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ABOUT THIS RESEARCHER

Created: 30th March 2000

Hello

Welcome Unknown Visitor to my humble abode

Well I'm studying for my PhD now having completed my degree in Electronic Engineering with French at Surrey University. I did my industrial placement in France at Philips in Caen which was really good fun and I also did a year out in industry before I started uni, which has to be one of the best things I've ever done.

Me & THHGTTG

I first heard the guide when my brother loaned me the tape, I have been a fan every since. I now have a copy of the 5 part trilogy which appears to have gone walkabouts to one of my mates. As is usual with all my favourite books. I was also lucky enough to receive a copy of the first book on CD for my Birthday so I listen to that fairly regularly.

Things I Love

Ice cream YumYum!
Fish² and yes I do know <>< gives you a cute little fish !

.oO..Oo..Ooo.. ..ooOo..OOO..oOo.. ..O..oooo..OOO..ooo..o..

..OOO..ooOo.. ..OoOO..OOO..ooO.. ..oOO..oooo..OOO.. ..ooo..oOOo..o..oO..OoO..

..Oooo..ooO..Oooo..Oooo..oOoo..oo..ooo..oooo.. ..oooo..o..oOoo..oOoo..OOO..

..oO..Oo..Ooo.. ..oOO..o..oOoo..OoOo..OOO..OO..o..

..O..OOO.. ..OO..OoOO.. ..ooo..oo..O..o.!.

Translation available

Things I Hate

Horoscopes as if 1/12 of the population could all have the same thing happen to them at the same time. They are so vague as well, "Today a stranger will enter your life"³ as if that means anything.
Coupley Couples!

My Articles

Please feel free to check out my articles and give me feedback on them, Links in particular is always being updated so if you find something I need to add then please leave me a message there and I'll get to it ASAP!

Contacting Me

The fish will give you an email link! ⁴

My Conversations

I also use MSN and if you ask me nicely I might give you the email address I use!

Leave me a message using the box below and I'll get back to you as soon as I can!

Me on H2G2

Some Geek Codes for you

`----BEGIN H2G2 CODE BLOCK---- Version: 1.1 RGBE@ Y++ N+ SB+G+ A++ P-:+ L M-- s+ V+<++ E PR p a B++ TV- r D T nh+ C+ m+ t -----END H2G2 CODE BLOCK-----`		`-----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GE d-(+) s++:-- a-- C++(---) UL P+ L+ E W+ N? o? K- z+(---) O- M+ V? PS- PE Y+ PGP- t+ 5 X- R- !tv- b++ DI(++) D+ G-- e>+++ h(-) r++ x- ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------`
Confused? see here.		Even More Confused? see here or here.

Essex Girls and Ford Escorts

I am officially the keeper of Essex Girls and Ford Escorts

Mina A stunning Essex girl, rests here with her chips when she is feeling lonely!

Never got the hang of Thursdays?

Join the crew who plan to banish Thursdays... and all the other days come to think of it.

UnOfficial h2g2 Lurker

¹ These are here so as to keep my name simple!
² FIIIIIIISH
³ Translation:You will meet someone new, don't most people do that everyday, on the bus in the supermarket?!
⁴ If you're nice to him! (though it's now out of date so don't bother!)

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RESEARCHER DATA

Name:

E G Mel
Last posted: Aug 27, 2009

Researcher Number:

49849

Referenced Entries:

H2G2's Musehome

Keepers Home Page

The Alabaster House

The Kingdom of Balwyniti

The Manifesto for the Campaign to rename Thursday, "Thing"

The Myth Of 42 [(5-3+0+5) * (6+0) = 42]

Useful Links

The Unofficial H2G2 Lurkers Society

H2G2 Researcher Code - Version 1.1

The h2g2 Formula One Supporters' Club

Referenced Researchers:

Lord Preston

Mina - Older on the outside, inside still 14

Amy the Ant - High Manzanilla of the Church of the Stuffed Olive

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here

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CONVERSATIONS

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Thursday, 03 December, 2009: Further Information About Display Names in BBC iD and h2g2	h2g2	No Posting	Last Week
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It was acceptable in the 80s	h2g2	No Posting	5 Weeks Ago
Wednesday, 4 November, 2009: Please Welcome A New Member of Staff	h2g2	No Posting	Nov 4, 2009
Friday, 30 October, 2009: Advanced Warning of a New Sign-in System	h2g2	No Posting	Oct 30, 2009



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MESSAGES

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Leave a Message		LATEST POST

Broken link ...		Jul 22, 2007
Happy Birthday Mel		Mar 30, 2007
Messages		Mar 29, 2007
But were you not twenty two last year and the year before		Mar 28, 2007
Hi there		Jun 2, 2006
British and American English		May 4, 2006
..oooo.. ..o.. ..oOoo.. ..oOoo.. ..OOO..		Apr 10, 2005
Language Thing Update		May 25, 2004
Corrections and clarifications		Apr 19, 2004
By the way.....		Mar 29, 2004


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JOURNAL

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Popped back in...
Aug 27, 2009

... just to see how things were ticking over.

Looked on the who's online list and realised I was at the top

Think I'll disappear back into the ether!

For anyone interested I'm writing up my PhD and working as a researcher, still doing sign language recognition

Discuss this entry - 2 replies - Latest reply: Sep 23, 2009

What do we pay them for?
Feb 2, 2006

On the way into uni today I noticed that the back of someone's garage had been knocked in, there was a large gaping hole in the brick work and the roof was looking precarious at best. Being the kind of person I am, and related to my earlier journal post, I went round to the front of the garage and tried to see if there was a number to link it to a house. (they are detached garages and there is a line of them that belongs to a group of houses in the road nearby) It had no number on it but the one next to it did.

When I got into the office I decided to try phoning the police to see if they could send someone round to investigate, after being redirected through their call system to various different departments I was finally told that they couldn't do anything about it as I wasn't the owner and I didn't know who the owner was. Could they send someone round to look? no they don't have the resources. Could they phone the council to find out who owns the garage (I had given them the number on the garage next to it)? no, that wasn't part of the procedure. They would however take my name, phone number and address and note that I had reported it and that they had done nothing about it

So next I phone the crime prevention (neighbourhood watch) office at the council and asked if they could do anything. Certainly madam, we have a warden in that area I'll phone him right away, can I take your number in case he needs further directions? sure.

So the police who are paid to investigate crimes refused to do anything and instead a voluntary warden will go and investigate, hopefully notifying the owners and preventing the theft of anything that might be stored in said garage.

Bureaucracy has a lot to answer for.

Discuss this entry - 8 replies - Latest reply: Feb 7, 2006

Respect?
Jan 10, 2006

As I was travelling into work today I noticed that there was more than one person who having got on the train after me did not show their tickets when the guard came past asking 'any unseen tickets?' Now although I realise it should be the Guard's job to check all the tickets I do regret not having said anything about the people who for all I know could have been fare dodging.

The question is what can be done about people who do not appear to have enough social responsibility to own up to not having bought a ticket (one which is likely to be of the �30 value)?

Just the other day a lad standing at the station threw his empty drinks bottle over a fence into the 'green bit' behind, I confronted him about it and told him that it was our taxes that were going up year on year to pay for socially irresponsible people like himself and that next time he couldn't be bothered to walk the 10m to the bin he should think of how he was going to explain himself to us. He looked sheepish and did nothing and I later realised that it was because his mother was sitting on the train station bench.

How can we expect the next generation to grow up politely when the current one just stands by and accepts this sort of behaviour.

So I'd like to start something, I'd like people to stand up when they see something being done that is impolite or socially irresponsible, (I'm not asking anyone to counter groups of young lads though if there's a larger group of older lads who feel like taking on the task of politely reminding them that they are not alone in the world then I wouldn't mind! - not vigilante style just safety in numbers)

I've decided that I'm not going to stand idly by and watch my country go to waste, I'm going to tell tales on fare dodgers, I can't afford not to, I'm going to confront litter droppers, I want a clean neighbourhood, but I think most importantly I'm going to smile at people in the street, just to let them know that I've noticed them and that I thought they were worth a smile.

I'm not sure I agree with the governments new 'Respect Laws' but I do agree with the sentiment. You can't enforce respect from the top down but you can instigate it from the bottom up.

Discuss this entry - 8 replies - Latest reply: Jan 13, 2006

Politics in volunteering Organisations
Jan 9, 2006

Why is it that any organisation that is based on volunteers ends up with the most horrendous politics.

For all 3 of my years as an undergrad I was involved in the LINKS unit (St. John Ambulance) and for the first 2 years that was great but when I came back after my placement it seemed that there was so much mud slinging going on about who was or wasn't pulling their weight and how things were being handled.

At another club I am a member of the chairman decided to quit because they felt decisions were being made behind their backs.

Today I stumbled across a friendly name who has decided to leave hootoo not because of the researchers but because of the 'system' and having read a couple of threads it turns out that they felt that where cooling water should have been used some picked up the petrol can instead. (NB this is just my impression from reading a few posts, but even if I'm wrong about this case I know many of us have seen similar incidences)

What I really don't understand is why people can't all just get along and say thanks guys, I appreciate what you're doing regardless of how much more or less you do than anyone else. Volunteering is all about giving what time you can, for some this may be 7 nights a week for others only an evening out of each month. Voluntary organisations work by everybody doing what they can, not by spending all their time complaining that so-and-so isn't pulling their weight.

So please remember, when someone does something as a volunteer, if they don't do it 'Your Way,' don't complain, don't knock them down, if there weren't other volunteers doing it you might have to run the thing all by yourself and where's the fun in that?

Discuss this entry - 4 replies - Latest reply: Jan 9, 2006

A Most Bizarre Anomaly
Nov 10, 2005

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U31029

Discuss this entry - 4 replies - Latest reply: Nov 11, 2005

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ID	TITLE	COMMUNITY	STATUS	CREATED

A8465763	Essex, England, UK	h2g2	Edited	Feb 15, 2006
A7524975	Essex - England, UK	h2g2	-	Dec 4, 2005
A2811476	The 2004 Malaysian Grand Prix	h2g2	Edited	Aug 16, 2004
A2913789	Guesses for the Grand Prix of Hungary (Budapest)	h2g2	-	Aug 12, 2004
A2493155	The Malaysian Grand Prix 21-03-2004	h2g2	-	Apr 5, 2004
A2339246	The (un)official h2g2 Formula One Supporters' Club	h2g2	-	Feb 24, 2004
A1302715	h2g2 Wallpapers	h2g2	-	Sep 24, 2003
A974289	Saunas	h2g2	Edited	Apr 28, 2003
A810127	Mersea Island, Essex, UK	h2g2	Edited	Oct 3, 2002
A738696	Dealing with Pre-menstrual Syndrome and Period Pain	h2g2	Edited	Aug 23, 2002



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