Today I've mostly bin...

[SparkOut]

today mostly bin workin' but I sneaked enough time on the "DVP PM rescuing project" to have a first prototype. I downloaded all my PMs about 10 times (takes about 5 to 10 minutes to run, for my set of PMs where there are 1250 messages about 10 MBytes in total) and everything seems OK.
Who wants to test it "out there" (use at you own risk!)

[strep98]

Trying to get home from Cornwall through flood, famine and tempest. Well flood and famine, cos we didn't stop for lunch. Very soggy weekend.

[Looby]

I'm happy to test it - once I've made sure that I've saved things like email addresses and phone numbers!

[giraffe]

My computer is back from the hospital for sick computers! It's working much faster than before, but he says he has deleted things that were using up all the memory. So I'll have to start filling it up again.

[LAT]

glad it's all sorted now

Happy filling!

[fernando]

Oh. You could have told me that that computer was back!

I have been using the old one!

Mind you I should have spotted because I went down to have a chat with kingsley who was sitting on the chair in the study but I somehow didn't manage to notice that she was using the computer.

I have found new extents of observance.

[kingsley]

It's working much faster than before,

Is it? It took me ages to log on here. Maybe it doesn't like me.

[giraffe]

Has anyone else had trouble logging into puzzlebrains this evening? Kingsley is right, it is VERY slow from here.

[Cenwulf]

I had a little trouble earler. It was like the mills of God. Which is my nickname for anything which takes a long time, e.g. bureaucratic processes.
Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small. (von Logau)

[Bunnylump]

Me too. And it prompted my computer to do a full system scan. Again.

[brian]

Must be OK now -- I came straight in

[Looby]

Just sitting down with a mug of coffee (to avoid packing) and looking at some old threads on DVP and came across this on 'New Words'

Scurralous (adj) of a puzzle, difficult to solve unless you can work out the hidden logic, which is usually InSiCoQua and only understandable after you have been given a) a hint or b) the answer.

[Wulfruna]

[fernando]

Today I have mostly been COUGHING!

[Bunnylump]

Aw, poor thing. Hope you get better soon.

[giraffe]

We could be in for a quiet weekend. He's losing his voice!

[gill216]

Fernando, I hope you recover soon but I also hope you don't pass it on!

[Wulfruna]

don't pass it on!

Indeed... the thought of a Giraffe with a sore throat is mind boggling
Take care of yourself Fernando and let's hope it doesn't get worse.

[Cenwulf]

Just sitting down with a mug of coffee (to avoid packing) and looking at some old threads on DVP and came across this on 'New Words'

Scurralous (adj) of a puzzle, difficult to solve unless you can work out the hidden logic, which is usually InSiCoQua and only understandable after you have been given a) a hint or b) the answer.

I think I'm to blame for that one. Or at least someone very like me is to blame.

[fernando]

Thanks everyone.

Indeed... the thought of a Giraffe with a sore throat is mind boggling
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I quite agree. It would probably a nuclear cough or something so if i don't come back on puzzlebrains ever again then you know that I have passed my cough onto giraffe.