Wikipedia needs to be exposed for what it is.

Asshole admins like Kuru and Duffbeerforme et al. attack the integrity of solid references and delete them, then delete the articles for not being vetted by third party sources….and follow you around to delete anything you edit or comment on or support. They permit Romanian sockpuppets to attempt to bribe the subjects of articles, then block the victim for disturbing the peace when he puts this outrage onto the talk pages. The admins have no common sense and go around cutting articles to pieces, articles on topics they know nothing about. They reject Oxford University and the Library of Congress as acceptable references and poo-poo scholarship.

It appears that any piece of trash writing can have a wiki article about it and passes the “notable” test as long as as any celebrity, e.g. Paris Hilton, thinks it is good.

Wikipedia is not a serious source of information for scholars. The “editors” reject bona fide academidistinction and have zero common sense. What is popular is often not correct and is no standard for worthiness. The “editors” are a bunch of clowns with too much time ontheir hands. I have lost all respect for wikipedia, which is really a hyped up supercrowd sourced mega blog that passes itself off as an “encyclopedia.”

What do they call 500 dead Wikipedia Admins at the bottom of the ocean?
A Good Start

To recap, a Wiki Admin was “cyber-stalking” me and going through all of my websites (I’m a web designer and have several hundred), SOooooo, what I did was I tracked his movements, got his name and address, and then posted a message on my talk page that I had this information and that this was to be considered an official “Cease and Desist” for that Admin to stop snooping around all of my websites. THIS COMPLETELY FREAKED HIM OUT and he appealed to his supervisor who had the following conversation with him:

{From Eagles24/7 Admin to his supervisor after I told him that I had all of his personal information} – Can someone please talk to this user? He was blocked for spamming his website and he is now tracking my information. I believe this user is threatening legal action (and has been indeffed already), but for the most part I believe he is confused. I need immediate assistance. Eagles 24/7 (C) 01:30, 7 March 2012 (UTC)

I love that last part “I need immediate assistance” – haha – he was FREAKED. Here is the reply from his supervisor. This guy sounds like a MAJOR tool, no wonder the Admins are so terrible, look at how their supervisors talk:

{Supervisor to Admin} – Per WP:RBI, I recommend summarily disabling the blocked user’s talk page access and moving on. If the user is indeffed, we’re beyond the point of educating them. Indeed, they’ve responded to attempted education with legal threats and outing. We’re not going to make progress here. –NYKevin @115, i.e. 01:45, 7 March 2012 (UTC)

I love that they have their own stupid language, NYKevin, you’re a complete dork TOOL as well. Who are these people? Do we see them in QuikTrip? Or do they live on another planet? Anyway, here was the response from the Admin:

{Admin to Supervisor} – I’m concerned about my own safety though due to the outing. Eagles 24/7 (C) 01:47, 7 March 2012 (UTC)

For those of you who don’t know, “outing” is the term that the sneaky f*%ks at Wikipedia use to describe a situation where someone has exposed the identity of one of their Admins. They didn’t know who they were dealing with, I’m a SERIOUSLY advanced web designer and if you’ve visited any of my websites, I can find not only your house, but any personal information that I want. As you can see by the Admin’s above response to his supervisor, HE IS FREAKED OUT.

Ok, back to my personal talk page, here is what went down:

{Admin to me} – Please stop trying to track my information, don’t shoot the messenger. Wikipedia has policies for spamming websites, which you’ve violated. I have started an WP:ANI discussion, so hopefully you can talk to someone to gain an understanding of what is wrong with your edits. It’s probably best for you to e-mail The Wikimedia Foundation with your concerns. For the most part, besides the spamming, your edits have been very useful, and I’m very sorry it has come to this. If you promise not to promote your websites (which I have stayed off per your request), you may be unblocked in the future. Eagles 24/7 (C) 01:32, 7 March 2012 (UTC)

Ok, a little bargaining going on – maybe they aren’t completely untouchable….

{Me to the Admin who doesn’t feel as high and mighty as he once did…} – I just thought that it was very terrible for you to RIP through my contributions and delete ALL of them. Surely all of them are not spam. I was very careful to report the news just like any other news company does. Why does USA today get to post all of their articles? How, exactly, does my news site differ from their’s? Specifically? Is it only because my news site isn’t backed by a million dollar corporation that you felt it was “unreliable”? All of my posts can be easily verified to be unbiased and true. Every one. You even went in and put in the same information that I put in and gave other websites the credit on the reference. I just feel really violated and it is the classic story of keeping the small business man down. My site is NOT spam, and all of my contributions to Wiki were absolute facts and I kept them short and to the point and tried my best to follow the rules very strictly. No Admin has ever had a problem with me up until now and I’ve been contributing for years. I just think that you should admit that you got a little carried away and that some of my edits should be allowed. ESPECIALLY the page that I actually built from the group up – Kansas City blues. Basically all you did was go in and swap out my news stories for the same news story you found on another site and gave them credit. I just don’t understand how that is any different than what I was doing. They are reporting news, I am reporting news. They list their website (with ads on them) as references, I list my news website as references. There just isn’t any difference, except, of course you’re not going to go deleting all of USA Today’s contributions because you know they can defend themselves, whereas I, the small guy trying to get by, gets smashed out without a moment’s thought. Is this what Wiki is about? And then to see you spend over 4 hours on my websites (some of them not even linked from Wiki) just didn’t seem ethical. I do not like conflict and want to resolve this in the following manner:
You choose at least a couple of my news contributions and restore them. I deserve at least that. And I will be more prudent in the future in my posting, although USA Today and other news websites post the same thing to Wiki by the minute, adding nice little links to their fat cat websites. Give the little guy a break. I wasn’t SPAMMING, that’s just ridiculous. If I’m spamming, then The New York Times is spamming as well. They’ve posted a news contribution and they’ve added a link to their site under the references. Please explain how what I’m doing is any different. I want to resolve this extremely peacefully as I think this is just a case where you and I BOTH let our emotions carry us over the edge. Please put back some of my contributions, you basically just went in to all of my contributions, WROTE almost LITERALLY the same thing that I already wrote, and just found some other website to list as a reference. C’mon Man! That’s just crazy. Let’s work it out – thanks, Adambluekc (talk) 02:02, 7 March 2012 (UTC)

{Admin to Me} – I completely understand where you’re coming from and you have reason to be upset. If I wrote for a news agency of any sort, I would feel slighted as well. However, we need to take a step back here. The purpose of Wikipedia is not to promote the references cited at the end of most articles. The purpose is to create an encyclopedia. There are some users on here whose sole purpose of editing is to promote their websites. This is simply not allowed. My intent as an editor here is not to take money away from small businesses.
When a reader comes to a Wikipedia article and see a statement they don’t believe, they will go to the references section to confirm. But we can’t just allow any website to be used as a reference. It would lose readers that way. Therefore, Wikipedia has adopted this policy to identify what can be considered a reliable source. I know this is frustrating to you, and maybe not fair for your businesses. If you can prove your website meets WP:RS, I will add your website back to articles, but I do not believe this will be the case. In fact, while looking through your contributions, I found scores of other editors remove your references as unreliable sources. As I said above, however, if you would like to contribute as an editor with an interest in building the world’s largest encyclopedia, we’d be happy to have you. If you want to contribute with a profit in mind, on the other hand, I’m afraid this is not the correct venue. I truly apologize if I came off as wanting to ruin your business endeavors. The “reliability” standard of your website is not permanent, keep in mind. Profootballtalk.com (before it was bought by NBC) would never have been acceptable to cite in Wikipedia articles due to its unreliability, but it has grown over the years into one of the most respected sports news websites (IMO). (By the way, if it makes you feel any better, I was not actively searching for your websites. I happened upon a couple by mistake, and I left your news site open in a tab on my browser for a bit.) Eagles 24/7 (C) 02:16, 7 March 2012 (UTC)

This arrogant Admin simply went in to ALL of my Wiki contributions, changed 1 or 2 words and then gave the credit to a large news company like USA Today. Working for Big Brother, yes, Wikipedia is definitely not out to help the small business man who is the backbone of our economy. Wiki is absolutely part of the PROBLEM, not the solution. Anyway, back to the conversation:

{Me to Admin} – Ok, I did some more reading in the WP:RS and I found the section on “blogs”. It says that they can be used as a source but must be reviewed on a case by case basis. Can’t you at least go in and look at some of the contributions that you removed (replaced)? I mean just the fact that you “re-reported”, sometimes in the exact same wording, my contributions proves that you must have thought them valid. All you did was swap the reference over to another website. I won’t bother you any more – I just ask that you please consider restoring at least 1 or 2 of my contributions. Thank you, Adambluekc (talk) 02:35, 7 March 2012 (UTC)

Just a little note here, by this time I had been stressing about this for about 5 hours straight, I have high blood pressure, and I was ready to try and just make a deal and put this thing to bed. Here’s the grand finale:

{Admin to Me} – Thank you for the calm reply. That’s one other thing that you’ve confused. Wikipedia is not a news agency itself, so by referencing something, it is not “reporting” on it. I will consider your request for the articles I could not find replacement references for. Eagles 24/7 (C) 02:40, 7 March 2012 (UTC)

{Me to Admin} – Awesome, thank you! I love a happy ending. It just seemed crazy that I could be on Wiki for years without incident and then all of the sudden be in the top 10 most wanted Thanks!

So, we will see if Wiki puts any of my articles back up, but I doubt it. They are some serious a%%holes over there and I was amazed to find out the depth to which they would sink. This guy literally went in to my contributions, changed around 1 or 2 words and then gave the credit RANDOMLY to other giant news websites. He did this in about 45 minutes (over 50 articles) and he did it because he wanted to show me who was boss. They need to get a muzzle on those Admin nerds over there, they are DRUNK on POWER and they hate you, make no doubt about it, they HATE everyone.

Well, as soon as Wiki Admin Eagles24/7 got a hold of me, I was dead in a matter of minutes. EVERY article that I had posted up on Wiki was immediately DELETED and I was blocked for 24 hours. He basically went in and looked at all of my edits to Wiki and deleted ALL of them, regardless of content. I was very upset, because they allow the big news websites to post and put link references but they squashed my poor little news site to death without hesitation. Make no mistake about it, Wiki is looking out for Big Brother and the big companies. That is a shame because I worked very hard making sure that my edits were perfect and had the sources listed to back them up.

Out of anger, I went in from a friends computer and replaced one of my edits and added the quote “quit being a jerk Eagles24/7″ and then he had me blocked “indefinitely”. Sooooooo, so much for Wikipedia, that’s too bad, I didn’t know how vengeful and downright stalker-esque they were….scary indeed. I wonder if they will seek further action against me and my poor little news site? How far does their power reach? I guess I’ll find out soon enough…

http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log/block&page=User%3AFuture+Perfect+at+Sunrise

but only for TWO days, while he should be indefinitely bananized for all hate and heretical blasphemies he utter around the clock!!! He should be burned in auto-da-fe!!!!!!!!!

Wikipedia is extremely one sided, and whenever they remove some good information from a page, you can’t argue against them yet they do whatever they want without even talking or warning.

at least the wikias are not like that at all, and they talk about the problems, they are removing content in an uneven way (e.g. when they removed the brotherhood of Nod, they forgot the GDI), soi only work in the wikias now

as long as those admins stay the more stuffed up wikipedia would be, hopefully it they can be dethroned before it is too late

As an alternative to Wikipedia, use the Google and Yahoo directories to find info you want on any sujbect:

http://www.google.com/dirhp
http://dir.yahoo.com

On another note, related to duties of admins and mods on a forum, I came across a person who told me it is alright if they slack their duties if they are not paid, because nothing motivates them. But I have always known that the work of those responsibilities was always volunteered. By that person’s logic everyone who joins a volunteer organization should not try their best because they are not paid.

I’ve got you both beaten! O.o Xbawks for only 1 year and 1.5 months!

If you aided in the wiring (or anything physical for that matter) on the Robot, you should know this super-awesome thing I’ve figured out: a Leatherman is the best f***ing thing you can possibly have (aside from multimeters, Sharpies, and electrical/Duct tape).

We’re also considering having a giant Xbox 360 System-link competition in the hotel. It should be fun.

Mm-hm.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/193.178.243.7

The whole site is overrated. Can’t believe how popular the site is with Google. I believe it is just a matter of time before Wikipedia self destructs.

Layouts aren’t something you have to change every year.

Quality > quantity.

More people = higher chance of your stuff getting jacked.

That is all.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Future_Perfect_at_Sunrise

I WOULD HAVE HIM BANANIZED ONCE AND FOR ALL

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About http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Future_Perfect_at_Sunrise
We should overthrow/desysop/bananize Future Perfect at Sunrise in Wikipedia, because he is most tyrannic administrator ever encountered by us there. I give you evidence of this:

http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=24326
http://www.wikipedia-watch.org/hivemind.html#304
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Akradecki/vivasocktrack
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/IncidentArchive575#Harassment_of_good_faith_editors_by_Future_Perfect_at_Sunrise
He harasses/bananizes anyone who tries genuinely improve Greece-related articles, including Greek alphabet, especially archaic letters. Thankfully to him, certain errors are still present in Greek alphabet articles.

Is possible to eliminate Future Perfect at Sunrise from Wikipedia once and for all by you, blog owner, for example by initiating desysopping and banning procedure? He maliciously thwarts every effort of me and other newbies upon improving of Greek letters especially and mainly in English Wikipedia by reverts/bananas as they would be always the same banned user, and in much lesser degree in other Wikipedias. Examples:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Hriber (Future Perfect at Sunrise banned him personally)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Hribers (Future Perfect at Sunrise banned him personally)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Justified_Wikipedian (Future Perfect at Sunrise bullied Brandon to ban him)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/TAIntedCHInese (Future Perfect at Sunrise banned him personally)

Future Perfect at Sunrise in reality is Lukas Pietsch. Evidence:
http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=24326
http://www.wikipedia-watch.org/hivemind.html#304
He is permitted to violate WP:SOCK while others ends bananized especially by FPAS for identical socking behavior. As you see, in Wikipedia there are EQUAL&EQUALER.
Future Perfect at Sunrise contradicts himself, so he is unreliable and should be permanently desysopped and permanently banned. See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:LaGrandefr , related to IP 211.115.80.146
“Please do not evade your block through logged-out editing, as you did here: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Future_Perfect_at_Sunrise&diff=347063583&oldid=347048562. If you want to appeal your block, you may post an {{unblock}} request here, but don’t use IPs to edit anywhere else.”
contradicts
revert of the same IP 211.115.80.146 , logged at http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Greek_language&action=historysubmit&diff=350866523&oldid=350864604 with “rv banned user Wikinger” reason.
Of course Wikinger and LaGrandefr are not the same person, so Future Perfect at Sunrise obviously faulters, and cannot be believed by anyone anymore.
Whole evidence is in this edit history: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/211.115.80.146

http://www.4shared.com/audio/nwjoX_Z6/2_pac_Tupac_-_I_Get_Around.htm

At its very best, Wikipedia is 100% unstable due to its ever-changing content and revolving door of editors/admins. At its core (which is fucking rotten), the problem with Wikipedia is its inherent wiki-model; nothing is truly regulated; there’s no legitimate hierarchy which promotes an I-Can-Trust-This-Site platform; the only “hierarchy” on Wikipedia you see is a loose dictatorship of admins/editors who vie to see who can be the biggest asshole and abuse power accordingly. The wiki-model promotes chaos, and that’s no way to learn or gather reliable information. As such, my friends and I take great interest in posting free music libraries, video games, audio books, and anything else free that people would enjoy finding on Wikipedia. Considering the instability and chaos Wikipedia perpetuates with its flawed wiki-model, it is absolutely impossible for Wikipedia to provide reliable information, therefore, I choose to provide entertainment instead, though the above means, as well as through amusing surliness. Motherfuckers.

Oh, yeah, and the Bws2cool (the Oversight bitch who doesn’t know how to Oversight properly) can suck it; to spite him, please download the Japanese rom of Pokemon Black (check the Revision History of Pokemon Diamond and Pearl: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pok%C3%A9mon_Diamond_and_Pearl&action=history)

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/ban-wikipedia/

I have witnessed the conversation on IRC covering this topic and this is what they have to say:

[19:08] Hahaha oh man, have you guys seen this? http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/ban-wikipedia/
[19:08] Ah okay.
[19:09] Pilif12p: I only ask because when I made my account back in the day, I don’t think any eyes went into it O.o
[19:09] oh
[19:09] BarkingFish, well, I doubt that’ll be the end result.
[19:09] BarkingFish: so, option 1 won?
[19:09] == Dragonfly6-7 [~test@bas1-montreal48-1176342060.dsl.be… has joined #wikipedia-en
[19:09] Says my secret-pro-PC opinion.
[19:09] A Nobody is signing a petition to “ban Wikipedia” ?
[19:09] [[Stereotypes of groups within the United States]]
[19:09] I have low # of edits, but my account has been around since I think 2007 or 2006 Pilif12p
[19:09] Which is not-so-secret now.
[19:09] {Soap} – lnk me?
[19:09] GorillaWarfare: I like the goal number of sigs.
[19:10] * Sky2042 chuckles.
[19:10] (having 3 options for keep and 1 for trash is totally unfair)
[19:10] Obvious fake petition is obvious fake.
[19:10] Sky2042: My favorite is “it is almost 100% entirely inaccurate”
[19:10] http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/ban-wikipedia/ A Nobody’s name is not on there, but his talk page was recently host to something related
[19:10] PeterSymonds, you think it’ll be manipulated so WMF again gets its own way?
[19:10] I wouldn’t put it quite like that.
[19:10] http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:A_Nobody&oldid=382948514#Sign_the_Petition
[19:11] It’s clear that the majority want PC to continue in some form.
[19:11] that could just be someone posing as him though now that I think of it
[19:11] I call bullshit
[19:11] I saw the petition on another person’s talk page

yeah!!
Inspite of contributing for 6 years; some sucking administrator reverts my article if it does not fit their requirements. And even when there are no copyright infringements they ask and say about copyright….they suck… i hate wikipedia now..

And you have to pay GayT&T $20 a month for it. I can jailbreak my 3GS and get tethering for free. Also, non-shit multitasking. And backgrounds have been around since the days of OS 1.x, IIRC.

This article has multiple issues. Please help improve the article or discuss these issues on the talk page.

* It needs additional references or sources for verification. Tagged since April 2010. [plenty of references in there!]

* The notability of this article’s subject is in question. If notability cannot be established, it may be listed for deletion or removed. Tagged since April 2010. [everything is true and is notable. why delete?!?]

* It is written like an advertisement and needs to be rewritten from a neutral point of view. Tagged since April 2010. [UNTRUE!]

* It may require general cleanup to meet Wikipedia’s quality standards. Tagged since April 2010.

* It may have been edited by a person who has a conflict of interest with the subject matter. Tagged since April 2010.

I don’t know what to say about the reasons she wants to get my page deleted. when i tried to delete her comments she adds them back and says ‘Please stop removing unaddressed templates’. what?! i wrote her emails, twice, but never got a respond. i’m at my wits ends.

can anyone help me?

i hate administrators!

open link…
http://www.wikipedia-watch.org/

Hey, just to rile the admins up, add tags to other blacklisted urls on wikipedia and insert those into Wikipedia articles. It’ll blow admins’ minds. Especially that nutjob admin Gogo Dodo. Another admin (the aptly-named ‘Stifle’, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Stifle) is the bane of many good Wikipedians’ Wiki-presence.

I then realized that he had also changed an addition I had made to the “THX1138″ article, as well as posted a criticism of my Talk page. When I questioned why he would delete an article about which he could have no practical knowledge, he deleted my name from the list of announcers at the article about the radio station I work at, with the notation, that he did not believe I was a real person! When I called him on that, he promptly had me blocked indefinitely.

OK, I let that go, although I have to tell you, it pissed me off mightily; but, as some folks have said, what can you do?

So, earlier this year, in accordance with their own “clean start” policy, I started a new screen name, and, trying to be really careful about NOT violating any policies, went about my merry way. A couple of weeks ago however, I had a “page watch” notice, that an article I had originally authored about another band, and to which I had uploaded an old promo photo of the band, had been changed. When I looked, I noted that the promo photo had been deleted, not just from the website, but from the entire Wiki as well. No prior notification, no chance to fix whatever perceived errors this particular editor had problems with; just gone.

After I determined that the photo DID comply with the “fair use” policies, I re-loaded it, and provided a “non-free usage” box, which I actually copied and modified, from another band’s article. All Ok? Not quite. After a couple of weeks, I get a notification that this same clown has proposed deleting the photo again, this time, because I had identified it as a photo from a 45rpm sleeve, instead of specifically as a “promotion photograph” – although, as with many groups of the 1960s, it actually served both functions. I have two separate posters with this same photo on it, I just choose to scan the 45 sleeve, because it was easier. I explained that to him, and modified the usage box – still not good enough. He went ahead and deleted it, this time with the added notation, that “it was originally identified as a record cover”. Then, he began harassing me, by reverting other edits that I had made for other articles, and posting a note on my talk page, that said he was insulted by the fact that I had checked the “revert vandalism” button, when I re-loaded the photo. I responded to his talk page, and told him, politely, that I did, in fact, consider that sort of abrupt deletion to be vandalism.

In response, he blocked my editing access, “indefinitely”, which I guess means forever. Although I attempted to appeal, since he had somehow gone and edited and deleted the history log of the comments which I had actually made on his talk page, I had no proof that I hadn’t. I didn’t know that the page history could be altered and deleted like that, but apparently administrators have all sorts of powers.

I was going to let it go, but then, he decided to escalate the situation, by removing my ability to send emails or even edit my own talk page, and finally. His final step was to change the block rationale on my page to being that my current user name, was a “sock puppet” of my former one, even though I had been very careful to completely abandon the old user name, and only use the new one.

He made one mistake tho… unlike most of these cases, where the jerk is half a continent or world away, this putz is a student at a public college, located right down the road from the station I work at. I even know his first name, his major and his hobbies. I have a feeling, that “Tedder”, may someday soon be going to discover another meaning to the term “sock puppet”!

At any rate, someone messed up and this is why it’s happening.

CAcert makes great certificates at full 256-bit encryption, and I will continue to use CAcert for my SSL, no matter how you complain.

And yes, I am the former President of CAcert. I am now just a regular board member.

Nick

“I have almost stopped editing on Wikipedia because I can’t do so peacefully.”

I think that’s what their whole point was… it sounds like you were fucking up Wikipedia and some good admins were able to stop you.

MY IP IS 70.160.112.229

Hmm, you’re right. I looked at my own.

I just hate idiots who spam with shitty grammar. The title of this post reminds me of: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8Djspr7lf8

@2 I hear that one a lot.

@5 Heard it recently

I have written complaint emails and called until I’m blue in the face and no one will do anything about it. They all take up for each other.

Yes a multitude of proposals that didn’t even come close to the teachers minimum requirements. Look at other states and how much better they’re doing with class sizes, and pay raises. If you’re talking about stubborn, then Vargas would be the perfect example. It would be so simple just to accept the proposition made by the Kent Educators Association (KEA). Also, we have millions upon millions in spare money to use for the plan, and we’d still have plenty rainy day funds ( The Rainy Day Fund is what the KSD calls this back up reserve of cash ). Why seek and alternative when the real deal is readily in your grasp?

Vargas acted like a child, not an adult, when he called a surprise press conference that made this make a turn for the worse, and when he took the KEA to court. All he had to do was act as a civilized adult, and accept the plan. And if you think the recession is bad, it’s really getting better, it’s still too early to say, but if you look at our economy compared to when it first hit, it’s taking a turn for the better, and unless something truly terrible happens, we’ll be well along our way to recovery. Why you ask, that they continue to strike? Because they’re not cowards, they’re not going to give up for something they really believe in, and are willing to fight for it. You complain of like being boring, theres plenty of things you could do, I’m sure. For a strike like this to be illegal is ridiculous, i mean, I see the sense of it, but we can always make it up in breaks, Do you really need 2 weeks of breaks at a time? we could skip a few, we have too much break time during the school year as it is.

This strike calls as a valiant effort by the teachers, and the many students and parents that support them. School absolutely will start soon, if only our foolish superintendent would as so kindly please accept the KEA requirements of the contract. Our distinguished educators have spent hours and hours in blistering heat and rain for a truly honorable cause, would you have that dedication to your students and fellow city folk?

First of all, there’s Special:Contributions/Username, which will also produce a RSS feed for tools to parse it.

Second, Administrators have no lives if they’re wandering around looking to complain about crap.

That’s why I run OKSW. =)

Matt- Most corporations are upgrading now.

Personally I use Bad Behavior. I also wrote it. Fedora packages are available, too. (They need a sponsor! Hint hint.)

Regardless of what eventually gets packaged in Fedora, remember that no one spam solution is right for everyone. Except, of course, for all spammers to be sent to the bottom of the ocean.

Setting up ScribeFire to post to OKS Blog is easy.

Just use http://oks.verymad.net/~onekopaka/blog/ as the URL and your username and password to login to the Admin interface here.

• You can use plugins of any kind
• You get more storage space for images
• You can put JavaScript in your post

The thing I don’t like about Opera is that every time I scroll down to the bottom of a page, there’s a black line. There is also a black border around the search box.

I may end up using Opera instead.

You have a zippo lighter in your iPod Touch? Suspicious…

you should also make the snow pile up on the “dedicated snow page”. What would be really funny is that when the snow piles to the top of the screen, you should somehow make it come out the monitor or screen of whoever is viewing it . I’m just making this up.

I got three inches of snow. I bet that your blog will get so covered in digital snow that it will freeze over.

At our place, there’s a huge hill. Last year, my dad drove down it and his car spun 720 degrees out of control. He was lucky not to crash.

I have never heard of an iPod Touch “accidentally” saving a screenshot. How did this happen, where did you find it, and how did you upload it?

I have heard reports that when the police tried to stop the crowd, it took them ten minutes. Also, other employees had to climb onto the vending machines to escape the puddle of customers.

(i don’t know the CSS code for the little “R” in the circle)

So anyway, if you want to do a USB install and not have it be slow, pull up some instructions for an 8.04 persistent USB install.

I am also appalled by your Microtard’s stance. You’re the one making strange drawings over Windows 7..

In the other theme with a Halo screenshot, the navbar allows you to navigate between adjacent articles.

I’d like to comment that the reCaptcha thing was messed up when I forgot to enter the words in the field. It was placed in the middle, and the “RECENT POSTS” section was blocking it. The publish button was also in the wrong place. Another sign that this blog needs massive improvement.

Joomla is actually a content management system.

About the login link, I can move it into the navbar with the subscribe and admin links.

I downloaded Opera 9.6 for trial on my PPC Mac (10.4.8), and it turns out Opera gets an 85 on the acid3 test. It’s actually better than Firefox which got a 77/100.

For me, Opera 9.6 looks no different from Opera 9.5. They probably just fixed a few bugs.

For now, I’ll stick with my Firefox 3.0 browser. They say it has the best security.