What's New On These Pages: May 2004

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• Sunday 30th May
  Received a new 19-ticket guaranteed 2-match wheel from Stefan Vandevelde that covered more combinations (248 vs. Robert Perkis' 237).

• Thursday 27th May
  Bought six more tickets for tomorrow's first ever main draw triple rollover. I was, however, quite annoyed that my local Tesco I got the tickets from did not have any poster up promoting the triple rollover (and they didn't for the single or double rollovers we've had in the last week either) and yet they had two posters for the useless Euro Millions (which was reset twice in the last two weeks to its lowest ever jackpot because of two non-UK winners, one in each consecutive draw).

  My suspicion is that Camelot has been forcing retailers to promote only Euro Millions with their posters, because its sales have been utterly dismal in the UK so far. It's a flop simply because it's too similar to the main UK lottery, the public realise the odds (which Camelot very rarely ever mention for any of the games) of winning the jackpot are much, much worse than the main UK lottery and the ticket costs 50% more!

• Wednesday 26th May
  In the midst of the excitement of the unwon jackpot tonight (triple rollover on Saturday!), I almost missed that Camelot naughtily retro-corrected the machine for Thunderball draw #341 (they said it was Excalibur 4 initially, but later changed it to Excalibur 5). I only spotted it because tonight's Thunderball draw #343 also used Excalibur 5, which came up as "Unknown" cos I only had 4 machines allowed for Thunderball. So, yes, it looks like they've snuck in a 5th Thunderball machine a week ago...

• Tuesday 25th May
  Bought four more tickets for Wednesday's double rollover draw.

• Thursday 20th May
  Bought two more tickets for Saturday's rollover draw.

• Wednesday 12nd May
  Tuesday night's Daily Play full results (and numbers !) weren't on the official site at 10.45pm, which was the last time my auto-grabber runs each evening. Hence, I've now added 4 more checks every 15 mins (11.00pm-11.45pm), which should hopefully cover future "late results".

  Finally fixed the annoying W3C HTML validator errors on the pages since I introduced the Gecko "advert" - turns out that the validator doesn't like < or > in the string param of a document.writeln() statement in JavaScript, even though the JavaScript is "commented out" to try to avoid such parsing problems. Had to replace those two chars with \x3c and \x3e (no, not &lt; and &gt; because idiotic IE6 doesn't evaluate entities in document.writeln() statements - yet another IE bug!) to "fool" the validator....sigh...

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