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

Yes, and that back end needs some serious proctology, I can tell you.

So is fiddling with our names really possibly dangerous?

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What bug do we want fixed now? I vote for the MP list.

That's related to Yikes, and to other back end bugs. That ones more difficult

Aargh. I tracked down my long name, but I daren't use the "Settings" page because it insists that I change my skin away from Plain to Alabaster, Brunel or Goo, and I don't trust the system to let me change back afterwards. (sorry)

Back end bugs... are they the daggy ones?

Try it in another account Peet.

How do you mean? I can get to the "Settings" page by temporarily switching to Brunel, but the "Skin" drop-down doesn't include a "Plain" option, so when I submit the new name I'd have to pick a non-Plain skin at the same time.

Could you not then just edit the URL back from 'brunel' to 'plain'?

[Hires to simmer a pot of raw apostrophes on the stove. A violent gust of wind from the dark and stormy night blows the door open and extinguishes the fire.]

Lengthening names looks like fun, but I can't think of any lenghteneres that won't look .

It would screw up my defaults, including my "Stylesheet". (A feature only available in "Plain" )

I think the Editors tools can be used to alter screen names - usually to set it back to the default.

Of course this would be a gross abuse of slanty powers...

The pain with Plain stays mainly with the insane.

[I think she's got it.
I think she's got it.]

...but fun, though. Admit it

Dr. Zen, did you notice that when you lengthened your name you lost all your slantiness...?

I shouldn't have been slanty I logged out and used h2g2 editors to post the announcements.

I just figured you were offering a new slant on things.

If you happen to be in there again, and looking for a bit of gross misconduct, I wouldn't mind my name being changed to:

Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista)

i'm going to take my time and do it later, as at the moment i'm looking for something else to guru, most of the house was guru'ed this morning as was the chickens, cows and pigs, the postman was a bit worried when I guru'ed him but postmen are strange anyway so it did'ent matter

*Opens Opera browser

Performs Gross Misconduct

Closes Opera*