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

For 10 days this time, to a rural area of Canada with no Internet. Just letting you know that's why I'm ignoring you, particularly if you're Leo and the New Yorker uni project, or if you are a contributor to . Hum. Anyway... I got a "new" computer, by which I mean an eight-year-old computer running Windows NT. I mean to install Solaris, but I need to buy some parts and wait for my Solaris DVDs to arrive (because I don't have the disk space for a 10 GB download on any of my computers), so until then I've been playing Spelling Jungle, my favourite game from when I was 6.

I've also decided that I have two new career options to explore: lighting technician at a rock concert or one of those people who catches criminals and terrorists and things online. I read an article about it in the paper and decided it was a pretty glamorous job.

Anyway, see you all on 29 June.

Have fun!

Any particular rural part of Canada? (recognising of course that that means most of the place.)

A rural part of Canada in British Columbia.

Hope you have a good time.

Look forward to reading about it in

Do have fun!

(I say that because I presume this is a vacation, though you make it sound quite miserable. )

Oh, it is fun. I just will miss the internet for that great length of time.

Yes - and for just the length of rehab withdrawal, too.

Traveller in Time counting
"Hmm, that would be about 240 hours without internet, most give some impressive backlog

While you are in the woods, perhaps take a look at how the sawdust can be used as fuel "

I hope the 'xams went well.

Catching criminals etc., eh? Maybe you can join the famous Mounties! There's some special beer that they have to drink. Unfortunately I can't remember what it's called. Anyway have a good time.

The exams of which I've gotten the results (the rest of the results don't come till July) went extraordinarily well, actually; I was surprised.

People find it entertaining to tell me to join CSIS, the Canadian Special Intelligence Services (I think that's the right name?). I'd make a terrible secret agent in reality, though - I'm not very good at leading a double life!