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Finally!
Posted Jul 10, 2003
After a long time since first hearing bits of the radio series, and after seeing the TV series tribute week on BBC 2 a year or so ago, I've finally gone ahead and splashed out on buying the radio series!
It comes with all 12 episodes, 2 special edition ('The Collector's Edition') Documentuary-style CDs - Douglas Adams` Guide to the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a special edition history booklet and a nice Collector's Edition presentation box. I'm pretty sure it's the one that the h2g2 (or the Beeb's Cult TV site - I can't quite remember) gave away in a competition a while ago - it looks the same anyway.. According to my visual memory of it, which granted is very, very vague.
Each CD has its own sleeve which fits inside the box with a clear window revealing the 'screen' image on the sleeve. (The whole box set is in the graphical style of that wholly remarkable book. 
)
CDs 1-6 have the twelve episodes on them, and CDs 7 & 8 are the documentuary programmes; First, a 'history of' programme styled with a sort of play-on the introduction of the radio series itself, and a radio interview on Radio Four which Douglas did.
I also bought myself 'The Deeper Meaning of Liff'.
By the way - BBCShop has it for around £40 (£42.42, if I remember rightly. 
), but I bought it for around £32 from Amazon.
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The Beeb
Posted Jun 30, 2003
Because of the Tennis, as usual, the Beeb's schedule naturally gets a bit jumbled up - but at 9pm when I was ready to watch Spooks (regular as clockwork, on the dot. ), I was told very politely by the BBC One announcer (announcetress? 
) that Spooks will be postponed this week, and Eastenders will be shown instead.
Eastenders - prioritised over Spooks.
What a load of Dingo's Kindeys...
I hate soaps... Damn this viewing majority. If only they had more sense and the power to think for themselves and make the ratings for all the soaps in the world sink into redundancy. 
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I suppose it's about time I wrote in this...
Posted Jun 30, 2003
I've been back here on h2g2 for about 3 days now.
And I still haven't updated my h2g2 journal or space... .
Well, for anyone who hasn't found it out yet, I forgot my h2g2 login details, but now have them back, thanks to the great h2g2.support.
What to write about?
*Glances around*
*Notices the 'Add a Journal Entry' prompt text...*
## "We all lead interesting lives, and your Journal is the place to tell everyone exactly what makes your days buzz by. Here you can talk about what you're thinking of doing, what you think about what you're thinking of doing, and when you're thinking of doing it, because, unlike Guide Entries, Journal Entries are associated with specific points in time."" ##
Well then.
I'm thinking of coding the rest of a script I'm writing. The script is basically a downloadsite back-end. The kind of stuff that runs sites like C|Net's downloads and such. With a few more features.
When am I thinking of doing this? Well, last month, but I've been too busy. And I've been putting it off. I'll go do some coding now... That is, when I'm confident that the dark blue (in Goo) threads in the myconversations box (which for me is a very convenient Opera 7.11 panel) are eliminated and I've updated myself on all the backlog.
I'm also thinking of changing my Linux distribution from Mandrake to RedHat/SuSE/Debian. Feel free to sway my decision. Or not.
When?
Soon. Very soon. Once the above script is complete, and I've backed-up all of my files. I'll needs lots of blank CDs for this. Not only for the back-ups, but for the Linux Distro itself.
What do I think about what I'm thinking about doing and when I'm thinking about doing them?
I think I've got too much stuff to do. This will take a while. Erm.
*Notices the length of the scrollbar on the text-box*
Fair enough, that'll do.
I've some more threads to reply to before I can go and code anyway...
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Laaaaayla.....
Posted Feb 18, 2003
What a great song. 
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Goodbye, cruel internet connection...
Posted Feb 14, 2003
..Whereart thou hi speed connection thou art promising me? Thou hast been cruel to what thee deem as a 'power user', but thy shalt return in the morrow, no doubt for some h2g2 action thy hath been missing out on
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