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My name is Jeff Noakes and I am a graduate of the PhD programme in the History Department at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. I received my BA from the University of Western Ontario and my MA in History (Military and Strategic Studies) from the University of New Brunswick.
As part of my academic career, I've presented papers at a number of conferences, including the 2001 Society for Military History conference, the biennial conference of the Canadian Science and Technology Historical Association in Kingston, Ontario, Concordia's R/Évolution graduate student conference, the Military History Colloquium run by Wilfrid Laurier University's Centre for Military, Strategic, and Disarmament Studies, the Air Force History and Heritage conference in Winnnipeg in June 2003, and the Organization for the History of Canada and the Canadian Historical Association conferences in 2004. One of my papers was the subject of a nice writeup in the Ottawa Citizen in early May 2000, but the online copy of the writeup disappeared in a website "upgrade". An archived copy can be found at the Internet Archive. The graduate students at Carleton's History Department also organize and host an annual Underhill Graduate Student Colloquium, and in the past I've presented papers at it, helped organize and operate it, and until recently was also responsible for its website. I've also written a chapter on Chief of the Air Staff Wilfred Austin Curtis in Warrior Chiefs: Perspectives on Senior Canadian Military Leaders.
I guess I'm also supposed to say a bunch of fashionably cynical stuff here and convince everyone of how wonderful I am.
Whatever.
The pages on this site (with the exception of the Tu-144 crash) were created with Simple Text and TextEdit, and validated with the free online validators available from the WWW Consortium and the Web Design Group. The latter organization also provides some useful Web authoring references -- both online and downloadable. This website makes use of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), and was originally written in valid HTML 4.0 Transitional, although it was converted to XHTML 1.0 Transitional in July and August 2002. Much of the coding for the tables in the Coastal Command ORBAT pages is the product of File Maker Pro.
All text and images on this site are © Jeff Noakes, 1998-2006 unless otherwise noted.
The Grad Student Jokes, Motorist Gets to Work on Time, How to Post to Newsgroups, AOL Virus Alert, Neiman-Marcus Cookie Recipe, Usenet Flame Form, and newsgroup postings related to the Tu-144 crash are all based either on e-mail I have received or on Usenet postings. Where available, the names and identities of the original authors of these pieces are provided. If you have information about the authorship/copyright of any of the "anonymous" material listed above, please let me know so that credit can be provided or other appropriate action taken. The Visibility Report uses spam I've received. The Comps Reading List is reworked from numerous reading lists I received during my coursework. The detail picture of my Bianchi on my main bicycle page was taken by David Bilenkey. The funky little computer on this page is some pop-art clip art from the now-vanished Squaresville, while the images on the Avro Atlantic page are scanned from a copy of a 1953 Avro promotional brochure. The icons linking to external sites were provided by those sites, with the exception of the "Made with SimpleText" icon - I have no idea where it came from.
If you want to contact me about this website, or anything else, my e-mail address is:
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