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

Just thought I'd stop by... Have a mufflewhump!

I see you've not yet chosen a nickname... I don't know about you, but I tend to find names easier to remember than numbers, though there's nothing wrong with being Researcher 20whatever for awhile. However, if you want to change it to something a bit more personal, then look for the Preferences button, click it, and type whatever you want to be known as in the top box. (The location of the Preferences button varies according to the background. If you've got a white background with a sort of moss green at the top no matter where you are, it's the second button from the right in both the upper and lower bands. If the background is white with bands of color on the top and sides that are green as you are reading this, but red or blue elsewhere, it's in that black box--I believe the second from the bottom. If your background is blue, then I'm not sure where it is, but it's somewhere in the goo...)

My name's Amy Pawloski (but you can call me Amy, or Amy P (there's a few Amys on here) or paperlady) and I'm an ACE, or Assistant Community Editor, and we help out new people, and try to make them feel welcome. Here's a couple of good places to check out, if you're just starting--

Thanks, Feisor, for this: Hints and Links for New Researchers (A719840)

Someplace you can meet a lot of different people very quickly! pheloxi just asks that, if you want to be signed up fairly quickly, you use the "become a member" here conversation: United Friends (A703126)

If you want to be able to tell very quickly when someone has posted a conversation to your space, you can subscribe to your space, and the conversation will show up in your most recent conversations list. Interested? Good Here's how you do it...

Down below the main portion of your space, but just above your journal, there is a set of three links. They look like this (except they are centered, and look like links):

Click here to see more Conversations
Click here to be notified of new Conversations about this entry
Click here to stop being notified of new conversations for this entry.

If you click on the center one, any new conversations will become visible to you the next time you go to your space. (You can subscribe to other people's spaces and to entries, too, and it works the same way.)

If you have any questions, about anything (well, maybe not *anything*--I'm not *that* smart) you can click on reply to talk to me in this thread, or you can click on my name up there in the subject box and you will be taken to my space, where you can learn what a mufflewhump is (since I gave you one at the very beginning)