I've had the Wednesday booked as a holiday since December (and the Thursday for recovery), so the bandwidth spike as everyone tries to tune into the game will not be my problem. Actually I might redirect the most popular streaming sites onto kittenwar.com before I leave the day before :-)
On 11 June 2010 09:32, Alan Davies <adav...@cls-services.com> wrote: > Ha ... I bet there were a few Googles for the word "soccer" just to find > out what on earth it was! ;o) Football, as the rest of the world doesn't > call that American pastime, has a strange history over there .. even with > Beckham joining forces temporarily! F1 suffers the same fate - the rest of > the world watches and the US prefers cars that only ever turn left ;P > > Ok ok .. enough ribbing - at least they have good Olympic athletes and take > notice of that! Wander if they'll play it "safe" with a 1-0 or go all out > ... > > Back (loosely) on topic, we're holding our breath for the first daytime > England match bandwidth wise! We've even arranged a meeting room with light > refreshments to try and get those who want (and are allowed) to watch it to > watch it on a telly and not streamed in HD .. > > > a > > ------------------------------ > *From:* James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] > *Sent:* 11 June 2010 08:22 > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Utterly OT - World Cup > > As there is no-one from the USA in my company here in the empty north of > England, I just thought I'd put a quick post for all the Americans here > reminding them that England will be whupping their butts tomorrow evening in > the World Cup. I know 99.9% of you probably don't follow "soccer" and > possibly aren't even aware that this tournament is about to begin, but I'm > hoping that maybe someone does, in the interests of some friendly rivalry > :-) > > -- > "On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into > the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able > rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such > a question." > > > > > > > ************************************************************************************ > > WARNING: > > The information in this email and any attachments is confidential and may > be legally privileged. > > > > If you are not the named addressee, you must not use, copy or disclose this > email (including any attachments) or the information in it save to the named > addressee nor take any action in reliance on it. If you receive this email > or any attachments in error, please notify the sender immediately and then > delete the same and any copies. > > > > "CLS Services Ltd × Registered in England No 4132704 × Registered Office: > Exchange Tower × One Harbour Exchange Square × London E14 9GE" > > > > > > > > -- "On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
