What's New On These Pages: December 2014

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• Wednesday 31st Decembe
  Bought two additional tickets online for next Saturday's main Lotto double rollover draw.

• Saturday 27th December
  Bought an additional ticket online for next Wednesday's main Lotto single rollover draw.

• Friday 26th December
  With it being Boxing Day, I finally got a chance to look at a couple of Euro Millions issues that I had been neglecting. Firstly, when there are multiple Millionaire Maker winners (the last [Mega] Friday of every month now, including tonight), I wasn't properly picking up the winning MM numbers. I switched to downloading the Euro Millions results CSV instead, which was actually easier to parse the MM numbers from anyway.

  Secondly, I wasn't getting the jackpot prize from the Irish official site in Euros because they did a recent redesign. The URL has gone SSL now so the old URL I used (identical except http instead of https) failed - the Irish Webmaster didn't even bother to put a redirect in :-( Also, the HTML had changed with an (illegal) Euro char used instead of the HTML entity € so that was a pain to cut and paste into my code (vi doesn't handle the Euro char well!).

  Once that was sorted, I did my usual "fake" run (roll back the data files back one draw, fake the draw date if needed and run it through the HTML grab/parse, write the grabbed data out to fresh data files, but don't actually generate any pages) and things look fine for future runs.

• Saturday 20th December
  Bought an additional ticket online for next Wednesday's main Lotto single rollover draw.

• Wednesday 10th December
  

• Sunday 14th December
  Bought four additional tickets online for next Wednesday's main Lotto quadruple rollover draw.

• Wednesday 10th December
  Bought three additional tickets online for next Saturday's main Lotto triple rollover draw.

• Sunday 7th December
  Bought two additional tickets online for next Wednesday's main Lotto double rollover draw.

• Thursday 4th December
  Bought an additional ticket online for next Saturday's main Lotto single rollover draw.

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