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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As you GuideML your personal space, you can pick up some great tips @ A690518
A562303 is a comprehensive 'Welcome Note' to New Researchers by my friend M.
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Also Feisor's page @ A719840 gives you resource of tips and links that could be useful.


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Hi Stealth.

Thanks for the warm welcome. I appreciate your tips very much and will refer to them frequently, I'm sure

By the way, "Alex"; is the name of Sten's trusty sidekick in the schience fiction novels that I am talking about on my personal page...

Best wishes, take care and have fun,

Sten

Thanks for the reply... so many assume we [the ACEs] are 'bots'...

Uncle Alex is a nickname I've been given refering to the character Alex in the Anthony Burgess novel 'A Clockwork Orange'. A great read!

Hm, an ACE a bot? Now, that I'd like to see. The AI guys would go nuts over software like this .

Your nickname is Alex because of the character in A Clockwork Orange? Well, that's synchronicity: on a well-known online auction platform (don't want to mention the actual URL for fear that spam-sending morons will go take a look), my nickname is alexander.delarge. I don't remember whether Alex's full name is ever mentioned in the book, but that's his name in the movie.

too,

Stephan

No, I don't think it is mentioned in the book... He does call himself 'Alexander The Large' in the chapter where he 'deflowers' the 12 year olds... Methink Alexander DeLarge was a Kubrick joke...