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

I've decided I'll give her a promotion for furthering the cause of thing....

Yeah good move, and some Ritalin wouldn't go amiss either

I'm posting here cos if I say anything in N3 its just going to be drowned out with tonights massed charge.

I reckon you're going to get 20k tomorrow sometime. So can I be the first to say, well done and good on ya mate

Oh, and get out of bed early, you nearly missed 10k remember. As I watched those final posts go down that day, I was worried that you'd miss the whole thing. We wouldn't want that to happen now would we

*manly*

Guess that means i should go to bed then...

BTW

N3 - I really like that. It' sjust so...so ...!!

Well I'm pleased you like it. It kind of makes you sound like an energy company or something, you know, the type of thing that goes *phut* and disappears over night leaving huge debts and bankrupt share holders all over the place


BTW I think you need to have a word to your troops about posting quality, I just read a whole page of "can I held" all posted using the back button technique.

*tut-tut-tut*

Should have read, "can I help"

bloody dyslexia

Yeah I just waded thru that not sure if it was a glitch or someone being over-enthusiastic with the "post" button.

hmm.. it appears once agin that we are behind in the stakes...curse having to *actaully* do some work rather than swan about on the net all day!

hmm.. it appears once agin that we are behind in the stakes...curse having to *actaully* do some work rather than swan about on the net all day!

hmm.. it appears once agin that we are behind in the stakes...curse having to *actaully* do some work rather than swan about on the net all day!

Blimey that was close

I'll look forward to reading the backlog, and no doubt to another titanic struggle for 30k in few months time

By a fraction of 1 LED I believe. (possibly 2) it really was close.

Fun though.

just think pretty soon both our threads will be as old as the millenium!

I was the one who got the 20k post. And then I immediately went over to N3 to say we'd done it, but I had some connection problems and I reckon there was a delay of about a minute before the page loaded.

I linked my message (I think) to 19978ish, and again had problems with page loading, and it showed up as 19985. My guess is that it was probably 2 blobs and about 4 minutes in it.

I doubt whether we will ever have a race like this again because the nature of the two threads is different. N3 is an ongoing conversation (and a good one to boot) which grows steadily day by day, whereas QO is a mixture of an intellectual challenge and an African head charge. The chances of the events coming together again like this is pretty slim.

Of course we've also got the problem that the bleeding things are so long now, that the loading times are going to be prohibitive. I can bearly get them to load on my machine at home. (S'pose I'd better get broadband)

Anyway, its all been good fun. And long may N3 continue in its quest to change the names of the days of the week!

* thinks Don Quixote and windmills *

So, a Guru now are we? Seems they'll let anyone in nowadays

What is the world coming too?

and the first person to say "a sudden and abrupt end if those two are involved." We shall mercilessly tickle to death with our feather desuters o doom.

Now I must get around to spidering the code for your page at some point. I really ought to work out how you did that h2g2 thing.


Changing the tack slightly, what do you think of some of the new ACEs? The aceforum has been getting rather a lot of pointless spam recently, which makes me think that some people really don't know what they are doing.

If you check it out at the moment you'll see a number of messages with the subject line "Helmantheblade", well thats me. Thats the main part of my ISP e-mail addy. I had an offsite e-mail conversation with sinistersean last night, and I think s/he has forwarded it to another ACE to forward onto the aceforum. This somehow makes me seriously dischuffed.

*sigh*

Hummm. toughie.

well the easy one out the way first.

the h2g2 dove thingy I knicked with permission from pheloxi's united frineds of h2g2 page. You are welcome to take the code from my page if yer like or take the original from UFoH2G2, if you ask pheloxi.

I suppose regarding the forwarded e-mail it is the question of permission that is really relevant. If they (sinister sean) had asked your permission to forward the e-mail and you had agreed then all well and good but if (as it sounds the documents were passed on and shared wth everyone well that's not right. quite what level of punitive reaction it should attract I have no idea.

As for the quality v quantity thing re: gaurding ACES.

It's funny I am quite happy to remain and ACE (although of late I feel as though I haven't been putting as much effort into it as perhaps I should be expected to.) Part of this is just RL pressures but then verybody has those, but also my ace greeting is a fairly lengthy series of links and stuff with some welcoming bumpf around the outside which i tailor to meet whomever i am greeting. It's fairly fluid. The problem I found for me was that everyone started designing these wlcoming "pages" full of links their ace greeting consited of no more than about 3 -5 line HI me aCE, These R links, Welcome, Have fun, sign off. It all seemed a bit well impersonal - all the same I let the people with the spiffy pages do more of thw work greeting ( as I was occupied elsewhere and started following up the ACE leads as a sort of trouble spot smoother-er and semi-guru-esue activities.

The plethora of new ACES who were coming in did seem as if, again to emphasise not that i felt like quitting, but that there were enough people around to habdle the job in hand.

Now whether or not quantity innths regards is equal to qaulity is I guess the un-written part to your question. I do wonder sometimes if the ACE forum hasn't gone a bit glib sometimes (lord knows I helped it do that sometimes!) Recently I've read what's going on and just tried to jump in when and where I could.

Maybe, and this is just my late-night musings - understand? mMaybe there should be some sort of definded waiting period before people take up the volunteer reigns? The disadvantages are obvious you may discourage new comers from intergarting as they have hithertoo done. I've seen some greater newbies almost instantly grab a volunteer badge and do tremendous things with it. I think frankie Roberto is a sub editor, I may be wrong, but I couldn't sub edit to save my life. Equally scouting so I dunno a waiting period might be too self-gratifying and ultimately serve as a detriment.

That said yes the spam is a wee bit annoying and I mostly just delete it all frommy e-mail anyway and go the site itself to pick up on anything interesing I see lurkng in my in-tray.

Clive

Wow - that's a long dirge!