User talk:Miblo

Welcome to Wikipedia!

Welcome to Wikipedia, Miblo! I'm Celestianpower. I noticed that you were new and/or have yet to receive any messages so I just thought I'd pop in to say "hello". Hello. Wikipedia can be a little intimidating at first, since it's so big but we won't bite so Be Bold and get what you know down in microchips! If you do make a mistake, that's fine, we'll assume good faith and just correct you: it'll take a few seconds maximum! Here, however, are a few links to get you started:

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I hope you enjoy contributing to Wikipedia. We can use all the help we can get! Have a great time, all the best, sayonara and good luck! --Celestianpower ^hab 09:30, 17 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

A few questions

Oh, now this is ridiculous: you're 15? You're a credit to your generation, good sir. When I was reading that nice welcome from you, I was envisaging a 24-ish year old (not that all 24 year old's are literate and witty, of course) sat at his computer, composing with great care and attention the said welcoming message; but, once again, I was proved to be wrong. And you're a musician, aswell!

Well, thanks for the welcome, and thanks for teaching me about the four-tildes thing. (I'm not risking doing it, in case I end up with my signature there, instead of what I want.) But I was looking at your Profile Page and noticed that you're a fellow Firefox user. I converted (from IE) a few days ago, and I've got a question: At the top-left corner of the Firefox window, instead of the Firefox logo, I just have a... well, it's one of those icons you get when the file extension doesn't have an icon associated with it; it doesn't look too fantastic, and I'm wondering if it's just my bad luck, or if you (and the rest of us) have the same problem. And if you don't (or you did, and you corrected it): how might I go about correcting it? It obviously doesn't stop the program working correctly, but it's just a bit of a niggle, to see that unfriendly icon sitting there. Other than that, I've got a small complaint: the Google Toolbar only works with Firefox if you've got Windows XP, and I'm missing the ability to jump to selected words on a webpage. Also, I could do with a bit more memory, but that's something nobody can do anything about, but myself.

And to a bit of contributing, because I'm sapping enough information and knowledge out of you: I think you might enjoy listening to James H. Reeve's Show on Key 103 (from 22:00-02:00 Sunday through to Thursday). He's pretty hilarious, and extremely intelligent and sensible, and judging by what I've read of your stuff, I think you'll enjoy his show. If you can't pick up Key 103 (FM 103) on your regular radio, you can listen to it through their website. And also, if you feel really mad, you can have a look at my blog.

There we go, shameless plugs over, thanks very much.

from Miblo 21:02, 18 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Your questions answered

Right, well, I don't know what to say. * He blushes profusely *. I think I will just answer your questions:

I have the little Windows flag icon in the top left corner also and have no idea how to change it (although now you've mentioned it, it will bother me just as much). Sorry.

As for the google toolbar, try looking at the Firefox extensions site. That is one major advantage of Firefox: it has many extensions, easily downloadable that enhance web browsing. I search "google toolbar" on this site and got these results: [1]. They are all (more or less) what you want I think. But it surpasses the google toolbar by a long way. There are even Wikipedia tools to enhance wikipedia-ing (if there's such a term). I have installed the Toolbar and the animate changes button (which is very fun to watch if you have nothing better to do and you're obcessed with Wikipedia).

As to the radio show, Is that 10pm - 2am GMT or what? I live in the UK so I need to know when to tune in! It does, however, sound interesting.

Anyway, I hope you have a great time here at Wikipedia and please don't hesitate to contact me here again should you need more help (or just want to chat). --Celestianpower ^hab 22:07, 18 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

A belated response

Oh boy, in the time I've taken to write (get around to writing) this, you've probably managed to research everything you want to know about Key 103, discover a cure for the Windows Flag in Mozilla predicament and buy Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude, finish reading it, and have enjoyed it thoroughly. Never mind: I'm here now. I downloaded the Googlebar Lite, by-the-way, and it's just the ticket. The reviews on the Mozilla site were saying that the regular Googlebar is pretty bloated, and I'm not a fan of bloatedness, so I went for the 'Lite' version. I'd noticed the Googlebar around the place, but if it wasn't for your persuasion I probably would never have downloaded it. And I had a look at the Wikipedia [Toolbar], but didn't bother downloading it. You see, with this amount of RAM, it's wise not to overload the thing with stuff I don't absolutely need. I mean, I love Wikipedia, etc. but I don't think I do enough editing to warrant getting the toolbar.

Anyway. Cheers for that. Key 103 is based in Manchester, England (their studio is just a few miles down the road from me) so, yeah: tune in for James H. at 22:00 GMT. I'll admit, that is a pretty late starting time for the average person, so you could just listen to the first hour, and if you like it enough, record it. You might think a bit less highly of me (if that's possible) because of this, but I don't have a regular job at the moment (no job at all, to be perfectly honest), so I have leisure to listen to the whole lot, until 2 o'clock, with only my fatigue dictating when/if I stop and settle down to some well-earned sleep. However, I'm planning on teaching people to play the guitar, so when that happens I'll hopefully settle into the life of a teacher, and will never enter into a 'regular job' until I die! And not even then. Because I'm sure teaching isn't a job: it'll be a pleasure to bring knowledge, wisdom and happiness in their art to people. Sorry, I'm starting to treat this place like my blog.

But before I sign off, I'm just wondering (for my own interest) if you can play an instrument, besides your vocal-cords, and if you like Chopin and/or Liszt. And there shouldn't be a question mark there, should there, because I was stating that I was wondering: not actually asking the question? But there should be one there, because I said 'should there' in that sentence. Oh boy, this is ridiculous. Somebody give me a good kick and make sure I land over at www.blog.co.uk.

Miblo 20:45, 20 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Well, you'll be sad to know that I haven't actually done any research into either. I figured that I'd wait on your reply. As to the windows icon: I still have no idea. I tried a search on their site but what keywords do you give. Anyway, I resolved that it wasn't worth worrying about really. And no, I've never heard of that book.

I'll give it a quick listen (inbetween homeworks lol!) tonight.

As to instruments, no I don't. I'd quite like the chance to learn piano but I have no space for one in my house and have you seen the prices of lessons? I get all my vocal (and theory) training at my choir. I also, sadly, have not heard of those two musicians but it sounds as if I'd like them if I had. But those articles do needs some copyeditting. Peacock and weasel worrds everywhere!

Good luck with teaching guitar anyway and I hope we'll talk again soon! --Celestianpower ^hab 21:09, 20 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Image licensing

Hey there...

I am trying to clean up some of the images with minor licensing issues and I came across Image:Miblo Avatar.jpg which is only used on your userpage. If you are going to use the image, could you go and fix the licensing on the image page and be clear about releasing the image under a GFDL license (or another free license). Thanks. If you have any questions, please drop me a note on my talk page. --Jordan 1972 (talk) 21:40, 5 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

File:Miblo Avatar.jpg listed for deletion

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English dialect changes

In a recent edit to the page Foxtrot, you changed one or more words or styles from one national variety of English to another. Because Wikipedia has readers from all over the world, our policy is to respect national varieties of English in Wikipedia articles.

For a subject exclusively related to the United Kingdom (for example, a famous British person), use British English. For something related to the United States in the same way, use American English. For something related to another English-speaking country, such as Canada, Australia, or New Zealand, use the variety of English used there. For an international topic, use the form of English that the original author used.

In view of that, please don't change articles from one version of English to another, even if you don't normally use the version in which the article is written. Respect other people's versions of English. They, in turn, should respect yours. Other general guidelines on how Wikipedia articles are written can be found in the Manual of Style. If you have any questions about this, you can ask me on my talk page or visit the help desk. Thank you. Graham87 03:17, 24 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

You're one of the very few editors I've encountered who has changed American to British English, rather than the other way around. Given the predominance of American media in the anglosphere these days, I honestly find it hard to understand why you thought "flavor" was a misspelling. I'd suggest you have a good read of Wikipedia's article about American and British English spelling differences. Graham87 03:32, 24 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, it's just occurred to me that you may be using a British English spell checker, which would explain some of your changes. If you would like to continue using this software, please be very careful with it from now on. Graham87 03:45, 24 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The Foxtrot edits were done in good faith, not knowing that in American English the verb practise is spelt practice or that labeled is the usual spelling. As for premiered, that was indeed picked up by my (British English) spell checker, although it doesn't seem to be a British vs American spelling issue. The home roasting coffee edits were done because the topic isn't exclusively related to America – more closely related to Italy, I'd suggest – and I didn't know to retain the existing variety. Thank you for taking the time to comment. Miblo (talk) 20:15, 24 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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