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

I keep telling my Grandad to get internet... he has digital TV, and I'd be willing to pay some towards it. But he says he can't be bothered learning to type at his age. Sheesh! But we'll all be wired directly to the collect... sorry internet via brain implants by the time we retire. So no need to worry!

Hey, I'm looking forward to us being in a collective and grumbling about how hard the biscuits are and how scrummy Chakotay is when we're 80+...

Which reminds me. The guy who wrote the fanfic (btw Gwennie: my Clanger fic is on my website, you have to click through it though it's in 5 or 6 parts) entry told me that someone wrote a Bagpuss/StarTrek crossover fic: Emily finds a broken Hugh the Borg and takes it to the shop for Bagpuss and the mice to fix.

Gawd! I really do need a life, don't i? I was up watching Stargate eating my shredded wheat this morning!

Well I hope you didn't drool a mixture of Shredded Wheat and orange juice over your bib, Sho!

John's father built his own house, on top of a hill at Pihea, over-looking the Bay of Islands in New Zealand. We went back there to look at it when we lived in NZ and it's wonderful (still remote and without any neighbours). I'd love us to one day be able to buy it and live there (John's father is buried in the small cemetery, just over the road from the house.

Perhaps I can talk John out of moving to Cornwall and into returning to NZ instead as once my parents die, there would be no immediate family (I'm not very close to my two brothers) to keep me here any more.

Who is your site with Sho? I just wondered because Mair recently had an Email from GeoCities telling her that her site was popular and receiving so many hits that it was exceeding its allocation of space on their servers. Apparently if she wants to avoid it being down for part of the time, she now has to pay them $9 per month... As you can imagine, Mair is not impressed. A number of her Internet friends have received similar Emails too...

Residential homes with Internet access for their "clientele" hey? Good one Caerwynn!

I have suggested to Kelvin that it might be worth making some sales calls to residential homes etc, but I don't thnk he took me seriously

We watched 'Space' with Sam Neill, wasn't that filmed in NZ? I don't know for sure, but it looked a beautiful place.

Building your own house would be wonderful, but I would have to live somewhere relatively comfortable while the build was going on. From the tv programmes I've seen on the subject it always takes as long as expected. Costs twice as much too!

Everyone where we live is building. I wish I could afford it. The houses are massive, with full concrete floored cellar, good attics.... good grants & subsidies from the govt too... if only we had the deposit. Yeah, we really need that

Drool on my bib? Of course I did!

Gwennie: Geocities might be trying it on with Mair... although if her friends are really hitting it might do something... she should look in her filemanager (mine's on geocities: you've been there Woman!!!) to see about the space, although if they're all .gifs and .jpg images they do use up the space quickly. I have the Websites for Dummies (not half as amusing in German, I can tell you) and they said you should have space for 150,000 pages of text (so I can still keep writing the fics!!) How long has she had the site? Because it could be that they give you a period of "grace" before you get the mails. Although I was thinking, for me anyway, $9 per month ain't tooo bad. At some point we're all going to have to pay for currently free sites, methinks. Erk, I'll have to leave a few.

Sorry Sho! My brain cell is on overload and the first thing that usually shuts down is my memory!

There's no way that I'm giving an American organisation my debit card number - not even for $9 per month as their laws relating to credit/debit card use are so different to ours. I think that GeoCities ARE trying it on as they sent an Email with exactly the same text, for her new site that she's linked to from her first, the second day it was up...

I'm going to check out what my entitlements are to free web space with Freeserve (my ISP).

However, Mair has had four Emails in the standard "Please read the attached" format that is specified in the virus alerts, sent to her from the same person via a hotmail account. They must have obtained her address from her website...

I've drummed it into Mair and John that they're never to open any Email attachments and are to see me about it first...

Most of the houses in NZ are wooden A-Frame houses that are built of stilts so there is nearly always room under the house for a garage/rumpus room. They don't cost much or take too long to build at all and the tin roofs sound fantastic during heavy rain fall...

Since I opened my Geocities website I get loads (well, OK; 4 or 5 per day) junk mails. But: I delete everything from anyone I know I didn't give my address too. And you can tell anyway, usually if it's junk. And I never ever open attachments if I don't know what they are first. So if anyone sends me something and I wasn't expecting it, or I don't know the person I e-mail them separately (not as a reply) and ask if they sent something. Phew! I hate all this sneaking viruses into your pc but that's modern life I suppose.

I've unsubscribed from the Andromeda thread, and can't be bothered to find it. But I'm not watching that load of poop one second longer. Last night was good because it had the eye-meltingly gorgeous (and hot half bad at acting either) Michael Shanks in it. But apart from that... it is poop. IMO!! So now I will watch half an hour of it then switch over to Mersey Beat. I like police dramas.

German houses are generally concrete built with breeze block walls and huge cellars. Great. We don't have a cellar, but we have ground level storage / boiler rooms, and guest loo and big hallway, upstairs we have a little galley kitchen which is great and a huge living dining area, which is divided by the open stairs we have going through the whole house. Then upstairs bedrooms & bathroom (in the pointy bit, which is really really high. Sounds strange, huh?

Anyway, looks like Enterprise is coming on soon! yaayyy!

I think I must be missing something (not unusual of course!), but Michael Shanks does nothing for me

All I kept thinking about in Andromeda was: get a better optician, he looked as he if was having trouble with his contact lenses!

The few brief clips of the Enterprise series looks interesting.

Neil trotted off to College y'day p.m., actually his girlfriend gave him a lift, only to find he was a week early! Which is amazing cos he is never early for anything!

Those Emails to Mair from a Hotmail user that I mentioned eventually totalled eleven. I've contacted Hotmail abuse and Freeserve, giving all the details of the sender and I'll let you know whether I get any joy...

Michael Shanks wasn't exactly my either, but I still enjoyed the programme (sorry that you obviously didn't Sho ), although I don't think that there was nearly enough of Tyr in last night's episode.

I really miss switching channels to watch "First Wave" following "Andromeda" and we've been watching "Jonathon Creek" on UK Gold instead... I've never watched the show before and UK Gold, as from last week, are airing the series from the pilot episode. Did you realise that it's written by the same chap that writes "One Foot In the Grave"?

Yes, I saw the trailer for "Enterprise" too and it dunnarf look good!

Over the weekend I recieved 107 junk mailings, 90% of which were x-rated. Being a good girl I emptied the folder with out looking.

Watched Alan Davis in Bob and Rose, I enjoyed it, but unnerved to see him kissing another bloke though. He is losing his boyish looks though and was definitely jowly.

No I didn't know the connection between one Foot in the Grave (which I hated) and Jonathan Creek (which is brilliant). Just goes to show how a good writer can create programmes for different tastes.

Aha! We find a difference in our tastes at last Caerwynn!

I love "One Foot In the Grave" (probably because I frequently feel as though Victor Meldrew must have been based on myself!). It's one of the few programmes that has had me crying with laughter...

What do you think of "Men Behaving Badly"?

Interesting one, hmmmm , it was an up and downer!

I found the series funny because it reminded me of my brothers and their friends in their flat sharing days.

But it annoyed me too at times, I suppose that is the Mum in me! I wanted to slap them for loafing and not getting on with their lives.

I rather liked Neil Morrisey until he started hitting the headlines with his love life.

Tell me about Neil Morrisey's love life.... see, now he's Bob the Builder to me. There's one show I should have stuck to in German then I'd never have known!

I love Men Behaving Badly, although it went off the boil. Love Jonathon Creek, that might give Mersey Beat a run for its money. Hated one foot though. I wanted to kill Victor Meldrew, and his neighbour.

I actually prefer Daniel Jackson to Michael Shanks, does that make sense... all I could think last night (apart from why don't I ever get to snog guys like that) was "does he have his eyebrows plucked... boy he's got muscles under all that"

Way way to little Tyr. About time he boffed Beka isn't it?

Ah, but Beka is a human and Tyr doesn't do sex unless it is to procreate!

Are we turning this into another drool thread?

After watching an episode of Men Behaving Badly, my daughter Mair recently asked whether men behaved like that in real life...What do you think my reply was?

Your reply was "No. They don't behave like that in real life. In real life they're not so well behaved"???

Off to the drool thread to talk Tyr....

LOL Something along those lines!

I told Mair that individually, men are okay, especially the older ones, but collectively, they revert to hatchling state and make the chaps on Men Behaving Badly look like a pair of toddlers!

Me? Brainwash my daughter?

heh heh... but did she believe you?

Oh yes!

Watch out chaps...