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If you are looking for official stuff about the successful bid then head on over to the team's user page at H2G2 Future. So who is Mrs Zen and why does she sign off 'Ben'? In the late 1990s I stumbled across a beautiful website called Starship Titanic and signed up for emails. I would get strange missives from them that hinted at disorganised fun in a parallel universe. I was changing jobs and moving to Glasgow so when I got one saying the folks at The Digital Village were creating a new website I deleted it. That, my chickadees, is why I never had one of those sexy 5-figure user numbers. A year later in 2000 I was working in Germany and using the Babelfish translator to turn my colleagues emails from unintelligible German into unintelligible English. Next to the Babelfish on the Alta Vista search engine was an ad for a website. So I did join in the halcyon days before the BBC and got badges and everything. I wrote stuff. I helped found the underguide. I left and blogged for a while. I came back and hung out in the Atelier. I met the man I married. And then this spring the BBC announced they were going to dispose of the site and Z founded a google group to try to save the place. We spent the next five months in a swirl of emails, skype calls, chat sessions and face to face meetings with legends from the past. And... ... and dang it all! We did! PS. I really am female, and I really am called Ben. As are a surprisingly large number of labrador retrievers. Black ones, mainly. Please talk to me... Some people worry about whether it's ok to talk to someone in their personal space. Well, it's fine to talk to me here, and if not here, then where? There used to be a Start A Conversation widget. Please pretend I've got it installed here. And reply to posts in my journals. If I didn't want you to join in, I wouldn't post them here. If you want to email me... MrsZen42 at gmail dot com
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Welcome to this Researcher's Journal. If you'd like to comment on anything they have written here, just click the relevant 'Discuss this Entry' button. Not Quote of the Day
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Occasionally I spot things I would love to be QoTD, but which I know won't be.... Here's today's:
Mr603 - F19585?thread=8290514#p110565794
Allowing gay marriage in churches would be tantamount to admitting that the CoE is basically just a 15th Century-themed wedding planning service
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Mrs Zen - I made the mistake...
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I made the mistake... of listing the things I need to get done this weekend.
Bad bad move. 
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Mrs Zen - A Year Ago today....
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F77636?thread=8018187
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My local tea-shop has just closed
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They sold 15 or 30 different kinds of tea: white, green and black. They would brew every cup to take away in a pot for three minutes. They introduced me to teas I had never heard of. They are non-corporate good guys in their 40s who were fighting back the starbuckification of the planet. I'll miss their tea-shop; I'll miss them.
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Dr and Mrs Zen are Powerless
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.... but according to Scottish Power, only for another 9 hours or so.
Have burned all the  s though, so need to buy more today.
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