Oolite Bulletins

The new board is indeed very good - It's nice and fast too!

Indeed - well done Giles - you can ignore all my FB PMs now!

I couldn[t find my old avatar (on this machine (or photobucket)) so I too have had a fresh start to 2011 (gives me something to do while recovering from suspected Swine Flu - glad I had the vaccine last year... )

DaddyHoggy wrote:

I couldn[t find my old avatar (on this machine (or photobucket)) so I too have had a fresh start to 2011 (gives me something to do while recovering from suspected Swine Flu - glad I had the vaccine last year... )

Nice new avatar. Are you sure it wasn't bird-flu?

Smivs wrote:

DaddyHoggy wrote:

I couldn[t find my old avatar (on this machine (or photobucket)) so I too have had a fresh start to 2011 (gives me something to do while recovering from suspected Swine Flu - glad I had the vaccine last year... )

Nice new avatar. Are you sure it wasn't bird-flu?

Griff wrote:

Edit: the new forum looks very posh, is the report this post button is going to make life easier for the spam assassins?

Yup.

I had to search to find the report for a test post I did a test with to test it, but DaddyHoggy swooped in on it with alacrity, so possibly it was more visible to him (as a moderator) than it was to me (as an admin). Anyway, for moderators and admins, reports are under Moderator Control Panel at the top(ish) right on the main index page.

Ahruman wrote:

DaddyHoggy swooped in on it with alacrity

It's DH's new avatar... definitely a raptor.

Ahruman wrote:

Griff wrote:

Edit: the new forum looks very posh, is the report this post button is going to make life easier for the spam assassins?

Yup.

I had to search to find the report for a test post I did a test with to test it, but DaddyHoggy swooped in on it with alacrity, so possibly it was more visible to him (as a moderator) than it was to me (as an admin). Anyway, for moderators and admins, reports are under Moderator Control Panel at the top(ish) right on the main index page.

Erm, yeh well, what happened was...

So we've got military grade spam shields now. Excellent!

Cheers,

Drew.

DaddyHoggy wrote:

gives me something to do while recovering from suspected Swine Flu - glad I had the vaccine last year...

Are you saying that the flu jab didn’t work for you, DH? The medics are always nagging me to have the jab, and after the rotten bout of flu I’ve had this winter, I’m tempted.

Well, from now on I am showing no mercy to any hacker Vipers I encounter.

El Viejo wrote:

DaddyHoggy wrote:

gives me something to do while recovering from suspected Swine Flu - glad I had the vaccine last year...

Are you saying that the flu jab didn’t work for you, DH? The medics are always nagging me to have the jab, and after the rotten bout of flu I’ve had this winter, I’m tempted.

It's helping in the sense that I'm not (literally) dying (same goes for my wife, who had the jab this year and still got the bug and while she's really not very well (lots of underlying health problems) she's not in hospital on life-support, which is the way lots of Asthmatics (or people prone to pneumonia like me) are ending up here in the UK...

Ah… so the jab lessens the illness somewhat... that's good. I came close to going to hospital myself just before winterfest… I’m in what they call a ‘vulnerable group’.

El Viejo wrote:

Ah… so the jab lessens the illness somewhat... that's good. I came close to going to hospital myself just before winterfest… I’m in what they call a ‘vulnerable group’.

I was told it better than halves your chance of getting it and if you do makes a massive difference to how ill you feel/get (which I'm glad off because I feel pretty rough!)

Thanks DH... useful knowledge.

No worries EV - I'm not much of a wingman if you're not out there taking point!

As an aside, I've just coughed myself sick (but it was a hacking cough, so almost back on topic)