Gnomon's Space
Sail forth — steer for the deep waters only,
For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared to go
I first discovered h2g2 on 1 September 2000. I spent 16 years writing informative and sometimes amusing entries for this website. Unfortunately, the site lost its following due to excessively harsh moderation scaring away well-meaning regulars, and bugs in the software scaring away new writers.
The level of technical support provided is now almost zero. For example, when I worked out how to fix three of the minor bugs in the system, it took more than three years before I could persuade anyone to undertake the 5 minutes' work to implement the changes. That's been done now and those bugs are fixed, but the waiting has sapped my enthusiasm for the site and I'm not sure whether I'll ever get back to wanting to contribute again.
So I probably won't be writing any more articles here for the world to look at. You'll still see me around, as I use this site as a handy place to store stuff I'm thinking about.
In my years here, I met a lot of good, friendly people. Thanks to Douglas Adams for setting the site up and providing a vehicle for us all to get together.
Gnomon's Guide
I worked on Gnomon's Guide for a few years. This is where I kept my entries once they were finished:
Assorted Guide Links
- Conversations
- Front Page
- My Edited Entries
- Big List of My Entries
- My Recent Unedited Entries
- Find an entry to recycle
- Peer Review
For My Own Reference / Under Investigation
- The Great Pyramid and Irrational Numbers - Gnomon's Guide Version
- Minecraft - Breathing Underwater
- Napier Notes
- Rubik Cube Operators
- The Rubik's Revenge 4×4×4 Cube
- Walking
- Celtic Christian Era Notes
- Megalith Notes
- Megalith Glossary
- Music Entries
- Trip to Istanbul Future
- Gnomon's Moroccan Vegetable Tagine
- Irish Martello Towers
- Tolkien Miscellaneous
- The Hobbit First Edition
- Beren and Lúthien
- Tolkien's Writing Systems
- Ancient Greek Constellations
- Mahjong Tile Sets
- Trip to Istanbul 2018
- GuideML Clinic
- Linking in H2G2
- Fixing Pliny
- Fixing Ripley
- Gnomon Test Pages
- Gnomon's Guide to Extended Find
Tolkien
Miscellaneous
h2g2
My ConversationsLatest Messages
| Messages left for this Researcher | Posted |
|---|---|
| Sub-editing The Great Pyramid and Irrational Numbers | Jan 17, 2024 |
| Subbing Jadis | Jul 8, 2020 |
| Happy birthday Gnomon! | Apr 23, 2020 |
| Subbing Tolkien's Trees | Apr 20, 2020 |
| Subbing Strange Worlds | Jan 21, 2020 |
Conversations
| Conversation Title | Latest Post | Latest Reply |
|---|---|---|
| Youtube Report for October 2024 | No Posting | Last Week |
| September 2024: A Bit of a Slump, But These Videos Are Great | No Posting | Oct 9, 2024 |
| 19/5/2020 GB is 20! | No Posting | Sep 30, 2024 |
| Announcement 2024-04-28: h2g2 is 25 Today! | No Posting | Sep 12, 2024 |
| August 2024 Youtube Video News | No Posting | Sep 12, 2024 |
Gnomon - time to move on
Researcher U151503
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Most Recent Edited Entries
- The Great Pyramid and Irrational Numbers
- Napier's Bones - a 17th Century Aid to Calculation
- 'The Crow Road' - a Novel by Iain Banks
- An Introduction to Minecraft, the Video Game
- Jadis, the White Witch - a Character in CS Lewis's Narnia Stories
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