What's New On These Pages: April 2008

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Saturday 26th April
Bought four more tickets online for Wednesday's main Lotto double rollover draw.
Thursday 24th April
Bought two more tickets online for Saturday's main Lotto single rollover draw.
Wednesday 16th April
Had a bit of a stressful day at work messing around with Puppy Linux for a project on a small PC that only has 128MB of both RAM and flash storage! You don't want to know too much about it, but it's getting "bloated" with each new release...version 3.X is now over 100MB, twice as large as some of the older releases. I settled on an older Puppy 2.17 after many installs, but was frazzled when I got home :-(
I decided to wind down when I got home by watching a lot of TV recordings, but it was only at 11.30pm when I realised I'd lost all track of time and missed the lottery show, ho hum. Updated the winning numbers before the full results were on Camelot's site (and they didn't start to dribble out until nearly midnight!).
Saturday 5th April
The "plunger" in the Thunderball machine took twice as long to come up as usual and when it did, there was no ball presented to come out of the chute! They apologised on air about it, but the official Camelot and BBC lottery sites had nothing about it for an hour or more after the failure. It was the Teletext UK site that broke the news that it was the number 2 at about 9.10pm BST.

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