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

Ummm... I think you need to ask Peta http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/U24 or Mark Moxon http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/U13 about it. I'm not sure what can be done about it though...
Good luck and all the best of everything in getting this sorted!
(needahopefullookingsmiley)


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Thank you Ming Mang

Several passing researchers and ACEs are offering ideas and support. If it works out and I get my old space back, I'll dedicate this space to offering suggestions to people in a similar peril.
In the meantime please help yourself to . I have plenty of it here in the lifeboat.

GreyDesk - feeling but a little more hopeful now

Hah, that's what I did! But I quite like being stupidgirl, so I'm staying here by default...This is actually the second time I've 'lost' myself, so there are three of me wandering around somewhere... Anyway, good luck, and if you get back, let me know how you did it!

Good, I'm glad there are others out there who know more than I do... restores faith in human nature...
Good luck to both of you with getting your identities back.

¦M¦

So .....
Margaritas, sour cream and hedgehog flavoured crisps with guacamole; now you're asking for cookies? D'you want fries with that?
Some people!
If it's any consolation (No, I know it's not.) after I had achieved re-entry [with no small expenditure of ingenuity and a little help from that nice Mr. Moxon ] h2g2 threw me out. One day "Welcome plaguesville, make yourself at home, plaguesville; three bags full plaguesville."
I logged out.
Next day: goo gone, but my page and name there for all to see; "Hello unknown hitchiker, you cannot post to a forum until you have registered."
Tcha!
Don't let them think you are prepared to accept that you have contributed to the problem. It's them! (or "they"). They're out to get us!

Ah-ha. Posted this earlier but it hasn't appeared yet. Told you they're out to get us.

I've been wandering aimlessly around h2g2 trying to find help and advice to see if there was anyting I could do to get myself out of the mess. I guess not, I'll have to wait until the italics arrive back at the towers on Monday, let them have a good laugh at my situation, and then see where we go from there.

One useful thing I have discovered on my travels is that UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHOULD YOU EVER, EVER HIT THE "LOGOUT" BUTTON. This deletes your cookie and if you haven't got a BBC identity you will not get back in! My situation exactly.

GreyDesk - feeling but having quite a nice time as people come up to commiserate

Now that you mention it .....
I'd been investigating the Zaphodista references, and one of them invited inspection of a page with the caution that callers *should* log out otherwise no one else would be able to access the page (or something technical like that). As I always do as I'm told, I did.
There seems to be a pattern developing. Have we got some anti revolutionaries at work?
That settles it. I'm gonna sign up now.

You ain't going to believe this....

Just read whoose sent this posting.

H'mm ...
Where's the [black intoxicant with fluffy pale top] book of records? Must check for multiple personalities.

try not to worry, I'm on my third go as well! (Hence the name!)I've found it also helps to remember my password...(D'oh!)Everything was fine til the takeover....N'emind. to cheer you up!

Absolutely. Everything was fine until the takeover. Even after the takeover I had no problems, just hit the bookmark and you're in to h2g2.

Problem came when I deleted the cookie. The next time I click my bookmark to h2g2 and say "hello h2g2 its me", the BBC answer, "Hello, who the f*ck are you? Registration this way please sir" - hence the second identity.

Repeating the mistake to lose my newly minted (and about 10 hours old) identity, causing me have to create a third personality, is just too embarrassing to talk about.

GreyDesk(v3.0)

BTW fancy a glass of I'm offering it too all who commiserate with my predicament

Aw, fanks, don't mind if I do...
Yes, I have to say that I was also quite embarrassed. After the changeover, i couldn't get back in, so registered a new persona...busied around telling everyone who I was...Then managed to find my OLD self (threeoftwo) so crowed mightily about how clever I was...Then lost it again. So I give in. I do feel a little teensy bit better now I know I'm not the only one, though! (Although I have been informed that my state of blondeness is permanent and has nothing to do with my hair colour...)
I'm now off to spend a few hours trying to make my page a little bit more interesting... it took me about a month to figure out guideML last time, but at least I know where the clinic is this time.
*sips daintily at

You are very welcome to the We also have and here for your delectation.
I just checked out your previous self and am impressed by your grasp of GuideML. I must learn this tool when one of the three of me gets back to my original identity.
GreyDesk

(May I offer you a refill?...)

Oooh, yes please.
Hmm...Still don't get this guideML thingy. Lot's more needed, maybe it will make more sense when I'm virtually drunk. I've had to take a break before I throw my 'pewter across the room, I keep getting 'bad closing element....' And it's SUCH a good job I'm not at work tomorrow, h2g2=toodamnaddictive!

Hello... I'm back to my original and v self

Its easy to get an old identity back. You e-mail the italics (address on the help pages) and they will give you all the necessaries. In my case the problem was the case sensitive nature of the BBC login process

Anyway, celebratory and all round

GreyDesk(v1.0)

Ah, well done, congratulations! I'm staying where I am, I like it...