Here are a few web pages that have little or nothing to do with Douglas Adams or his books, but have taken the title "The Hitchhilker's Guide to... Something".

Let's start with some IBM-related guides...

• The Hitchhiker's Guide to Sametime Deployment at IBM

• The Hitchhiker's Guide to IBM Parallel Environment for AIX 5L V4.1

• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the IBM RS/6000 SP

• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the OS/2 in 9 parts.

• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Mainframe

Next, some guides from other technology areas...

• The Hitchhiker's Guide To HTML

• The Hitchhiker's Guide To 404 Error

• The Hitchhiker's Guide To PHP

• The Hitchhiker's Guide to Fractal-Based Function Approximation and Image Compression

• The Hitchhiker's Guide to Biomorphic Software

• The Hitchhiker's Guide To Software Development

• The Hitchhiker's Guide To Hibernate

• The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Telematics Ecosystem

• The Hitchhiker's Guide To Domain Names

• The Hitchhiker's Guide To Code Warrior

• The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Wireless Web

• The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Internet

• The Hitchhiker's Guide To Jini.org Projects

• The Hitchhiker's Guide To A Bug Fix

• The Hitchhiker's Guide To A LaTex

• The Hitchhiker's Guide To Learning Portals

• The Hitchhiker's Guide To Visual Basic and SQL Server

• The Hitchhiker's Guide To Visual Studio 2005 Team System

There are more. Many more. Some look interesting, and some of them look like they're fun. Some look neither, but they're there. In one or two cases the topics are such that some of you may not want to see them (or may not want to see them at work), so stop reading now if you think you might fall into that category..

• The Hitchhiker's Guide To Stress Relief

• The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Clit

• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Genome

• The Hitchhiker's Guide To Improving Efficiency in the Clinical Laboratory

• The Hitchhiker's Guide To Hedge Funds

• The Hitchhiker's Guide To Operating A Pirate Radio Station

• The Hitchhiker's Guide To Jehovah's Witness Types

• The Hitchhiker's Guide ToThe Radical Web

• The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Nucleus

• The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Void

• The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Middle Of Nowhere

• The Hitchhiker's Guide To Canada

• The Hitchhiker's Guide To Magnetism

• The Hitchhiker's Guide To Acerbia

• The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Standedge Tunnel

• The Hitchhiker's Guide To Macroeconomic Policy Coordination

• The Hitchhiker's Guide To Optimality Theory

• The Hitchhiker's Guide To Brain Science

• The Hitchhiker's Guide To NYC

• The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Holy Land

• The Hitchhiker's Guide To New World

• The Hitchhiker's Guide To Church Giving

• The Hitchhiker's Guide To DNA

• The Hitchhiker's Guide To Cuba

• The Hitchhiker's Guide To Notre Dame

• The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Bill of Rights

• The Hitchhiker's Guide To Political Non-Thought

• The Hitchhiker's Guide To Success

• The Hitchhiker's Guide To Altruism

• The Hitchhiker's Guide To Armageddon

• The Hitchhiker's Guide To Statistics in Plant Biology

• The Hitchhiker's Guide To Accurate Information About Cancer on the Internet

• The Hitchhiker's Guide To Mathematics

• The Complete Idiot's Guide To Moron's Guide To The Hitchhiker's Guide To Really Stupid Shit... for Dummies

• The Hitchhiker's Guide To Queens

• The Hitchhiker's Guide To Australia

• The Hitchhiker's Guide To Paris

• The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Highlands

• The Hitchhiker's Guide To Multiple Intelligence Theory

• The Hitchhiker's Guide To Epistemology

• The Hitchhiker's Guide To Cell Biology

• The Hitchhiker's Guide To Hypotheses

• The Hitchhiker's Guide To Alternate .NET Languages

• The Hitchhiker's Guide To Calculus

• The Hitchhiker's Guide To Quality Assurance

• The Hitchhiker's Guide To An Asteroid

• The Hitchhiker's Guide To Panentheism

• The Hitchhiker's Guide To Capital Resources

• The Hitchhiker's Guide To Witchcraft

• The Hitchhiker's Guide To Job Security

• The Hitchhiker's Guide To Italy

• The Hitchhiker's Guide To The US Current Accounts Problem

• The Hitchhiker's Guide To South Korea

• The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Alaska Legislature

• The Hitchhiker's Guide To Video Games

• The Hitchhiker's Guide To Elongated Coins

• The Hitchhiker's Guide To Japan

• The Hitchhiker's Guide To Tsukuba

• The Hitchhiker's Guide To Nostradamus

• The Hitchhiker's Guide To Ancient Cookery

• The Hitchhiker's Guide To American History

• The Hitchhiker's Guide To Springfield

• The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Moon

• The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Departmental Written Exam

1. Stan Rogers05/10/2005 12:07:12 PM
Homepage: http://stanrogers.blogspot.com

I can see why a book about "Fractal-Based Function Approximation and Image Compression" (I take it this is mostly wavelet compression) would need to have "Don't Panic" in a l;arge, friendly typeface on the cover....

2. Richard Schwartz05/10/2005 02:55:59 PM
Homepage: http://smokey.rhs.com/web/blog/PowerOfTheSchwartz.nsf

It should probably have it on every page.

-rich