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

It's his last one, so come along if you can and say goodbye!

Last chance to see, and all that!

Well, I'll be there for sure!

shazz

So he won't come back after his tour?

You mean "at all?" - or "to H2G2?"

both, "at all" and "to his position"

Hi Bossel,

Mark will come back to London after he's been travelling. The BBC sometimes offer people a sabbatical, which means they offer a similar job within the BBC on their return if they'd like to take it. He's unlikely to come back to be Editor of h2g2 though. If you look at his site www.moxon.net you'll see his interest lies in being a writer, rather than an Editor, so I think this probably is the end of an era, and he won't come back to working within the h2g2 team.

So ....... who IS going to be the new editor in chief then?

Yes I've been to his site Rather got the impression that his home is the road

So it really is 'the end of an era'... sums it up pretty well!

Hi Trillian's Child,

We haven't made any decisions at all on this at the moment, because he's only just announced that he's leaving. Mark's going to be a very hard person to replace. What happens next will be discussed here over the next couple of months, and we'll let you know the plan when it's been decided.

If I may ask - is the position open to people with a German passport?

I'd vouch for Bossel. What are the qualifications?

Hi, back again, Saturday morning chores strike!

Well I'm not sure about the German passport bit, but I definitely won't get into that one at the moment!

Qualifications? Oh goodness knows! Maybe I should be asking the Community that question. What do you think makes a good Editor of the Hitchhiker's Guide?

The urge to take the staff out for long boozy lunches once a week.

The ability to drink numorous pints of Guinness?

The patience to read through awfully long rants peppered with accusations and misunderstandings, without damaging office furniture and other BBC property in the process

Talking of furniture - *puts a 'reserved' sign on Mark's desk*

Does anyone know how much Mme Tussaud's charge for a wax copy is? And does Bush House provide some space for a nice pillar somewhere around the entrance?

Something should be done shouldn't it?

*Starts designing wallpaper with the 'Moxons' left over from a previous Dutch Meet to sell at exhorbitant prices to h2g2ers*

Hmmm - well 'I' have a UK passport Bossel

shazz

Awww, h2g2 won't be the same! But at least the BBC are being flexible jobwise, that's pretty cool