User contributions for 69.2.74.138

14 August 2012

• 20:1620:16, 14 August 2012 diff hist +467 Character Studio Expanded a bit on the history of its relationship with 3DS Max.

6 March 2012

• 04:2704:27, 6 March 2012 diff hist 0 Pay it forward →History: Minor correction of referenced name.
• 04:2204:22, 6 March 2012 diff hist +1,440 Pay it forward →History: Added Marvel comic from 1980/1983.

24 November 2011

• 00:1700:17, 24 November 2011 diff hist +248 Palindrome →Dates: Adjusted to reflect the fact that the previously “next upcoming” palindromic dates had just passed and were now the “most recent.” Also some formatting tweaks.

14 October 2011

• 00:3900:39, 14 October 2011 diff hist +84 City on the Edge of Forever (South Park) →Plot synopsis: Noted resemblence of Kid-Eating Monster to Babylon 5 “Shadows” (First Ones species)

27 April 2011

• 03:4003:40, 27 April 2011 diff hist +168 Deverry Cycle →Cultures and peoples: Various corrections and additions, particularly to the Guardians and Dwrgi

9 April 2011

• 02:4602:46, 9 April 2011 diff hist −12 Reaganomics →Theoretical justification: Clarified which George Bush.

17 March 2011

• 19:3519:35, 17 March 2011 diff hist +423 List of Justice League episodes →Season 2: 2003-2004: Explained the pun in the title of the two-part Episodes #46–47.

31 January 2011

• 18:1818:18, 31 January 2011 diff hist +398 The Flash (1990 TV series) →Rogues Gallery: Corrected order of Hamill’s roles as The Trickster and The Joker. The Trickster came first.

17 August 2010

• 18:2418:24, 17 August 2010 diff hist −16 Thermal runaway →Batteries: Promoted "Climate Change" subhead since it has nothing to do with Batteries, and cleaned up spelling and grammar in that section.

12 August 2010

• 03:0303:03, 12 August 2010 diff hist +483 Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus →Plot summary: Corrected “TempoView” references to “TruSite II” (the TempoView was an inferior predecessor), plus general grammar and punctuation cleanup.

10 August 2010

• 22:4422:44, 10 August 2010 diff hist +127 PartitionMagic →Compatibility issues: Clarified why it would not run on Windows Server (to sell their more expensive ServerMagic product). Also linked to Windows Server 2003 article as appropriate.

21 July 2010

• 17:1417:14, 21 July 2010 diff hist +633 List of Kevin and Kell characters →Francis Fennec: Updated his status to indicate that he’s now quite obviously human. Some general punctuation and grammar clean-up, and making the previous paragraph past-tense.

11 June 2010

• 02:2302:23, 11 June 2010 diff hist +3 Mark Hofmann →Murders: Spelling correction ("specular" to "spectacular")

8 June 2010

• 22:5422:54, 8 June 2010 diff hist +947 Pixel density →Computer displays: Added Apple iPhone 4's Retina display, common example of differing horizontal and vertical PPI, plus general cleanup including paragraph breaks and Unicode punctuation.

17 May 2010

• 18:0918:09, 17 May 2010 diff hist +448 On the Fastrack Main: info about Bud’s “Spore Sample” blog. Also various formatting and grammar fixes, links, etc., and re-ordered Wendy to be listed above Art since she’s a more major character.

5 May 2010

• 15:5115:51, 5 May 2010 diff hist +48 Adobe LiveMotion LiveMotion was NOT a Raster Graphics Editor, but rather an animation-focused Vector Graphics Editor, very much like then-Macromedia Flash.

2 April 2010

• 19:4019:40, 2 April 2010 diff hist +419 Talk:APL (programming language) →APL is not an acronym: (It would be if it were pronounced “apple”…)

29 March 2010

• 05:5605:56, 29 March 2010 diff hist +1,205 List of Kevin and Kell characters Added important info about Lindesfarne’s “Virtual Quill” blog and Catherine Aura’s Twitter® channel, through which both she and her son Nigel can still be followed, though neither is in the strip now
• 05:4905:49, 29 March 2010 diff hist +319 List of Kevin and Kell characters →Catherine Aura: Added info about her Twitter® channel
• 05:4605:46, 29 March 2010 diff hist +19 List of Kevin and Kell characters →Lindesfarne Dewclaw: minor edit — added Chertsey’s surname
• 05:4505:45, 29 March 2010 diff hist +702 List of Kevin and Kell characters →Lindesfarne Dewclaw: Added info about her human origin, and expanded info about her Virtual Quill blog. Also improved formatting.
• 05:3805:38, 29 March 2010 diff hist +311 List of Kevin and Kell characters →Catherine Aura: Added info about her Twitter® channel
• 05:3705:37, 29 March 2010 diff hist +165 List of Kevin and Kell characters →Nigel Aura: Noted that his adventures can be monitored via Catherine Aura’s “tweets” on her Twitter® channel. Also noted that he’s now human, not a dolphin. Also fixed some formatting.
• 05:3405:34, 29 March 2010 diff hist +311 List of Kevin and Kell characters →Catherine Aura: Added info about her Twitter® channel
• 05:2905:29, 29 March 2010 diff hist +4,354 Kevin and Kell New section: Supplemental Internet Non-Comic-Strip Content, describing Lindesfarne’s “Virtual Quill” Blog and Catherine Aura’s Twitter® channel.

1 March 2010

• 00:3300:33, 1 March 2010 diff hist +1 Euro →Exchange rates: Reference link #62 went to dead WSJonline article page, because URL ended in “.htm” instead of .html” — fixed.
• 00:2400:24, 1 March 2010 diff hist +4 Euro →Against other major currencies: Fixed Cite #62 (about solvency of Greece) to make link clickable

28 February 2010

• 01:5801:58, 28 February 2010 diff hist +497 Snooker Described the difference in the cushions adjacent to pockets of a snooker table vs. a pool / pocket billiards table.

4 February 2010

• 20:3120:31, 4 February 2010 diff hist +6 Church of the Holy Trinity v. United States →Court Decision: Minor line break edit
• 20:3120:31, 4 February 2010 diff hist +592 Church of the Holy Trinity v. United States →Court Decision: Broke into two sections to correct misattributed portion of quote.

22 January 2010

• 21:4421:44, 22 January 2010 diff hist +41 APL (programming language) →Examples: Fix terminology in Pick 6 Lotto example.
• 21:2221:22, 22 January 2010 diff hist +256 APL (programming language) →Examples: Slight tweak to Pick 6 Lotto example (or, rather, the procedural imperative equivalent).
• 21:1221:12, 22 January 2010 diff hist +2,238 APL (programming language) →Examples: Added very short Pick 6 lotto example and equivalent imperative / procedural code for comparison.

5 December 2009

• 08:1708:17, 5 December 2009 diff hist +167 GEnie →Notable users: Added Richard Pini
• 08:1008:10, 5 December 2009 diff hist +313 GEnie →Games: Noted that some of the “text games” were actually graphical games. Also used Unicode punctuation, corrected some possessives (an “’s” should be added to singular nouns even if ends in “s”)

18 November 2009

• 23:2923:29, 18 November 2009 diff hist +2,559 Deverry Cycle →Synopsis: Reworked this section with better formatting and more complete information.

17 November 2009

• 21:5421:54, 17 November 2009 diff hist +22 Deverry Cycle →Cultures and peoples: Linked “Hellenized Moors” under “Bardek”
• 21:3721:37, 17 November 2009 diff hist +9 Deverry →History: Disambiguated “humor theory” link

21 September 2009

• 23:3223:32, 21 September 2009 diff hist −12 Milestone Media Milestone is not now and never was an “imprint” of DC Comics. It was and remains a separate company in its own right, that had entered into a publishing arrangement with DC.
• 23:2823:28, 21 September 2009 diff hist +243 Icon (character) Milestone is not and never was an “imprint” of DC, but a separate company that had a publishing arrangement with them. Also, changed some future tense to past tense.

17 September 2009

• 05:0405:04, 17 September 2009 diff hist +218 UltraCade Technologies Replaced blatant accusation of I.P. theft with more factual statement of the events, as it has not yet been proven in court. Linked SlashDot for ref.

19 August 2009

• 02:1902:19, 19 August 2009 diff hist +8 Unconventional oil →Extra heavy oil and oil sands: Made “Tight Sands” a subhead.
• 02:1002:10, 19 August 2009 diff hist −1 Unconventional oil →Extra heavy oil and oil sands: deleted stray “(”

18 August 2009

• 21:3821:38, 18 August 2009 diff hist +14 .NET Framework →Changes since version 3.0: Disambiguated “POX” link to go directly to “Plain Old XML” article instead of the article on __pox diseases, in the Enhanced WCF and WF runtimes bulleted item.

15 August 2009

• 01:3701:37, 15 August 2009 diff hist +63 James Weldon Johnson →Education and Law: internal-linked NAACP

10 August 2009

• 06:3406:34, 10 August 2009 diff hist +49 GEnie →RoundTables: corrected name, and added historical note, for the Comics and Animation RoundTable.

22 July 2009

• 05:4205:42, 22 July 2009 diff hist +40 George Grant (author) Internal-linked “Kids Who Kill” in the Co-Authored Published Books, and removed that entry (the only one) from the “See Also” section. I left that section header in place, even though it’s empty.
• 05:3605:36, 22 July 2009 diff hist +1,788 George Grant (author) Restored and expanded Dominionist quote that had been removed, but placed it in new, separate “Quotes” section.
• 05:2505:25, 22 July 2009 diff hist +989 George Grant (author) →Published Books: Reformatted as bulleted list . Italicized titles and boldfaced main titles if subtitle present. Divided into “[Co-]Author” and “Editor” subsections. Added many internal links.