What's New On These Pages: August 2000

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• Wednesday 30th August
  It was moderately busy in the chat room as the draw approached, although as usual almost everyone scarpered as soon as the balls came out. The TV show commentary and draw went fine and Camelot had the full results quickly for change (within 30 minutes), so I put them up before anyone else.

• Saturday 26th August
  It was quiet in the chat room at the start of the lottery show, but some 6 or 7 people dropped in for the main draw and then, just as quickly, disappeared again. No problems with the TV show commentary or draw, but Camelot took their usual 50+ minutes to release the main lottery results (and over an hour for the Thunderball results), but I still them up before anyone else.

• Wednesday 23rd August
  I suspect that tonight's rollover got swamped by the news that neither lottery licence bid had succeeded today, but I was in there soldiering away in the chat room, which was reasonably busy with people, no doubt attracted by the controversy :-)

  The live commentary of the TV show and draw went fine and I updated the pages before anyone else. I got on the Andy Peebles radio phone-in today to give my views on the lottery on BBC Radio North tonight (and managed to slag off Microsoft in the process :-) ). Bought two extra tickets for tonight's lottery of course.

• Saturday 19th August
  Obviously everyone's thoughts had turned to football today, because the chat room was pretty quiet again. No problems with the live commentary and draw tonight, although there was a joker making up the jackpot and number of winners (which I told him off about - BBC 1 didn't do their update until after the [repeated] movie tonight, so this guy was trying to hoodwink people).

  It didn't help that Camelot were a bit slow issuing the results - I only got them just before 9.00pm, but was still the first to put them up anyway.

• Wednesday 16th August
  It was pretty quiet in the chat room prior to the draw, although a few "last minute entrants" made their appearance to watch those Java balls come out. No major problems with the live commentary or draw and I was the first to put up the full results, even if Camelot was a bit slow (45 minutes) to release them.

• Saturday 12th August
  The lottery chat room was fairly quiet (yet more live soccer - this time Spurs on Channel 5 - was competing with the lottery show), but the live commentary and draw went fine. I was the first to put up the full results, despite Camelot taking almost 55 minutes to issue them to me.

• Wednesday 9th August
  Tonight was "eventful" to say the least. The chat room was sparsely populated as I launched into the usual live TV show commentary and draw, both of which went fine. Just as I finished the live draw, one of our pieces of network equipment failed and our net connection disappeared to the site - we sorted it out fairly quickly considering it was outside our normal support hours, but it still meant the post-draw chat, well, there wasn't one really (I had the full results up only a few minutes after the BBC 1 lottery update, but it still took a while after that to restore the net connection).

• Saturday 5th August
  The chat room was moderately busy tonight and the live commentary and draws went well. Sadly, Camelot decided to take just over an hour to release the full results, so BBC teletext beat me to them.

• Thursday 3rd August
  Bought another two tickets for Saturday's rollover and also scanned in the last two Camelot cheque's I received.

• Wednesday 2nd August
  The chat room waa reasonably busy tonight (though Channel 5 gave it some competition with their live Aston Villa vs. Celta Vigo game) and the live commentary and draw went fine. I was the first to put up the full results.

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