User talk:Johan Förberg

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Please Revote

There has been a mistake on the Management Council Ballot. Howard C. Berkowitz was left off this ballot. Please recast your vote for Management Council

D. Matt Innis 14:13, 16 October 2010 (UTC)/Constabulary

Going cold turkey

Hi, Johan, could you take a look at: http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Talk:Roast_turkey#What_do_we_do_now_with_the_turkey_recipes.3F__Asking_for_opinions_and_thoughts.... and offer your considered opinion when you have a moment? Many thanks! Hayford Peirce 22:10, 19 October 2010 (UTC)

Hayford, it seems I'm too late since you seem to already have reached consensus. If I were to make a comment, I am quite astonished by the time people seem to be willing to devote to discussing roast turkey. I'm starting to see a pattern where a new article is started, the whole issue is inflated to gigantic proportions, ending in novel-size talk pages that take the better part of an hour to read, and certainly a lot more to write. UFO, Ruben sandwhich, Marian Apparitions, Roast Turkey. I'm not sure what to make of this, but I doubt it is time well spent working on Citizendium. Johan A. Förberg 10:43, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

More about Acid rain

Johan, take a look at my user Talk page (at the very bottom). Anthony Sebastian has provided a number of links to material that will be helpful to you in drafting a new section about acid rain in other countries.

I will be very busy with our CZ funds donations drive over the next few days. Then I will be available to collaborate with you on the new section that you proposed. Milton Beychok 23:58, 10 November 2010 (UTC)

Hi, Johan: Just a gentle reminder about the section you were going to write for the Acid rain article. Milton Beychok 20:34, 13 November 2010 (UTC)

Hi! I'm sorry I have not written anything on that section: I've been rather tied up recently. I'm going to sit down tomorrow and write something up. Johan A. Förberg 23:23, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

That's fine, as long as I have it by noon of November 16th (Tuesday), which is the day slated for final approval of the article. Remember, I am in the Pacific Standard Time Zone (California). If you want more time, please contact Anthony Sebastian, who nominated the article for approval, and ask him to extend the final approval date. Regards, Milton Beychok 23:42, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

Re new section for Acid rain

Johan, let me know whether you'd like to extend the approval date a day or two, for your convenience and for time for review. Also, we could go ahead and approve as scheduled, add your section to the post-approval draft version, then just quickly re-approve. I'd be okay with either. Anthony.Sebastian 07:27, 15 November 2010 (UTC)

I don't think you need to extend the time. I think I can have a draft for the section ready tonight. Is one day enough for you editorial review? I gather CZ is running seven hours behind me (I'm in timezone GMT +1). Johan A. Förberg 16:31, 15 November 2010 (UTC)

Johan: Timezone values, meaningless gibberish to me. I'll check the article about 14 hours from now, namely I'll check on Tues a.m., 11/16/2010, at 9:00 a.m. PST. Or sooner. Hopefully we'll beat the automatic renewal step. Anthony.Sebastian 02:37, 16 November 2010 (UTC)

Thanks

Johan, thanks for saving my undercarriage, re Oxytocin. Anthony.Sebastian 04:15, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

BTW: What drawing programs would you recommend for someone currently using only PowerPoint. Anthony.Sebastian 04:15, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

Anthony, no problem :)

Depending on what you need to do, I think you should take a look at the following:

• Dia is a free drawing program which is especially useful for making diagrams and charts. I used it to make this animation (although this is probably a bad example of the program's capabilities.)

• Inkscape is a free vector drawing program which gives the user almost total freedom, while being more complex than Dia. I used it to make this drawing.

So it all depends on what you would like to use it for. I don't have Powerpoint, so I'm how Dia compares to it. My best guess is that you should try Dia out. Have fun! Johan A. Förberg 09:26, 18 November 2010 (UTC) (formatting errors galore) 09:28, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

Thanks again, Johan. I'll give them both a try. Anthony.Sebastian 17:48, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

EC

Johan, congratulations---your page needs updating. Ro Thorpe 01:14, 21 November 2010 (UTC)

Free space

I wonder if you would have an interest in contributing to the new article Free space (electromagnetism)? John R. Brews 20:31, 25 November 2010 (UTC)

About changing the color of the Donation request on the Welcome page

This really a minor point. The reason for my having selected the previous color was so that it would stand out from the rest of the page on purpose ... rather than blend in with the rest of the page. I leave it up to you whether you want to re-consider your change of color. Regards, Milton Beychok 19:41, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

Milton, perhaps I should have asked you before changing the colour. If you want to revert my edit, please go ahead.

My reason for changing the colour is that it matches the rest of the page (much) better. If you look around CZ, you will see mostly grey, black, white and some light blue. No offense, but shock cyan and light blue do not go very well together.

Still, we want to set the donations box apart from the rest of the content. Could you approve of something along these lines?

• #CCCCFF - light blue (base colour)

Good decor colours, if one follows the Triade colour scheme:

• #FFCCCC - light red

• #CCFFCC - light green

Or even:

• #FF8080 - more intense red

• #80FF80 - more intense green

How about that background color of #80FF80? Milton Beychok 22:43, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

What do you think? If we make the background of the box coloured, we could attract attention without much disturbing the colour harmony of the main page. Johan A. Förberg 21:16, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

I've made the change. Please tell me what you think. Johan A. Förberg 23:12, 31 January 2011 (UTC)