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

thats one of the reasons I use goo...okay...fine it just because thats what I allways have used...it's special...

I see that topic drift is running rampant even in a thread about malfunctions.

Alabaster is not a malfunction. It's a perfectly fine format that has stood the test of time. If you are used to goo or Brunel or whatever else is on the menu, but your personal space is working all right in Alabaster, you have a *small* problem, not a *big* problem. If, however, you can't even *get* to your personal space, and there are zero researchers logged on, then you do have a big problem. Ironically, you can't even get into H2G2 to gripe about it.

(If you want really extreme topic drift, last night I dreamed I was clinging to the top of the Empire State Building during an earthquake.

true...but since I'm the complainer I get to eggsadurate and make pittiful pun all I want to...right...?

Goo is blue!

Blue is Goo!


It's much more soothing to the eye than those blinding white backgrounds.

And I'm glad it's back.

*celebrates**celebrates a wee bit to much and passes out*

Lady Scott, I respectfully disagree with you about the white backgrounds. They have not blinded me yet, despite years of effort. I *still* think that having access to your personal space, albeit it in a different color format, is a smaller problem than having no access whatsoever.

The point is not really which skin is better or not... the point is that today the servers were so whacky they kept switching back and forth whilst dumping all the users.

I was not so upset at seeing alabstr as I was that I couldn't get on... but when I did I thought... "Wow... this a new glitch... What the heck is going on NOW?"

Traveller in Time on his head
"The problem with the Alabaster skin was I even got the reply in Alabaster trying to post to the HUB.

You mean brunel has colours?

On most systems I have the background colours disabled. . .
Pure white background with black text on all sites in all skins.

< <./>T418287latest=1</.> > for server (downtime) errors! "

AHHH!

All I could get for a whole day was classic!

Some of us still like Goo better.

It was just plain when the address line would still say "classic", while bringing the page up in Alabaster, and very confusing when it *changed* the address to Alabaster without even asking my permission!

Traveller in Time looking back
"How could they ask your permission?

You where not in the online list ! "

Traveller in Time has made a good point.

Traveller in Time trying to eat the point
"I think we all proved in our stickiness despite the servers falling appart.

(Has anyone fed the hamster tonight?)"

Even during the problems I may have set a record. I accessed Hootoo inside the Arctic Circle last week, although I was unable to log on. We should start a contest, who's up for a trip to the equator?

You may well have been beaten to the Arctic circle by one of the large Nordic contingent we have here on hootoo.

you can log on from the artic circle but not from deepest darkest yorkshire

....deepest darkest yorkshire

you forget that might interfer


land of and roundabouts

Now all we need is an Italic to come on here and tell us what actually happened...

Traveller in Time on his head
"Well, it seems quite obvious:
'Jim Lynn' is away on his hollidays, the servers wanted to join him. "

Now it all seems to be going very slowly