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...or just very skilled in the use of Guide ML type stuff?

LOL! Yes I'm new. I only stumbled across h2g2 today and am still coming to terms with the whole concept. I'm very experienced with HTML (since '94/'95) and XML and, as such, didn't find the Guide ML glossary difficult. I only used two or three tags.

Alrighty, as a new person, you are entitled to my little "hello new user" post, it will be following shortly.

Hi there Hitchhiker! I am His Divine Shadow (), your resident ACE. I can help you with many of the problems you might encounter here on H2G2. And if I am not available, then you can ask one of our many other friendly <./>ACEs</.> (Assistant Community Editors) or Gurus (they are masters of Guide ML and can easily answere your technical questions) to help you in any way, shape, or form.

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Well thank you for such an incredibly helpful reply! I'm not averse to the Science Fiction or Fantasy genres but I'm not fanatical about them. In the case of the latter, I have to pretend to be a fanatic locally because my street was named after JRR Tolkien...or rather his son John Francis who lived on this spot before it became Tolkien Way.

Awesome! My street is named after Horatio (sp?) Nelson.

As long as you don't get the tourists we do. When J.F. Tolkien named the street in '93, everybody called their houses things like Hobbit and Rivendell (etc.). Then the LotR was filmed, we became part of the Birmingham <-> Staffordshire 'Tolkien Trail' and everybody removed their signs and started saying "Tolkien? Who? He? Eh?"

Ha. My house is in a tiny town in America so nobody comes to see South Nelson Avenue.