What's New On These Pages: July 2005

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• Saturday 30th July
  Bought two more tickets online for Wednesdayu's main Lotto rollover - only minutes after they announced it on the official site at around 9.30pm.

• Thursday 21st July
  Bought two more tickets online for next Saturday's main Lotto combined Super Draw and rollover.

• Thursday 14th July
  Bought two more tickets online for next Saturday's main Lotto rollover.

• Friday 8th July
  Rather unusually, I got an e-mail from someone in Camelot's "Regulation and Governance Department" informing me that they'd made a mistake on their official site w.r.t. last night's Daily Play ball set (they'd put ball set 8 up initially, but later corrected it to ball set 12).

  I'm guessing some member of the public told them that my ball set didn't match theirs (I certainly didn't notice and I bet Camelot aren't checking my site for differences either) and then Camelot got in touch with me. It's a bit strange that I wasn't contacted directly by whoever spotted the problem in the first place though ! And, yes, it does look like there's now 4 more ball sets (12 instead of 8) for Daily Play and they've stopped using the "D" prefix on the official site for them.

• Thursday 7th July
  Bought two more tickets (online) for Saturday's £15m Super Draw. I'd never advertised this site's address with a "www." on the front (Google, for example, lists it without that prefix), but I did set up the site a while back to allow that prefix to be used. I've noticed, however, that lottery scammers have been using that prefix in their e-mails, so I've changed that address to put up a message that it's the wrong address and also to remind people about the scams warning.

• Wednesday 6th July
  Widened the draw number input field to four characters when changing the draw range in the Ticket Checker. This is in preparation for draw 1000 which is coming up in less than 3 weeks, but it does highlight that there are probably other alignment issues (yes, I've used %03d for printf()'s in a lot of code for example) related to this forthcoming jump to a 4-digit draw number.

• Saturday 2nd July
  Bought two more tickets (online) for next Wednesday's main Lotto rollover.

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