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

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I'm Stealth.
I'm your Assistant Community Editor, an <./>ACE</.> All this means is I'm here get you jump-started into the community.

One of the many great things about h2g2 is the Smileys... to see a full list of them and the commands simply click on any smiley in any conversation and you'll be taken to the smiley homepage... <./>Smileys</.>

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Well, that went incredibly well, just sent you a message to say hi and thanks, so was going to put a smilie on the bottom of it, and completely lost myself in here, aaaaaarrrrrrggggghhhhhhh, ill get there i guess! But, a hello to you from me :o)

Hello...
How's it going? Gradually finding yourself?
Anything I can help you with, just ask.
Good luck

Finding my feet, mmmmmmmmm, don't think so at all, and I am definately going to need all the luck in the world figuring all this out. But guess we all have to start somewhere eh! Tell you one thing though, it is definately over-whelming, especially for someone who isn't very computer literate!

So, let me into the secret then, how do I add a smilie to my text? That could be a good starting point! :o)

OK The commands for all the smileys can be found @ <./>Smileys</.>
However a simple can be made thus... < smiley > or : )
both without the spaces though.

Ok then, lets try this you will now have to let me know if this has worked. You know something, you are really, really going to regret saying hello to me, as i am now going to hassle you time and time again! So now I will ask how are you? And tell me something about yourself

It worked!
I'm good...
I'm 20. Male. I live on the Weald [Southern England]. I'm fond of Bitter and Real Ale and Tequila I don't get hangovers. I'm quite a tactile and sensative individual.. I am always sincere. I love art,literature and sci-fi. I describe my interests, tastes and opinions as eclectic. I do not limit my any of my influences to one genre, label or culture. e.g. My 3 favourite musical artists are Mozart, David Gray and Krust[D&B].

How are you?

Im fine thank you. I'm a barmaid, and as to real ales and bitters, there are so few pubs that stock them now (very hard to keep, and a very limited expiry date on them) They are also very hard to look after, with a normal keg of larger, you can throw it around no probs, but the real ales and bitters, have to be looked after incredibly well, hence a lot of pubs no longer stocking it. Tequila, very good, with a dash of champagne, even better I know, a waste of champagne, but good for a slammer!

Sci-fi, what progs do you watch, im a Star Trek addict, not one of these ones that goes on the conventions, but sad enough to be able to answer almost any question you have on the subject!

David Grey is good, havent heard of the last one you stated, classical music, im actually just starting to listen to it, very, very occasionaly though, i'm about the same as you on music though, listen to a variety, I like anything from, Pink Floyd, to Garage, Dire Straits to the Corrs, mad on Red Hot Chillies at the mo though!

So where is Weald? Im just outside London, Heathrow area.

I know tis a shame. I'll have to with my

Star Trek TNG is my favourite sci-fi, never been to ST convention either but could probably answer more questions on it than I'd like to admit
The Weald is the clay and sandstone hills between the North and South downs... I'm on a bit of it near Gatwick...

Krust is Drum and Bass artist from Bristol, he's part of the Kamanchi Project and I'm going to see that and host of other Full Cycle crew artists in Bristol in few weeks

I like abit of Pink Floyd, I used to like garage before it got too much like pop music...

Chat soon...

I used to live near Gatwick, Pound Hill.

I used to be big into Jungle yrs back, Drum and Bass, never my thing, and yeah, agree about Garage getting a too pop! prefer all the old skool

Enjoy Bristol, when is it?

Junglist "Massif" I like abit of the old skool jungle, Nicky Blackmarket and all that crew.

I'll be in Bristol 3rd of May meeting up with some fellow researchers their metalists so I'll be doing a metal night with them, Saturday I'll be doing a day of chillin in a pub Sunday the 4th is the big FullCycle crew D&B night with Krust's Kamanchi Project headlining, I'm quite excited Monday I'll be doing some sleeping

How are you?

Well when you are doing your full cycle thing on the Sunday (4th May) Ill be getting wrecked, as it is my birthday, 28 really dont want to hit it, as think im getting old now in fact i KNOW im getting old

Old skool, mmmmmmmm, take me back, Micky Finn, Dr.S.Gache, (cant spell now) Slipmatt, all that lot, MY era, back to 1990, great times had there! You have got to have heard off Camden Palace, (in Camden) they do all the back to 1990, never got round to going to one of the old skool nights, but got to do it one day, will be GREAT those where the day's, now im sat here reminising! Told you cant spell, and im half drunk at the mo! just got back in from the pub, good night ive had though
hows yours been?

28 ain't old for a girl, tis a biological fact you're still in your prime...
that said I got about being old when I hit 20

I've heard of Camden Palace, been a while since I've been...

Glad you had a good night...
Quiet night in for me, chatted to a friend on the phone and went to bed early...
Saving myself and the money up for Bristol... besides I've got touch of depressive illness...


Chat soon...

28 not old feels too close to 30 for my liking But hey, decided that im going to write to the queen ask her to cancel May 4th and then i won't get any older! Do you reckon that will work? Or just start lieing about my age That should do it!

So may I ask what this depressive illness is? Or am i being nosey now? Typical female eh!

Happy Easter to you

Happy Easter to you too...

But if May fourth is canceled I'll miss out on my D&B night and you'll miss a fine excuse to get sloshed

I'm currently under the label 'Borderline Personality Disorder' that's kind of name they give when they can't fit you into a box. I've got symptoms of Social Phobia,Anxiety disorder, slight Agorophobia as well the suicidal thinking and self harm... all a rather complicated complex, tee hee

Trust me, I need NO excuse to get sloshed Been arranging bits for my birthday, and so far, clubbing the Fri night, then Sat, in the pub (where i work) so will be a late one, then Sunday, going clubbing again as it is bank-holiday, the clubs will all be open then the following weekend, another big drink, as one of the guys in the pub, its his birthday as well, and the 10th falls in the middle for both of us, and a couple of friends are moving away, so be celebrating that, so my birthday will last, just over a week Should be a good one, but still want it cancelled

So they can't fit you into a catergory, I personally dont like labels stuck on people, everyone is an individual. So how long has it been that they have diagonised you with all of that? Sorry to ask, won't ask anymore questions, im just very inquisitive by nature xx

Hello you, so how are you, and you have got to go and visit my page now, think i am starting to get the hang of this thing now thats a miricle havent attempted GuideML yet, but will soon, mmmmmmmm, I think

I'm OK. Got my GP to increase the strength of my tranquiliser from 7.5mg to 10.0mg so that's helping me deal with the low mood etc... I've been having recently...
I was being treated for Social phobia/Anxiety 'till late febuary then after I tried to kill myself for the seventh time I was taken as an informal in-patient... got put under Borderline Personality Disorder in my second week so that's early March...

GuideML isn't so hard... I made my space just by diving in and learning as went along...
A useful trick when you see someones page that you think looks quite or impressive is to put 'TestUserPage' infront of the U-Number e.g.<./>TestUserPage206500</.> shows the code behind my U-Space. For guide entries you replace the 'A' with 'Test'.

Are you a DigiBox user? i don't know much about acessing the site through a DigiBox, but I think that's all still possible to do.

How are you?

Yeah, im a digibox user, so not computer user friendly Just had a look at your guideml, im even more confused Looks scary! But us digibox users can access practicly everything, but we have to work in plainskin, otherwise screen just sticks, and you cant log onto everything.There you go, worked something out (thank you Sandra if you are lurking ) Obviously it was explained to me by a friend, and I managed to muck that up as well

I'm fine thanks, just having a lazy day, as i have got to work tonight, worked last night as well, unfortunately we have a jazz night on a Thursday, im dreading, can't stand jazz, never worked one of those evenings either, one of the girls was winding me up, and saying that i can serve the jazz lot, as they will me as they have never seen me. GREAT I've only worked there for over a year, so as you can tell by my writing, im really looking forward to tonight, like a hole in the head And yourself, what are you up too?

How'd it go? As bad as you'd built it up in your mind to be?
Hope you're well...

I'm not upto much at the mo... a lil bit bored may go off line a read a book...
I'm looking forward to Bristol less than a week to go... mixture of excitement and anxiety...