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

KK - you can simply right-click on the exe file and use the option "execute as" (and perhaps you'll have to insert a password there, I use one for my Administrator account). Keep me posted. This issue MUST be resolved!

Jez

Just seen this, Jez.

Checked in Set Program Access and Defaults, and the presence of the programme has not been detected (utorrent is also a very small programme, but it is there).

Nah, thought I was getting somewhere but I'm back to the install wizard (presumably I have downloaded the files but not completed the installation somehow).

I shall persevere as I haven't sorted out the permissions yet.

More from me ... sooner or later!

Thanks for your help so far though, but it was a great device to get you to briefly reappear

hk

Who knows - perhaps my reappearance won't be so brief after all...

Great to see you whenever, frequently or infrequently!

But you maybe ought* not lose the sense of purpose that you have shown for the past three months ... I was impressed that you disengaged so effectively for so long.



* 'ought', like 'should' and 'must', words of the driven rather than the driver

Well, my sense of purpose is still there, KK. But a few weeks ago I saw that I really had lifted my book to a new level and that I 'deserved' to socialise a bit more again, virtually and in RL (attending borough council meetings, for instance, and chatting in a pub afterwards with councillors of my party). That's why I'm saying you might be seeing more of me...

KK hits the Reply button: GOOD!

RL and ML, whatever is the world (and Jez' life) coming to? As I said, whenever! Am I bovvered? Too right I am

Binky "I am relatively new". Click on name. What do you think?

Posting since 25 June 2006, as princess beeny1 ... noticed it, have seen her around, not a problem imo. (I picked up the name change when I switched to Firefox / Script in February ... had it in my bookmark manager but have transferred my adoration to Achilles floating page, complete with colours, for tracking now. I recommend it, unreservedly, even though I still use IE for non Beeb stuff.

You ok? Seem to keep missing you and by the time I get the time ... your last post is on the previous page, doh.

KK, not seen you around lately. Msg 1 (this thread) still applies.

I'm fine, thanks, Solly. Just haven't got a load to say at the mo', so (unusually for me) saying little or nowt.

Did get more than a little pee'd off at the that-lot-aren't-fit-to-be-here crowd, I'm afraid. Not good enough to admitted to the coterie but resented because we've befriended those who didn't ignore us.

Thassorl, thass enuff, innit.

Hope you're otherwise ok? And thanks for noticing

Strange timing, and very strange altogether, Jez ... do have a wine gum (Solly has a bag of 'em in his pocket). Actually you both need a couple of wine gums ... fancy you, Jez, also needing to correct a German's German - several people have noticed and already commented on this as well.

Good morning KK. Was afraid I'd upset you, you seldom seem to be around when I am. Perhaps you've better things to do!

A good meeting the other day?



Was a bit suspicious of one particular poster, think the best way is just to ignore him (though I did recently make some response - can't make things too obvious). May be the one you're thinking of, converses a lot with someone purporting to be a young German girl.

Glad to have caught up with you, SolZ, and I think you're bang on the button with who I have in mind. There is and has been a fair amount of off board dialogue about this and more social stuff as well.

Don't ever think you'd upset me, unless of course you want to award yourself the doubtful pleasure of feeling worried!

Great mini meet yesterday, and on limited experience to date, we are finding that those who take the trouble to spend time with us on the boards, and then make the effort to turn up in RL, are worth every second of the time we have invested in them. But what is exceedingly odd is that you meet someone who looks like a stranger but is actually a friend - they must be, as quite often they may know more about you than RL friends and family. So you either stare bemusedly (to absorb the 'stranger's' features) or talk whilst not looking at them (because that's how you always liaise). That's actually a silly way of expressing it because, in reality, you do neither of those things (or try not to). But you do have to consciously remember that despite appearances, this is not a stranger that you are sharing a table and laughter with (yes, lots of laughter!).

Ignore by all means but observe anyway.

Hello, KK and Solly!

Had a great few hours writing, so I'm a bit late reacting.

But - did I correct a German's German? I must confess I read and listen to German every day, I have a firm grasp of it. But I don't think I did such a thing. Annikarose, btw, is certainly German. Only her spelling is all over the place, even in her native tongue (Baden-Würtenberg instead of Baden-Württemberg for instance). She's a friend of Prabhakari's, the Buddhist. All the information she's given is correct, though. I trust her.

As for matching writing voice and physical appearance - impossible. I'm a writer. When I had a thing published for the first time (I was 29), one reader who met me afterwards had seen before his mind's eye a man in his fifties, white, heavy-set, whereas I was (and am) brown (black father), boyish-looking, and slimmish, even at 46...

Good afternoon Jez, thanks for the information.

Still on course for publication this year I hope?

Let's hope so, Solly! I'm working very hard, inspiration is there in spates at the moment, which is significant when you consider I've been busy on this monster of a book for 11 years now...

Good to know that the RL work is still on schedule, Jez, and also something of a relief to realise that - erratic German notwithstanding - you think the schoolgirl is a bona fide poster. Someone else has remarked that her writing style and content varies considerably from thread to thread, and it rang alarm bells. We're none of us sufficiently immersed in current aspects of everyday German culture to understand how a girl in a Danish boarding school has been able to have a boy in her bed for several nights, though. Are we just hopelessly old or just old fashioned about this?

Danish boarding school + Buddhist + boy in bed: that's a heady mixture, apart form all the Bs... Well, I haven't studied all her postings. She comes across as well-meaning, very young and slightly naive. Whether she's mature in other fields, I really wouldn't know!

Well, I studied some of her postings, and she's definitely what she say she is. She often is translating literally from the German. And there's a German syntax too, sometimes. By the way - she writes that a boy slept in her bed, not that she was there with him. Perhaps she slept in the bed of a female friend, which wouldn't be that strange.

"She often is" - that's correct English, isn't it? I'm getting all confused now!