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

Brilliant! Thank you.

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*passes Reef a bucket*

Thanks, I'll keep it incase any more ickle wickle sweetiekins comes this way

*Sigh*

Apologies to Jim Lynn if this was all his own work (and actually I suspect this tweak _was_ his own work)... but I got the chance to see the towers from the inside a couple of weeks ago, and one of the things that amazed me was the sheer scale of the DNA operation nowadays... There were literally dozens of people in there working away on various aspects of DNA and who have either never posted or never admitted their identity...

It's not a one-man show anymore

well, people have got to bake the biscuits

Ah. I wondered how they managed when the number of Italics plummeted a while back. They have Spaces working for them: what the old printers called "friars" (after the white friars -- patches of white in a page of print).

I think 'fryers' might be more apt in the Towers...

B

In fact, come to think of it, wasn't Ashley Stewart-Noble last sighted working in a McDonalds?

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Ashley's moved all of twenty feet from the hootoo team... He's still working for the Beeb, just not for hootoo (When you type something into the BBC search engine it's his job to copy & paste your request into google then type up a list of responses for you .

And just to clear up a point - hootoo itself only has our italics - all the others were working on other DNA-based projects, messageboard coding, etc.

Traveller in Time peeking in shadows
"For what I see there are three kinds of teams working on the DNA site,
--Each site has its own *Hosts*, the teams creating the Edited entries, and keeping the users on track.
--A *Technical* team, coding the properties for each site on the DNA servers. Mainly invisible as not _public_ present on the site .
--The *Moderators* an 'external' company reviewing complaints and for some sites everything. Explicitly _not_ present on any account."

"(When you type something into the BBC search engine it's his job to copy & paste your request into google then type up a list of responses for you winkeye ."

and I thought it was just guess work

What a lot if rubbish

The only thing I had noticed was that the brackets in my conversation list were a different colour

off to play with new feature.

who what and why 42

I might be reading the first post wrong, but didn't it always do that? When you clicked however many new posts it took you to the first post you hadn't read?

Cat - baffled...

If you clicked on however many new posts in the 'my conversations' popup window, it took you to the page with the most recent unread post, but not to the post itself - meaning that you had to possibly sift through up to 19 very long posts, and it can be difficult to remember which one you left off on in a fast-moving discussion. Now the system takes you to the most recent post, not just the top of the page it happens to be on.