User talk:Flailkerrin

This is, as it says on the tin, my discussion page. Please use this space to discuss and critique every aspect of my being here.

Flailkerrin (discuss • contribs) 12:05, 18 March 2014 (UTC)

Kat's katastrophically katastical korner
This is the discussion for Kat. She is not in this group, but she welcomes all to the Kat discussion. Katmcknight.nitx (discuss • contribs) 13:37, 18 March 2014 (UTC) I am very thankful for the extra 'k' word in the title to make sure that there are no messy abbrebiation confusions. --IsmayH (discuss • contribs) 13:53, 18 March 2014 (UTC)

Question, do you have nine lives? If so, which life are you on now? Flailkerrin (discuss • contribs) 13:52, 18 March 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for asking, I am somewhere between my second and third. Katmcknight.nitx (discuss • contribs) 13:54, 18 March 2014 (UTC)

^,^ hey look, it's Kat! Flailkerrin (discuss • contribs) 14:07, 18 March 2014 (UTC)

Group Discussion for the Magic Unicorn Sparkle Crew
Well hello Iain darling. Have you sent over out choice of topic to Greg yet? --IsmayH (discuss • contribs) 13:30, 18 March 2014 (UTC)

Hello Iain, this is the one and only Stephen (the 'Merican). Americanstephen (discuss • contribs) 13:35, 18 March 2014 (UTC)

As for my interest in breathing, it more comes out of the art of it than any other thing. I have spent my entire life honing my skillz in becoming a master breather simply because I like not being dead. It's pretty chill, I gotta say. Americanstephen (discuss • contribs) 13:37, 18 March 2014 (UTC)

Ismay m'dear, I have indeed sent an email, though obviously he won't respond until later in the day, potentially the morro'. Flailkerrin (discuss • contribs) 13:38, 18 March 2014 (UTC)

Yo team its Rob sorry I'm late to the party RobboAdare13 (discuss • contribs) 13:39, 18 March 2014 (UTC)

Awesome possums, Izzity-Iain! Keep us in the loop! --IsmayH (discuss • contribs) 13:40, 18 March 2014 (UTC)

Yo greg said he's busy today and tmz so he'll let Iain, because I think we made you the spokesman, know on Thursday with the available choices - when he gets through his emails RobboAdare13 (discuss • contribs) 13:49, 18 March 2014 (UTC)

what happen how this get here i am not good wit computer Americanstephen (discuss • contribs) 13:50, 18 March 2014 (UTC)

what      Americanstephen (discuss • contribs) 14:07, 18 March 2014 (UTC)

oh dear... Flailkerrin (discuss • contribs) 14:12, 18 March 2014 (UTC)

Hey there, ho there! Any word on our choice of topic yet? --IsmayH (discuss • contribs) 18:56, 20 March 2014 (UTC)

Would be good to know soon. I don't want to forget about this over the break. Americanstephen (discuss • contribs) 15:20, 22 March 2014 (UTC)
 * hi, sorry for interefering with this project, but please keep in mind that you can try out more wiki text at our sandbox :-) --goldenburg111 (talk) 19:32, 20 March 2014 (UTC)

Hey there guys! Our new topic is the Always-On Culture. So lets get editing and so on! Personally I'm about to start going over all the slides and reading materials and so on again to get a better idea of what we're wanting to focus on. So...yeah! Meet back here once we're all up to date. Deal? Deal. Happy reading! --IsmayH (discuss • contribs) 10:18, 27 March 2014 (UTC)

Me again, gentlemen. I've made a few contributions to the page (very impressed that another group has already made a wonderful start. I was looking for more information on the expectation for other people other than yourself to be 'always on'. I'm sure I read something somewhere which has a good few quotes and terms and so on that would be useful, but me being me, I've forgotten entirely where and what it was. Any helpers? Also maybe we should start discussing other sub-topics we want to put into the main concepts. I divided the two you can see now, but this is a topic which could have a plethora of subcategories, but I don't know how far would just make it more scattered. --IsmayH (discuss • contribs) 17:01, 27 March 2014 (UTC)

Sounds like a fair enough deal to do some reading before we contribute, even if you've beat us to it. Should we just add to whats already written or kind of do our own thing? RobboAdare13 (discuss • contribs) 21:10, 27 March 2014 (UTC)

Welcome to the crew, Andrew! I've started doing a few bits and pieces (as you can see from the handy Edit History section ;D) And Rob; we just add to what's there already but as a group here we should decide what we want to focus on. --IsmayH (discuss • contribs) 11:47, 28 March 2014 (UTC)

Went a wee bit rogue and finished the 'part of the network' bit, thought it would be useful to explain why we're 'always-on' - well I've earned my coffee. Anything you can see needing done Ismay? I could add to the intro or try and make one of those nice brief intros at the top of most Wikipedia pages? RobboAdare13 (discuss • contribs) 21:30, 28 March 2014 (UTC)

Sorry I've been absent for a few days! As far as things that need to be added, I would like to take today's seminar to talk about directions we would like to see this project go, because to my mind it's looking slightly cluttered. However all of the content is looking pretty stellar at this stage! --IsmayH (discuss • contribs) 08:53, 1 April 2014 (UTC)

sorry i'm late, couldn't find you guys!
--Thesmallerandrew (discuss • contribs) 22:11, 27 March 2014 (UTC)whos started uploading content? --Thesmallerandrew (discuss • contribs) 22:11, 27 March 2014 (UTC)

Hey bud, yeah it took us ages to find each other in the first place never mind yourself. We've just been doing some reading and adding snipets every now and again I think, so feel free to join in with a decent quote or view point - or tell me what I'm writing is wrong which is always a good place to start ;) RobboAdare13 (discuss • contribs) 21:32, 28 March 2014 (UTC)

Hey, apologies for the delay in getting back to you, I was just wondering what's been done and what I can contribute to? I have done some reading, so any direction would be great, thanks!LinusEDI (discuss • contribs) 11:22, 29 March 2014 (UTC)

I Got Confused As To Where Everything Is So Enjoy This New Group Discussion Topic!
.........does what it says on the tin. I'l reiterate that I'm keen to discuss today in class what needs to be done in the book because it's a bit cluttered as it stands. I'm spending the morning doing a bit of maintenance; minor edits such as capitalizing things and formatting properly. --IsmayH (discuss • contribs) 09:24, 1 April 2014 (UTC)

Right...I'm now able to give this more attention than purely doing reading! Though of course the majority of main points are already there by now.

Going through what is already there, I feel that although relevant, the whole sections about online dis-inhibition might be somewhat sidetracked or could be better linked specifically to Always On Culture. This could just be me, let me know what you think. I felt the Social Context Cues section was more effective, as it brings up irritation at lack of response without knowing the reason behind the delay. Another point is inconsistency in some of the format. Some quotes are italicised, others not. Some are in the main body of discussion, others are seperate. I'll look up standard formatting for this and set about bringing it all into line. (finally a use for being pernickity as hell) Flailkerrin (discuss • contribs) 22:33, 1 April 2014 (UTC)

"For quotations, use only quotation marks (for short quotations) or block quoting (for long ones), not italics. (See Quotations below.) This means that (1) a quotation is not italicized inside quotation marks or a block quote just because it is a quotation, and (2) italics are no substitute for proper quotation formatting. One way to distinguish long block quotes from ordinary text is to use, which will box the text. Citation links may not work within such templates; if so, it may be necessary to use ." This may be from wikipedia's manual of standards, but I feel it is what we should go by here too. Flailkerrin (discuss • contribs) 22:39, 1 April 2014 (UTC)

Should've seen that one coming...there is actually a more extensive section on quoting. I'll not do much more tonight as I am obviously far too tired to be doing this just now! [Manual of Style] Flailkerrin (discuss • contribs) 22:50, 1 April 2014 (UTC)

I need to stop talking to myself...but somebody else recently went through and italicised a bunch of quotes from what I can see...so most likely wouldn't appreciate me going in and reversing all of it. I'll check back after pending changes have been confirmed. Flailkerrin (discuss • contribs) 23:09, 1 April 2014 (UTC)

If you need help with text formatting and quotation marks etc, this is a handy link that I also used: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Text_Formatting, Andy Thesmallerandrew (discuss • contribs) 21:28, 2 April 2014 (UTC)

Wednesday 2nd
Hey.....so since I was on last night, another 4000 or so words of content have exploded into existence. Half of it looks to just be pasted in from wikipedia, descriptions of what ethernet cables are etc. And I thought that some of the information on dis-inhibiton was irelevant. I'm not really sure where to start with deleting any of it, especially as I have no doubt those that put it there will simply try to put it back if I do...thoughts? Flailkerrin (discuss • contribs) 16:52, 2 April 2014 (UTC)

Assuming that's coming from Iain. I think it needs to be marked for deletion - at least all of the 3g/4g/cables nonsense. It's all irrelevant and should not be on the article - ESPECIALLY if it's pasted in from Wikipedia. Americanstephen (discuss • contribs) 16:36, 2 April 2014 (UTC)

Hi Iain - it was me who put the stuff on about wired & wireless - and there were other contributions about this from our team too. It wasn't taken from Wikipedia - much of the source material was from the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers. We felt that how one gets on the internet (and how it can be interrupted) was relevant to the topic of the culture of Always On. There are four groups working collaboratively on this topic and its fine to delete and move stuff - in fact that is the nature of building such a Wikibook - but a little discussion and civility (i.e. not being judgmental of other's comments) is also in the spirit of such a collaborative effort.George Berrie (discuss • contribs) 17:19, 2 April 2014 (UTC)

Aye sorry! Chucked in my tildes now. I agree, it's completely cluttering up the page and drawing attention away from the actual relevant info. I haven't checked, and I don't think somebody would do something as ridiculous as paste it across, but either way, needs scrapping. I'll be back on this evening and will have a go at it myself then if you haven't already! Flailkerrin (discuss • contribs) 16:55, 2 April 2014 (UTC)

I am alive and ready to post, been disconnected from the internet, how ironic... enjoy my research boys and girls. Thesmallerandrew (discuss • contribs) 18:10, 2 April 2014 (UTC)

posted research on ethernet, should be strong for that now Thesmallerandrew (discuss • contribs) 18:21, 2 April 2014 (UTC)

Now that George has explained the ethernet debate, it sounds pretty legit RobboAdare13 (discuss • contribs) 19:14, 2 April 2014 (UTC)

what did george write about?Thesmallerandrew (discuss • contribs) 21:06, 2 April 2014 (UTC)

Ah dear, seems I've enraged George. Don't take it personally, I was being objective. I agree there is a place for it, but as previously stated, my opinion is that links to the bulk of the information would suffice. The cables that connect are relevant, but the inner workings of them not so much. I would have happily debated this with you, the whole point of raising it there was so as others could respond! There is no need for petty condescension or being precious about your contributions. I stand by my original point, now more so than ever, what really needs done is refining what is there by trimming out unecesary content. I am sorry you took offense to the blunt nature of my post, oh, and if you'd read all of the comments here before posting you might have spotted I had faith you wouldn't have got the info from wikipedia. All the best Berrie Flailkerrin (discuss • contribs) 11:15, 4 April 2014 (UTC)

Presentations
Alright peeps (loyal Magic Unicorns) when is everyone free to meet and discuss/dish out parts of the presentation to do? Days and times when you're free, albeit we do have almost 2 weeks, I think we'd all like some time to ourselves - to work on our speaking voices ;) RobboAdare13 (discuss • contribs) 11:41, 3 April 2014 (UTC)

I'm free all the time, let us know on here. Thesmallerandrew (discuss • contribs) 16:33, 3 April 2014 (UTC)

Uhh...sorry to be the least helpful person ever, but I'm going to be pretty busy until I leave for America. Would you guys be awesome and let me know what we're doing at some point after y'all meet up? I'm still very much on board for the skype idea. I was thinking it would be cool to show all the ways you could get in touch with me in another country. Skype, Facebook, Twitter, email, snapchat, text (though dont text me because aint nobody got the money for that!) --IsmayH (discuss • contribs) 10:14, 4 April 2014 (UTC)

Honestly, pretty much any time would work for me. Maybe we could meet at the library sometime next week? Also smashing ideas Ismay, I think that should work fine. I think your participation (simply by skyping in to join us) will be more than enough participation from you. Americanstephen (discuss • contribs) 10:56, 4 April 2014 (UTC)

someone deleted my tethering part, fantastic! Thesmallerandrew (discuss • contribs) 12:47, 4 April 2014 (UTC)

Hey hey hey, I....am a rather hectic person, but as of this weekend it should diminish somewhat. I think contacting Ismay in many a way is a brilliant idea, really adds summit' different to it. Flailkerrin (discuss • contribs) 13:47, 4 April 2014 (UTC)

when are we meeting? Thesmallerandrew (discuss • contribs) 15:27, 4 April 2014 (UTC)

Somebody else just mentioned they thought end of play was at 5 today....I had it in my head it was midnight.....ah well, my bad! Flailkerrin (discuss • contribs) 20:16, 4 April 2014 (UTC)

Alright I'm pretty damn busy tomorrow, Monday and Tuesday is anyone up for a meet on Wednesday or Thursday after 12? (I can't find the sideways S as my laptops from Saudi, but its Rob)