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

It's a bad pun. What do people always say when they walk past window cleaners?

I've just downloaded the GMail drive, a program which creates a virtual file system around a GMail e-mail address. It behaves just like any other drive: you can look at it with Windows explorer, and you can drag and drop or copy and paste files to and from it. And everything is stored in GMail. Very handy. I'm using it as a backup drive, and also as a handy way of transferring stuff between two computers, as you can enter the same e-mail address and password settings on two different machines, so both look at the same drive.

TRiG.

Traveller in Time wondering what the interest rate far data is . . .

Traveller in Time bringing money to the bank
"And they 'return' a bit of the profit they made with my investment. I guess they count the byte sand do something magic with it to return cost of the service by storing your data. "

TriG, I have no idea about the pun, not being a native speaker.
Where do I find the Gmail drive? I lost it when my laptop broke, and I recently downloaded all sorts of stuff from Google, hoping the drive would be one of the programs, but it wasn't amongst them and I don't need all the other stuff, so de-installed it again.

"You missed a spot!"

They think they're original, too. I usually go for them with a damp scrim.

www.viksoe.dk/code/gmail.htm

TRiG.

How do I get a Gmail account TRiG? I've got a Google account but it tells me I can only get gmail by invitation?

BTW, sympathise with the window cleaning. I had to do it one winter when I was broke. Only two things - I'm scared of heights and scared of ladders

Erm, get someone with a Gmail account to send an invitation to your current e-mail address.

There are programs which will do something similar with other e-mail accounts, but Gmail provides far more storage space than anything else.

TRiG.

Thanks for the link, I downloaded it last night, but haven't done anything more so far.
And thanks for explaining the pun.

There's a car around Tullamore with that in the window. Tullamore's about as far from the sea as you can get in that country, and has no navigable waterways apart from the canal.

TRiG.

I am still looking for a job, but I thought it was time to change my name tag.

TRiG.

But you aren't supposed to tell us where the quote is from, are you?

Bah! I'd forgotten that. I'll keep the next one quiet. (I must have been looking at SWL's Voltaire line for too long.)

TRiG.

That line is too long for my brain to remember it.

I found that in a little book of aphorisms I bought the other day. And I rather like it. But, true to its spirit, I felt the time had come to change it.

TRiG.

Based on something my brother U1132412 said to me. He was complaining that I waste too much time here. He's right.

TRiG.

Saw the last three Star Wars films the other day in quick succession. The last three (Episodes IV, V, and VI) were actually the first to be released. That was almost the only thing I knew about Star Wars before. They're good fun, but they lack depth. Maybe I say that only because I've since seen the films of the book from which my new nametag is taken.

TRiG.

Does no one know where this is from?

Tall ships and tall kings
Three times three,
What brought they from the foundered land
Over the flowing sea?
Seven stars and seven stones
And one white tree.

From the News Quiz.

From the Dirk Gently novels.