What's New On These Pages: September 2008

Friday 26th September
It was a fairly "typical" night for Web site updates during the 130m Euros "must be won" Euro Millions draw evening. That's to say the French and Belgian sites copped out with a "go away" message page all evening, the Portuguese site melted from about 9.00pm onwards, the UK site had the winning numbers first and the Irish site put the full results up first as usual.
The UK site was one of the slowest to update (about 12.30am) with the full results and the combination of only showing the number of European winners and only showing the number of 5+2 UK winners meant that the official site will completely fail to ever mention that there were actually 4 UK winners of the £7m 5+1 individual prize! It's only by using ye olde style of phoning Camelot can you get that info from them...ho hum...
Bought two tickets online for tomorrow night's main Lotto single rollover draw, but the most interesting thing about the purchase was that I did it at 7.00pm and got a "we're extremely busy" page (lots of people doing last minute Euro Millions purchases, the fools) and a "this page will refresh in 1 minute" message. I refreshed a few seconds later anyway and got the login box :-)
Saturday 20th September
Bought a ticket online for next Friday's 130m Euros Euro Millions "must be won" draw.
Wednesday 3rd September
Boguht two tickets online for tonight's main Lotto draw, but from next Saturday onwards, my monthly subscription kicks in via direct debit.

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