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Party
Posted May 30, 2000
I'm having a housewarming party next Saturday!
And I have found a name for it thanks to a lot of help.
It's called Cyy's Total Perspective Vortex or Cyys Totaler Durchblickstrudel
... anyway, one is supposed to gain some perspective in a house-warming party, isn't one?
Anybody who doesn't have any Durchblick, nevermind, bring Apfelstrudel
(sorry, irresistible pun, but makes sense only in German, as a Strudel is either = vortex or = kind of southern German pie, most famous and delicious with apples.
Formal announcement will be tomorrow ... I'm just too tired now .... *uhhh*
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Calculations
Posted May 28, 2000
Being quite new here, I still wonder ...
Newcomers have numbers around 130 000 right now, assuming that means so far 130 000 people have registered with H2G2 until now, further assuming that only 10 % "have come to stay", the others having lost interest very quickly. That makes 13 000 users. Further assuming that in order to be called a "regular user" you would have to spend around 20 min per week logged in to H2G2 (most users more I guess, but less than that wouldn't really make sense, so it should be a good, if careful average). 20 min are the 504th part of the week, so if you divide 13 000 / 500, you have 26 as the average number of participants online at any given time.
Oooops ..... I must have made a mistake ..... obviously, 42 is the correct answer.
However, there seem to be between 26 and 42 participants online at any given time, so both calculations and estimations seem to be not all bad. Still, they seem to me very careful ... a kind of worst case scenario, so to say. Anybody else who has thought about this and made calculations of their own?
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Revelations ;-)
Posted May 27, 2000
so, let's try this for a change. As promised in the introduction, here comes an, in my opinion, interesting thought. To you, being old hands in this it might be quite common. But I was just thinking about what to write on my new homepage. Now, I do not really hold the belief that I have anything of real importance to tell the world and the web is so huge that any piece of information or communication put there is unlikely to be found by a lot of people. It's more like a message in the bottle thrown into the ocean. Still, even as a child, I found this concept of posting very exciting. And I must confess that quite unexpectedly, I found myself in a similar excitement when addressing the world on this my humble homepage 
. So, I was wondering whether it is quite normal for any human being to experience this thrill of potentially infinite communications. Then I was wondering if, by trying to establish communication on the web, the individual experiences a flash of joining, or being joined to this great network of computers and minds. A kind of (in terms of Sci-Fi novels still very primitive) neural shunt with the largest network of our times? Has anybody else similar experiences, similar thoughts? or am I just becoming overexcited, perhaps with the onset of a weekend depression? I would like to hear any comments you might have. I also want to add that English is not my native language, and though I think it's good enough for you to get an idea what I am talking about, the words may still sound a little bit clumsy .
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