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

Welcome. Mind the sloth. You can leave your calling card at the door, or be welcome in for conversation of a substantive sort.

*stands back to admire new sign*
Oh ah, very toney, that is.

a new sign? i must go check it out then .

I've got nothing to say at the moment, so I'll just leave my card... I'm assuming your receptical for these things is that thing in the corner by the door that looks startlingly like a wastebasket...

Bloody hell, that moved quick...

Hello again all. I'm feeling slightly hapier with my browser now (I'm at work ).
What I was going to put last night was something to do with the times that music or whatever just does (desperatly trying to think of the word) it to you. When all of a sudden it becomes clear and you realise this is part of you, not something handed down from parents or siblings. I'll let you know what I decided were my moments, hearing the tunes Little Fluffy Clouds (The Orb) and Info Freako (Jesus Jones) in 1989. These are about as opposite as you can get, The Orb tune being regarded as one of the defining moments of ambient house/trance and the Jesus Jones tune is screetching guitars, overdriven vocals and dance type drum loops. The other I think is when I saw James headline the Fleadh in 1998 and when they played Sound as the encore tune, WOW, indescribable.

So you may be wondering why I'm talking about this, it's just that the first of the bands I saw last night had two string players (violin and cello) and I was just wondering how/why those two decided that playing a smoky club in Camden was what they wanted to do.

Oh well sorry for rambling, but I felt I needed to get this out

Lil, I like the new sign. Is the background the websafe blue - sliightly different to the blue used on H2G2? And how's the a/c now it's had a thoughrough cleaning.

{@} for now. Indeed, how is the A/C? How much gunk did they find?

Well here we are at 2.30pm BST on the 'new and improved' h2g2.
I am not a happy chappie. This is bad!
CC is still in effect for the mo. Just wanted to drop in and say:
Baaaaaaddddddd!!!!

Yes.

The first thing I asked for when I test-drove ripley -- and I got down on my knees and said please 4 or 5 times -- was a button for newest or latest posts. I've already screwed up at the cafe, I think, by not going to the bottom of the list ... but I didn't know I wasn't at the bottom of the list.

We're going to have to be very careful for a while, especially when we're moderating, like me, here.

I will tell you all about my A/C later; right now I need to reconnoiter, see whether MY stuff is ok. BluesSlider just said there was no text on his home page.

Oh, websafe colors -- Bruce told me the bg colour is #000066, but evidently it is not. Look closely at the edges of the goo, if you are indeed looking at a page with Classic skin. You'll see that the table elements were designed to anti-alias into #0000CC, but then there is a discernible drop in saturation where the bg colour takes over. I've wrestled with it with some graphics, but now I reckon that if the Goo can live with it, so can I. I'm not 100% sure, but I think the bg colour is actually #000062.

Seems like my page survived the transition. There's going to be a lot of broken links that need fixing though. You can force the server to give you more posts than the predefined 20 it seems. You can add &show=# to show # posts. I've not yet worked out if you can get it to do all (&show=all doesn't work ) if you use a very big number it gets all posts though. I'm sure that the PTB don't want this to be used though

I've just done a check on the background of the goo and it is #000066 acording to my progs (screenshot of the window and color picker for the background came out like that). I was wondering as there is a slight but discernable difference in the colour of the background and the back of your sign. Perhaps it's time for a transparent background on the sign, shame most browsers only support gif transparency though and not png transparency - lets not get started on the don't use gif format images

I might have a problem with Painter, actually. Some of the fancier techniques apply depth layers which change the colours a few points. I need to think about it. As far as existing art is concerned, I will recommend to the displayer that they either use the frame switch in the GML statement or start the page by saying that its viewing was designed for the Classic Skin.

I noticed just now that the time problem is fixed.

And here's a quote from Jim Lynn, responding to something I posted a couple of hours ago:

We do intend to have a 'show newest' button. We just didn't have the time to implement and test the changes necessary when it became obvious from testing how important it was. But rest assured, it will be there soon.


I think we need a smiley for dumb astonishment.

I don't know about Painter as I've never used it, I just thought i'll have a quick go with the tools at hand.

It seems to have been one of the first things people brought up in the feedback fora the show newest button thing. I'm sure I'll learn to live with the preview/post buttons being moved round.

The only other niggle with the classic goo (not tried on alabaster yet) is that there is no space at the bottom of the page anymore. The last line of text is right above the bottom status bar of the browser I keep trying to go down below this and there ain't nowhere to go.

this is the first conversation I've successfully replied to. Damn the electric fence, damn the electric fence

I was going on the bgcolor="#000066" in the HTML that the site sends out - but it is a bugger to colour match in Photoshop etc

;^)#

this is the first conversation I've successfully replied to. Damn the electric fence, damn the electric fence

Sorry if this is a duel-post for me, but it appears this one didn't go through. And while we're at it, damn the preview message.

How does Bruce know when we're talking about him?
We need a smiley for utterly mystified.
What are the characters to make the new smiley?

I'm beginning to relax, I think. But if I suddenly go off-line, it's because there is thunder outside.

I just clicked on the busiest forums on the front page - I figured that would be where the action is

;^)#
bedtime for Bruces

Hi Bruce, welcome. Normally there's a pot of tea or coffee on the go, but I think everybody's just getting used to the new H2G2. I checked for the colour as well, but thought I'd better check what my system makes of it as well

the new smiley is : - P

Aggh! My lyrics are no longer in the middle of my homepage!

Test new smilie:

*grr - keep on hitting 'preview message'!*
*done it again!*

*relaxing, and wondering about some of the thought that went into the upgrade*

*mutters*

Stupid Preview button

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