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

I'll look forward to reading it.

The weather is much milder here today, too. Although the beautiful crisp winter skies of the past two days have been replaced with more of the dull, grey overcast we had over Christmas. I think I like it more when it is too cold too snow and much too cold for freezing rain. At least you can sit indoors and read without having to put a light on. But at least this weather is kinder to the little animals who have to live outside in it.

JTG

Dear JTG having problem in London with transmission. Very difficult to bring on anything,even this thread.
Have an Entry # A2194599?s_fromedit=1 Conclusion etc. just the beginning.

This is how far I got today. Now I know how to write directly on the Entry page, go back and continue, edit, delete etc... Also I print what I wrote, and now I just do it this way. Only I don't have it in my computer data, only through dna.--

Question: you are using some smileys I don't know how to do it, in the last posting!???

Weather got into the 20s, great! Couple of days Spring again.
Gecko

I've been having trouble with h2g2 as well for the past few days. I've been getting all sorts of strnge messages about XML promlems, and so on; and frustration getting anything to load, especially conversation threads. It seems better this afternoon.

The smileys are 'doctor', 'mouse', and 'brr'.

Today was very grey, with lots of wet snow.

JTG

As you see: the weather gave us a great break, all day I was running to do things, which were not done in the cold.
So I did not write more, but now I am doing it. ( 6PM)

I had exactly the same type of troubles with XML and Page can not be seen, etc.
Was a misery! I think some times on the week ends they do some "work" there, because happened other times also similer way.

Let's see Thanks for the smileys!

Back to w*rk now to # A2194599?s_fromedit=1 to continue
( finish?)

This is wonderful, that I can do it this way. Now is coming the best part: seeking and finding help to eliminate sufferings. {sun} ??? smiley???

Gecko

What a nasty day! Lots of horrible wet snow... and so grey! Ugh!

I think it's early bedtime tonight.

JTG

Hope you had a Good Night rest! ( dreaming of )

We got it again. Verrry cold, snow and much more coooold. Straight from the Artic Pole--- through Canada ( apology) This is what needed to finish the :

" CONCLUSION etc." article for the benefit of MANKIND ( human/animals)... few more smoothing corrections to add, and than let it go perhaps to Collaborative Writing-workshop.???

Beside lot of other things happend: Sold my old car, last night said Good Bye!

Today a very kind young man and his very big dug me out. I paid the too! Loved to play snowballing!

I also saw the other night on TV: In Manitoba immens amount of snaks. In springtime they come out and go anywhere! They like the Library!
Gecko

It's been very cold here again. It's been quite a few years, I think, since the temperature has plummeted like this, and stayed so cold.

The dawn sky was full of ducks today. I can't remember ever seeing so many. They were racing about, back and forth along the shore. The geese were doing their morning business lower and slower, while the air above them seemed to be filled with ducks, ducks, ducks.

Congratulations on selling your old car. It can be very bothersome having to go through all that's involved with selling things. I'm glad that's settled.

I think I've seen that thing with all the snakes. If it's the same thing I'm thinking of, there are thousands and thousands of garter snakes that come out of their winter quarters and slither all over the place.

That was nice of the man and the dog to lend you a hand like that. There are some very nice people about, but they tend to get overlooked a lot of the time. It always seems to be the annoying people who get our attention.

JTG

Here I am, as I see you just posted!
Thank you: I don't have to tell more. Same here! Record cold, so they say,--- since 100 years!
Last night was so bad, I could not sleep because of the noise of the totally brutal wind.
Finally after midnight the alarm of the Carbon-monoxide "night hawk" CO went off.

It was only because for a few seconds we lost power, but that sets the alarm off. Though made me to move down to the storm room. It was one Hell Of a Night! Below - 21 Celsius, and the heating was just crazy, eighter to much or too little. Finally under a goosdown blanket got some sleep. But tired all day!
The artic wind just keep doing his brutality!
In Alaska is not as cold!!! ( This here is the same latitude as ROME in Italy!)
It is amazing, that the birds survive this! Well, I feed them though it is a task to get dressed as an eskimo! Today the temp. came up to -10 Celsius, and I was happy to see the RISING trend of "balmy" air!

Yes, there are nice people too. The young man came to visit me again with the ( 95 lb) and will do also some more work for me, while I can play with the !

The car selling was easy: a friend bought it, he wanted this car a long time! It is a good car!
I decited if the title of my second article is the CONCLUSION------than I have come to the conclusion! But it can be said in so many ways yet: it has to have a POSITIVE finale!
Don't worry JTG: it will be done: the right way!
Gecko

This terrible cold weather has its grip on the eastern half of the continent. This morning I heard that even the Inuit people are changing plans and cancelling activities because it is too cold even for them. The report said that one of the events cancelled was igloo building. When its too cld for Inuit to build igloos... that's cold!

JTG

So much for that! With difficulties, but we Survived
though it is very quiet the NEWS: about how many unfortunate people did not make it!???

The cold is gone, I went out yesterday. Today had some snow now is raining or what ever is coming down! Temp: 32 F.
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Here is something to read if you have nothing better to do:

Submitted to Collaborative Writing Workshop TWO articles:

"Short Study about AIDS/HIV" Entry # A2185184

"Conclusion after the study of AIDS/HIV" Entry # A2194599

Review Conversation at F57152?thread=369748
What do you think???
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Now I am going to write about much more enjoyable subject:
My Half way over the Globe trottings!! gecko's he-he-he

Many stories with geographic informations: spycing up with anthropoly
notes the way I saw it! Gecko

That's a lot of work! Ford's Towel makes some good suggestions. He may have a point about trying to include information about a lot of different topics. It might be simpler to focus more closely on the main subject, as some readers may get lost when you bring in a lot of different ideas.

Have you thought about trying HEADER tags to introduce new ideas. That way readers will know in advance where you are leading them, and how the new ideas relate to the main theme. Another advantage with HEADERs is that they make long Entries more readable. Using them, perhaps you could combine your two essays into a single entry.

Hope this helps.

JTG

Dear JTG! Thank you, thank you! Very good, very good!( Am I crazy to say everything twice?-)---Good suggestions, shall be followed!

To Fords Towel's note I replied, perhaps you can read it also that I don't have to repeat ( like before!!) ( he-he-he) Gecko giggle.<;-D>

Further on my reply: the truth, the whole truth is VERY complicated. But the simplified abbriviations makes it more exeptable for humans. And of course much less w*rk to present such info.s,
therefore I will do exactly what both of you saying, because I agree.
The HEADER technique I don't know, if you show me in an example I'll appreciate it.
Summa summarum: Collaborative Writing Workshop is very appealing to me!

My personal part of this msg. ( to Canada) here again is the weather, because what Nature is doing with us and for us is really a trying time.
Yesterday the water from above came down in every possible way known so far, and today the struggle with thick ice was not for enjoyment. ( no smiley for that!)
The temp. will not hit the melting point, not today and not in the near future. But we'll get more frozen stuff!
Between the expenses of snow/ice removal and the heating cost with fuel and electricity is surpassing any expectations!

Now is coming a better part of the day/night : close the curtain and hit the sack! are coming to lift the beaten up spirit into the world of to forget the brutal outside world of ice, snow, frozen rain, hail, wind, Noreasthern storms etc. in this God-forsacken part of the Globe!
Gecko

Think of HEADERs as chapter titles.

Chocolate (A177059) is an Entry which uses the HEADER tag to define each section. It covers a lot of information; the HEADERs tie everything together.

In Tibetan Diaspora (A644230), I tried to use the titles in each HEADER (although there are only three) to make a connection between the Tibetans' suffering in the section called 'Tibet Lost' and it's relevance to Western people in the section called 'Tibet Discovered'.

The HEADER tag lets you arrange information like files in a filing cabinet: It can simply name different content or it can establish relationships between different ideas.

This morning started out bright and sunny; but now the grey snow clouds are coming back again.

JTG

JTG plse forgive me, I wrote tonight to Jimi X, our mutual friend. The conversation is under the title on my page: SEARCHING FOR A GURU if you read it, shall give you the reason what I did.

I'll come back to the Header, it surely is a very good idea, however I don't know if I want to keep so much stuff there, perhaps is better just make the whole thing shorter!

It seems one can get use to the nasty cold, ice, snow-- this is the human. ( Had a better day with sunshine, treachereus driving while protected from the biting NORTHWEST wind!
Good snooze time now!
Gecko

Having fun with your writing is the most important thing. Guide ML can be fun if you feel like playing with it. But it doesn't matter if you don't. Ideas are what count... and having friends to chat with.

Jimi X makes a very good point about the problems of too many GML tricks: Some do not work with all browsers, or work in ways you may not expect. Also, they make pages load more slowly, which may make visitors too impatient to wait.

JTG

Dear JTG thanks for your kind reply! I feel like getting rid of a toothache because the GML problem was bothering me since a long time.
You and Jimi X really came to my help to resolve this uncomfortable feeling!

Sorry I delayed with my reply to you, but yesterday I was involved with writing details to Jimi X, since I asked him some time ago to help me with an other presentation personal page with GML.

No more! I much rather spend time writing about my experiences and interesting events to learn from.

I have to tell you also that the Milleneum WORD on my computer could produce a high class page, but h2g2 browers will not pick up. So than, I am not going to struggle going backwards! ( Sorry, apology to h2g2 technical team!)

That is beside this complex, that my WORD is not funcioning at the present, but on the way to be fixed.

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More pleasent subject: The extreme long lasting frigid temp. brought some new birds to my feeders. They are very handsome! Like the Janco is coming with snow, or before a snowfall, these birds now live here and feed every day very vigorousely. The body has brownish color like the sperrows, but on the head are stripes and the belly similer to the janco has very light gray color blending in sofetly! They took residence in the evergreen bushes for the night close to the house.
To me is great pleasure to I see my animals outdoors having a good time supported by the variety of food coming on the feeders or put on the ground where is less fighting because of the larger space!
The cardinal Family doing very well, some times get a large flock of starlings, blue jays are visiting and the number of squirrels increased to 4! The cold is persistent and more snow ( Noreastern ?? ) on the way! but anyway!
Gecko

That's a wise choice. After all, we're here to enjoy ourselves.

It's been bitterly cold here again; although the lake has been really beautiful, especially in the early morning when the mist swirls up into the sunrise. There were so many "Hallmark Moments" this morning; it was like watching the highlights of a nature film. I watched a swan doing his running take off into the sunrise, running and beating his wings, then slowly rising into the air and away over the waves. The water is so cold that it looks almost oily and shines and silvery grey.

I've not seen any juncos around here yet. I did see the pair of cardinals today. This afternoon, I was delayed by a traffic jam on the way home from work. Crawling along at a snail's pace, I happened to look up at an overpass as I passed beneath. Sitting in a little space at the top was a very big owl, huddled against the cold and waiting for nightfall.

JTG

Thanks for the beautifully written reply as we return to enjoy Nature's never ending variety shows!
You have there much more natural beauties to admire than here. I believe because the human population is less: more is left of unspoiled land where some wildlife still can exist!

The cold is bitter and brutal and unyielding! But I went out today even so: had some telephone equipment problems to solve!
In one big store I thought I'll find what I am looking for, but no such thing, however plenty of AIRCONDITIONERS at bargen prices!

If I may: would have some questions???
What are you doing in this weather as JTG at "work"?
(Pardon for my curiosity!)

I am having Paper White Narcissus blooming in pots!
This is the first time I did "forcing" and it is a lot of fun, because it goes so fast like it was an animated movie! So much for my gardening,-- yeah the african violets are always blooming.

An other question: How do you add something like "Friends of Tibet" next to your name? Very frequently I see to make some notes, leave a msg. etc and I don't know how to do it?

A friend of mine daughter just came for vacation from Scotland where she is studiing and she said there is hardly any frost in the winter! That lucky British Island got that warm breeze from the Gulf, which passing us about 400-500 mi away! And so we can have colder temp. here, than in ALASKA! But rest easy: heavy storm of SNOW is coming to cover up the icy patches! What a mess! Guess will write a novel anyway!
Gecko

That's a good idea! When the snow comes, draw the curtains and read a good book. When all the good books have been read, write a new one. And, before you know it, Spring is here.

True, there is ots of Canadian wilderness, but not much of it around here. Around Toronto it is one massive sprawling suburb. There used to be distinct little towns and cities neighbouring Toronto, with farmland in between. Now it is hard to tell where one community ends and the next begins. There's not much difference between them anyway. Where we live, to the west of Toronto, there is more farmland, but not much that you would consider wild.

I was pleasantly surprised by how much pleasant countryside there is nearby on the US side of the border. I know there is a lot of wilderness in your country too. But I always imagined Upstate New York and Pennsylvania to be very industrial. What we found was some very scenic areas in both states. There is a very lovely drive along the south shore of Lake Ontario through a park to the west of Rochester, NY. If you forget about the Interstate, there is also a very nice drive from Buffalo around the south side of Lake Erie to Fort Erie, PA. Further west there is some pretty ugly stuff in Ohio and Michigan though, which makes you glad to get back into Ontario farm country at the Windsor border crossing.

The last time we visited USA, after a day of fairly unpleasant driving south, we drove along a very beautiful road from Lexington, KY, into Tennessee. I know there are far more Americans than Canadians; but so many of us are crammed into this small corner of our huge country that it's nice to visit your wide open spaces for a holiday.

In the winter I do some pruning and some propagating from cuttings. I clean and repair tools and spend a lot of time read catalogues. I also drink way too much coffee.

To add something like Friends of Tibet to your name, all you have to do is click on your 'Preferences' button and add it to your h2g2 nickname. Then click update details, before returning to your Personal Space.

JTG

Before I answer your pevious, very informative reply and say : Thank you!
Here is something I want very quickly send to you: This is in today's New York Times:
CPAWS = CANADIAN PARKS AND WILDERNESS SOCIETY

URL:

http://cpaws.org/?as_grant

Hope all the text and pictures will come on your screen. I suppose you know more about these things ( May be you are the chairman of this Society?) but just want to show you how much info is in a New York Times issue!
I'll return very shortly to your reply, but now the sun is lowering his rays, and this is the time to feed the Cardinals and Co.-- All day was -10 Celsius and below. Again a cold night to come, but the snow was postponed. G
I'll be back shortly!