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

Hi Some Guy
welcome to h2g2 - I am a researcher just like yourself and decided to pop in and welcome you and help you find your way around.

You can tell who is on line in h2g2 at this time and you can put it on your home page. just click for more info:
http://www.h2g2.com/forumframe.cgi?forum=4773&thread=11959

There is more info on page which will help you get around h2g2 feel free to pinch anything you like.

catcha later
vegiman

Hey Vegiman thanks for the linkz
You seem to know what you are doing so tell me this, I have tried to update my page with frontpage editor with web publishing wizard on internet explorer 5.0. It asks for a password which I do not think I ever received. Could you tell me how I could get one. Or please tell me any web editors that can update my site because I cannot use the edit page function for anything more productive then text and cut and paste. I have 3 excuses to justify just that:
a.I am 13
b.It is my first web page
c.I am an American

None of those three qualify as an excuse.
The pages on h2g2 are in what is known as XML and Not the usual HTML. They are not intended as with other sites that give free on line space to give you a web page of your own. It is and will always be (as long as you use it) your very own part of h2g2.

With front page and other page editors they issue html coding to initialise the HTML - This is already done on h2g2 pages and frontPage will only mess up what is already there.

The best and only way forward is to learn a bit of html (use NotePad and copy and paste) - its not that difficult and there are hints and tips throughout h2g2. There is one on my page called h2g2 tips.

MadMunk will always help you if you want to put anything special on your page. If he is not on line you can find his page by entering anyoldrubbish like 'thtythturht' in the search. When it reports back information not found, you will be giving the option of searching e-mail addresses - Enter 'MadMunk' and it will give you a link to his page. Then stand back in amazement as it takes a while to load it all.

I know a little html or XML if you like just search the web for HTML instruction - altavista.com is a good search engine for this cos you ask a question in english and it finds the answer. IE 'where can I find out more about html' and it will find the answer. I like that - its easy.

One site I do know of is
http:/www.w3.com
Try it and learn - vegiman

Sorry I typed the link out wrong is should have been

http://www.w3.com

vegiman

Thanks
As for the excuses, I made them because I have to for I am indeed American. That is not an excuse. Fortunately some of my father's friends are web designers.
And I will try your link as soon as I can because school is starting on thursday.

You are world of help.
Oh, and I also gave your address to some Vogons, hope you don't mind.

Your welcome _ Have fun back at shcool.
vegiman

Fun back in school?
Oh great! Just what I need, another crack addict.
I just hope the Vogons get to you soon.

And after helping you, you send in the vogons.

Have a lot more fun at school - thats all I have to say now, apart from sending you a spitting babble fish ~~~~~~~~~Gotcha.
vegiman

All I have to say to you is leave some carrots on a vegetable rack for a week.
Please refer to forum Attack Of The Mutant Carrots.
As for your babel fish, it has lousy aim.
((((>
And it spits from the wrong side

Sorry Some Guy - You will find I told you off a little on the veg racks forum. Loony was trying to tell you in his own way - not to be silly - (Only mad men goes out in the sun without a hat). Get it.

Its Ok to be fun on your own page and do what ever you like even spit if you want to. Its fairly ok to do so on someones Home page if they start to be fun in a certain way. But Official/Unofficial guide entries - there is a kinda unofficial rule not to mess them up to much unless they are meant to be funny.

When h2g2 first started everybody was doing as you are now. Now it is beginning to grow up it is becoming more serious, but it still can fun.

I took my lead from you as you wanted it to be fun on your page - OK - its your page. On one of my pages they are having a drunken party - no age limit if you want to join in. There are many under age drinkers there. But DNA type writings are getting a bit old hat - not
to you because your new.

Less of the serious stuff here ((((: keep F***ing fish on you own page - I don't want the smell drifting over onto mine.

Good luck at school Oooops I said it again - how could I.
vegiman

I just read your remarks on the vegrack forum - I think the above posting explains my views which are not two faced or being a Hypocrite. Just get used to the place before dropping woopsys - there are many places to do it on h2g2 and others which not to. I said You'll learn - I will drop my link to you - Give me a call when you grow up - if you havent killed me B4
vegiman

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You are ofcourse quite right the word is in the dictionary. You have got to realise that with some people especially around my age (I'm a Grindle) find it offensive. You do not, and if you continue to do it you are only doing it to shock and offend. It can be implied with equal effect and no offense will be taken. So why say it with an expletive when there are so many coloured words that do not offend and give the same affect.

In other words if you continue to do something that you know upsets others then you are the one who is seeking attention even if its to be looked down on.

I do my best not to lose my temper or lose control of my emotions (I do do good impression of it sometimes), I often have a laugh at myself if I feel in anyway annoyed about what others say. It doesn't get you anywhere and only the person who sets out to (intentionally or otherwise) annoy you wins, (or they think they do).

So why the F*** are you trying to get attention - Is there no one else noticing you.

I am friendly with everyone - If they want to try and be cocky or offensive then that is up to them - I often wonder what they are trying to prove.

In brief why offend, when there is no need. Any other questions Grasshopper!

vegiman

Here's a quote from Pokemon, the Television series I know you'll like.
"The Grasshopper has big mouth, but little Brain"
I have been too lazy to learn XML or GuideML or HTML or HML(see a pattern forming here)
I have, however been able to modify the link to your page. Try clicking on it now!
As for rude language, you are right. I have been using more than my share. I even got an e-mail from some guy, not me, who said he would like to apologize for the rude language a member calling himself Some Guy was using. We finally made an agreement in which I would use simbols for words more offensive than damn. I am not sure if hermaphrodite fits into this but I'll try not to use it offensively.(Anyone who took biology and learned something considers "hermaphrodite" as a witty name to call someone who is not. So we consider it worse that F&*% you.

Nice to see you back - The term grasshopper was used with affection - not as an insult. If you ever saw the TV series Kung Fu - Grasshopper was the one doing the learning and became quite a man.
vegiman

Yeah, I know what it meant. That link I told you about will be fixed soon. I also created a few other links. I figure that if I can't make links then I will steal them from aol's e-mail. Take a link out of favorites, save as .txt and cut and paste. Editing the links is hard though. I'll start learning in November. I don't have a lot of time with homework and pirates and aliens trying to shoot at me(Big Wing Commander fan). When you speak of Kung Fu it sounds very foreign. Nobody is into Kung Fu anymore.

I told you I was an old grindle. I happen to like the old series.

Links are easy - there are two kinds on h2g2, depending on whether you use the Guide ML ot HTML option. If you used the GuideML on my old links then that is why they disappeared. If you use the HTML option they work.

HTML LINK=
DESCRIPTION GOES HERE

ie:

vegimans Page

GuideML would be

vegimans Page

Both would lead you to my page - the first has the full URL and only the full URL will lead you to a page outside h2g2. If you don't mind I will still call you grasshopper - humour me.
vegiman

The links worked.
Unfortunately I had some problems with the text so it went out so messed up that I had to delete it.
At least I got that article on New York, with functioning link to a very helpful map.
I talked to the editor, Mark Moxon. He said he is not planning on letting us use Frontpage editor, ever.
I would like to know, is it offensive to use F@#$ in my page title? With the symbols, that is.
I can make links, its just the small thongs. For example, I was taping a news story for media class. When the teacher revieved it, it turned out that we had no sound. Our footage and interviews were ruined. We can still make it up but the whole principal is annoying.
http://www.shoutcast.com is agreat website which broadcasts make net stations in mp3 format for winamp which is a freeware aquired at http://www.winamp.com If you type in hitch in the shoutcast search engine it will find the HHGTTG radio show half the time. Most broadcasts are not permanent so don't bother saving the link to it but feel free to listen untill it ends. There are some bad channels but sometimes there are good channels. The good broadcasts (without jumps) are mono telephone quality but good telephone quality.

I can't get on with mp3 - my computer is almost as old as me. Well er - its an old 486 33mz - I will have to update sometime.

As for F@*^$% or whatever - It depends in what context it is being used. As it is up to the readers imagination, I would saay in most cases its OK but that is only my opinion and may not be shared by others.

Catcha vegiman

"You're using a 486?
Don't make me laugh,
your Windows boots up,
in what, a day and a half"
-Weird Al Yankovic, It's All About The Pentiums Baby

Well, actually he said 286.
486 still? thats sad
I have a 586 ,or pentium as intel calls it, with mmx and 32 megs of ram and 233 mhz. and thats considered low tech. You are living in the ice age and I am living in the stone age, or whichever came later. Still, your computer should be winamp friendly. What kind of modem do you have?