Announcements
Created | Updated Jul 11, 2003
Meets
The NE USA Researchers Group is meeting this weekend in NYC and details are being finalised. To make this easy a yahoo group has been set up temporarily so those coming in to the city can connect with those who live there and are meeting people at Grand Central, Penn and hotels. If you're coming to the meet please sign up
Here.
If you're not yet signed up but would like to come to NYC for the meeting the page is here.Scottish xMas Extravaganza Glasgow 2001
S.M.E.G. 2001, aka is being held on Saturday 24th November in Glasgow.
Details can be found here.
Naturally, everyone is invited. There are 20 people signed up already, so the more the merrier.
Events have not been finalised as yet, but the suggestions are coming in and the page is updated regularly.Australian Meet: Melbourne.
Yet another upcoming event is the Melbourne mini-meet which is due to take place in the Public Bar of Young and Jacksons hotel starting at 7pm on 3rd December 2001
Apparently this well-known watering hole can be found, more-or-less, by following these directions:
Go to Flinders St Station.
Stand on the front steps under the clocks.
Look across the road.
No, not at the concrete horror - left a bit.
Left a bit more from the cathedral.
If you are uncertain of exactly where Flinders Street Station is try using Loonytunes description!
'The one that's painted a tasteful puke yellow.'
No official page appears to have been set up for this meeting of the Aussies and a Kiwi, but you can keep an eye on them in This forum.The Official h2g2 Winter 2002 Party
To quote Peta:
We've just started a page for people to sign up for the next official h2g2 party. It's to be held on Saturday 26th January 2002. We hope you can make it!
Venue: Central London, but no further details as of yet.
If you'd like to attend please RSVP on the party page, which you'll find here.
As of going to press there were already 31 researchers signed up a raring to go!Danish Meet-up
Our friends in Denmark are starting planning early for a proposed meet in Spring 2002! Visit the sign up thread or introduce yourself at the newly created Scandinavian Researchers Club.
Special Sites at this time
- purplejenny has set up the People for Peace page.
- a girl called Ben offers an insight into meditation on her The Loving Kindness Meditation page.
Important News from Twinkle
My old webspace provider is shutting down, so I have moved my stuff to
another server. I would like to inform everyone that they should update all
links to my Table Maker or Smiley Generator by replacing the
http://www.zyfect.com/users/twinkleelf/ with
http://www.eccentrix.com/misc/twinkle/.
For example, my new Smiley Generator is located at
http://www.eccentrix.com/misc/twinkle/smileytest.htm
New Sites of Interest
- Another collection of Post favourites has been collected into one place. You can now see who was rash enough to be interviewed by Monsy at the 1-2-1 Archive and other items by Monsy
- If you have been enjoying Hullabaloo's Vogon Poetry then why not drop along to his Fan Club.
If you have a fan club why not let The Post know and they will include a section devoted to these adoration pages in the Post Links page. - Did the Halloween stories draw to a succesful conclusion? Find out at the Scary Stories for Halloween page.
- The h2g2 venture has released a new games level and can be used, for want of a better word, at aka's web thing.. which is Here The editor has dropped over and can say it is worth looking at!
- The h2g2 staff have set up a central point for official h2g2 announcements. This can be reached by typing in 'Announcements' after the 'Guide/' section of the usual URL or by going to h2g2 Announcements
- The H2G2 Programmers' Corner is for if you want help with knowing the difference between Oracle SQL and Perl then this is the place for you!
- Visit the h2g2 Football league and join the interactive fun.
- The Website Developer's Forum is for discussing, comparing and general chat about creating and developing websites. Feel free to join right in with any questions or topics you'd like to put forward.
Links
The Post is pleased to introduce two new features.
- The Post Page of Useful Links1 hopes to provide you with all the essential links you will need within h2g2.
- The Post Page of h2g2 Clubs and Associations attempts to guide you to places of fun or interest. Please do check them out and let us know if we have missed any!
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