Note: My response rate may be slow as of now due to medical reasons. I will reply soon however. =]

rawr! You ventured onto my talk page. I love comments, good or bad as I believe they can help me improve. And I just love talking overall. Feel free to even just say "Hi".

Click here to leave a message. If you wish to send a private message feel free to email nburrus [at] gmail.com or nick [at] needaear.com . Do not worry about your message being in the wrong section if you create a new one (by clicking that link or the '+'), I will fix them in time (if I don't get too lazy...). ^^

edit From Kristina

edit Welcome to AboutUs.org!

Hello Nick, my name is Kristina.

I noticed your contributions to the wiki DomainPage for HopeForAnotherDay.org - looking good, and I love that you leave edit summaries!

I'm excited that you've joined AboutUs.org, a community of people collaborating and editing to build this wiki. Welcome! Would you care to add a little bit about yourself on your personal page so the community may get to know you? (You can see mine as an example at User:KristinaWeis.) Let me know if you have any questions along the way - I'd love to hear from you! You can contact me in a variety of ways, the best being to leave a message on my talk page via the "talk" link in my signature below. You may also join the AboutUs WebIRC to chat or ask a question, and below are some links that I have found useful...

• The WikiAnatomy tours: Three step-by-step tours to understanding and using wiki and AboutUs.org to the fullest. *Highly recommended!*
  • The Wiki Fundamentals Tour
  • Wiki Basic Editing Tour
• Help Portal: The umbrella resource for all things help-related.
• Wiki Syntax: Basic wiki formatting guide, from italics to WikiLinking.
• The Glossary: Answers to "What's an EditSummary?" and much more.
• Image Help: Help with uploading and getting your image onto your WikiPage.
• How to improve AboutUs website pages: Ideas on how to spruce up a DomainPage.
  • Featured WikiPages: Some shining examples of how you can transform your page(s).
• Why create an account?: The perks of being a logged in editor at AboutUs.
• Special:RecentChanges: Every edit made to the wiki is logged here on the RecentChanges page.
• How You Can Help at AboutUs: Ways that you can help out, from flagging PossibleAdultContent pages to reverting spam to welcoming new people to AboutUs.

Welcome to the community!
KristinaWeis | **talk** 12:49, 14 November 2007 (PST)

edit Re: Heya!

That's great, I'm glad you like it here :)

You've certainly worked on wikis before, yes? And I definitely know what you mean, I used to a copy editor and loved it but couldn't bring myself to write much of anything. I don't know if you're interested, but you could work towards becoming a featured page on the homepage. Best, Kristina | **talk** 13:49, 14 November 2007 (PST)

Oh sweet, you can see mine as a fluffy example if you like (User:KristinaWeis) but the idea is simply to introduce yourself to the community and make it whatever you like about yourself. Best, Kristina | **talk** 14:32, 14 November 2007 (PST)

Not that it matters at all, but if you're interested there is a Template:ComingSoon for some of those Special:Longpages as well. (Oh, and sorry I had to abruptly leave earlier.) Best, Kristina | **talk** 19:45, 16 November 2007 (PST)

edit WelcomingPeople

Pretty much whatever you think would be helpful/friendly/engaging for new people, and everyone has their own style with each working in its own way. Kristina | **talk** 20:28, 16 November 2007 (PST)

Sorry ;) Kristina | **talk** 20:53, 16 November 2007 (PST)

Night - Thanks for being awesome. Kristina | **talk** 22:57, 16 November 2007 (PST)

edit WelcomingPeopleConnections

Yeah, this is the page I created and I kind of let it go but I think it would love to be revived. Haha, that's funny... it doesn't look like that's even the same IP as the other day's funny edit summary non-edit. Woot! Kristina | **talk** 14:27, 21 November 2007 (PST)

I thought you might find this welcome amusing. Happy Thanksgiving, Kristina | **talk** 12:34, 22 November 2007 (PST)

edit Few things

1. See this page
2. Is it wrong in any way to drink DP out of a wine glass?
3. Would you mind if I add you to Category:CommunityMember as one of the people with a picture and whatnot? (I think the main thing that links to this page is Confirmation Complete which is what people link to to confirm their e-mail when they sign up here.)

• Woot, Kristina **talk** 21:52, 1 December 2007 (PST)

edit Yay!

I'm happy to see you back! How have you been? Kristina ..talk.. 12:53, 23 December 2007 (PST)

edit From Vartan

edit Re:Question about your browser

See my talk page for my response.

--Vartan 16:11, 14 November 2007 (PST)

edit Re: Question about your browser

See my talk page for download link.

--Vartan 19:54, 14 November 2007 (PST)

edit Good Morning!

I noticed you woke up! Or did you?

--Vartan 11:37, 18 November 2007 (PST)

I did. xD.

--Nick 11:38, 18 November 2007 (PST)

Did I wake you up because of the email notifications?

--Vartan 11:39, 18 November 2007 (PST)

Nope. xD I check my email the old fasioned way so I have an excuse to avoid important ones. =D =P

--Nick 11:43, 18 November 2007 (PST)

edit IRC Autokick

Try now. QuickLink^TM

--Vartan 12:17, 18 November 2007 (PST)

edit He he

Watch out - I'm going to send you an email (to your GMail account).

--Vartan 12:30, 18 November 2007 (PST)

edit Good Morning, or not

I'm not sure what the time is over there in New Mexico, but good morning!

--Vartan 09:42, 19 November 2007 (PST)

rawr! it's morning. Almost eleven. =D

--Nick^{([talk]-[HFAD]-[contribs]-[email])} 09:47, 19 November 2007 (PST)

I just realized the code for your signature is gigantic. Comparing mine to yours by size:

• Yours:

• Mine:

rawr! xD. I may remove the <span>'s soon. As background only works n IE.

Did you test in FireFox? Because it does work in FireFox (just checked). Maybe you're using an outdated version of FF (and couldn't download a new version because of dial-up)? --Vartan 10:07, 19 November 2007 (PST)

FireFox 2.0.0.9, to be exact. --Vartan 10:08, 19 November 2007 (PST)

I mainly use Opera (my favorite browser) it is the most secure browser according toW3 and they actually kind of own W3 =P. All those ads "Firefox is the first to have mods, PNG support, spell check, adblock, etc" are a lie xD Opera was the first.

I did use FF in the past before 2.0 was released. 2.0 actually pissed me off. New features were cool but they removed the common MSG support =(

OPERA??!?!?!!!?!?? STAY AWAY! YOU'LL GIVE ME THE COOTIES!

--Vartan 10:36, 19 November 2007 (PST)

edit LongPages Award

I hereby award you the Longpagesskydork.gif animated image.

edit Re: rawr

Meow. --Vartan

17:33, 23 December 2007 (PST)

edit From DrewMyers

edit Re:75.88.22.9

I'm not staff. Just a RC Patroller, but I see them. I hit the big name sites, and I'm about to drop a line and start reverting. DrewMyers | talk 21:46, 17 November 2007 (PST)

edit From Patty42

thanks for the kind words. Very much appreciated Patty42 20:16, 18 November 2007 (PST)

=) --Nick^{([talk]-[HFAD]-[contribs]-[email])} 21:02, 18 November 2007 (PST)

hey there Nick. I have not seen or heard from you for awhile...I had been off site for a little bit, but am back now...I hope things are going great with youPatty42 13:35, 29 November 2007 (PST)

That was really bad news that you sent me. Things must be very upsetting in your house now. Is he still in jail or is he going to be sent there? Patty | talk 15:24, 1 December 2007 (PST)

edit From WayToHope

edit No worries mate!

No probs, Glad I could help out...by the way nice website idea hope you get more interviews. WayToHope ^(talk)

Thanks mate. I am as well. I just set up a hidden forum system again to conduct reviews on, talk to other active members, preview BETA content, take polls, etc. I am not bothering renewing my vB license so using MyBB for now (I would've used PHPBB3 but their admin panel is slow).

So yeah. Thanks once again.

--Nick^{([talk]-[HFAD]-[contribs]-[email])} 22:54, 18 November 2007 (PST)

• Have you checked out Joomla and Fireboard, they may provide you with a free easy to admin and highly customizable solution for your site.

My CMS I use is custom coded. I used Joomla in the past but they're support wasn't so good. To think of it I think I like/prefer the custom CMS now.

--Nick^{([talk]-[HFAD]-[contribs]-[email])} 23:40, 18 November 2007 (PST)

edit Created Template Sig

I have created a template Template:Nick for your sig, It looks good the way you created it now but it takes up alot of space in a discussion page and also as a thankyou for your suggestion to my userpage code :) WayToHope ^(talk)

Thanks. Updated my NickName Preference. =) --Nick^{([talk]-[HFAD]-[contribs]-[email])} 22:34, 20 November 2007 (PST) 00:17, 21 November 2007 (PST)

edit From Ray

edit Discussion archive

Thanks for splitting my long page! - Ray | talk

No problem! LongPages are a personal project for me now. Not many people working on them and gives me something to do. Ted told me of a few cool features that I can use too. =D working on others soon. =)

--Nick^{([talk]-[HFAD]-[contribs]-[email])} 23:46, 18 November 2007 (PST)

edit From Sa'ad

edit Sig

Nick i must steal your sig. Its just so kool (with a k). --Sa'ad 03:05, 20 November 2007 (PST)

edit From TedErnst

edit re: ArtSapience.com

Hello. Remember the last home page?

Well, updated: [1]

I took the screenshot just in case it changed again. --Nick^{([talk]-[HFAD]-[contribs]-[email])} 21:23, 20 November 2007 (PST)

Nick, did you see what it says if you go there from AboutUs? It's different. Check it out. ArtSapience.com TedErnst (talk) 05:20, 21 November 2007 (PST)

edit wow

It's weird how you helping us is also us helping you. :-)

Not sure if we have a clear list, but lots of screenshots need to be re-done. Will you have time to look through them while you're online before going offline. If not, I could make a list. I would start by going through all 3 WikiAnatomy tours and seeing which images are out of date. Let me know if you need me to make you the list?

And I'm hoping all goes well with the medical stuff! TedErnst (talk) 07:43, 21 February 2008 (PST)

edit .tk

.tk

TedErnst (talk) 00:24, 24 February 2008 (PST)

edit uberpatrol

Hi Nick,

It's not really a public-consumption sort of tool, at this point, and reporting problems isn't going to get anything done. I have a whole huge list of things I'd like to change with UberPatrol.

Right now all dev resources are going to CompostUs. And we could use your help with that, if you're up for working with software that's somewhat broken. You can go to http://compostus.aboutus.org and log in, then do what you'd normally do. All edits are live on the regular site, just through the new software instead of the old. When you run into problems, please report them at CompostUsBugs.

And as for UberPatrol, we'll have to get back to that one once Compost is up on the live site. By the way, I cannot use UberPatrol with Safari either. I found double-browser works with Firefox and Flock (a Firefox derivative) :-)

Hope all is well!

peace, TedErnst (talk) 12:52, 12 March 2008 (PDT)

edit no problemo!

We are trying out the new active community rights - basically means that you don't need patrolling for spam! :-) Wondering what we will do with Sysop status overall - but we can think about that another day! ~~ MarkDilley

edit ...do you actually read the headings?

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas and may this tree haunt your dreams.

--Vartantalkcontribsemail 07:39, 25 December 2007 (PST)

edit Contest

Hi, great work on AboutUsContest an excellent idea. I made an edit to the opening text trying to clarify the objective and role of AboutUs. Feel free to edit me as needed. I think to get folks involved, the page describing the contest, guidelines et al. should be as easy to read and understand as possible. The description seems to put a premium on design, how do you envision this working out in the weeks ahead? thanks, Kasey

edit your site?

What happened? suspended? TedErnst (talk) 08:37, 2 January 2008 (PST)

edit Web 3.0

In answer to your quesiton, I don't think about web 3.0 much. I have thought about how wiki might be generalized to be distributed, object-oriented and peer-to-peer. Here is a position paper I wrote on the subject a number of years ago. -- Ward

http://c2.com/doc/FolkMemory.pdf

edit Web 3.0?

I'm still waiting for web 1.0. TedErnst (talk) 22:18, 6 January 2008 (PST)

edit FreeResumes.com

Hey Nick, could you take a look at the history of that page. You made an edit that seemed to be trying to revert a mis-placed edit, but it didn't work. Just wanted to check in about that, as the roll-to feature is a bit strange, until you get used to it. If you simply click roll-to, it rolls to the current version, which isn't what you want. You have to click the correct "diff" on the right column of uberpatrol and then click "roll-to". Come on IRC when you have a chance and I (or someone else as I'm in Lahore now) can show you more, okay? peace, TedErnst (talk) 20:35, 7 January 2008 (PST)

edit Hi!

Hi!Nick!Have you received my e-mail regarding American Heart Association? Asma

edit Re: Heya.

Well, be warned that the question you asked will cause you to have to read. And by read, I mean read read.

Well I just got the grade transcripts from one of my previous schools and submitted it to my local community college to try to get in as a full-time student; I have yet to receive a yes or a no this week.

There was a Flash Flood Watch and some heavy rain where I live, but it went away. However, it's going up to the northwest (not only CA), so Oregon and Washington, watch out!

I've been writing some new music lately and I have a few 30-second samples here.

What's going on on your side?

--Vartantalkcontribsemail 17:46, 8 January 2008 (PST)

P.S.

I noticed you left a paw mark on my website map/guestbook! Thanks!

edit Oh noes!

Oh no - that's not good!! I hope you get better and that you get enough rest!

I don't know exactly what your doctor calls for, but try this.

Get better now! :)

--Vartantalkcontribsemail 18:47, 8 January 2008 (PST)

edit What's up

What's up?

--Vartantalkcontribsemail 10:26, 11 January 2008 (PST)

edit To cheer you up...

You'll need speakers: don't download me illegally, click here to download me legally

Yes, I made it.

--Vartantalkcontribsemail 16:58, 11 January 2008 (PST)

edit Vartan/Aang

I lol'd. Can I use this as a sig for forums (with a link to you, of course)? Please? I'll try and make you one too.

--VartanSimoniantalkcontribsemail 12:19, 18 January 2008 (PST)

edit Two guys, a girl, and a flying bison.

Regular text - original

Bold text - commentary/jokes

Read it line by line and don't skip commentary or original or the whole impression will be ruined

clicky here

WARNING: ROFL'S INSIDE.

--VartanSimoniantalkcontribsemail 14:28, 18 January 2008 (PST)

edit Time Flies with Changes, murdered - part 1 - post 1

Click here if you dare...

--VartanSimoniantalkcontribsemail 15:27, 18 January 2008 (PST)

edit Hi :)

Hi Nick, I am good. How about yourself? Hows it going?

AyeshaAslam 19:53, 21 January 2008 (PST)

edit Gallery

Nice! and no problem with the pic :) - Ray | talk Same here. -- Ward

edit PossibleAdultContect

Working on the bot...

--VartanSimoniantalkcontribsemail 11:11, 23 January 2008 (PST)

edit Re: Mac

Nice Windows XP skinning you've got there!

I've done this before many times (and not only to look like a Mac), but I stopped when I realized I was giving up speed for prettiness (at least on my PC).

--VartanSimoniantalkcontribsemail 07:53, 24 January 2008 (PST)

edit screenshots needed

Nick, I just realized we've had ideas about making slides (screenshots) for a long time, but this is exactly what you were doing for me the other day. So, if you want to do more, there's a whole list of needs here: Category:NeedsSlide -- TedErnst (talk) 12:28, 25 January 2008 (PST)

edit Ur Musics

By downloading or viewing this work, you hereby agree to the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License: [mp3]

--VartanSimoniantalkcontribsemail 16:11, 28 January 2008 (PST)

edit Re:

You're alive!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anyway, tonight I'll be away until 9 in college - maybe Friday? Also, my phone was lost (maybe even stolen) but I think it's safe to call me at my cell as I got a temporary replacement until the other phone can be recovered.

Glad to see you're online again.

Have a good recovery if it's still under way!

--Vartan Simonian 12:50, 12 February 2008 (PST)

edit Hey!

Hey there Nick, Long time no see? Saw your delighted comment on a SpeakingBuddy.org. Have you seen InfluenceUs ? --Sa'ad ^{: msg me : email :} 21:21, 12 February 2008 (PST)

edit Rawr is right!

Why hello there. I've been doing well and having fun. How have you been and what shenanigans have you been getting into? ;) Woot, Kristina .talk. .chat. 21:30, 15 March 2008 (PDT)

edit compostus is going live tuesday

I'm working on a task to get ready. If you're around and interested, would love your help with screenshots. Get help pages ready for CompostUs Hope all is well. TedErnst (talk) 15:20, 17 March 2008 (PDT)