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

Hello Dunky!!
Hope you enjoyed your birthday!

I'm an ACE, which basically means I've volunteered for the 'official' job of meeting and greeting newcomers to the guide - a 'welcome mat' as someone said. I think they were being sarcastic when they did say it, but it's a fair description I guess. Except that not all of us are flat and hairy...
If you have any questions at all, then you can drop by my page (just click on my name) and ask, or go and ask all the ACEs at their homepage http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/Aces and they will do their utmost best to help you. Cos we're friendly people.

Hope you enjoy h2g2!

|M|

Hello Ming,

Thanks for the meet & greet, will get back to you if I have any questions. Think I might brush up on the GuideML before long though - always nice to have a new skill!

See you later

Dunky

Heya Dunky!
That's OK! Like I said, we're friendly people. (or try to be)

Good luck with GuideML. Something I ought to look at properly as well...

|M|

I see Ming's all ready given you an official welcome, but I thought I'd say hi as well.

By the way, if showing the code is not intentional on your user space, I THINK the problem might be that you've got to change the style from plain text to GuideML. If you edit your page, you'll see a radio button under the text that allows you to select which style you'd like to use!

Welcome and have fun at the site!

Thank you so much Sad, mad or bad? That's better, it was driving me round the bend. Such a simple thing to cure too...
Elly mentioned your name as someone to meet, via Musehome I think, so "Hello". I'm going to go and have a look in there, see what's going on.

Take care and have a fun weekend!

Oops. I meant the Kingdom of Balwyniti.

¦M¦

Don't worry about it at all. I actually AM a muse (although I don't think I've actually subscribed to any current conversations at the Musehome - the muse of bad poetry actually (and the title is very VERY apt ) but yes, if you wander down to the kingdom's dungeon, you'll find my alter-ego haunting the place

And hi Ming too!

Hi Sad mad or bad!
I'm sure you're not ~that~ bad at poetry...

¦M¦

Actually, I wrote an entry on it.

I love bad poetry . They're like really bad films - they renew my faith in human nature.

That's true. Good point Dunky.

¦M¦

http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/A456653

How do you do that cool .sig Ming?

Oh, I love your bad poetry entry!! Excellent! I hope it gets approved!!

It's a 'broken vertical bar' - if your keyboard is like mine, its on the top left-hand corner, not including 'escape'. It's got a ` and a ¬ on it as well, and to get ¦ you press control and alt and that button at the same time, and you get ¦. So there you go.

¦M¦

Thanks , it got accepted just before h2g2 went down; I think a sub-ed must have it now, but it's been at that stage for a while.

I don't have that button!

Ooh, ooh, I do! It's above my backslash (sounds painful) next to the Z.

|Dunky|

Oh,

~feeling let down~

it's broken on my keyboard. Hang on...

~thump~

Ah, it's broken now.

What?? You don't have it? You'll have to cut & paste these then... ¦¦¦¦¦¦¦

Ah. That's actually the | button, even if it has ¦ on it. Stupidly, on most keyboards, the button that types | has ¦ on it, and the button that types ¦ has | on it. I don't understand it at all...

¦M¦

¦¦¦¦¦¦¦ ! (cut and paste; no | button either )

¦Hoorah!

I can get mine by prssing the | and Alt Gr buttons at the same time!

¦¦¦¦¦ Ha! I'm much happier now

Alt Gr?

Wah, I'm keyboard challenged!