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

Just doing a it of back searching on my own behalf and discovered that this is your 5th birthday on h2g2!

Half a decade eh?

Only a week or two until mine too

Happy 'birthday' MaW!

Orcus: how do you tell how long someone's been around here? My oldest (attempted) guide entry is dated June 2000, but I think I was here a little while before I wrote that....

Pattern-chaser

"Who cares, wins"

Use the New Users list and change it to something like, show all researchers in the last 12 months...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/NewUsers?TimeUnits=12&UnitType=month&Filter=off&thissite=1

You can then manually fiddle with the TimeUnits figure. For example I changed it to TimeUnits=60 for five years ago. You then fiddle with the skip number until you get to your user number. It takes a bit of work but you get there in the end. Of course it helps if you have a reasonable idea of when you first registered so you don't start off too far away

A little tells me it was May 26th 2000 that you first registered

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/NewUsers?unittype=month&timeunits=53&skip=2450&thissite=1&Filter=off

Thanks, Orcus!

Pattern-chaser

"Who cares, wins"

Wow... five years...

Seems like yesterday huh?

Why is the site all in alabaster today?
You can change it manually but it just defaults back to alabaster when I return later.

Nope, it's in Brunel for me... as I have it set to be.

Well I've set it in Goo and have checked that it is still defaulted so. Nevertheless it is in alabaster by default still.

Strange.

*goes off to tell the editors - as if they didn't already know *

Well, these things happen... could be another database glitch.

Actually it's a bit of a one.

It seems that if I avoid typing in 'www.h2g2.com' and either use a bookmark or the full, 'offical' URL then it works properly.

So typing in the URL as h2g2.com is the problem.

Serves me right for being such an oldie

I've *almost* gotten myself out of that habit...

Sometimes I still do go to h2g2.com though.

Well it's been fixed now so I can oldie it to kingdom come

Excellent!

Tell me, have you been reading Unfinished History? (shameless plug)

*shameless lie*

Well... yeah actually.

*cough*



...but you may have shamed me into it

Go on! It's painless, I promise.