I don't subscribe to Digi yet for some reason, perhaps because of tectonics or something, but whilst it appears there may be something 'up' with the science I think we should all reflect on our temporary loss with a little music:

http://homepage.mac.com/markrathwell/HulkSounds/hulkthem.mp3

And then celebrate the thought of its triumphant return* with a little more:

http://homepage.mac.com/markrathwell/HulkSounds/ROAR.mp3

Grr, yeah!, grr, yeah honey!


*Hopefully soon for the sake of all you so-called 'little guys.'

I can't log in any more. I put in my username and password and it says:

"Terrifying internal error. No file for reader 00729. Backup file also missing. Erk. Chivy the little Digiworld guys into rebuilding you Six Million Dollar Man-style. (Include your spesh number, 00729, when you shout at them.)"

So I emailed you with that number in the subjet line, but to no response. And after you declared me a special friend, too. I feel so dejected.

So, in conclusion, what the ("PRETTY FLOWER" - Ed) is going on?

They hate you. They've taken your money but they hate you. It was all too easy.

Waiter! Another bucket of veal's liver in champagne!

The blubbing victim has now been rebuilt. Hurrah!

This is a strange one. After several weeks of no trouble at all in this area, and with nothing added to the Digiworld SCIENCE, people started to be destroyed randomly. No idea why. I've added a parallel backup thing for each reader, plus a regular overall backup for everyone, so if it does happen I can rebuild you Six Million Dollar Man-style.

(You'll be excitingly thrust into the past a few days, with your bought issues vanished but your spent false cash replenished so you can do it all over again, or remember you were all cross Vision On wasn't a 15-minute animation for the 19th time in a row and give the 50p to an assassin instead or something.)

The reason you're asked to tell us rather than (say) an alerting e-mail being sent automatically is that I did this to start with, and the exactly three people who went wrong caused the SCIENCE to say, "Oh no! Three people have been randomly destroyed. Fortuitously, with the backup thing now in place and all three straightforwardly recoverable, all that's needed is to warn J Nash of these three errors. Accordingly, I shall send him one - two - three e-mails, plus another 8,500 in case he missed them."*

BEHIND THE SCENES WITH DIGIWORLD THERE.

Also: come on, man - you e-mailed us at noon, then were complaining we ignored you at 1pm. We're just a bunch of little guys. The message DID say you weren't really in any danger and after all you've only entrusted a large sum of money to some invisible guys using stupid titles working out of a Post Office box. Have a LITTLE faith.

JN.

*(Ha ha! You mean 200 or something, but were using 8,500 because it is funnier - A Reader.) No. Eight-and-a-half thousand. Somewhere in the middle were the next issue's contribs to be uploaded. Excellent!

Nash's posts are a science in itself. One of these days I'll understand one of them. Just like one of these days I'll understand the concept of flux.


giant_frying_pan

Wait, I have an obscure problem as well!

Frequently I'll go to 480, read all of 481 by sub-paging-up then on paging-up to get to 482 I get a "too many users are logged on, please try again in a minute" this seems to happen at all hours (well, I say all but mean usually at 7.20-7.30 am or between 9.00-9.20 am), a quick refresh fixes it but is still irksome, especially as I can't see many people reading it at 7.30 in the morning, especially when there's no one logged on to the forum.

Considering that 95% of the forum's activity originates from around 5 or so people, I doubt that's entirely representative of how many people are reading the site. But still.

Yeah, I know but I was in real danger of having my concience make me go and do some work if I couldn't find anything worth reading on THNTRNTeiee. And after letting my boss think he wouldn't have to make up some meanlingless coal-whitewashing-esque task for me to do for a while it really didn't seem fair.

Cheers though, Jay-Enn.

Spook!