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

Situation normal, then.

OK, well here I am. Seems a bit odd a first but I'm sure I can work it out.

I've never spent much time looking at h2g2, what else is about for the (relative) novice?

variogram_girl? Do you have a mustardland identity? I can't for the life of me think who you might be.

dd x

Hiya, vg! For starters, you might want to pop over to:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/UserDetails

...where you get the option to edit your "Nickname", and remove that underscore if you choose to.

Sorry, I have managed to change to my ML me, as opposed to my Ebay / geology me. Gosh this is odd!

I have been happily messing around with the "skins" (think thats right), but I think I prefer Brunel.

Peet, another question if you don't mind. yesterday I made a journal entry, and I've just made another one. In my Personal Space now there are two journal entries. Do they keep adding on? If so, if I continue to add entries, my personal space is going to get pretty big and unwieldy. What happens?

thanks

dagesh x

I've just been reading your own diary entries - was brought up short at the mention of Foresterhill - I lived in Aberdeen for 5 years - and it seems they allow about 4 or 5 to stack up and then link to the rest of them. Fine. No need to bother replying if that's how it works.

you must be fair tuckered out with all your "shepherding" of Mlers... but I for one am very grateful and I expect I speak for many more.

Thanks!

dd x

It shows half a dozen or so, and the rest are hidden; you click a "See more entries" button to view a pagefull of titles.

Click on my name and check out my journal; it goes back almost six years.

Ya beat me to it!

Hi Peet,

Thanks for the advice about changing my name. I've been mooching round ML for a few years, but due to unfriendly time zones I only have about 300 posts.

One quick question, I see there is the equivilent of the CatP button, so I guess there are moderators somewhere? Just an idle thought, and not a threat to start CatP-ing everything in sight!

Cheers, L

Loopy-L, yup, the site is moderated 24/7. But the rules are a *lot* more relaxed than in Mustardland, so the Mods have a lot less to do.

For example, we are allowed to post URLs (so long as they aren't purely commercial) - http://c19.proboards42.com, for example, and we can post our own email address or that of any public body. ([email protected], fyi) If you post someone else's, though, it'll be edited away by the Mods.

In return for this degree of freedom, we keep a watch out for anything nasty, such as racism or "inappropriate" links. Those are Linda'd ( Equivalent of CatPeed... Ask me another time!) and the post is automatically hidden till the Mods have time to check it out.

I'm off to bed now, folks; see you in the morning.

just another mindless post to remark how fascinating your life seems to be. You seem to live on the edge in ways that would give me a mental breakdown! People's lives, eh.

Fascinating also to read of times when I was also in Aberdeen - I found myself asking: what was i doing at that time (when the weather was fine, or particularly bad, etc).

You don't seem to enjoy very good health, for which I am sorry. But I hope you are OK tonight.

Goodnight

dd x

Thanks! G'night.

Well, I've made it here, but I really, really don't like it, I'm sorry to say, although I'm grateful to Peet and others for trying to clear the path. I may feel a bit better about it when I have a few familiar faces on my friends. Dispirited $quigsxx

Hello, $quigs

How are you? I'll add you to my "friends".


Eilis xx

Hugs, Squirrel - want to share a cup of coffee with me while I'm sitting here absolutely savouring the peace and quiet? You too, Eilis?

Katy

Hello, Katy. That would be lovely before I head off to do some ironing. I see you have loads of people in your friends whom I didn't even know had got there.

Don't give $quigs an animated cup of coffee whatever you do. There's probably one around here somewhere. I thought because I was using alabaster I had no access to emoticons etc but apparently I have!

Here, I've found a cup of coffee

Eilis

Hi, Katy and Eilis.

Early morning is best for peace, isn't it?

I'm still here, though more dispirited by the minute. Thanks for the coffee; it had better be Hot Java Lava to stimulate any response! I feel like a rabbit staring into the headlights of the approaching car. I really hate it here. $qxx

Pity there's not a cutsey little picture of a load of fetid dingoes kidneys (very hitch-hiker)

I'm getting to grips with this, but I really don't think it's worth the effort.I can't see me putting up with this endless clicking between screens and having to wade through each thread just to see what the new messages are and then finding it's another cut and paste VEGAN HEART rant.It hasn't happened yet, but it's only a matter of time.

Life's too short for this.Can't really see irene playing along either.Oh well.........