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Hi 1, thanks for visiting! My name is Dave and I live in Hertford in East Hertfordshire, in the UK. I registered on Tuesday 4th May 1999, six days after h2g2 was launched, after seeing Douglas Adams on the TV. I've stopped by every now and then for the last seven years - I thought it was time I updated my homepage.
THHGTTG and me
I listened to the original broadcast of THHGTTG on Radio 4 in 1978, after a friend2 recommended it to me. He was, and still is, a devout R4 listener and had heard previews of the series. As we were about 20 then3, listening to R4 was not, for me, an immediately obvious thing to do, so I required some persuasion! I've subsequently read the books, watched the TV series, seen the stage show4, bought the CDs, more recently seen the film, and I probably have a T-shirt somewhere. The article A History of THHGTTG does a very good job of what it says in the title! Another article, just entitled THHGTTG, also provides a lot of useful history, and includes a link to a short article written by DNA.
h2g2 links
Some h2g2 links I found interesting/useful during May 2006 whilst I learnt GuideML and looked around at what people put on their homepages:
The original point of the guide
h2g2 Stats - also shows recent updates.
GuideML Clinic
GuideML Picture Library
Personal Space Workshop - Extras
ViTAL - against the
ViSA - for the
Miscellaneous Chat
I looked at homepages for Researchers who happened to be online over the May Day Bank Holiday w/e. Thanks to all those by whose pages I was inspired! (Is that convoluted enough?)
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-----END H2G2 CODE BLOCK-----| The article The Myth Of 42 discusses the myth that all TRUE Researcher numbers can be manipulated to equal 42, so here's ample proof that mine is a true number: | |
| Calculated by Me(rlin) | Thanks to U92580 |
| 3 x (5 + 4 + 6) - 3 = 42 | 35 + 4 + 6 - 3 = 42 |
| (3 x 5) + (4 x 6) + 3 = 42 | (3 x 5) + 4! + 6 - 3 = 42 |
| (3 x 5 x 4) - (6 x 3) = 42 | 3! x (5 + (4 / (6 / 3) ) ) = 42 |
| ( (3! x 5 x 4) + 6) / 3 = 42 | |
h2g2 articles
Some h2g2 articles that have interested me, including clubs/groups that I have joined:
The h2g2 Guild of Wizards
Birthdays
The Royal h2g2 Procrastinators Society - but I haven't got around to making a join request yet!
ZZ9 - The Hitchhiker's Appreciation Society
Snow Patrol - Final Straw
h2g2 Dire Straits Fan Club
h2g2 Formula One Supporters' Club
h2g2 Star Trek Appreciation Society
h2g2 Doctor Who Group 
Red Dwarf
John Peel
Mozilla Firefox
External links
Some favourite external links:
Mozilla Firefox - Link to the Firefox website where you can read about and download the Mozilla Firefox web browser.
Allen Browne's Database and Training - a great Access site.
Usable Information Technology - an excellent Usability site.
Grid Computing Projects - donate unused time on your computer to worthy causes.
Digg - a technology news website that combines social bookmarking and non-hierarchical editorial control. With digg, users submit stories for review, but rather than an editor deciding which stories go on the homepage, the users do.
Lord Of The Rings - excellent!
Google in Klingon - yes, it's for real!
Bob Harris - whispering Bob.
Snow Patrol - one of my favourite bands; Eyes Open released 1st May 2006.
The eBay Song - hilarious!
Life Advice - a hoax, but still very funny.
Quotations
Some favourite quotations:
I love deadlines - I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.
Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
The more we learn the more we realise how little we know.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
Albert Einstein
I have more experience of making mistakes, I'm older than you!
Spoken by James Bolam's character in Born and Bred, BBC1, 19/05/2002
In a world without fences and borders, who needs windows and gates?
PC Plus Magazine, No 148, Feb 99, P.37.
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't.
Lyall Watson
May the force be with you!
Luke Skywalker
Live long and prosper.
Mr Spock
Make it so, Number One.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard
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Page last updated: 17th June 2007
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| ACE's Hi | May 16, 2006 |
| Happy Birthday | Nov 27, 2000 |
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