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What sort of man would put a known criminal in charge of a major branch of government? Apart from, say, the average voter.
— Terry Pratchett

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About the Article"The Bitter Reality of BITS-Pilani,Dubai

Well about the article, i have cited the source article from Gulf News. Actually i want to change the Article's main heading to "The Insight story of BITS-Pilani,Dubai" can you suggest me how to change the story's name?

Herman Van Rompuy named as first permanent EU President (sic)

May I suggest that you add "accuracy" to your check-list? Ten seconds on Wikipedia would have told you that there is no such post as "EU President". (He is President of the European Council, essentially just a chairman).

#cablegate links

From sundry places,....

Assange legal pursuit

• Kevin Polson, Wired. "Interpol issues arrest notice for WikiLeaks' Julian Assange" — ars technica, December 1, 2010
• AFP. "Mother of WikiLeaks chief: 'Don't hunt my son'" — The Swedish Wire, December 1, 2010
• Glenda Kwek. "Sarah Palin tells US government to hunt down 'anti-American operative' Julian Assange" — Sydney Morning Herald, December 1, 2010
• "Assange appeals Swedish arrest warrant - again" — The Swedish Wire, November 30, 2010
• Ellen Nakashima, Jerry Markon. "WikiLeaks founder could be charged under Espionage Act" — Washington Post, November 30, 2010
• Deborah Hastings. "Where in the World Is Julian Assange?" — AOL, November 30, 2010

Next WL target?

• David Mildenberg. "Jitters on next Wikileaks target" — Herald Sun, December 2, 2010 [Australian TZ]
• "Bank Of America Stock Takes Hit After WikiLeaks Rumors, Then Rebounds" — Huffington Post, December 1, 2010

Notes and links

• Wikinews:Requests for CheckUser/Archive 3#Saki
• Wikinews:Requests_for_CheckUser/Archive_3#Request_on_Bhaskar_Virusxxx_.28talk_.C2.B7_contribs.29

PCS Presser

/PCS-Presser

Return to more active contributing/editing/reviewing

No, ... not right now; but, I'm in the process of accepting a job offer that will see me back online a good deal more than was possible when my laptop died.

Obviously, the flip-side of that is I'll be in an office 8 hrs a day. --Brian McNeil / ^talk 09:50, 17 May 2012 (UTC)

Edinburgh central library panorama

I stiched together those 15 images you posted on Commons. If you had a particular use in mind, it turned out fairly well and is ready. Kbh3rd 03:15, 19 May 2012 (UTC)

McDonald Road library

Another one, this of the McDonald Road library. It looks like you had multiple exposures with different color balance. I let the program (Hugin) choose the images to use, and it didn't turn out too badly, though it does appear that it used some from one set and some from the other. Fortunately it did not use the image with the large white van in it. Also, I used the 400px thumbnails from the image description pages so that it wouldn't take all evening to chew on all 25 images, so the result is smaller but still reasonably sized. -- Kbh3rd 01:58 UTC, 20 May 2012

• I did try, by focusing using the same point, to make all pics the same balance. I suppose what I should start looking at now is how to run the camera manually. That way I can find a mid-point for balance/exposure, then set those as the settings for a whole panoramic set. --Brian McNeil / ^talk 12:27, 20 May 2012 (UTC)

Re: (Ur bio) ? Born "Feb" before MOONWALK ?

Wow.. You were born in February 1969

Re: [quote]

it amuses me to frame it, "I'm so old I was born before Neil Armstrong walked on the Moon"; my birth was during the preceding February. That was in central Scotland, which I've now moved back to 

[unquote]

?..oooh? You must be especially old.

Me.

I was "failing english" according to the "letter" I opened in tht same month (Dunstan High School, Alexandra, NZ - English .. 34% = "fail").

OMG .. that amkes me an "ancient" .. Must be why my (old_fodgie) kiwifarmboy "style" of useless typo isn't understood by someone so young. Thankyou for "not" being the correct "Brian".

I wanted "Brian" the Wikipedian Beaurocrat - whom lives in New Zealand:

(not a "riingin" from Scotland).

Cheers. (p.s; I was born in '53)

QUIX4U2 (talk) 09:51, 21 May 2012 (UTC)

• Actually, all you need do to get help from any 'crat (the other Brian is even younger than I) is explain what's needed concisely — in two or three brief sentences. --Brian McNeil / ^talk 12:07, 21 May 2012 (UTC)

Edinburgh Central Library interior

I do not believe that there is enough coverage in those pictures you uploaded of the interior dome of this library. Here are the 5 images stitched together and uncropped. -- Kbh3rd 22:32, 23 May 2012

• Argh! I _thought_ I'd got enough coverage, sorry about that. There should be more photos, and I seem to have lost a few when transferring them out of the camera. When I get the chance I'm going to run an undeletion program on the memory card and see if I can retrieve more. --Brian McNeil / ^talk 09:19, 24 May 2012 (UTC)