What's New On These Pages: December 1994

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• Thursday 29th December
  Another University Closed Day, but I still managed to update the syndicate page supplied by Mat Newman (he's got it down to 175 tickets now).

• Wednesday 28th December
  A University Closed Day, but that didn't stop me uploading the results for Lottery #6. I also had the interview with the Liverpool Echo newspaper that day of course (see below) - I will post up a transcription of the article in the New Year. It seems a pity that our far more accomplished HP-UX PD archive wasn't the reason for the interview though.

• Friday 23rd December
  The mention in The Guardian yesterday sparked off a journalist from the local Liverpool Echo newspaper (hey, another newspaper I don't read !) to contact me and arrange an interview for next week to go into an Internet article they are publishing in the 2nd January 1995 edition of the paper. Yes, I'll get photographed too, unfortunately, which is most annoying because I've spent some time disguising my picture.

  All this newspaper interest is mildly amusing, because I don't even read a newspaper ! I don't want to read yesterday's news in a tree-killing, clumsy, expensive and biased format thank you very much. The combination of teletext news and TV news that I read/watch is infinitely preferable and if I really must read a newspaper, I always have the free Electronic Daily Telegraph (but I don't even bother reading that either).

• Thursday 22nd December
  The Guardian UK newspaper published my lottery home page URL in today's newspaper ! Fame at last [I don't think - how many people read that paper: I don't for one...a colleague had to save a copy for me]. They probably reached my pages via the NCSA What's New entry I submitted, but I don't know really know how they found it because, in the true tradition of UK newspapers, they didn't contact me before publishing the URL. Added temporary simple gif to the top of each page, ready for when I (hopefully) get permission to use the official logo. Added new syndicate page supplied by Mat Newman. Added new prize analysis page.

• Tuesday 20th December
  Phoned up Camelot and got the address of the bloke I've got to write to for permission to use the official logo. Did you know that most newspapers never asked for official permission to use the logo ??

• Monday 19th December
  Uploaded pages for Lottery #5. Fixed misaligned winnings when you check your numbers (some numbers were one column out).

• Wednesday 14th December
  I now have an entry on the NCSA What's New pages ! Updated latest news about this week's lottery, including the juicy info about The Sun and The Mirror being barred from saying who the anonymous winner of last week's lottery was ! Phoned up the 0645 number to start haranguing Camelot about various things, including why their Player's Code Of Practice wasn't available at retailers, despite a big sign at most stores saying it was available for inspection. I'll be receiving the booklet through the post soon (so the pressure worked). Also got onto their marketing department to ask for permission to use their logo and will be sent a "Corporate Identity Pack" thingy, so that I conform to their strict guidelines. No chance of getting the results auto-emailed to me - both departments said they only have internal e-mail :-( And when I mentioned the WWW, I got a panic response at the other end (a bit too advanced methinks !). Changed my number selection strategy slightly (no more than 2 numbers less than or equal to 12). No, I don't believe in this "3 evens and 3 odds" theory - a load of rubbish !

• Monday 12th December
  Updated pages for Lottery #4. Changed alert on top-level page to be a newsflash instead.

• Monday 5th December
  Updated various pages for Lottery #3. Bought a second Lottery ticket this week, because of the big rollover ! Better range handling for folks who insist on typing out-of-range numbers in the value fields on the Find Out If You've Won ! page - it now adjusts the lottery # typed in to be automatically inside the legal range. Added the rollover alert to the top-level page.

• Thursday 1st December
  Added Lowest, Highest and Totals lines to the Winning Numbers page, which including the lowest, highest and average sum of the sets of 6 winning numbers (shown in []).

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