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

oh dear, probably even worse than

did any of you guys sign in to the new bbc-thingamagic yet

I didn't. The rest of the BBC is probably too sane for me.

you will have to at some point just to be able to access hootoo

That's a pity.

Dear Pierce the

I have forgotten what I had to do.!! Could you give me an idea of what we had to do please. Thank you so much.
Very sincerely,

Christiane
AR80

3/I/2010 17.20 GMT

i would love to, christiane, but i am not sure i have got it right myself and would not want to direct you in the wrong direction

but as soon as i am sure i will gladly help you, of course

Thank you so much Pierce the

I would hate to lose my h2g2 family. I must ask my mnetor what to do.

Happy New Year,

Christiane,
Ar80

4/I/2010 16.35 GMT

Christiane:

Gnomon has a tagline that says A60420098 is the right place to go for instructions.

I think this is fairly simple. But then, I think I've done it.

Dmitri

i was directed to

http://id.bbc.co.uk/users/help/

it *seems* to w*rk but i am still not sure

When the time comes, we'll all be redirected to another screen where we can fill out the information the site wants. I'm not going to worry unduly until that time comes. :-0

we will

There are 43 characters in my name. Hopefully I can think of something shorter, to get it down to 30 or less.

great folk like us(modestly put) should be given leeway

I totally agree.

see! great minds DO think alike


I'll see what happens to my tagwhen the switch happensI ain't loosing sleep over it
but I won't put them on my xmas card list

But I'm not on your Christmas card list either, prof.

could be
email addy on my P/S

re 250:

sorry for asking again, but is this true? will we be redirected

don't know if this will help Pierce, I had it sent by a hootoo friend and at the end Yes! you do have a link to click to show them you got it

This is the easiest way:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2009/10/welcome_to_bbc_id.html

Scroll down, as if to reply to the blog.

Above the first reply you will see: Reply or Register, click on Register.

Now, remember when you opened your Hootoo account?

It will ask for your name; this should be the same name you used to open your hootoo account.

They will ask for your email address - this should be the same as the one in your 'details' in hootoo.

They will then ask for your online name: i.e. Prof Animal Chaos (it seems we might have to drop all our dots and dashes and other punctuations for a time).

Oh, and somewhere in there, they will ask for your password

If all goes well, you will receive an email of confirmation - careful, it might go into your junk mail.

Read the confirmation email and follow any instructions - I can't remember if you have to click on a link to confirm you email address. After that you can either just browse, or leave the blog site.

thanks prof, i think i got it this time