Subject: Site Instability Blues Tue Dec 16, 2008 12:44 am
We might as well sing our way through this:
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Subject: Re: Site Instability Blues Tue Dec 16, 2008 1:17 am
" I feel the sky tumbling down..." - hmm, calculating today how much our costs are going up (import from Euro area into £stg plus all suppliers implementing yet more price increases ) and the penny finally dropping with the head honcho (not me) ..... yeah, feeling something like that today alright ...
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Subject: Re: Site Instability Blues Tue Dec 16, 2008 1:18 am
Good ol' Carole King though, must admit, a couple of her songs have always been around for life's important moments
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Subject: Re: Site Instability Blues Tue Dec 16, 2008 1:20 am
Yeah I had Carly Simon in mind for some reason .. now i'm singing .. #nobody does it better ... #
Subject: Re: Site Instability Blues Tue Dec 16, 2008 1:22 am
Luckily I've been stocking up for emergencies like this.
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Subject: Re: Site Instability Blues Tue Dec 16, 2008 1:24 am
This is me on that stuff:
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Subject: Re: Site Instability Blues Tue Dec 16, 2008 1:26 am
Atticus wrote:
" I feel the sky tumbling down..." - hmm, calculating today how much our costs are going up (import from Euro area into £stg plus all suppliers implementing yet more price increases ) and the penny finally dropping with the head honcho (not me) ..... yeah, feeling something like that today alright ...
Seriously difficult times. Someone in my family who works in London was saying yesterday that everything had gone very quiet about three weeks ago. They don't have to import though.
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Subject: Re: Site Instability Blues Tue Dec 16, 2008 1:28 am
What's that stuff, Evercloserunion? Surely you'll need a turkey or two to go with that ton of Paxo??
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Subject: Re: Site Instability Blues Tue Dec 16, 2008 1:33 am
cactus flower wrote:
Atticus wrote:
" I feel the sky tumbling down..." - hmm, calculating today how much our costs are going up (import from Euro area into £stg plus all suppliers implementing yet more price increases ) and the penny finally dropping with the head honcho (not me) ..... yeah, feeling something like that today alright ...
Seriously difficult times. Someone in my family who works in London was saying yesterday that everything had gone very quiet about three weeks ago. They don't have to import though.
We deal mainly with banks and hedge funds - hah! great. All the City institutions now have a policy of shedding min. 10% of staff plus complete stop on all absolutely non-essential costs in at least the first quarter. That was all before the latest Madoff and other hedge fund stuff. Yes, as no doubt many of you have found, it's the suddeness of all this that has been amazing... I choose a light word deliberately.
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Subject: Re: Site Instability Blues Tue Dec 16, 2008 1:35 am
The suddeness has to do with funds maturing and margin calls or something, no ?
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Subject: Re: Site Instability Blues Tue Dec 16, 2008 1:43 am
Huge instability everywhere. Most of my friend's parents are in accountancy, the legal profession, or the financial sectors and all of them are bracing for large lay offs in the new year. Lucky for most of us it is our parents who are doing the laying off rather than them losing jobs but it isn't particularly nice for anyone. My parents constantly worry about the futures of the people who are dependent on them as employees, it is a very personalised thing.
Contrary to popular myth, there are not that many fat cats in Ireland so far removed from reality that they just sign a page and lay people off. It is perhaps true of the multinationals but not alot else.
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Subject: Re: Site Instability Blues Tue Dec 16, 2008 2:01 am
(Sorry, not up to this font size tonight!)
We are a humble supplier of services to the great and the good. We have a very wide range of abilities, an excellent team, unrivalled experience and a blue chip client list.
Actually, there is still definitely quite a bit of work out there, it's just that a) companies are afraid to commit to the spend, b) it's high-end stuff that is still getting passed through and c) ...would rather not say
( sorry, have amended my original draft of this, might post the rest a diff. time)
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Subject: Re: Site Instability Blues Tue Dec 16, 2008 2:35 am
Ah Jesus, the place is in bits.
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Subject: Re: Site Instability Blues Tue Dec 16, 2008 2:47 am
Is this shite coming and going, or is it just me ?
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Subject: Re: Site Instability Blues Tue Dec 16, 2008 2:48 am
Its either that or evercloserunion's stuff is getting to us.
I'm going to have to call it a night: getting completely cross-eyed.
I'm sure it will be fine in the morning.
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Subject: Re: Site Instability Blues Tue Dec 16, 2008 3:02 am
cactus flower wrote:
Its either that or evercloserunion's stuff is getting to us.
I'm going to have to call it a night: getting completely cross-eyed.
I'm sure it will be fine in the morning.
I hope so. I couldn't post somewhere that looked like this. You need to be able to see what's happening...
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Subject: Re: Site Instability Blues Tue Dec 16, 2008 3:13 am
This is what the internet looked like in 1991.
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Subject: Re: Site Instability Blues Tue Dec 16, 2008 3:14 am
EvotingMachine0197 wrote:
This is what the internet looked like in 1991.
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Subject: Re: Site Instability Blues Tue Dec 16, 2008 12:16 pm
Shite. Still broken. Let me see ...
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Subject: Re: Site Instability Blues Tue Dec 16, 2008 12:17 pm
Any news from forumakers? This has been going on for a good while now.
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Subject: Re: Site Instability Blues Tue Dec 16, 2008 12:24 pm
No cactus - this is a bit shite now. There's some upgrade going on though - must be a big one because they're tweaking the code or databse or seem to be anyway.
I went to the help site last night but there was no major announcement. I'll check later again.
I've just see the logo "Editboard.com" come up there - what's the story with that ??? That's a new development in the maelstrom - maybe they're being taken over by a different organisation.
No major announcements from them anyhow. I can switch the forum off for half a day - put it "On hoidays - Back Later" sign on the door....
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Subject: Re: Site Instability Blues Tue Dec 16, 2008 12:25 pm
I'm working on something ...
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Subject: Re: Site Instability Blues Tue Dec 16, 2008 12:25 pm
I think leave it up but is it possible to put something up saying Apologies for instability - we are investigating?
Can we advise members how to contact each other if the site goes down?
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Subject: Re: Site Instability Blues Tue Dec 16, 2008 12:38 pm
What're you upto EVM ? I've got an admin panel open and am sniffing around the CSS in case you are too .. I can shut it down.
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Subject: Re: Site Instability Blues Tue Dec 16, 2008 12:39 pm
Yeah I'm in there. The whole thing reverted to PHPBB2 so have to do it from the start again. Better if you close for the moment