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

Thanks Lil. I can be very dim at times.

I think I still prefer in mind
Bad luck David I am sure that their loss will be some other employers good fortune .
All this meeting at train station waiting rooms , keeps putting the image of 'Brief Encounter' in my mind . Not a bad film if it wasn't for Celia wotsits whinney voice .
Hope everybody is having a great time at the Leeds mini-meet . Fingers crossed for the weather at Kew-London meet tomorrow .
The notepad thing is so obvious now that somebody has pointed it out .

[Irv] -- With note to self: I'm at post 2412 in the backlog.

[MTG{KEA}LtG -- in desperate need for caffeine]

>> The notepad thing is so obvious now that somebody has pointed it out .

I use Notepad a lot as the lexical equivalent of rinsing in cold water. I copy and paste between applications a lot and it's helpful to have an app that will strip out the fonts and the size and the other formatting noise and leave me with nothing but the pure clear signal of the words I want to from the Web to my Word Document.

As I say, you'll have to prise it from my cold dead hard drive.

B

*finally finishes backlog* Was all that really from yesterday???

>>Do you "bare in mind" or "bear in mind"?
Ben, Lil is right, and I only know that because I had to look it up myself, yesterday afternoon. I walked into my supervisor's office and said "when you 'bear' something in mind, is that like the animal, or like no clothes on?" She wasn't sure either. So I went and looked it up. Apparently, it's archaic spelling *was* bare, so depending on what century you're in, you could bare something in mind as well.


>>I'm soooooo glad to be in a public library setting rather than an academic one.

Hyp, that's interesting. My mother works at a Community College library and seems to like it better than public. When she worked at a public library she was always sent to kick out the homeless people who didn't want to leave at the end of the night, since she can pull off "the look" better than anyone I know (I mean, c'mon, she's a librarian *and* a mother!). She didn't like that part of her job at all!

>> I'm such a techno-neanderthal and am ashamed to admit I'm not sure what notepad is or where to find it.

Ask Amy!

Almost forgot! Happy B-Day, Hyp! Good to know we Taureans are well represented in the Salon.

Bare, in mind.
That's something entirely different

Teuchter, lowering the tone at a place near you.

I too use Notepad a lot -- it's in my quicklaunch toolbar, along with the calculator and the MSDOS prompt. Conversation introductions are constructed in Notepad, which is why I don't care for doc files. Just give me ANSI!

And I loathe Word. Love Excel, hate Word. It's hard to believe they come from the same stable.

>> It's hard to believe they come from the same stable.

They don't really. Isn't Excel the bastard offspring of Lotus 123, or summat?

There was another spreadsheet before Lotus, the Ur-spreadsheet program, and danged if I can remember its name. Began with a V, dinnit?

VisiCalc : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spreadsheet#VisiCalc

Lil, I am very glad that there everything is in the clear apart from spondilitis. Will you be receiving physiotherapy for the condition.

Montana Redhead, I hope you will not have to wait long for the MRI results.

Hypatia, I hope that your foot will get better soon. I am sorry to hear that Roddy died.

Happy Belated Birthday Hypatia

Visicalc! That was it. I think it ran on CP/M, just like Wordstar.

Thinker, apart from the spondilitis I also have the syringomellia and some iffy lumbar discs. I'm just happy not to have tumors or lesions on the spinal cord. What I got, I can work with.

OK , I haven't got Notepad , I run a Linux OS , but I have found something called tomboy . It seems to do the same sort of thing and even has a spell checker always a good idea if I am to write anything .
Something else new for me today , I am using bit torrent to download an album . I am not sure of the legality of this , I do own the album so I have bought and paid for it in the distant past . However it was bought as a cassette tape and it is a bit stretched and dropped out . Well that's going to be my defence should the police break the door down in the middle of the night . The downside is it has slowed my internet connection down to a crawl .

Marv, I just pulled out my old iMac G3, because I got tired of the PC constantly crashing. Runs just fine, but it's in OS 9, which won't take the newest version of Mozilla Firefox... dang it.

Happy birthday, Hyp! It's a BurlyMan Bot™! It will take out the trash, till your garden, wash the dishes, and rub feet. Additional attachments not included...

Night all.

B

evening all

Notepad, shmotepad. Those with hair on their chests run ee or ed! Actually I use notepad or vi and even wordpad (the last is good for translating between *nix and MS formats). I used to know how to use emacs in a basic way many years ago as well.

Night Ben.

I got the post I went for, but as it was the only one I applied for (in the (very) end) and no one else applied for it I really got it by default and consequently have had a much easier time of things than David and most other colleagues have had/will have.

David, the Library of Doom smells and you are too good for it.

Sigh. I would use the sigh smiley but it is a bit odd, in my opinion.

I hope everyone has a good weekend. I'm going to a wedding tomorrow, during which there will be a tree-planting ceremony!