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

Hi Feisor, just having a lurk in your personal space, and your comment about not revealing you age or gender intrigued me.

When first in cyberspace i felt the same way, but after a while felt compelled to reveal such things about myself. I thought about this a while and realised that what fascinated me was that these things, although trivial in cyberspace, were still interesting nonetheless. So I had a new pespective on matters that used to have a lot of gravity.

This kind of duality fascinates me ie age and gender are trivial in one context, and important in another.
Jakell

An interesting puzzle ...

I think the most interesting thing for me is, that, by retaining that anonymity I can relate to people on all different levels. No matter how irrelevant you say age and gender are, people will always speak differently to an 80 year old woman than they will to a 14 year old boy - it's just the way we are ... we assume levels of knowledge and experience, rather than simply listening and accepting people for the things they say or do. Break down the "little boxes" and communication becomes more interesting. Well, that's one entity's opinion anyway

By the way - I noticed that the picture on your space is not showing up - if you go to edit page on your space, at the bottom of the text box, select Guide ML and your picture should then show up.

Thanks for dropping by

Thanks for pointing out my page wasn't displaying correctly. I had changed to GuideML but hadn't made it stick by updating the entry. Could you please check again to see if it has worked.
I will have to learn a bit of guideML now in order to get my text formatted properly again. I was a little dissapointed to find that I cannot put my own pictures on there, but I hope this will change in the future. I will make do with the picture of Nick Drake until then.
Cheers, Jakell.

Looking fine