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== Opcode ==
I am Ballchef, or Jake, the guy who asks too many questions at the reference desk.

I did add more information to the ], though I don't know if it's of a type that's helpful to you. You should look again to check. Assuming that doesn't help, I have a question. Did you listen to the whole track before concluding it was blank, or just the beginning? I ask because if you clicked record first and then waited to play the song in itunes, there might be an empty space in the beginning of the song.

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This was obviously a joke in response to ]. Since the latter has now been deleted, and since obviously no one pays any more attention to the project page (I left a message on the talk page a few days ago), can I just delete it without having to go through a whole vote?

Thanks, &mdash; ] | ] ] 14:19, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

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Opcode

I did add more information to the desk, though I don't know if it's of a type that's helpful to you. You should look again to check. Assuming that doesn't help, I have a question. Did you listen to the whole track before concluding it was blank, or just the beginning? I ask because if you clicked record first and then waited to play the song in itunes, there might be an empty space in the beginning of the song.

P.S. Glad you got an account. Stay busy on Misplaced Pages. Superm401 | Talk 01:11, August 6, 2005 (UTC)

Machiavelli

If you liked Misplaced Pages:Reference_desk/Humanities#Machiavelli_vs._Divine_Right.3F, you might be interested in what the user posted in response. Guess the suggestion of him actually doing work didn't go over too well. Superm401 | Talk 03:38, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

(replied) --Ballchef 03:50, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

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Please see Misplaced Pages talk:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:List of drug-free Wikipedians. I'm curious what your reasoning was on closing this Afd the way you did. Friday (talk) 03:56, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

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"old fogie" out of practice as a student

At your convenience please look at my 2 pictures effort where I have been unsuccessfully trying to reverse engineer what should not be rocket science. Seems to me, you are one of the user box graphic design gurus and can point me to appropriate how-to links. Thanks in advance. User:AlMac| 03:07, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

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Thanks, — Asbestos | Talk (RFC) 14:19, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

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