacifist.

More about me
I'm an ex student of Architecture College, while in year 2009 I have started attending Informatics (to be more precise IT), a two-year schedule at the so-called "vocational college", which I officially finished (actually with very good grades) in year 2012. One year later because I've successfully advanced to the second grade by skipping one subject ("Programming"). I finally passed that exam in 2012 (a but less that one year later after passing all other exams) and now I just need to write a diploma work and graduate.

Interests
I am just a usual guy who likes to listen to good music, watch movies and series (South Park, Futurama, Dilbert, The Simpsons, Star Trek, Babylon 5 and so on) and of course I also like to browse the World Wide Web (news, science and technology related sites, post on various forums).

Skepticism
I am a member of let's call it "Slovenian Skeptical Society" from the beginning. During my internship in 1st grade of Informatics, my colleague (my mentor who created the website Skeptik.si) and one other coworker quickly realized that we have very similar views on these things, so we had really interesting discussions during our "coffee breaks" etc. And soon a few of us also started writing articles for Skeptik.si website related to subjects such as skepticism, atheism, popular myths and conspiracy theories, pseudo-science, vaccines and science in general etc.. Back then we were a slowly but steadily growing community, while now there are quite a lot of us. We also have monthly meetings (see Skeptics in the Pub) and we work together on other projects too.

My articles
All in all I've written two articles for Skeptik.si website, the first one was "Chemtrails: smiselnost teorije zarote" about Chemtrails conspiracy theory and the second one about Rabies and vaccines "Steklina in cepljenje". I also wrote diary entries (six of them so far) under Skeptics' diary section which you can find listed on my profile page.

Activities
Regarding my activities and hobbies I'm interested in just about anything related to basic programming and scripting, like batch processing, VBScript, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Python, ABC etc.), while I also enjoy customizing and tweaking my operating systems and similar. I mainly use Windows XP, but back then I've occasionally also used Linux (the Slackware distribution).

Wikipedia
I am also a proud member of English Wikipedia from March 25, 2005 onward (as of December 8, 2013 the number of my edits is: 1,289, see here for the list of all my Contributions), and about the same time I registered also at Slovenian Wikipedia and Wikinews. Actually I'm a member of many Wikimedia sister websites, but I contribute the most on the English variant.