h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

*Floradora hesitates for a while, but finally rips open the envelope and begins to read. At first only the slight movements of her lips indicate that she is following the text, but then whole phrases begin to escape*

...the Bottomley Diamonds...
...the pineapple plantations in Patagonia...
...the vineyards in Vladivostock...
...the gold mines in Macedonia...
...Bottomley House in Belgravia...
...Bottomley Manor in Sussex...
...the Bottomley-Webjello Fine Art Collection...

*folds up the will and returns it to the envelope* It's been countersigned by the Earl of Lucan and someone called, simply "M. Krylma".

I'm rich. He left everything to me.

Countersigned by who?!

*desperately searches through her bottom drawer in the name cabinet for 'Krylma'*

*doesn't find any file, but for some reason there are alarm bells ringing in her head*

You've finally got your fortune back (well, not your's, but, hell, money's money)

*Pats Floradora on the knee.*

I'm sure nothing can make up for losing your loved one, but at least you know you won't have to want for any material thing.

It is ringing bells for me as well, but I know not from where....



What does anti-aliased mean?

*has gone pale* Minos Krylma.





*looks around* Is anyone here a lawyer? Does anybody know of a lawyer in H2G2 Village? I just think this will needs to be read very very carefully so that Floradora can protect herself against any fine print. Did you see anything about goldfish when you read through the will just now?

*sits cross-legged in the lotus position*

*presses fingers against temples*

*falls into a trance*



My name is Johnny Wishbone and I am a psychic from the Isle of St. Croix

I see... I see... U147252



*drops down, seemingly unconscious*

Oh, aliasing is the term used to describe the jagged effect you can get on curved and diagonal edges between two colors, on a computer image. So there's a technique called anti-aliasing which blends those edges using intermediate colors.

Loved the link, BB have forwarded it on to the entire family

I thought the images good too, Sporky, but being rather conventional when it comes to presentation, liked the white background better. Which may be one reason why I don't get asked to do presentations using a PC .

This Krylma type sounds rather unhealthy. I'm glad I managed to swop crossbows with caer csd as we passed.

Amy do you want this back now?

*holds up a little suede pouch with a green velvet ribbon*

Oh, thanks Caer . *takes the emerald and puts it into the DFB's carrying case for safe keeping*

Sporky, I think we should find a quiet place to discuss the test pieces so that we don't distract these good folk from the Will.



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Sporky, don't use the ellipse drawing tool to make the circle, use the ellipse selection tool, check off "anti-aliased" in the options palette, and maybe give it a feather of 5 pixels or so. If you need a solid circle, you can drag onto a colored background, grow the selection a few pixels and then copy or drag it again.

I've just switched almost entirely to Mozilla, but then using IE for the Mac you still have to deal with incompatibilities, so Mozilla is real step forward. Marv, if you haven't tried a recent build (1.2a or later) you should - it's not so much page drawing that's slow as window drawing so once the window is there it's fast, and if you try Chimera or presumably Phoenix the speed of Mozilla becomes incredibly obvious.
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And Titania (or Little Johnny Wishbone or whoever you are), the table looks great. I was really impressed by the goo, I didn't know GuideML let you do that.

<-- barking at Johnny Wishbone

[fg, delivering a hearty to everyone and their projects]

Oh, and a great big to T and MR for putting their heads together and getting me on the timezone list. As you can tell, sometimes I'm out to lunch.

Somehow I knew you wouldn't mind.

Thanks for the explaination of anti-aliased....I kept thinking "Lena Olin? What's she got to do with it?"

Marv, you still haven't told me which computer to buy. I'm going shopping for it this weekend...

[{Courtesy}]

*comes to, this time with normal voice*

Calm down, Zeppo - it's me!

Did someone mention cheesecake?

I nicked the goo thing from someone's user page (can't remember who) and modified it a bit - I used it on my own user page first, and liked it!

Thanks Amy - I'll try the... the... &nbsp; thing!

[Amy]

&nbsp; didn't work the way I wanted it to - I suspect the font size is involved, and since I can't make the font quite as small as I'd like to, the cell becomes too big...

...but it turned out I was right - the

http://www.h2g2.com/h2g2/skins/brunel/images/t.gif

*is* an empty (or transparent, rather?) image, and since I can specify a minimum height of "1" I can get it smaller than a font - wohoooo! *does a happy little dance*

And to think I didn't know a bit about tags or HTML or things like that when I first joined h2g2 - I've learnt so much here thanks to all the helpful people!

Matina, any espresso around? I feel really sluggish this morning and I have Pilates in an hour

d'E, I meant to respond earlier to the maple syrup thing, no doubt the stuff in the restaurant chains is corn syrup with flavouring. The syrup I bought to bring home was produced on a farm from their own trees. I had a tasting and to someone brought up on Tate & Lyle's Golden Syrup, the really dark maple syrup was too strong, so I chose dark amber. Mind you, maple syrup is easy to get here, in the different strenghts too. But we do have quite a few Americans living locally, so there is a demand for such brands.

Except Tootsie Pops and Rolls, I had to bring those back for a friend of mine, her husband is from Chicago and those are the only things he misses from 'home'.