User talk:PeterBrooks
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Hi there. Welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you like it here and stick around. If you want, you can drop us a note at Wikipedia:New user log to introduce yourself. Before you start doing a lot of editing, you might want to take the Tutorial. It gives a lot of basic info you'll want to get you oriented on Wikipedia. You can sign your name on talk pages by using three tildes (" ~~~ ") for your username and four (" ~~~~ ") for your username and a timestamp. If you have any other questions about the project then check out Wikipedia:Help or add a question to the Help desk. You can also drop me a question on my talk page. Happy editing, Dustimagic *\o/* (talk/contribs) *\o/* 21:46, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
- Ta very much :)
- I've actually been around for quite a while but for some reason my logon went AWOL and I had to recreate it :(
- I wholeheartedly approve of Wikipedia and the wiki approach in general. Anything I can do to help out (mostly minor edits - I rarely seem to have time for much else) I am happy to do.
- These days I earn a crust as a scientific technical writer/editor so my focus is usually in the science/technology arena but I'm also a creative writer so there's no telling where my meanderings are likely to take me...
- I'll certainly take up your suggestions. Thanks again for the Welcome! PeterBrooks 21:57, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
Regarding your "AncientBrit" alias, I suspect that at some point you setup your signature to be "AncientBrit" (see the "Nickname" field in [1]). — Matt Crypto 23:35, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
- That's possible, I suppose - except that I'm reasonably confident that the only account for which I used the nickname AncientBrit (since around Jan 2004) is not Wikipedia... Oh, well, not vitally important, I guess. Just puzzling. AncientBrit 16:08, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
A stranger thing happened today (June 13, 2006). I find myself blocked as a result of vandalism. Huh?
It turns out that the machine from which I was accessing Wikipedia -- and which has been currently randomly allocated the IP address of 65.169.83.69 from a block assigned to Sprint, who in turn assigned it to Medtronic MiniMed -- has been misidentified as a source of vandalism. (I say "misidentified" since from my POV one of the previous recipients of the IP 65.169.83.69 is the guilty party. What is disconcerting is that, assuming someone didn't successfully spoof the IP address, the perpetrator works at Medtronic MiniMed in Northridge. It's also theoretically possible that I could track down the original perpetrator, since I'm sure an admin somewhere here has a log of which machine was allocated which IP on which date...
There are shadows of ID theft here (which has already happened to me in Real Life, and it wasn't and still isn't fun).
The big problem now is that despite multiple reboots I still can't shake the allocation of that dratted IP address. I keep being given it, and it's a pain since I don't have control over the allocation process. All I can do is to keep rebooting and hope that at some point some other poor sod will be allocated 65.169.83.69 and I'll be free of it. AncientBrit 19:26, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
If it should happen again, and you can't get an admin via email, you can place {{unblock}} here on your talk page, and someone will notice shortly. Joyous! | Talk 23:46, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
- Thanks, Joyous! - I appreciate the help! AncientBrit 15:29, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
