Mike B countdown page has gone

[ShadyBlueBell]

Ahhhhhhhh every day but Sunday i look on the Mike B count down page to Glasto the last time i looked was Saturday gone but today alas his page is down but he has put a great little message on there which is quiet amusing

Here's hoping he does eventually get this count down page back up because it was good to know the days hour,mins and second plus sleeps to Glasto.

[Ricochet]

Was it temporary?

Try here

Link

Until this weekend I was checking it daily but have just installed this little app so there is a countdown permanently on my desktop.

Timeleft

8 weeks, 1 day, 22 hours and 15 minutes to go

[ggt]

I made a countdown widget, only works on mac though.

Download here

[beamends]

Was it temporary?

Try here

Link

Until this weekend I was checking it daily but have just installed this little app so there is a countdown permanently on my desktop.

Timeleft

8 weeks, 1 day, 22 hours and 15 minutes to go

[Red_Eye_Jedi]

Still 404 I fear. Good error message thought!

[Sam Crawley]

I think he got fed up with the "is it days or sleeps" ongoing debate on the /index.php?showtopic=77900">Time Sponsored by Brothers thread... see /index.php?showtopic=77900&st=3500&p=2731626&#entry2731626">here for the "it's going down" message.

[mikeb]

Sorry chaps but what should have been just another minor and rather trivial irritation to be quietly ignored over the weekend kinda turned out to be that minuscule additional load on an already severely overburden camel which unfortunately resulted in the poor old camel suffering acute spinal trauma. Sadly, many things have been lost or were completely destroyed when the camel collapsed. It is understood that the now severely handicapped camel is unlikely to ever recover sufficiently to stand again never mind be walking or doing any load carrying in the future.

In addition to this, the steady and persistent rise in the British Standard F**kwit Rate that has been seen over recent weeks/months reached an all time record high not long before the camel collapsed. The BSFR (which is defined as the average number of f**kwits being experienced at any particular point in time divided by the total number of hours in the day that are actually available to deal with said f**kwits) has been way above critical levels for some considerable period of time. However, the current unprecedented high level together with the untimely problem with the camel resulted in a major system failure which ultimately led to a very significant number of toys being forcibly ejected from the pram at high velocity. Fortunately, there were no innocent bystanders in the immediate vicinity at the time of the mass ejection so there were no fatalities or any serious injuries from high speed low flying toys.

It is most regrettable that there was a complete lack of readily available Pear Cider and a totally insufficient supply of chocolate, sweeties or other munchies various at the critical time because administering these at the first sign of things getting out of hand usually disables the BSFR monitoring system and generally prevents a toy ejection from occurring. At the very least it ensures that reasonable warning is given that one is imminent anyway. However, emergency supplies are being rushed to the disaster area to deal with the aftermath and lessons have been learnt following this most unfortunate incident. Operating Procedures will be subject to a full review by the HSE in due course and mandatory minimum stock levels will be specified to ensure that adequate supplies are in fact kept on-site in future and that these supplies are regularly monitored and replenished as/when required.

Experts are also advising that following such a major toy ejection, there is always going to be a high risk of after ejections occurring. This risk will continue until such time as the pram is completely devoid of any toys whatsoever, the BSFR falls to well below even normal levels or the amount of Pear Cider, chocolate, sweeties and munchies various administered is such that the entire system shuts down completely. Unfortunately, the pram was very well stocked with toys and the BSFR is showing absolutely no sign of falling. In fact there was another very significant peak again today and all the signs are that there will be several more occurring during the coming week. However, it is hoped that the emergency supplies will arrive very soon, can be administered in copious quantities without any further delay and that relatively normal service will be resumed fairly shortly. Failing that, the proposed procurement of an AK47 or similar should help to greatly reduce the number of f**kwits thereby preventing any possible risk of there being a further instantaneous toy ejection in the immediate future.

In the meantime, this New Linky is currently a blank(ish) page but an appropriate timer will mysteriously appear as if by magic just as soon as I get

Apologies for the inconvenience and all that ... roll on end of June when there will be absolutely no shortage of Pear Cider all ready and waiting to be served on request plus a distinct lack of f**kwits various to drive me completely up the bl**dy wall into the bargain !!!

[beamends]

I know how you feel - I had my weekly f**kwit yesterday, the customer that thinks ringing on both the land line and mobile every two minutes for 3 hours is going to get my attention. When I do (accidently) answer them you can guarantee whatever it is they want will be out of stock, or at best subject to a good dose of FAT (F**kwit Added Tax) :-)

[Funkfarley]

I had a better f*kwit...

A guy at the airport claiming that his human rights were infringed because the baggage belt temporarily stopped causing a delay in him leaving.

nob'ed.

[mouth]

like the error message

[ShadyBlueBell]

Sorry chaps but what should have been just another minor and rather trivial irritation to be quietly ignored over the weekend kinda turned out to be that minuscule additional load on an already severely overburden camel which unfortunately resulted in the poor old camel suffering acute spinal trauma. Sadly, many things have been lost or were completely destroyed when the camel collapsed. It is understood that the now severely handicapped camel is unlikely to ever recover sufficiently to stand again never mind be walking or doing any load carrying in the future.

In addition to this, the steady and persistent rise in the British Standard F**kwit Rate that has been seen over recent weeks/months reached an all time record high not long before the camel collapsed. The BSFR (which is defined as the average number of f**kwits being experienced at any particular point in time divided by the total number of hours in the day that are actually available to deal with said f**kwits) has been way above critical levels for some considerable period of time. However, the current unprecedented high level together with the untimely problem with the camel resulted in a major system failure which ultimately led to a very significant number of toys being forcibly ejected from the pram at high velocity. Fortunately, there were no innocent bystanders in the immediate vicinity at the time of the mass ejection so there were no fatalities or any serious injuries from high speed low flying toys.

It is most regrettable that there was a complete lack of readily available Pear Cider and a totally insufficient supply of chocolate, sweeties or other munchies various at the critical time because administering these at the first sign of things getting out of hand usually disables the BSFR monitoring system and generally prevents a toy ejection from occurring. At the very least it ensures that reasonable warning is given that one is imminent anyway. However, emergency supplies are being rushed to the disaster area to deal with the aftermath and lessons have been learnt following this most unfortunate incident. Operating Procedures will be subject to a full review by the HSE in due course and mandatory minimum stock levels will be specified to ensure that adequate supplies are in fact kept on-site in future and that these supplies are regularly monitored and replenished as/when required.

Experts are also advising that following such a major toy ejection, there is always going to be a high risk of after ejections occurring. This risk will continue until such time as the pram is completely devoid of any toys whatsoever, the BSFR falls to well below even normal levels or the amount of Pear Cider, chocolate, sweeties and munchies various administered is such that the entire system shuts down completely. Unfortunately, the pram was very well stocked with toys and the BSFR is showing absolutely no sign of falling. In fact there was another very significant peak again today and all the signs are that there will be several more occurring during the coming week. However, it is hoped that the emergency supplies will arrive very soon, can be administered in copious quantities without any further delay and that relatively normal service will be resumed fairly shortly. Failing that, the proposed procurement of an AK47 or similar should help to greatly reduce the number of f**kwits thereby preventing any possible risk of there being a further instantaneous toy ejection in the immediate future.

In the meantime, this New Linky is currently a blank(ish) page but an appropriate timer will mysteriously appear as if by magic just as soon as I get

Apologies for the inconvenience and all that ... roll on end of June when there will be absolutely no shortage of Pear Cider all ready and waiting to be served on request plus a distinct lack of f**kwits various to drive me completely up the bl**dy wall into the bargain !!!

[mouth]

Was it temporary?

Try here

Link

Until this weekend I was checking it daily but have just installed this little app so there is a countdown permanently on my desktop.

Timeleft

8 weeks, 1 day, 22 hours and 15 minutes to go :angry:

[Sam Crawley]

Don't forget to take advantage of the latest advances in atomic clocks when it returns, mikeb! 1 second in 300 million years is the latest I hear, I wouldn't like to be late for the gates opening at 8am on the Wednesday! :angry:

[scaryclaireyfairy]

Sorry chaps but what should have been just another minor and rather trivial irritation to be quietly ignored over the weekend kinda turned out to be that minuscule additional load on an already severely overburden camel which unfortunately resulted in the poor old camel suffering acute spinal trauma. Sadly, many things have been lost or were completely destroyed when the camel collapsed. It is understood that the now severely handicapped camel is unlikely to ever recover sufficiently to stand again never mind be walking or doing any load carrying in the future.

In addition to this, the steady and persistent rise in the British Standard F**kwit Rate that has been seen over recent weeks/months reached an all time record high not long before the camel collapsed. The BSFR (which is defined as the average number of f**kwits being experienced at any particular point in time divided by the total number of hours in the day that are actually available to deal with said f**kwits) has been way above critical levels for some considerable period of time. However, the current unprecedented high level together with the untimely problem with the camel resulted in a major system failure which ultimately led to a very significant number of toys being forcibly ejected from the pram at high velocity. Fortunately, there were no innocent bystanders in the immediate vicinity at the time of the mass ejection so there were no fatalities or any serious injuries from high speed low flying toys.

It is most regrettable that there was a complete lack of readily available Pear Cider and a totally insufficient supply of chocolate, sweeties or other munchies various at the critical time because administering these at the first sign of things getting out of hand usually disables the BSFR monitoring system and generally prevents a toy ejection from occurring. At the very least it ensures that reasonable warning is given that one is imminent anyway. However, emergency supplies are being rushed to the disaster area to deal with the aftermath and lessons have been learnt following this most unfortunate incident. Operating Procedures will be subject to a full review by the HSE in due course and mandatory minimum stock levels will be specified to ensure that adequate supplies are in fact kept on-site in future and that these supplies are regularly monitored and replenished as/when required.

Experts are also advising that following such a major toy ejection, there is always going to be a high risk of after ejections occurring. This risk will continue until such time as the pram is completely devoid of any toys whatsoever, the BSFR falls to well below even normal levels or the amount of Pear Cider, chocolate, sweeties and munchies various administered is such that the entire system shuts down completely. Unfortunately, the pram was very well stocked with toys and the BSFR is showing absolutely no sign of falling. In fact there was another very significant peak again today and all the signs are that there will be several more occurring during the coming week. However, it is hoped that the emergency supplies will arrive very soon, can be administered in copious quantities without any further delay and that relatively normal service will be resumed fairly shortly. Failing that, the proposed procurement of an AK47 or similar should help to greatly reduce the number of f**kwits thereby preventing any possible risk of there being a further instantaneous toy ejection in the immediate future.

In the meantime, this New Linky is currently a blank(ish) page but an appropriate timer will mysteriously appear as if by magic just as soon as I get

Apologies for the inconvenience and all that ... roll on end of June when there will be absolutely no shortage of Pear Cider all ready and waiting to be served on request plus a distinct lack of f**kwits various to drive me completely up the bl**dy wall into the bargain !!!

[mikeb]

Right then ... you should have found a shiny new(ish) "now with added Dancing Man and clicky linky to eFests" countdown timer on the New Linky as of stupid o'clock this morning

The countdown is based on the number of seconds between the exact time you look at it and 0800 hours on Wednesday 24th June 2009. The International System of Units (SI) defines the second as "9,192,631,770 cycles of the radiation, which corresponds to the transition between two hyperfine energy levels of the ground state of the Caesium atom". Now, I haven't personally verified that some convenient lump of Caesium was doing exactly what it says on the tin when I made the timer but I'm fairly sure that it probably was and that it will continue to do so for the foreseeable future ! However, the timer is only as accurate as *your* PC clock simply because that's exactly what it uses so no complaints or pointing fingers at some random lump of Caesium somewhere and suggesting that it's being lazy, the electrons aren't whizzing around fast enough or the atoms in general don't quite have the right amount of energy or whatever

With regards to the counting of "Sleeps", it should be clearly noted that these are in fact British Standard Sleeps which are natural coma-like conditions experienced by just about all living creatures. They are distinguished from quiet wakefulness by a decreased ability to react to stimuli while generally being more easily reversible than coma. Very similar conditions often experienced following alcohol and/or other substance consumption or when (allegedly) working in the offices of certain companies or organisations are NOT British Standard Sleeps and therefore do not count ! By definition, a BSS occurs exactly once every single calendar day mostly during the hours of darkness. Whilst a BSS may actually commence at any time you wish, it is arbitrarily defined to finish at 0600 Hours. If yours finish earlier or later than 0600 Hours then this is only a minor non-compliance to the British Standard and you may make the necessary adjustments to the timer manually yourself. Similarly, if you have yours during daylight hours then this should not be a particular problem either providing that you always do so and that you also remember to make the necessary adjustments to the timer manually of course. If, however, you have more than one per day or occasionally miss one altogether than this timer is really not suitable for you because it only counts British Standard Sleeps or those sleeps having only a minor non-compliance to the British Standard. Unfortunately, no other flavour of sleeps or sleep-like periods are counted and nor can the timer guess whether you have cheated somewhere along the way by sneaking in some extra sleeps or have missed a few completely. This timer is therefore particularly unsuitable for the counting of sleeps in a pear-based beverage related manner and should not ever be used for this purpose

BTW, if you do set the countdown page as your desktop wallpaper then PERLEEEEEEEEEASE do not keep refreshing it on a regular basis. There should be absolutely no need to refresh it at all, not ever. You only need to download it to your PC once and it will work forever - or at least sensibly until 0800 hours on Wednesday 24th June anyway. Anyone wishing to join the seemingly ever growing f**kwit list by thinking "it's a timer that needs to change every second so that simply must mean that the page needs refreshing at least once every second" will find that something horribly unpleasant will happen to them very, very soon after ! Are some peeps really *that* stupid I hear you ask ... yup, they sure are and some are even more stupid than that by still doing so with the 2008 countdown page as well

Edited April 29, 2009 by mikeb

[Sam Crawley]

Right then ... you should have found a shiny new(ish) "now with added Dancing Man and clicky linky to eFests" countdown timer on the New Linky as of stupid o'clock this morning

Edited April 29, 2009 by Sam Crawley

[Sam Crawley]

Oh no I've just looked properly at the count-down and it still says 56 sleeps at the bottom. Doh!

[CrunchyFrog]

Still 404 I fear. Good error message thought!

[ShadyBlueBell]

Right then ... you should have found a shiny new(ish) "now with added Dancing Man and clicky linky to eFests" countdown timer on the New Linky as of stupid o'clock this morning

The countdown is based on the number of seconds between the exact time you look at it and 0800 hours on Wednesday 24th June 2009. The International System of Units (SI) defines the second as "9,192,631,770 cycles of the radiation, which corresponds to the transition between two hyperfine energy levels of the ground state of the Caesium atom". Now, I haven't personally verified that some convenient lump of Caesium was doing exactly what it says on the tin when I made the timer but I'm fairly sure that it probably was and that it will continue to do so for the foreseeable future ! However, the timer is only as accurate as *your* PC clock simply because that's exactly what it uses so no complaints or pointing fingers at some random lump of Caesium somewhere and suggesting that it's being lazy, the electrons aren't whizzing around fast enough or the atoms in general don't quite have the right amount of energy or whatever

With regards to the counting of "Sleeps", it should be clearly noted that these are in fact British Standard Sleeps which are natural coma-like conditions experienced by just about all living creatures. They are distinguished from quiet wakefulness by a decreased ability to react to stimuli while generally being more easily reversible than coma. Very similar conditions often experienced following alcohol and/or other substance consumption or when (allegedly) working in the offices of certain companies or organisations are NOT British Standard Sleeps and therefore do not count ! By definition, a BSS occurs exactly once every single calendar day mostly during the hours of darkness. Whilst a BSS may actually commence at any time you wish, it is arbitrarily defined to finish at 0600 Hours. If yours finish earlier or later than 0600 Hours then this is only a minor non-compliance to the British Standard and you may make the necessary adjustments to the timer manually yourself. Similarly, if you have yours during daylight hours then this should not be a particular problem either providing that you always do so and that you also remember to make the necessary adjustments to the timer manually of course. If, however, you have more than one per day or occasionally miss one altogether than this timer is really not suitable for you because it only counts British Standard Sleeps or those sleeps having only a minor non-compliance to the British Standard. Unfortunately, no other flavour of sleeps or sleep-like periods are counted and nor can the timer guess whether you have cheated somewhere along the way by sneaking in some extra sleeps or have missed a few completely. This timer is therefore particularly unsuitable for the counting of sleeps in a pear-based beverage related manner and should not ever be used for this purpose

BTW, if you do set the countdown page as your desktop wallpaper then PERLEEEEEEEEEASE do not keep refreshing it on a regular basis. There should be absolutely no need to refresh it at all, not ever. You only need to download it to your PC once and it will work forever - or at least sensibly until 0800 hours on Wednesday 24th June anyway. Anyone wishing to join the seemingly ever growing f**kwit list by thinking "it's a timer that needs to change every second so that simply must mean that the page needs refreshing at least once every second" will find that something horribly unpleasant will happen to them very, very soon after ! Are some peeps really *that* stupid I hear you ask ... yup, they sure are and some are even more stupid than that by still doing so with the 2008 countdown page as well