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On that note, I wonder if I'm the only person to have Show No Mercy, Tea for the Tillerman, Psychic Hearts and The Prodigy Experience? -- Jim Regan 21:49, 31 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Just checking that lynx works. Never mind 159.134.165.46 22:21, 1 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Will do. I've been watching this user for a while and their determination to remove the word terrorist while using six counties pretty much makes clear their POV agenda. Good work catching them. I'll keep my open and maybe call on Mav or 172 when I retire. Slán. FearÉIREANN 00:03, 5 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Hi Jim, if you get a chance could you take a look at Roman Catholic sex abuse allegations. I took a look at it tonight and almost threw up! As Carlsberg would say, 'probably the worst article in the world'. I started doing a rewrite and in the end could find about three lines in the whole diatribe worth salvaging. So I re-wrote the whole thing in one 7 hour stretch!!! 31 friggin' K! I'm interested to hear your opinion on it now. lol FearÉIREANN 02:12, 9 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Whoah. Good thing we have section editing :) I caught a spelling, and put in links for sacraments, but I can't fault the content -- Jim Regan 03:13, 9 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Thanks for the comment. After 7 hours I was bloody exhausted writing the damn thing. Eloquence still seems to want to POV the thing. We had an edit war tonight over his attempt to add in stuff. Now he has called a vote on a proposed POV naming he wants (that's after I kept reverting his attempts to unilaterally name it (shades of his unilateral date changing all over again. *sigh*). So please feel free to cast your vote. (God I am soooo fed up fighting NPOV battles lately on wiki. Some people seem to see wiki as their own private soap box to push POVs, pace the Sinn Féin nut earlier in the week.) lol FearÉIREANN 02:24, 10 Aug 2003 (UTC)

I'm having difficulty comparing versions at the moment... There we have it - as of last edit, so far as I can see, he's removing the footnote about ages of consent, and adding that the scandals lead to a crisis of faith in followers? In the former case, I'd leave your footnote - the age of consent is mentioned; but there is an article about the different ages of consent around the world (I remember editing it) - maybe link to it, and trim the footnote accordingly? Did you know that lesbians are favoured wrt the age of consent in Ireland, btw? It scares me that there's so much confusion about the age of consent here; two departments of the government were at each other's throats last year or the year before because of a pamphlet which perpetuated the myth that the age of consent (for heterosexuals) is 16 here. As to the former, I think that's a fair addition; it was one of the things which lead to my crisis of faith at least (mainly though, it was that most of the church's dogma is at odds with most of what Christ actually said - read the Bible at an early enough age, and haven't been classifiable religiously since :) -- Jim Regan 03:17, 10 Aug 2003 (UTC)

IBIZA!!! bastard!!! :-) It'll probably be colder there than Ireland though, hee hee. I'm afraid I too am rusty as hell when in comes to the mother tongue. I last learnt Irish for my Leaving Cert in 1984!!! And even then I was crap. I wonder would Conradh na Gaeilge be interested in getting people involved? We'll have to find someone. The irony is that since coming onto wiki I've used more Irish than I did in the previously nearly two decades. I actually began to say Slan leat etc. I'm working on a newspaper article on wiki. I've offered the idea to the Irish Independent and am waiting to hear a yes or no. How long will you be gone for, Ibizasing? I was going to interview you as one of the Irish 'specimans' for the article, and see can I get Mav, Erik, Jimbo, 172 and a few others to talk about the 'wiki experience'. But Peter Carvosso, whom I offered the article to is away on his hols too until mid next week, while I am starting a new job on Monday, (or 'starting a new job Monday', in American english!) Anyway, enjoy Ibiza. Don't drink too much! :-) And remember while there to keep going to an internet cafe to get your daily 'wiki-fix'. lol FearÉIREANN 01:37, 28 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Well, I was pretty good at Irish - I won a scholarship for the Gaeltacht. Every time I think about it, I feel a small pang of regret, as I honestly intended to write to people there, but alas, writing letters was outside the scope of my abilities then :(

I think Conradh na Gaeilge would be interested; I had been thinking of using my sister's Irish teacher (my former Irish teacher) as a go-between with Tiobraid Árann ag Labhairt, but most people need something to start from, and that just isn't provided. I'll give it a shot when I get back though.

I'll be in Ibiza for two weeks, but I don't know about the wiki fix; I offered to start a guitar textbook on Wikibooks, but I've been stuck for a way to describe these things without using the first person - I haven't ever seen guitar written about in that fashion, as most articles are written as a description of a particular person's approach. Plus, I'd be working backwards; most of the stuff I do is thrash or death metal, which need a high degree of ability, and I'm trying to learn music theory and have been finding that the "complicated" topics, like using harmonic minor scales etc are the the things that I knew "intuitively" from my taste in music, while the simpler things, such as understanding basic time signatures, have caused me most hassle :) (It occurs now that those words may have meant absolutely nothing to you, but I may as well type this instead of hitting backspace!). Basically, I have feck all organisational skills - I didn't apply for a passport till Monday!

As for drinking "too" much; I don't think I will - I've been pretty calm since my first year of college, when a friend threatened to send me to AA. (He was exaggerating, but the point was well made).

Interview, eh? You'll have to talk to my manager. (Most of my friends are in bands... running joke with us). I suppose the obvious first question is either going to be how I found wikipedia, and/or what prompted me to start editing; the answer is, I saw it on Slashdot, but didn't really take part, as I'd developed a dislike for previous wikis I'd seen. Then it came up a few times on the Linux Gazette's Answer Gang list, and I had a look, and found the answers to a few of the music theory questions that had been bugging me. I didn't bother editing though, till I stumbled on something about Irish dioces, and created an account, and changed "Cashel" to "Cashel and Emly", and from there... the same old story I guess.

Oh, and 10 day forecast for Ibiza and Thurles - 'nuff said!

-- Jim Regan 02:11, 28 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Gah! It's 3:20 am! I have so much to do tomorrow! Yet another example of my disorganisation. I have to get (at the latest) the 9:57 to Cork, collect my passport, buy shorts & a camera (anything in Ibiza that Wikipedia needs a photo of?), get the 14:25 back to Thurles, go to the bank to pay my maintenance, pack stuff acquired in Cork, get the 18:48 to Dublin. -- Jim Regan 02:26, 28 Aug 2003 (UTC)

If you can afford to, I'd strongly recommend a digital camera. I got one in April and wow!!! (I was able to take 250 photos of my sister's wedding!) My one was about 350 euro and has 3.2 million pixels. You might get one a lot cheaper in the airport, but if you can afford one, get it. You'll wonder how you possibly lived without one. I can plug mine into my eMac keyboard and in about 10 seconds have all the pictures downloaded onto the screen. (I took one picture of the Kings Inns - which is across the road from where I live - at 7.01 a couple of months ago. I was back in my apartment at 7.08. My computer on by 7.09. The picture on the screen at 7.10, cropped and improved by 7.13, and placed on a wiki page at 7.14!!! I kept a note of the times as a joke. I also had an accident some weeks ago, I fell and badly injured my ankle thanks to a bit of incompetent Dublin Corpo repairs. I had my camera with me, as it happens. While still on the ground I took the camera out and photographed the hole, then kept a daily record of my ankle, as it swelt to twice the size, turned purple, cream and as the swelling changed in size. The pictures are now with my solicitor. I ended up apparently with torn ligaments, though now my physio thinks my ankle may actually be broken - the swelling may have kept the bones together so meant an initial break wasn't caught in the x-ray. So tomorrow (yikes today) I have to get another x-ray. And just to cheer me up even more, I've only just remembered I am supposed to write an article for one of the Sunday papers tonight. F@*@!!! I'd better get writing. lol and enjoy Ibiza. FearÉIREANN 03:14, 28 Aug 2003 (UTC)

I was hoping to borrow one, but... I'd rather keep the difference in prices for beer! Something similar happened to my sister - she was walking around on a broken shin for months before they spotted it in an x-ray. Anyways, gotta get a few (3!) hours sleep. Take care. -- Jim Regan 03:50, 28 Aug 2003 (UTC)

But can you still smoke in pubs there? :-) FearÉIREANN 18:22, 30 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Yep, and they're half the price of back home. Drink is dirt cheap the further out from San Antonio you go, but the prices are generally cheaper everywhere. Can´t get used to the Spanish keyboards though, can´t find the damned tildes.

If it makes you feel better, btw, it rained all last night and most of today, and we had the most spectacular thunder and lightning I've ever seen. (The curse of the keyboards returned to make me revert this page, btw)

It rained!!! Hee hee hee. Reminds me of a massive sheet lightning storm in Ireland about two decades ago. Ireland was shocked and the entire country was kept awake. But two visiting American cousins slept through it and never noticed it, saying that it was "just your average American storm. Nothing to write home about!!!" FearÉIREANN 19:51, 3 Sep 2003 (UTC)

Well, the weather's still better than the Irish average. Just as well, yesterday morning I was woken by a police officer, who told me I "couldn´t sleep there" - I can't remember the preceding hours, but I know I was on a mad one.... so I went on the dry last night Don't ever do this!! - San An is the land of the drunk, and it doesn't serve the sober!!! -- Jim Regan 16:20, 5 Sep 2003 (UTC) (pasting from tilde!!)

I well and truly made up for it yesterday (and it rained again - full on storm!) Jim Regan 17:43, 7 Sep 2003 (UTC)

That was the right battery, thanks. -- Jim Regan 04:36, 21 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Hi Jim,
I'd love it if you could give some info as to how you discover chart positions of certain albums and singles. There's a lot of bands out there who have Wiki pages and it would be really helpful to have that information. Neilinoz 10:20, 25 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Dylan Thomas Reading, on the Marriage of a Virgin, over Sir John's Hill, in Country Sleep and Others (Volume 3 Cdl 51043)		Sleep Is a Country (Harbinger Poetry Series)		Tryin' to Sleep in the Bed You Made		Getting Your Child to Sleep...and Back to Sleep: Tips for Parents of Infants, Toddlers and Preschoolers
The Custom of the Country		AIDS, While The World SLeeps: The First Twenty Years of the Global AIDS Plague		Sleep: The Brazelton Way		Guenevere, Queen of the Summer Country
The Encyclopedia of Country Living: An Old Fashioned Recipe Book