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Revision as of 02:10, 28 December 2005
- Elonka Dunin, elonka@aol.com, AIM: elonka
Hello! Among other things, I am a game developer, cryptologist, webmistress, world-traveller, and appreciator of all kinds of different subcultures. :)
My "official" wikipedia page is here: Elonka Dunin. Thanks to Zippy for helping with that!
Contact information
I live in St. Charles, Missouri. My email address is elonka@aol.com, and the quickest way to get in contact with me is usually via AIM at screen-name "elonka".
Job title
General Manager of Online Community, Simutronics Corp.
External links with more information about Elonka
- Elonka-at-a-Glance quickref
- Professional Bio
- Personal Bio
- Elonka.com Homepage
- Elonka-in-the-News - a list of articles and other media appearances
- My blog page at Memestreams
Popular webpages at elonka.com
As of late 2005, my elonka.com site has generated over 1.4 million page views, with hundreds of thousands of visitors. Most of the traffic is generated by the following sections:
- http://www.elonka.com/kryptos - About the CIA's mysterious Kryptos sculpture
- http://www.elonka.com/UnsolvedCodes.html - A list of the world's most famous Unsolved Codes
- http://www.elonka.com/SimuTimeline.html - A timeline with significant events in the growth of Simutronics Corporation, where I have worked since 1990.
- http://www.elonka.com/family/saint/raphael.html - About my great-great-granduncle, Saint Raphael Kalinowski
Misplaced Pages information
Places that I have been referenced
This is a list of articles in the Misplaced Pages that mention me, or use one of my webpages as a reference. I'm not including pages that I personally created/edited and then added one of my pages as a reference... These are all pages created by other people:
Pages I have created
Pages I have made changes to
(not counting trivial punctuation/spelling fixes)
- Albin Cardinal Dunajewski
- Beale ciphers
- Carmelites
- Central Intelligence Agency
- Cliff Johnson
- Dragon's Gate
- DragonRealms
- Duran Duran
- Ecstasy of St Theresa
- Edmund Taczanowski
- Eduard Strasburger
- Elonka Dunin
- GEnie
- GemStone IV
- Grind (gaming)
- Hero's Journey (game)
- James Sanborn
- January Uprising
- Jeri Ellsworth
- John of the Cross
- Kendra Wilkinson
- Kesmai
- Kryptos
- List of Poles
- List of famous ciphertexts
- MMORPG
- Monomyth
- Raphael (disambiguation)
- Simon Le Bon
- Simutronics
- Taczanowski
- The Solomon Key
- Wadowice
- Whitfield Diffie
Other language wikis that I have participated in
- French
- Spanish
- Polish
- Dutch
- Swedish
- German
Other Misplaced Pages pages to eventually make or modify
- Modus Operandi
- Alliance of Heroes
- CyberStrike
- Orb Wars
- Memestreams
- List_of_saints
- Cyrillic_Projector
- Polish Government in Exile
- Lansat - first geosynchronous communications satellite
Stuff which could potentially be added to the official page at some point
Public speaking
Has given talks on Steganography, Kryptos, the PhreakNIC v3.0 Code, and other cryptographic subjects at venues such as DragonCon, Def Con, PhreakNIC, ShmooCon, Washington University, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the NSA's Cryptologic History Symposium.
While in the United States Air Force, stationed at RAF Mildenhall from 1978-1981 in the United Kingdom, and Beale Air Force Base in California, where she as an Avionics Technician on the SR-71 and U-2 reconnaissance aircraft from 1981-1983.
Famous Relatives
Descendant of multiple Polish szlachta families
- Great-granddaughter of Edward Werner, Polish Vice-Finance Minister
- Great-great-grandniece (via my paternal grandmother's paternal grandmother) of Saint Raphael Kalinowski
- Great-great-grandniece (via my paternal grandmother's maternal grandfather) of the famous German botanist Eduard Strasburger
- First Cousin (by marriage) once-removed of Pulitzer-prize-winner Jared Diamond.
Other notable members of family tree:
- Julian Taczanowski
- Adam Tarnowski - Polish diplomat member of the Polish Government in Exile
- Maksymilian Taczanowski - Great-great-great-grandfather
- Austro-Hungarian Ambassador to the United States, Baron Ladislaus von Hengelmueller
- Jan Czarnowski - Papal Chamberlain to Pope Pius VI, and leader of the Polish Order of the Knights of the Maltese Cross
- Edmund Taczanowski - Great-great-grandmother's brother-in-law. My great-great-grandmother: Maria-Antonina Baranowska. Her sister: Aniela Baranowska. Her husband: Edmund. I'm actually related to him my blood, as well, as he's the grandson of my great-great-great grandfather Maksymilian Taczanowksi, which makes him the first cousin of my great-grandmother Lucia Taczanowska Dunin, or you could say he's my first cousin thrice removed, take your pick. ;)
- Agnieszka Lipska Baranowska - Great-great-great grandmother, famous Polish playwright from the Poznan area
- Antoni Dunin - My grandfather, who was awarded the prestigious Virtuti Militari award (a Polish version of the Medal of Honor)
- Rodryg Dunin - My great-grandfather. He had the title of "Hrabi" (Count), and was listed as a "Notable Pole" in a book somewhere (I'll dig up the link later)
Other hobbies/accomplishments
- Administration of the IGDA MediaWiki at http://www.igda.org/
- Maintains a personal MediaWiki site at http://www.wiki.elonka.com/ (currently under password while book manuscript is being developed)
- Maintains multiple Simutronics wiki projects - OpenWiki and MediaWiki software
- Sandbox
- /Sandbox/profile - Draft Elonka page