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I joined the Starship Titanic crew on 1st January 1997, cheekily choosing a Bank Holiday as my start date and thereby becoming the second software engineer hired to work at The Digital Village. Two years later I co-designed h2g2, the site you're now looking at.
People frequently ask "What was it like working with Douglas Adams?", and in the past few years I've managed to dodge the question, for two reasons:
Firstly, I still miss Douglas like crazy, so any answer would require a restaurant staffed with those exceptionally rare waiters who can spot a situation in need of an intense interruptive flurry of waiter-ish activity, perfectly timed to defuse an anticipated emotional scene. (Such restaurants exist. Douglas took us to them all the time).
Secondly, I miss the work we did at The Digital Village. Not just the particular projects, but the energy that surrounded them - topping up our supplies of midnight oil and providing a net for our dawn-defying feats. Having a comedy genius and childhood hero whisk you out to lunch and laugh at your crap jokes and demand your opinions and argue with you about music and books and bits and atoms has an inspirational force above and beyond even the psychotic axe-wielding fantasies of game-publishing company executives.
After TDV finished, I knew I'd never find another job that came remotely close, so I started my own business. I have a lot of fun, a bunch of really great clients, and no projects that require me to sleep on the office floor.
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Bug fixes!
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Hooray! The new version of the game is now live on the Radio 4 Hitchhiker's site.
It fixes the following four bugs found post-release:
1. SAVE/RESTORE bug - registered h2g2 no longer need to do an inital RESTORE.
2. End Game/quit bug - the hatch is now shown open when it's open, and the final scene is no longer missing for some players!
3. Odd characters in savegames - players who've saved games with '<' '>' or '&' in them will now be able to see all their saved games 
4. Checksum bug - although this is an internal feature that has no effect on gameplay, it raised eyebrows amongst the clever folks at the rec.games.int-fiction newsgroup, so it was fixed for completeness.
Thanks again to Santragenius V (1), Brad Beyenhof & Giles Boutel (2), Dot (3), and Bernhard Weber (4) for reporting these!
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"It went away all by itself"
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Kudos to Santragenius V (U62867) for finding the first bug in the 20th Anniversary Edition of the Hitchhiker's Adventure Game (http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/game.shtml).
"If you were to register with h2g2, your games would be saved in your personal folder, and we could list them here".
Well, not unless you've said RESTORE first.
That's right folks, I forgot to create the personal folder at SAVE time. What an idiot.
Doubly so, in fact, because Jim spotted it during testing, but it went away 
Bugs never, ever, "just go away", and I should know that by now.
Fix coming soon ...
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