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

You and I seem to have at least one. I saw the name appear on the list of people who have me on their friends list, and just had to check. You were there too!

And her I though [friend] didn't care any more!

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I had you on mine for a bit aswell, O, anticipating a return of difficulties, though I appreciate I've demonstrated little value to you as a friend since last year.

I will continue to read what you have to say though and appreciate the insight.

Take care,

Okay. I only wasted an hour finding out how to make that feature work.

I Had to lookup some of the old stuff I had forgotten and then figure out what I was doing wrong. I guess it helps to follow instructions, but that's never any real fun.

Yes, I'm sure [friend] will always care. I never doubted she did for a moment. It was the nature and quality of the care that I questioned.

And, after all, when we look back, we still have to ask ourselves who or what it was that was really the opposition. All things are what they are because of what they are and all things are always changing into something else.

It was the hope of that supposed truth that led us to do most of what we did. It is the recognition that change has a rate as well as a quantity that is the hardest to cope with.

For me, there has still not been enough quantity and the rate is nowhere near what I would hope it would be, but you know that I have trouble giving up hope as well as gaining it.

Barton

Barton, you're not nearly lazy enough. Rather than take the time and effort to try to figure out for myself how that feature worked, I just did a testuserpage on the U page of someone who already had it working, followed by a cut and paste, so I didn't have to actually *remember* how it worked.

Change does happen, even if the wheels of change seem to move exceedingly slow. And I think you're right when you say that [friend] will always care.

For better or for worse, is seems that many of us who had the option of returning have done so. We'll see what happens next.

I'm not sure that I'm really back. I have definite reservations about whether I will contribute to this place as I have in the past.

I'm here because several people who are very important to me are here (you and Chris among them) but I am not here as I was because I shared a dream that Douglas Adams' had made begin to happen.

Of course, there were many people who helped him make that dream start and continue. But, each of those people only had an approximation of his dream. The result was something I had to break with for reasons stated in various locations on h2g2.

I am not here to search for that dream, nor am I here to oppose it. I am here because these others are here.

Unfortunately, while I am here, I am also forced to uphold my reputation for long posts. Can't let the folks down, I guess.

Barton