User talk:MedO

Moved from MedO's user page by Gordo 14:03, 16 May 2005 (GMT)

I get a blind to my own writing errors! Szczels 16:47, 25 Apr 2005 (GMT)

Thanks for the welcome! I'm not from England or anything (actually I'm from Germany) so my sense for the language is far from perfect. I usually check against dictionary.com when I find something suspicious, though it would be neat if you could skim through my changes from time to time (that's far less work than actually making them) because I'm sometimes not sure if I retain the text's original meaning.

HI MedO Well most of your changes have been of the spelling variety and very welcome, so not much chance of changing meaning at present. But yes I've very happy to scan your editing of course. As you may know another user complained of the grammer of the thinking exercises - but wasn't specific.

The text was scanned from earlier pre computer M/s (manuscript) some of which had been copyedited by a book publisher (Wildwood house that then went bust) so the scans inevitably generated lots of errors - however I have to admit my spelling is not great and most of the more obscure words spelled wrongly are down to me. regards

If you continue with this good work we'd be pleased to attribute your work in the introduction and wherever else just let us have a name you'd like us to use. What else do you do? Put some links up here? Szczels 08:58, 27 Apr 2005 (GMT)

I will probably stick to small corrections at first. I's easier to do at work; when I am waiting for something or need a little break I can just switch over to STA and do some correcting. With large changes (like rewriting several sentences) that's not so easy, because you need to keep the original meaning and your own train of thought in mind, so it's hard to stop in the middle and continue later.

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Thanks for editing up to now. A few things to discuss in recent long edit of thermal introduction:

(I'm aware I'm not that clear of the best way to go about this editing of editing - perhaps you can advise if you have Wikipedia experience)

You suggest "pillars of our culture [of] Architecture and Fashion."

I meant "pillars of our culture - Architecture and Fashion."

"a strong significance in life."

I meant a "strong significance of life" should it be "warmth strongly signifies being alive" to be clear?

"around 150 kilo-calories whilst asleep we're still producing 50 kilo-calories [per what? Calories are a measure of energy, not energy flow.]

Good point and I've no idea where this information came from. I'd guess per hour but have no way of checking. I'll do a bit of research on this

Thanks Szczels 22:57, 14 May 2005 (GMT)

I have very few Wikipedia experience (I already contributed more here than there). However, in the case of the line "pillars of culture", you could have just changed it, since you know best what you meant :-). I'll re-edit the thing in a few minutes.

--MedO 09:33, 17 May 2005 (GMT)

If you understand something different to what I mean I am probably not using the most universal accessible English. So even if your edits change my meaning they tell me something useful about the construction of my writing.

I come from an oral rather than a literary background... which may explain something.

It seems good manners to open edit reversals up to a dialogue with you before changing it back - because I value what you are doing. I didn't expect you to change it back (but its OK you did of course).

Best Regards Szczels 23:16, 17 May 2005 (GMT)

I didn't do anything here lately... sorry for that. Maybe I will find some time again later.

08.07.05

Welcome back Medo!
Welcome back Medo thought you'd left us... Szczels 17:58, 8 September 2005 (BST)

I had already thought the page was gone. Did someone forget to pay the domain registration fees? Or was it a problem on my side? I got some "could not be found"-messages and forgot about it for a while. MedO

System Status of this Website.
'''Did someone forget to pay the domain registration fees? Or was it a problem on my side? I got some "could not be found"-messages and forgot about it for a while. MedO'''

I don't know what happened. We do update the software when a new release comes out, but there is always a holding page during that process. If you want to email more details, I can look at the logs. Or leave the details here.... WikiSysop 15:20, 10 September 2005 (BST)

Email contact.
I see that you do not have an email contact fully set up as yet. Go to "Preferences" where you can send a confirmation email to yourself. You can also elect various levels at which an email will be sent. Gordo 15:49, 10 September 2005 (BST)

There are no further details... just that one or two times the DNS lookup for the page failed while other pages worked just fine. It might have been anything, from a faulty browser cache over a problem of my ISP to the Illuminati blocking my connection. Well, I think we can at least rule the last one out. Maybe I simply mistyped the name. We all make mistakes after all... MedO


 * Indeed. Perhaps it was the Justified Ancients of Mu Mu Gordo 15:16, 13 September 2005 (BST)


 * Szczels 12:45, 14 September 2005 (BST)

'skin'
Thanks for your comment on front page 'design'. Someone offered to redesign a skin / facelift for us but found the way that the programming of the appearance and information mesh was too complex for them to get their head round. They have backed out but hopefully we can use the background at least.

Downtime
The extended downtime was caused by a string of factors around 25th December 2005.

We are now rebuilt on a new server.

Gordo 20:27, 9 January 2006 (GMT)

Server moves
We may move the STA wiki to a new server soon. But we are not sure when! Gordo 21:40, 8 June 2006 (BST)

Finally, another update!
Finally, another update! Pretty quiet around here lately. So what have I been up to in the meantime? Not much really, except finding a place where I can work and continuing with my studying. Also, I'm trying to fight off a feeling of numbness, emotional detatchedness, feeling not really alive. It's hard to describe, but I attributed it to computer addiction and lack of real world / social activity, and now I'm trying to reduce screen time, get out more, and meet new people. At least, that's the plan.

MedO

Facebook? Gordo 22:55, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

I don't quite see what you mean


I'm not on Facebook (in case you think that's what ties me to the screen), and in the other case, I don't see that joining it would reduce my pc time / internet addiction.

Or you might try to say that Facebook would be the right place to talk about stuff like this instead of this site. Well, might be right. I just wanted to include some actual information about my current thoughts and activities with my update ;)


 * Yes, Facebook does lead to real life meeting - it has done for me! Gordo 23:16, 29 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Nice to hear. By coincidence I joined just yesterday to get access to a discussion group. Let me know if you want to find me there, I'll send you some identifying data then. MedO 19:26, 30 November 2007 (UTC)


 * I am here on The Facebook! So let us be friends there too! Gordo 13:12, 1 December 2007 (UTC)