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07/11/06 to 01/09/08

01/09/08 to 05/11/08

05/11/08 to 09/28/08

Click the "Edit" or "+" link above to leave messages and questions for me. Most of the time I respond both here and on your talk page. (Please sign with four tildes (~~~~).)

Mr.Munkey

Did u see how me moved .. it was a fun little guy !! thanks for helping me 
liz (User:Ms.Divvie)

He is fun! You're most welcome for the help. He could go on the Mr. Monkey page. smile Just go to the page. Click "edit" and paste the code above into the edit box on the next to the last line. (Sparkit 19:26, July 11, 2006 (AKDT))

Help!

I can never seem to find that page that was set up to request changes and enhancements to the site. Figured you'd be the one who could tell me. Next time I get there I'll bookmark it!! Gearhead 20:32, July 22, 2006 (AKDT)

Hi Gearhead! That would be Feature requests. Easier to remember is Requests which has a link to it. Thanks! (Sparkit 20:38, July 22, 2006 (AKDT))

Yep

Thanks Sparkit! I wrote to Larry's web-woman about the discrepency... hopefully she'll correct it. Should be a nice evening, even if I croak a little for lack of singing! Esther 21:25, July 25, 2006 (AKDT)

Content Spam

I see that you removed what appeared to be content spam infiltrating my Talk page...Thanks :) How did you know it was there? Is there a lot of it going on? --Bisbonian 15:41, August 8, 2006 (AKDT)

Hiya, Bisbobo! A string of edits by Googlefans to User talk pages showed up in the Special:Recent changes list. I checked 'em out and found them to be spam. So, I banned their ass and reverted all the pages they had edited.

Naw, there's not much spamming happening on the WWR site. (Sparkit 16:52, August 8, 2006 (AKDT))

Protest Music

"What happened to all the protest music of the 60's?" "Why aren't people making any today? monkey2 --Bisbonian 17:25, August 11, 2006 (AKDT)

Cheshire_Cat (Sparkit 18:30, August 11, 2006 (AKDT))

Spam Block

Just got home. Added this code to try and block the spammer. If other pages just quit (die=doesn't load page) let me know and I'll get more sophisticated. Jimbob 17:58, September 1, 2006 (AKDT)

Thanks, Jim! I hope that stops the dirty bastards! I saw somewhere awhile back some extension or something that other wiki admins use, but I didn't bookmark any of the pages about it. I found it with Google or Wikipedia search. (Spankette 20:33, September 1, 2006 (AKDT))

Quick gander of change log looks like that didn't work. I wasn't sure it would and I'm not in a situation where I can really code in detail from the new place. Sorry. Pisses me off too but once I get a day or two to do some serious coding, I'll get it. Wheat Palace 10:10, September 5, 2006 (AKDT)

So far it's not a big problem. They're kind enough to use easily spotted usernames. ;) Sparkette 10:42, September 5, 2006 (AKDT)

Artist pages

I've been wondering for awhile about the red link -> blue link on artists' pages. I just want to make sure I get it. The thrill is in turning the red link to blue and not necessarily adding anything substantial to the new page right? I've done a few myself and just Save the page without adding any content.

I have no problem with it, but just know that when I'm back to coding I could write a program to generate a page for all musicians. I opted not to do when we first started cuz I figured it'd be better that red=no info entered / blue=someone cared enough to enter info and cuz it seemed like having a few thousand bot created stub pages might slow things down.

Just wanna make sure I'm not missing something in what's going on with red link -> blue link campaign on artists' pages ... carry on... Wheat Palace 16:34, September 7, 2006 (AKDT)

The thrill bigblink isn't in making the page. The biggest advantage of blue linked pages is that the wiki search engine can find them. Also, they show up in the list of Artists namespace] pages. (Someone asked on The Mill about an alphabetical list of artists.)

I also found my page of Music - your favorite artists difficult to read with both red links and blue links. And I suppose my time editing wikipedia pages where resolving red links is SOP is part of it.

If having these stub pages slows things down, we oughta stop making them. Do you think it is slowing the server? (Whasername 16:56, September 7, 2006 (AKDT))

Ahhhhhh - got it. Yeah, agree that's it's very nice for wiki search to find them. Same reason I'm doing red -> blue on music themes. Fun to type a random word in search and see if there are any songs for it. I'll have to start typing artist names in search too just for the thrill of finding them.

I don't think it's slowing things down. When I get back to coding, I may have the bot create a page for all artists and we can see. Don't let that stop ya though as it may be a few months before I'm able to code again. Wheat Palace 17:02, September 7, 2006 (AKDT)

Sparkit, what's the deal with (Red > Blue)? I tried picking an red artist and saving them, is that what you are doing except you are adding a comment (Red > Blue)? Am I missing something, that seem's too simple to be correct. DogNut 17:33, September 7, 2006 (AKDT)

Hiya, DogNut! All I do is hit the red link from a link that has the artists extension at the end (most of the dynamic pages - that extension adds the boilerplate stuff into the edit box). Add the "red link > blue link" summary comment. Click "Save".

I also set my edit pref to have "This is a minor edit" checked by default. Makes it easy to filter these out in the change list.

Yup, it's that simple. (Whasername 17:39, September 7, 2006 (AKDT))

Thanks Sparkit!! This is kinda fun :) DogNut 18:19, September 7, 2006 (AKDT)

You are most welcome. I did neglect to mention that I add cross-references (See also) when I'm aware of them. Looks like you've already picked that up. bigblink

In some cases when more than one of the WWR links shows ... ugh! I'm having a hard time explaining this ... Calvin Owens shows the Calvin Owens And Trudy Lynn, and there aren't any other Trudy Lynn tracks, I make the one with the fewer tracks a redirect.

I think I've given up cross-referencing Esther Golton though. Enjoy! (Sparkit 18:57, September 7, 2006 (AKDT))

Gotcha! As usual, I just need to slow down and look around a little. Please don't be bashful if I am screwing things up! Thanks, DogNut 19:07, September 7, 2006 (AKDT)

Screw things up?! hund19 I just make this stuff up as I go along, and expect other folks to do the same. It's damn near impossible to screw things up anyhow. I just found a few tricks with making artists pages is all. (Sparkit 19:19, September 7, 2006 (AKDT))

Paddy Gibney

Spartit, can you take a look at Paddy Gibney and Paddy Gibney and Bill Ayerbe. I am thinking I should redirect Paddy Gibney and Bill Ayerbe at Paddy Gibney. What do you think? Thanks DogNut 15:28, September 9, 2006 (AKDT)

That's what I'd do... Redirect Paddy Gibney and Bill Ayerbe to Paddy Gibney, because if you look at the Paddy Gibney page in the auto-generated artist box the Paddy Gibney and Bill Ayerbe album One Drunken Night is listed which means all that album's tracks are available on that page, plus a search of the music library turns up no other listings for Bill Ayerbe. I know that temporarily nixes a biography for Bill Ayerbe, but redirects are easy to undo if someone ever decides Bill Ayerbe needs a bio page. (Sparkit 15:49, September 9, 2006 (AKDT))

thanks sparkit

sparkit i thanked jim and esther for their work on the katrina olsen concert but i needed to also thank you as you do as much work behind the scenes as anyone. > so thanks for all your work and help Firewood joe 22:41, September 10, 2006 (AKDT)

It's my pleasure, Joe. I have a lot of fun doing it. (Sparkit 06:32, September 11, 2006 (AKDT))

This is way to small of a section on your Talk page. So, with only about a thousand reasons I add my Thank You Jac 17:55, May 17, 2007 (AKDT)

WTF

WTF are you doing up so early? Sparks 06:30, October 6, 2006 (AKDT)

Went to sleep early. And actually got some. Er, sleep I mean. Jimbob 06:38, October 6, 2006 (AKDT)

You're Welcome

You're welcome... thanks to onthebus for kicking my butt. I was hesitating not only cuz of being busy, but more because I thought maybe, like Jim, I shouldn't be directly contributing. But fuck it! ;-) I'll do more bits and pieces as I find the time... Esther 12:13, October 8, 2006 (AKDT)

Catching Up

I have been gone since Thursday on a little trip to eastern WA. Going to be away from computer for the next couple of days as well for the most part. About Weds. I can contribute more energi and/or post the Wiki article if need be. Anyways, I guess I am saying hi! and am also trying to catch up with what's happening. How is the Wiki article going? Okay,Thanks and hope all is well your way! Onthebus 09:32, October 16, 2006 (AKDT)

Hiya! I've mostly been engrossed in freelance projects. Well, one client and the projects are all about the same - basically coloring floor plans using Illustrator. Flying Trout filled out the Community section. Jim and I have diddled with this and that. It seems close enough to copy to wikipedia, and continue editing there. Would you like the honors? smile Sparkit 17:19, October 16, 2006 (AKDT)

Hey there. I would be happy to do the honors. Would be honored to do the honors! Could get to it Weds. night. Just copy/paste... do I need to change links...or anything else? Read the community section, a great addition! Everything is looking good. I'll be online weds. night maybe I can catch you then and if there's anything else or any snafus we can troubleshoot. Happy coloring to you! Onthebus 15:10, October 17, 2006 (AKDT)

Yup. Copy/paste oughta do the trick. The links will be relative to wikipedia when done, rather than WWR. I'll help with those. There's some categories at the bottom of the wikipedia article - leave those. There are also stylistic differences between our (WWR) writing and wikipedia. No big deal really, we can change that over time, and other folks may jump in and do some of that. I'll probably be around Wed. night - this coloring gig is a freelance working-at-home gig. I love my commute!

I mean to ask before, you used "energi", have you read "Das Energi?" (Sparkit 20:52, October 17, 2006 (AKDT))

Great...I will take a stab at it tonight. And yes I have read Das Energi. A very long time ago. It was rather influential on me actually. That and Apple Bay also by the same author. Turns out one of my friends sister in law lives up in the actual Apple Bay. I have not been there though. Onthebus 18:45, October 18, 2006 (AKDT)

Ms. Divvie's problem

Just for grins, what was the general problem with Ms. Divvie and CSS? So in case something like it happens again, maybe I'll know where to point them. Jimbob 10:59, October 22, 2006 (AKDT)

It was the skin. I don't remember which one was selected, but all I did was change it to Monobook. Some of KLAW's problems were the same. I dunno which he had selected, but Rickhap fixed that for him while he was visiting KLAW. From what I've seen a great many of the site-level display problems are skin selection. The page-level display problems are bad CSS coding or a browser that doesn't interpret CSS like we expect. Sparkit 11:51, October 22, 2006 (AKDT)

thanks, sparkit

now i just need to find time to experiment a bit.

time, time, time

Keep an eye out

Just changed some internet buffering stuff that had been turned off for a long time before the site was settled down. Appears to speed things up a little bit. But if pages don't appear to refresh with the latest updates (i.e. chat showing what's currently playing etc.) let me know and I'll turn it off again. Only tested in Firefox and only for about 30 mins. Works good for me and, again, the site feels a bit faster right now. Oh, and I'm not in programming mode ... just testing the waters to see how it feels without smoke. Tough. Jimbob 04:11, November 7, 2006 (AKST)

I didn't notice any problems today that might be attributed to wiki caching. (Normally, I set my prefs to disable caching, but I enabled it today.) I only used Firefox, too.

I admire your fortitude in regards to stopping smoking. The realization that one puff will send you back will serve you well, I feel. Hang in there.

Commissioner of Fun 19:20, November 7, 2006 (AKST)

Listener List

Do you happen to know why my name shows up twice in the Listener List (Kelli-Kelli). I haven't been able to figure it out... Kelli 08:24, November 15, 2006 (AKST)

Hi Kelli! It's because you've logged in as "Kelli" from more than one IP address in the past couple days. It'll go away in a day or so if you only log in on one IP address. It also happens when more than one user logs in from the same IP address. For instance if I login using "SparkitTest", I show up as "Sparkit-SparkitTest". Information about the IP addresses that you've logged in on recently is at the bottom the that User Details page. --sparx 09:39, November 15, 2006 (AKST)

Thanks for the scrabble story

Hey! Great story! Thanks! heh heh... Esther 11:28, November 18, 2006 (AKST)

Blog stuff

Thanks for the work on the blog templates/pages. As you've figured out, Special:ListAllBlogs/ and the Special:ListSubPages/User:Jimkloss pages are under program control. I've added a link to your Create a blog entry page on those guys but can't hook your RSS template in quite yet. Point being, I'm seeing what you do and when I've got time/it's easy to do, I'll include your work. Still not in programmer head space because remodeling projects are hanging over my head and I'm putting them off. Hoping in a few weeks to get into code and clean some stuff up. Jimbob 12:34, November 18, 2006 (AKST)

You're most welcome! I figured that stuff was happening below the wiki layer, but thought I'd try a few things anyhow. smile I did assume the RSS XML file was being updated automagically, but I see why you're manually updating it (spammers, etc.). No worries, no hurries. --sparx 13:04, November 18, 2006 (AKST)

You know it sure seems like I've been thanking you and Jim a lot since I got here! Sorry guys! I think I've got it now! No PUNCTUATION or MISSPELLINGS in the titles! Am I close? :) atuuschaaw 10:04, December 1, 2006 (AKST)

After 9 years doing newspapering, I suppose I feel compelled to correct spelling and punctuation problems. We all do the best we can with it. WWR operates with a few rules as possible, I think. No worries, attu. smile --sparx 10:19, December 1, 2006 (AKST)

Blog Entry Titles

Hey. I noticed that your blog entries get groovy text titles, whereas mine just get some bullshit wiki timestamp crapola title. Can a Dork like me get cool text titles, or is that just an Advanced Dork thing? Yours in Christ, --Toad 11:09, November 15, 2006 (AKST)

You can do them too.

http://www.wholewheatradio.org/wiki/index.php?title=User:Toad/BlogEntry:_2006_November_13_12:22:05_AKST&preload=Template:New_Blog_Entry&action=edit
Change the '2006_November_13_12:22:05_AKST' to 'Man_Eats_Dog_Booger_And_Dies'
http://www.wholewheatradio.org/wiki/index.php?title=User:Toad/BlogEntry:_Man_Eats_Dog_Booger_And_Dies&preload=Template:New_Blog_Entry&action=edit
Hit ENTER to make sure your new title shows up on the page you're editing
Edit normally

The _ stands for a blank. I'm not sure if they're absolutely essential (probably not) but I put them in anyway just cuz I didn't want to find out if they're needed or not. I leave the blank after BlogEntry:_ for the same reason. Jimbob 16:05, November 15, 2006 (AKST)

How the fuck do I change '2006_November_13_12:22:05_AKST' to 'Man_Eats_Dog_Booger_And_Dies'? Maybe your "HMFIC" powers give you the ability to do that, but I don't see a way to change the title on my screen. I clicked on your shitty little link, and it did NOTHING for me. NOTHING. And while I'm at it, what's with the "HMFIC" thing? Boy is that pathetic. "Yeah, I'm the Head Mother Fucker In Charge of the Shit Palace." You know, I had a chance to buy one square inch of Alaska off the back of a cereal box at the age of nine. I passed. Some people didn't make such wise decisions. XOXO, --Toad 17:13, November 15, 2006 (AKST)

Good point. In the address bar of your browser - you'll be changing the URL of the page you are loading/creating. Make sense now? Jimbob 17:39, November 15, 2006 (AKST)

Another method...

Make a page whatever way you normally do. The prefix being User:Toad/BlogEntry:

After that prefix, put the title blog entry. Like this User:Toad/BlogEntry: Toad Blog surpasses both J-Walk and Jimbob in popularity!

Somewhere in the body of the blog entry include (without the nowiki tags - copy it from the display of this page, not the edit box), [[Category:Blog-All]]</noinclude>

At the bottom of the blog entry put the template, {{Blog footer}} (Copy it from the display of this page, not the edit box)

--sparx 18:16, November 15, 2006 (AKST)

Thanks, Sparkit. Finally, someone who knows what she's talking about! --Toad 18:24, November 15, 2006 (AKST)

Further simplification. See the last step above. Yours in bacon, --sparx 07:57, November 18, 2006 (AKST)

Me again... I haven't tested this new simplification yet. It'll be a few hours before I do. --sparx 08:25, November 18, 2006 (AKST)

It works. See Create a blog entry. --sparx 11:47, November 18, 2006 (AKST)

Is "genius" too strong a word for what you've accomplished? I think not. --Toad 15:31, November 18, 2006 (AKST)

Zoea

"Zoea?" WTF is that? Something you guys made up, no doubt. --sparx 19:21, November 27, 2006 (AKST)

Described in more detail here. I have a witness though who will verify that she cheated. -- Sol® 19:38, November 27, 2006 (AKST)

thanks for the tidy up

Hi and thanks for the tidy up, I am just getting to know my way around here and will probably break a few dishes :-) - Luckily they are easy to fix. Best, MarkDilley

No worries, Mark! WWR doesn't have any "good china". It take a little while to figure out the WWR schema unlay to this wiki, and IMO doing stuff is a great way to learn. --sparx 12:21, November 29, 2006 (AKST)

Message on my talk page

Sparkx,

You left a message on my page. Was that directed at me?

NorthisTexicus

No, it was directed at handycapt, who left the previous message on your page. What I read in the chat from yesterday morning (I wasn't online at the time.) wouldn't bring me to ask you to read the chat guidelines either. I don't know the history of the interactions you two have had though, so perhaps it does apply. From what I did read I saw a sincere effort on your part to engage in reasonable conversation. Thanks for that!

--sparx 09:03, December 1, 2006 (AKST)

The Big Wind

We missed you. Did you enjoy the respite from Mother Electricity? How many books didja read? Jimbob 12:07, December 16, 2006 (AKST)

Aw thanks. I missed you guys, too. I do rather enjoy these low-tech adventures. It occurred to me this time that how fossil fuel dependent we Americanos are, lack of electricity has further and deeper effects. Only one book, The Loop Group by Larry McMurtry (James McMurtry's dad). Organized a file drawer and some other stuff. Did some drawing. --Sparkit 21:17, December 16, 2006 (AKST)

Hey Sparkit.... thinking warm thoughts for you. Hope you are comfy and snug. Missing you here in the wheatzone. Onthebus 17:29, December 16, 2006 (AKST)

Thanks for your wishes, OTB. My block has power again, now. I stayed comfy with fluffy clothes and a sleeping bag, and lots of candles. How'd you fare? --Sparkit 21:23, December 16, 2006 (AKST)

Sparx! YOU'RE ALIVE!!! GREAT GOD IN HEAVEN...YOUR 'ALIVE!!!' ...How come you didn't return my call? Don't you have a cell phone???????????????? You can't play the "I didn't have time card now..." (waits a minute, pouting) ...OK. I forgive you. You'll have to call me and let me know what you thought of "Loop Group". Be well and stay warm! --Fine-line Fine-line 16:24, December 17, 2006 (AKST)

OMG! I did call you! But as it turns out I had one number wrong in my cell phone and someone else got the messages I left. For those watching, I found the cell phone error and Fine-line and I have talked. --Sparkit 17:08, December 17, 2006 (AKST)

Mac Help

Thanks for all the input on Macs, Annette. I appreciate it. --Toad 20:07, January 2, 2007 (AKST)

You're most welcome, Toad. Though I'm right fond of Macs, I'm aware that they're just one type of tool. All three major platforms do the same things, just a little differently. I did neglect to mention last night that another big plus for Mac is that they're sexy. --iSparx 15:21, January 3, 2007 (AKST)

Goofed adding tags

Hello Sparkit,

I was trying to add a tag to a song (Songs:Screen Door by Adam Carroll) and I accidentally created some free form tags. They are 'Sounds' 'Like-Neil' and 'Young'. Can you fix this? Sorry. 12:03, March 5, 2007 (AKST)

Yup. Done fixed up. The trick on doing the multiple word tags is to use an underscore rather than a space. i.e.: Sounds_Like-Neil_Young

To change the tags when they get messed up, deselect the words or phrases in the scroll boxes, and add the new one to the entry box and hit submit.

sparx 09:11, March 6, 2007 (AKST)

Thanks for cleaning up my mistake. 65strat 07:39, March 8, 2007 (AKST)

Alerting Macsters

iAlert might work for notifying users to WWR on-air status. I installed it and configured it, but won't know if it worked till you go on-air again when I'm around the computer. sparx 16:30, March 28, 2007 (AKDT)

It's not going to work. It's not robust enough. All it does is a diff which is picking up the datetime and hits stuff at the bottom of the page. sparx 18:48, March 28, 2007 (AKDT)

I went ahead and did it the way I should have to begin with. A file called onair.txt will exist. It will say OnAir=No or OnAir=Yes depending on what the state is. That should do it for you. Will have it tested in the next few hours. Jim 19:39, March 28, 2007 (AKDT)

OK. That oughta do it, but don't mess with it if you don't feel like it, eh? sparx 19:59, March 28, 2007 (AKDT)

Quick reply

Definite hacker. I locked out that IP. If you see more, lockout without hesitation. A bad one with (I think) a human behind it. Jim 14:52, April 10, 2007 (AKDT)

Nasty one! Had to block the entire IP range. That portion of the wiki doesn't invoke my code so I couldn't do much without changing wiki code --- and I won't do that as we are several releases behind. I would update, but the decision about moving to a new server has to be made first and I got sidetracked before I could commit to the time involved. Anyway, this moron should be gone for the time being. GOOD EYE by the way ... thank you. I hadn't noticed. He'd added several hundred bot-created usernames. Jim 15:32, April 10, 2007 (AKDT)

Email not working

I just know you're thrilled to hear this, but email to users using the wiki isn't working. See Talk:Bug_reports#Email_from_wiki_to_users_is_not_working. sparx 19:01, April 12, 2007 (AKDT)

Thanks for the head's up. It's a manual thing after a reboot. I forgot on the last reboot. Jim 22:42, April 12, 2007 (AKDT)

Prints

Just wanted to let you know I received a couple of your prints yesterday from ImageKind. They are even more gorgeous in person! I'm anxious to figure out where to hang them. :) Kelli 09:46, April 25, 2007 (AKDT)

Thank you so much, Kelli! I'm delighted to hear that you like them, and honored that you want my work in your home. sparx 14:59, April 25, 2007 (AKDT)

____________________________________________

Thanks for fixing up my office photo Sparx ! Cheyenne 05:15, May 23, 2007 (AKDT)

Congratulations

Sparx ... I was just gandering back in the chat and saw that you haven't had a cigarette in one week. I want to just say with great sincerity, empathy and camaraderie --- Congratulations! As you know, I found Quitnet to be extremely supportive and useful but I recognize we all do it our own way and use whatever works. No matter what happens, you always have a supportive friend if you need one to discuss the ups-n-downs and ins-n-outs of nicotine addiction withdrawal. All you have to do is ask. Anyway - continued success to you! I still want to smoke every single day, but the cravings are short and manageable ... and the sense of empowerment and real lung capacity improvement is damn near inspirational!!! big_old_hug kiss2 thumbsup Jim 21:44, May 27, 2007 (AKDT)

Thanks, Jim! I'm touched by your heartfelt support. I have some anxious moments, but so far no full on moments of insanity. You'll the first one I call on when I have one. ;) sparx 09:11, May 28, 2007 (AKDT)

I messed up, Sparx

I tried to tag a son and I f****cked up the whole album!!!! I will NEVER try tagging again, if you will please fix. P.S. Don't start smoking again because of this because I have (just kidding..) God I feel STUPID!!! The album I messed up was Good Grief! (of course) I was trying to tag King's Soveriegn and it appears that I changed the tags for every song on the album! Horrors! What kind of penance do I have to do to fix this???? i'll call you soon. God I'm SO sorry! Fine-line 21:20, June 8, 2007 (AKDT)

I've done that before, as has everyone who's done any tagging I bet. Unfortunately, I don't have any way to fix it besides going to the tag page for each song and deselecting those tags and then clicking the blue button. Jim may have another way to remove tags, so we'll need to ask him (and risk him starting smoking again. ;) ) sparx 03:31, June 9, 2007 (AKDT)

Leavenworth???!!!

I'm SOOOOOOOOOOO jealous! ...and happy for you, of course elf_eye_roll ....but even happier for ME 'cause now I know someone who LIVES in Leavenworth! jumpingthing Yipeeee! Fine-line 21:59, June 15, 2007 (AKDT)

Thanks! I'm mighty glad to more or less be steering in a single direction, for a change... for awhile anyhow. sparx 11:57, June 16, 2007 (AKDT)

::clap2

Looks like I missed your big announcement. Congratulations on what appears to be a great new job in a great new location. If there's anything we can do as a community or here on the site, please let us know. I'm really happy for you and hope everything turns out just as lovely and incredible as the universe can allow! clap2 big_old_hug Jim 06:25, June 16, 2007 (AKDT)

Thanks, Jim! The universe has been kind in giving me just what I asked for, and I suspect she'll continue to do so. Some challenges remain with this move and job and stuff (it just occurred to me that I haven't had a "regular job" since August 2001), but I'm prepared to meet the challenges with the support of my friends both on and off WWR. sparx 12:23, June 16, 2007 (AKDT)

Geesh!

I finally get busy for a couple of weeks and when I return I find that what I consider a great friend in WWR to have almost disappeared! Though I am happy that you have a new job and a new local (away from the kabanging noise from across the street), I will still miss being able to pop into chat and "Yelling out" for your assistance (and getting it!!). I hope the new job will allow you the bandwidth and the time to "tune" into WWR during hours. Of course I only say that from a self-viewed opinion, and what I truly mean to say is that I hope you get the very best of everything, including release from a needy friend ;-) Bless ya' Sparkit! Jac 17:08, June 26, 2007 (AKDT)

Just wanted to say...

I miss you (but am happy you've got something so groovy going on in your life ... our loss is the people around you's gain...) Jim 09:49, July 17, 2007 (AKDT)

I miss you, too, and WWR. Still busy getting used to the new job, and this weekend moving my stuff from Seattle to Leavenworth. I didn't get the cabin I was thinking about, but I'm in a duplex in a quiet area of the countryside. Dunno when I'll be around WWR with any regularity. No broadband where I live! and I haven't got phone yet, nor does is this laptop phone modem equipped. Later... sparx 07:29, July 20, 2007 (AKDT)

Attention All Roller Derby Participants

Groucho and Gandhi. You sound like an interesting person. And you like the Apple computer. Bonus point for that.

Baler

hehe Naw, pretty dull really. I am interested in interesting people though. Welcome to WWR! sparx 21:00, August 23, 2007 (AKDT)

Your Birthday!!!!

...Just in case you forgot! bigblink What a difference a year can make, eh? lol

All the very best for you in the coming year, my friend! eleflowers Fine-line 06:50, September 25, 2007 (AKDT)

Happy birthday Sparkit Reed

Happy Happy Happy Happy Happy Happy Birthday Sparkit! May you have many little bursts of joy today and for all days to come... Love, Esther Esther 10:55, September 25, 2007 (AKDT)

Happy Birthday Sparkaroni! May you have a wonderful next year and on and on and on....keep the fun, art, smiles and everything happening. Good good energi sent your way... Onthebus 12:54, September 25, 2007 (AKDT)

Sweet sparky, may this be one of your happiest birthday my friend. Peace and happyness, or is that hippyness, oh well, happy whatever ..Dean Dean 15:35, September 25, 2007 (AKDT)

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you all very much my Wheatpals. I loves you guys! sparx 18:51, September 25, 2007 (AKDT)

Template Help

Hi my friend!

If you happen to get this and have time, I'm stuck with some template stuff and have forgotten how to do it and can't quickly find a model and can't understand the wikimedia documentation. So, if and only if it's on the top of your head (hahahha - I know it isn't as you probably don't even remember how to bold on a wiki anymore now that you're working in the real world!) .... I need to pass parameters that contain = (equal signs) to templates. The template is Template:Blog_list ... refered to by Blog ... passing blog URLs to the template, some of them have = in them ... and that causes problems cuz = in a passed parameter means something special. You have to use "named" parameters or something? I forget ... whatever ... if you see this, have the time and inclination and I've not already fixed it ... well ... I sure would love and appreciate your help ... kiss2 Jimbob 12:15, November 2, 2007 (AKDT)

Did a fake out with the nowiki tag. I'll dive deeper into wiki templates. - RickHap 13:40, November 2, 2007 (AKDT)

Ummmm. Looks like it's working. Let me know if it isn't.

A messed up phone line at home and frustration with Verizon has me still without internet at home. Maybe I'll try to talk to those people (Verizon) again today, 'cause I miss WWR the most of all the internet stuff... Well, and being able to research things instantly, too. Love ya... temp02

sparx 09:37, November 11, 2007 (AKST)

Thanks!

I needed that! :)

Howdy Mountain Girl!

Happy 2008! Hope all is well with your alpine life! I have a question to rankle your memory bone...it seems to me I recall at one time we had templates for WWR business cards available - you know, cards to hand out to people who are interested in WWR for sending their music in or just listening.. something like that. I suspect I can design one myself but I thought we had a template somewhere already.... do you recall anything like that? Hugs & Blessings! Fine-line 10:25, January 1, 2008 (AKST)

Howdy from Toad

Sparx, haven't seen you around much lately, so I just wanted to say 'hi'. Hope all's going well for you in prison. Take care, and if you need me to bake a cake with a file in it, well, just let me know. --Toad 10:30, January 9, 2008 (AKST)

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