User talk:Conrad Leviston

<evil grin> Actually I did know the dragon was the natural enemy of the elephant. For the dragon is a serpent and the serpent did offer the fruit of the tree to eve. ;-) Bet you didn't know 12th C dragons only had 2 legs though. :-)

Tiffany (just a little light bedtime reading :-) )

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The serpent offering the fruit, huh? I suppose all those tales of dragons capturing fair maidens makes sense in that context. Especially if you're one of those nutty religious types who believes that the fruit is a metaphor for sex. The maid is captured by the rapacious and then rescued by the chaste.

I'm still not sure how the elephant comes into it though.

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I think it's a red herring - actually a real observation of african snakes that could strangle large animals - a piece of factual information that slipped in by accident amoungst all that metaphor. I bet the early greek descriptions show dragons as just a large snake with no legs.

Tiff

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Good work on the Line divisions articles. - Tobin 21:30, 10 Jun 2004 (EST)

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Yep, I did all that while I was at work (a quiet night on the door can be very productive). It was actually really easy to draw up the images. Conrad Leviston 22:24, 10 Jun 2004 (EST)

Special Chars

I think the missing special chars are my fault (in fact I'm certain they are my fault). They are still in the database but the software is having some trouble understanding them.

I'll try to fix this on the weekend. - Tobin 01:34, 17 Jun 2004 (EST)

Seems to be back in order now. Some pages changed since the problem started might still be messed up. - Tobin 12:36, 17 Jun 2004 (EST)

Categories

Hi Conrad, I notice that there is a heraldry category AND a devices category. Shouldn't a lot of the pages you are editing go in the devices category or should that one be removed? - Cian Gillebhrath 11:01, 15 Jul 2004 (EST)

I'm guessing devices should be removed Conrad Leviston 11:11, 15 Jul 2004 (EST)

On second thoughts maybe devices should be used for things like Arms of the Kingdom of Lochac. Conrad Leviston 11:15, 15 Jul 2004 (EST)

I think the pages relating to parts of devices should be in Category:Device heraldry which should be a sub category of Category:Heraldry. - Tobin 09:34, 18 Jul 2004 (EST)

Sounds good. Is there a quick way of doing this? Conrad Leviston 21:22, 18 Jul 2004 (EST)

Not really. Since I'm using a tabbed browser it's not uncomfortable for me to do it though. Leave it to me I'll get onto it. - Tobin 10:08, 19 Jul 2004 (EST)

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Thank you for fixingf my image link on the pennanular page. I could not, for the life of me, get it to work right, and I tried 2 or 3 times.

Lady Marguerie de Jauncourt

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Morning Conrad. What are you using as your main source for all this stuff on Troubadours? I'm collecting data on Sir Ulrich for the tourney, and I was wondering if you had something I should be aware of. - Cian Gillebhrath 11:15, 29 Jul 2004 (EST)

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Hi, I am a librarian at Central Michigan University and I added links to several of your pages dealing with national histories (see France and Germany). I was amused by the comical history attempts on the prior pages and thought I would add a link to better the histories. I was quite mystified to see these labelled as possible link spam.  :]

I was going to blog Cunnan at my information literacy blog (lorenzen.blogspot.com) pointing out how outsiders can improve flawed history sites but if you think I am spam...

I appreciate your link vigillance. Could you let me know how you determine real link adds from spam? (Note what you reply may be used on my blog.)

Thanks,

Best wishes,

Michael Lorenzen

Midi uploads

You should now be able to upload midi files (with either .mid or .midi as their extensions). Let me know if it doesn't work.

By the way, Lilypond (the music typsetter I've been raving about) outputs midi along with sheet music by default. Take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilypond and http://lilypond.org/

If you have hardcopy sheet music I'm happy to typeset it so we can upload PDF and midi files.

Tobin 00:15, 31 Aug 2004 (EST)

Redirects

My experience is that like html code, a #redirect does not need to be capitalised to work. Have you heard otherwise? BTW sometimes I redirect to pages that are linked to but haven't been written yet. Jesus to Jesus Christ was one of those. - Cian Gillebhrath

I thought lack of capitalisation was the reason the redirect wasn't working. Having changed it I realised my mistake. Conrad Leviston 08:06, 5 Nov 2004 (EST)

Spam alert

Current events has been "hit" again -- Cursitor 20:12(GMT) 23/5

• I have undone the spam and blocked the URL for a couple of days. - Cian Gillebhrath

Thank you. --Simoncursitor 12:30, 24 May 2005 (CDT)