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

Life in DK can be very challenging.

Oh yes

Here snow is expected in couple weeks.

snow? in a few weeks?

it's only just gone

aye, we've had the worst summer since they invented summer

no bbq weather .. well .. hardly any ..

there's been a few nice days in April so I seem to remember
and a nice day in June

We had snow yesterday morning. And thunder. And lightning.

It was my colleagues birthday - and she swears she's never had wether like that on her b-day before



ps: on a second note, when i reply to a message I am told I am replying not to the message in question but to the second last - which is usually my own... I'm going to report it - again ( I am quite sure I reported it before). any of you having the same problem?

.. pardon, Pierce?? so .. there's a bit of software that tries to make you think you're talking to yourself? don't fall for that !! it's a conspiracy of computers trying to get us all turn ourselves in to the funny farm. don't let them win !! (* why doesn't anyone else notice the difference between confuser and computer is minimal ?? *)

oh, and do fight the fight cleverly .. obviously it's no use cleaving your computer with a battle axe ..

I should probably have mentioned that this bug only exists in the Pliny universe

I'm safely home in alabaster again

ah, right

that's why I never noticed it .. I couldn't get the hang of pliny so I never switched away from alabaster

I had to for a day or two until I transferred the good old alabaster-link to my great new

we discussed etch-a-sketch .. a fondleslab .. a tablet .. whatever

an a day keeps the pc away

All this tablet-discussion made me curious enough to borrow one to see how it works. No though.

Some people find tablets indispensable. What do you think?

my seems to like them .. I don't

They made an iPad Mini now - despite Steve Jobs' wishes - and Microsoft put one out on the market th*rsday. It comes with a keyboard so I don't really see the big difference between it and a regular portable computer

We'll have to wait and see what will prevail

Remember all the things that didn't? quadraphony, Grundig's casette tapes (slightly bigger than Pihilips'), 8track, Elcasettes, Digital Audio Tape, micro casettes - shall I go on?

Only vinyls survived - and only among the most enthusiastic afficionados

.. rubbish, most of it .. expensive toys, most of it ..

vinyl indeed changing a record every 15 to 20 minutes is more w*rk than turning on an iPod .. I have one of the first iPods , 40Gb, hooked to the noise box it stops after about 14 days continuous music

I can do longer than that, but not necessarily better

I tend to have about 20 songs on my playlist and then I listen to it for months.

The tablet is fun.