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Among other things, I am a game developer, cryptologist, webmistress, world-traveller, and appreciator of all kinds of different subcultures. :)
Elonka 21:01, 16 September 2005 (UTC)
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
Elonka Misplaced Pages References
This is a list of articles in the Misplaced Pages that mention me.
Stuff which should possibly 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 of Saint Raphael Kalinowski.
First Cousin once-removed (by marriage) of Pulitzer-prize-winner Jared Diamond.
Other notable members of family tree:
- Eduard Strasburger
- Julian Taczanowski
- Adam Tarnowski
- Maksymilian Taczanowski - Great-great-great-grandfather
- Austro-Hungarian Ambassador to the United States, Baron Ladislaus von Hengelmueller
- Jan Czarnowski
- Edmund Taczanowski - Great-great-grandmother's brother-in-law. 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
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
Other Misplaced Pages Pages to Eventually Make or Modify
- GemStone_IV
- Modus Operandi
- Alliance of Heroes
- Hero's Journey
- CyberStrike
- Orb Wars
- Memestreams
- Saint Raphael Kalinowski (my great-great-granduncle)
- http://pl.wikipedia.org/Rafa%C5%82_Kalinowski - Polish Misplaced Pages version
- List_of_saints
- Cyrillic_Projector
- Eduard_Strasburger (another great-great-uncle)
- Polish Government in Exile
- Jeri Ellsworth
- Lansat - first geosynchronous communications satellite
- Sandbox
- /Sandbox/profile - Draft Elonka page