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Site outage scheduled for today 8/9/07 at 5:30 pm EST

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TR will be down for approximately 30 minutes today beginning at 5:30 pm EST.

Here’s a short list of things you can do while we’re down:

1. Clean out your keyboard
2. Clean your mouse
3. Create fun lists to post on TR
4. Think up bizarre complaints that will drive BB out of her mind
5. Try to out geek The Geek
6. Try to out gadget sMoRTy71

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Things to do from 5:30pm to 6pm EST

In reply to Site outage scheduled for today 8/9/07 at 5:30 pm EST

Drive home! 😀

Nice to have a semi-schedules outage for a change, huh? :p

Off to work on option 4….

A thought

In reply to Things to do from 5:30pm to 6pm EST

Instead of getting the generic “not available” page, the tech boys should put up a page that says “Beth broke this”! B-)

JD works for me

In reply to A thought

Just not sure how much BB will like it though. 😀

Col ]:)

hahaha

In reply to JD works for me

doesn’t BB live in the south of France as an Activist against Animal-testing :^0 😉

Rob

How about “jdclyde was here”?

In reply to A thought

Would you like a picture of Kilroy with that?

B-)

Actually…..

In reply to How about “jdclyde was here”?

I like it! B-)

Good…

In reply to Site outage scheduled for today 8/9/07 at 5:30 pm EST

I need to get to bed on time for once anyway. Have fun out there. -d

10 minutes and counting

In reply to Good…

You just KNOW I will keep trying to access this site until it is locked to see how punctual they are….. B-)

*snort*

In reply to 10 minutes and counting

Thanks for a great laugh this morning. I literally guffawed. I could just picture you sitting there… *refresh**refresh**refresh*

Oh no!

In reply to Site outage scheduled for today 8/9/07 at 5:30 pm EST

I may actually have to go offline… 🙁

just kidding, ha ha

You’ve done it to me again!

In reply to Site outage scheduled for today 8/9/07 at 5:30 pm EST

By the time I’ve worked out what 5:30 EST actually is in [b]real[/b] time, it’s too bloody late.

Can I point out (again) that we (Brits) invented time – the closest that the Spanish ever got was “Ma?ana” and the closest the French ever got was defining “lunchtime” – and that’s why we ruled the world for a while and why the Universal Time is based on Greenwich which is about ten miles North East of me and the closest that the Prime Meridian (and the Eastern Hemisphere) gets is West Wickham, just over three miles away.

So, let’s have the time of your next scheduled outage in GMT – OK, UTC if you can’t get over your resentment for 1776 – please, so that I don’t get confused. The unscheduled ones you can have whenever you like – you do that anyway.

Thank you.

Neil 😀

:^0 Yes they do Neil …

In reply to You’ve done it to me again!

did find a nice site on wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_zone
is more general, the specific one [i]nice with time schedule[/i]:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Time_Zone

to make it more complicated:

Eastern Standard Time – three separate time zones use this name:
the Australian time zone at UTC+10
the Brazilian Eastern time zone at UTC-3
the North American time zone at UTC-5

European Summer Time – the daylight-saving time used in Europe.
:^0

Well where is the yuk or is it started by Beth today … that is a nice one for a change 😀 😉

Rob

[i]edited for lay-out[/i]

Thank you Rob!

In reply to :^0 Yes they do Neil …

I was pretty sure that they were using the North American time zone and they had just assumed that the rest of the world would understand which one they meant!

😀

Well, duh

In reply to Thank you Rob!

Like there is another one of relevance? :p

Bloody Yanks

In reply to Well, duh

They really think that the world revolve around them don’t they. 🙁

Actually there is an entire world out there that doesn’t even think of the Yanks unless one is pestering them and most of us live in that world. 😀

Col

Bloody yanks?

In reply to Bloody Yanks

is that from too much internet porn? :0

May be

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but more his anger he can’t have england to drive the kiwi’s home … so as everybody else he blames it on the yanks … :^0 :^0

😉
Rob

[i]but it is, it realy is, honestly it is …
No need for prove it surely is, isn’t it? [/i]

Clock feature in my cell phone

In reply to You’ve done it to me again!

allows me to set a few time zones. GB is one of the places set, so it lets me know if I need to pester one of “you people” over there, I have to do it before lunch! B-)

You are so right, Neil

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I need to post the time differently. I just wanted to get the notification up there quickly.

I swear, next time I’ll try to put GMT. 🙂

UTC will do :)

In reply to You are so right, Neil

and I’ll do the calculation from UTC to GMT myself. I believe it involves me walking West for about twenty yards.

Anyway, I don’t want people from other time zones claiming favouritism!

😀

5:30 EST

In reply to You’ve done it to me again!

works just fine for me. I don’t have to calculate anything. I just have to look at my watch. 🙂

Looks like I was too busy and missed the outage

In reply to Site outage scheduled for today 8/9/07 at 5:30 pm EST

So I guess I cannot ask for mayhem videos this time (besides it was scheduled)… 🙂

So Beth

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Any mayhem? People screaming? Trick ponies?

Seems awful quiet around here. Too quiet!

Tell everyone at TR to beware. I have counted the ribbons. There are none in the PTB.

Get with the game!

Hugs to you all for getting through yet another TR “crisis”. Thanks for the warning!

Warm fuzzy!!!

In reply to So Beth

The PTB are aware of your upcoming adventure and we’ve been talking about it in the office. We’re not flying our pink ribbons yet but we’re behind you 110 percent. Stay tuned.

There was no mayhem this time. Since it was planned, it was just like a fire drill. In fact, since it happened at 5:30, most people actually WERE walking out the door!

Walking?

In reply to Warm fuzzy!!!

Or [b]running[/b], before anything could go wrong? :0

More to express

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their support to TT 😉

Rob

Just enough time to count my necktie collection

In reply to Site outage scheduled for today 8/9/07 at 5:30 pm EST

Nice!

So, how many neckties?

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🙂

One, hemp…

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.

Now Neil

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Just because I am walking 20 miles tomorrow doesn’t mean you have to. You can put away the necktie.

20 miles tomorrow followed by 8 on Sunday. Next week is easy- 10 and 8. After that, 20, 20, 20.

Hmm. Have to check my socks…

Edit. Missed one…

Edit…what?

In reply to Now Neil

Missed…a sock?

The necktie

In reply to Now Neil

is for TTM/No3/Don Key…

😀

A question for you Beth

In reply to Site outage scheduled for today 8/9/07 at 5:30 pm EST

I missed the outage (Damn!), but I clicked on one of the related threads below this thread –
Warning – Saturday TR outage planned

Instead of a new thread I got “You have reached a restricted page, click here to continue.”

There was other information on the page, but it wasn’t a thread.

What is that?

AV

looks like an old one

In reply to A question for you Beth

as the page goes to a legacy server.
A new forums search for “saturday tr outage” (in the title) finds nothing.

Thanks for the alert

In reply to A question for you Beth

That shouldn’t even be showing up. I’ve filed a bug. 🙂

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