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

First of all, welcome to H2G2, the living, breathing encyclopedia of Life, The Universe and Everything (You'll see those words banded around a lot here, trust me on thiswinkeye )

My name is Aximili, and I am an Assistant Community Editor, which is basically a posh name for 'a person who helps new people (Newbies, if you prefer) get to grips with this site'. If you've looked around here before, you'll know how big and confusing it can be, so it's nice to know there's someone there to lend a friendly hand. I should know, I was new oncelaugh If you haven't had a good look around yet, what are you waiting for? Everyone around here is really nice, so just dive insmiley

If you just want to take things slowly, may I suggest you take a peek at A317459. That'll give you some idea of what you've got yourself intowinkeye

If you want to get right into the thick of it, you could do worse than looking around two of the busiest areas of HooToo (a pet name for H2G2) Askh2g2 and MiscChat. Good for finding interesting answers when you need them. Then again, if you're bored, the GamesRoom is always a good place to kill a few minutes/half an hour/an hour/a few hours (Adjust this for your attention span and boredom levelwinkeye )

(Keep with me, here, we're almost done, I promise)

You could also check out my colleague Feisor's Hints and Tips for New Researcher's page at A719840. Another handy page full of useful tidbits.

Last link (I promisewinkeye ) is a little pet project of mine. I'm compiling a list of the various groups and societies of HooToo at A20108837 . Take a look, there's bound to be somewhere there you're interested in. And if you see something that's not on the list, but you think deserves a mention, let me know and I'll add it pronto.

If there's anything else you want to know, or if you just fancy a chat, click the 'reply' button below this message and let me know. That's what I'm here forwinkeye

And now, I'm going to leave you with two of the most sensible and comforting words in the cosmos to remember whenever things bring you down: dontpanic

Sorry about that, NO idea what happened there. my smilies just went all to pot. If you want to know what they were, i'll be happy to repost that message