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

I did. See http://www.h2g2.com/A179912 (has existed for 9 weeks). I have added the ones I suggested in this forum, will add the others sometime.

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Sorry, meant to suggest some more. Umm.....

REGISTER: What you do to get access to the computer.
ACCUMULATOR: The part of your desk where the In-Box is.
STACK POINTER: A guy who goes around indicating where the piles are.
CODE SEGMENT: When a cipher is shredded.
INTERRUPT: What people always do when you're playing solitaire.
MACHINE LANGUAGE: A series of beeps and whistles.
ASSEMBLER: The guy who puts stuff together.
FIREWALL: The wall you stand against when you're in front of the firing squad.
SERVER: The one who tosses the tennis ball in the air and hits it with a raquet.

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Direct Memory Access - i am drilling a hole in your skull (hehe)
CP/M - (showing my age, but..) too rude anyway
PET - Personal Electronic Transactor (no, this can't be true)
Coral - intricate system of interconnecting routes which breaks down easily
Delphi - an Oracle, famed for giving conflicting advice
Oracle - Delphic in the conflicting advice it gives
RDBMS - sounds rude, but why?

Oy, what are you saying about me?? I don't give conflicting advice.

Now, everyone just stand up, sit down, be quiet and carry on the conversation...

Thanks once again!

SCSI Driver - Way to get a Spanish taxi.

I've finally come up with one.
Space Bar - A social club for aliens

Thanks everyone. I'm in the process of updating the page again.

FUNCTION KEYS: The ones which aren't broke yet
SCROLL LOCK: To avoid others looking at your secret scrolls
HOME: A king's castle is his home
CONTROL: What you never have with micros**t products
SHIFT: What you have to do when someone else wants to use the computer
TAB: Where you bet on how long it will be until your computer crashes

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That's the trick with these clever and popular colaborative efforts, they turn out to be a whole lot of work!

I'm just about keeping on top of things at the moment. Very busy time of year though with Coursework deadlines, homework deadlines and Christmas present buying deadlines (oops not started yet). It's a good job I know where my priorities lie

Yay, I thought of one!

iBook: Required reading for opticians

I'd just like to say a massinve thanks to everyone for their efforts so far. The page now has well over 300 definitions. Don't let this stop you from adding more though as they are ALL welcome and wanted.

Croz

Especially the stupid ones.

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Hey, mind if I add a couple?

Serial port : an unlikely but delicious combination;
RAMBUS : a form of public transport run by sheep.

I'll add some more if think of any.

Don't mind at all, if anything I actively encourage it!

Thanks for your suggestions, they've been added to the page.

And remember, you can continue to add suggestions even now!

Keyboard= That thing you put your keys on in the kitchen.

Mother*board: what you say when it falls on your head.

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JOTD: You're just jealous because the voices are talking to me

Yay! I've not updated the dictionary for a while

Thanks!