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

Hey where are you - haven't heard from you in a while - I've been spending way too much time on h2g2 (as you can tell from my page - I'm getting there on this html stuff).

Crikey - with computer skills like that you'll be able to set up your very own porn site in no time!

I might do some 'puter learnin' at some stage myself. While eager to get on the "information superhighway", to extend the metaphor slightly I am one of those derelicts on the side who washes your windscreen when you stop at traffic lights. One point: I am intrigued about the phrase "will argue about anything especially rugby, politics and books (fantasy a specialty)". Are we to assume the ejusdem generis rule applies?

Sorry for the delay in writing: the last two weeks have sucked undies. Thesis papers, ever-demanding sick old people, hangovers, inaccurate ski reports, cheap red wine and travel agents; all have, in their own small way, f*cked me about recently. I also occasionally develop an unconditional hate for computers, which lasts about a week before I'm ready to face them again. And for some reason this week I can't seem to escape from puns, which are the lowest form of humour known to humankind.

So look out for some more substantial changes soon. Maybe the entry on Wellington that I have been semi-writing for about 2 months now. Maybe some flash html coding. Or maybe just lots of swearing. "It's easy and it's fun!"

I definitely agree about the swearing - that law stuff isn't going too well (and I've only myself to blame).


Hey did you see Campaign when it was on at the Film Festival down there? Well worth it - unfortunately I ended up sitting one along from Good ole Richard Prebble. But never mind.


I'm resisting the urge of setting up my own porn site just yet (sarcasm). I really can't do all that much, and this computer doesn't seem to have java (although I don't entirely understand what that is yet) so I can't do some of the links I want to (eg Who's Online).


Anyone good to see you've surfaced again. I should imagine skiing, red wine and travel agents don't go very well together at all.

Skiing, red wine and travel agents not going well together? You obviously don't know the right travel agents... (Oh, alright, neither do I. My travel agent keeps telling me how many injections I have to have before I go away. Needles the size of biros apparently.)

Your User Page is looking very flash; although don't worry about that Java business. I asked one of my IT friends (known as "traitor" to his IT brethren) and he informed me that "it doesn't really mean anything". It's this sort of vague programming language that is special because all computers can understand it. A bit like esperanto; se bolongo esta cos pedanto milinguon!

However if you want to know how to do one of those flash H2G2 user buttons, do what I did: copy someone else's. In fact, why not have mine - just copy and paste this into your XML window:


BR/>

<!--
function popusers(link) {
popupWin = window.open(link, 'popusers',
'status=1,resizable=1,scrollbars=1,width=165,height=340');
}
// -->

Meeting people is easy.



I have no idea what any of it means (apart from the bit in the middle which you can change to suit your own tastes or linguistic preferences), but it seems to work. Incidetantally, have you seen this? http://www.stevedunks.demon.co.uk/howtoindex.html It's a very clever how-to guide made by someone much cleverer than my whole family put together. (NB: Not hard.)

Oh well; I'll leave you to your tinkerings. Heh heh.

Thanks heaps for the Who's Online thingy - I'd been trying to get it to work for ages - I still don't know what I was doing wrong - this computer doesn't like java, but it didn't seem to mind the way you put it (further fuelling my theory that it hates me, because it knows that i know that Microsoft does not Work(s) at all). (Oh no, I'm catching that pun disease). Anyway thanks - and I have been practically living on the stevedunks site, trying to work this stuff out - I've got a link to it (that's Pastey's How2H2G2).


Gosh I don't even have a travel agent. But then I guess you don't need one to go nowhere. I'm sure if I did have one I would slap him/her firmly across the face if he/she suggested any unnecessary injections. Although injections suggest overseas trips, and I could certainly suffer a little for some decent travel.

Yes, but overseas trips have a tendency to be "ages away" until a certain point when suddenly they are "very soon" and you've done "nothing" about them. I have until November to get my shit together (and myself vaccinated) before my Big Adventure through Asia and Europe. Although I was browsing through a Lonely Planet guide on Thailand last night and upon reading about tourists being drugged and robbed, I think I might just go to Mosgiel for New Years.

Incidentally, I might sort myself out and put researcher names in that special column. Any objections to your own glorified nom de plume (I assume) being grafted to my own bunghole of a page?

No objections whatsoever - what makes you think Spanner Grrl isn't my real name? Hope you don't mind me adding you to my links - it's really more for me than other people, so that I don't have to go searching everytime I want to check out someone's page.


Aren't you a bit worried about travelling during Y2K? Although surely nothing could be worse than small town New Zealand on New Years. Except perhaps small-city-thinking-its-a-big-city Auckland.

Ha ha! I laugh in the face of Y2K! Ha!

In fact I have just booked a flight from London to Dublin on the 31st of December; so there. ("Analog Airways" fortunately...) I just can't see the bg deal. Sure, some dodgy ex-USSR state ending in "ckstan" might accidentally launch a nuclear missile at the United States. But it MIGHT NOT. And I tend to think that it's a pretty big "might not". We are not so goverened and controlled by computers that if they go a bit silly, we just rip their plugs out. Of course there is little consolation or satisfaction in this if you are 30,000ft in the air, but I have never been one for such minor details.

Besides, I could always eat a wife or two.

seeing as how it's the Irish you'll probably be ok - they'll probably have Y2K problems on the 31st December 2000 just to be different. Of course with their wonderful economy they're probably worked out some fancy solution by now - they have free tertiary education over there i here

Your capacity for turning even the most irrelevant conversation into poltical gripe is astounding.

Hee hee hee.

That's what a degree in political studies trains you for, other than asking people if they want fries with that I've been living and breathing politics for four years, pretty much twenty-four hours a day, but i'm trying to ween myself off a bit now. I tell you politics should carrying a label, like cigarettes.

I can see it now:

WARNING: POLITICS IS HARMFUL FOR YOU AND YOUR SOCIAL LIFE
or
POLITICS SERIOUSLY REDUCES YOUR CREDIBILITY
or even
CAUTION: POLITICS CAUSES POLITICS