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11:08 pm
Sat 12-Aug-06
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Yours truly - although I hate to admit it.
Sorry that the site has been down for the past day and a half or so.
As part of our new cost saving initiative, yours truly decided to find a new web hosting service for this site. Things have become cheaper as technology grows more powerful so I reckoned we should switch to a new provider.
All good so far.
There are loads of them out there. So I cancelled ours with 28 days notice.
Still all good.
Until Monday lunchtime, when Fiona mentioned that the site was down. The penny dropped like a bolt from heaven. Monday was day 28 after I cancelled, even though we were paid up until the end of the month. That shower simply deleted the site, data and everything, around midday. No recourse.
Cue desperate scrabbling around for a virtual server. Found this lot at a decent price, so hope it works as expected. Should be faster (more memory, faster network connection from server to t'interweb, and so on.)
Finally - anything you posted since Sat morning is lost.
Gone. Exterminated.
That was the time of our last saved database backup.
And the place will look a bit funny until I can spend more time on it at the weekend.
Sod it. Ships happen. Nobody died.
C'est la vie.
Never knowingly underfed
11:23 pm
Supreme Being
Wed 30-Dec-09
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C'est vrai - c'est la vie.
And, you know what? I can't even remember if I did post anything since Saturday morning, so I'm hardly upset ! 
11:25 pm
Knowledegable
Mon 28-Dec-09
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Nobody died. Good DW quote. And to paraphrase that favourite of trolls and nerds everywhere - its only the Internet, innit? 
Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy, and taste good with ketchup.
11:39 pm
Knowledegable
Wed 23-Sep-09
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soooo glad it's back! I was missing it. But like you say, nobody died, and we all have these nasty moments from time to time 🙂
11:55 pm
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Wed 12-May-10
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Hay Ho S**it happens welcome back Everyone we all knew Danny would come through in the end three cheers for THE MArN but next time we will let Fn count down the days and poke him with a sharp stick 
Mos 
sit down with a cupa and the urge will subside
1:00 am
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Tue 22-Sep-09
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Oh yes, ships definitely happen. Thank you Danny for resurrecting our home - big hugs.
I'll try that again!
1:22 am
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Tue 20-Apr-10
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Danny, it's the sausages wot done for your rememberances !!!
I have reached an age where my train of thought often leaves the station without me...
1:30 am
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Tue 22-Sep-09
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Err, it's a bit different now...how are we going to cope? How can I make my reply blue text???
I'll try that again!
1:37 am
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Tue 20-Apr-10
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Use blue words perhaps ?
I have reached an age where my train of thought often leaves the station without me...
1:38 am
Sat 12-Aug-06
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Worra bunch of smart ass..pects we have on here, eh?
Just warning you all - I am known to bear grudges! 
Special thanks to Veronica for volunteering to help with the geeky side of things. I may call upon you, V, for some finessing that may be beyond me.
TA - I will investigate the missing editing toolbar now. Fingers crossed. We want you to get your blue rinse back asap 
Never knowingly underfed
1:43 am
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Tue 20-Apr-10
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Oh yes, at this time of night. We have all bathed in the river Danny, no I'll try that one again; we have all bathed in the river, Danny. The river of knowledge that is¦
In blue just to make TA jealous !!!
(the water was cold)
I have reached an age where my train of thought often leaves the station without me...
1:50 am
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Tue 22-Sep-09
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Ooh Chris, how did you do that? I have no editing tools at all! Frustrating to say the least¦
Danny, I just saw your blue rinse comment 
I'll try that again!
1:54 am
Sat 12-Aug-06
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Moon River, Chris?
Shame you did not experiment with staying in for an extra hour.
You could have brought MOS with you too! 
I am flicking switches to beat the band behind the scenes but nothing seems to change. Time for bed I think, and try again tomorrow.
G'night all.
Never knowingly underfed
1:58 am
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Tue 22-Sep-09
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Good night Danny, sleep well and thank you for all the hard work.
BTW, the font as I am typing is much nicer that the font that appears on the forum...
I'll try that again!
8:25 am
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Sun 7-Mar-10
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Welcome back folks.
Many years ago at a large computer company we had a disc space problem and the application was going to fail. I was tasked with finding spare space by deleted unwanted files.
Well I found two VERY large files hogging a LOT of space. These files had the extension of .TMP Woohoo, two temporary files I can delete... which I promptly did... and the application promptly failed completely 
Turns out they were critical TEMPLATE files 
Luckily it didn't take too long to restore the files. Not as long as my credibility 
A well fed rat is a HappyRat 
A smile a day keeps the psychiatrist away.
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