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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: General Discussions
Last post by kruddler -
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Well that wasn't fun! Power outage here for 5 hours last night. Enter the before mentioned 8kva generator - purred for the duration. Glad I serviced it couple of months ago - new plug, oil and all filters cleaned.

Fortunately, no fires. Thoughts and prayers to those in affected areas.

Yep copped the same here.

Was 40c when the power went out, and didn't come back on until just before midnight.

Luckily, my previously mentioned large collection of milwaukee tools helped me out.
Had a few lights which doubled as USB chargers to ensure all our devices were good to go.....and gave us light.
Even had a milwaukee fan to help me get to sleep and take the edge off.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: General Discussions
Last post by ElwoodBlues1 -
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I'm not sure what was wrong with the old one.
Seemed pretty reliable and easy to understand.
I think the main problem with the old site was the growing cost to maintain it, the problem with all this technology is the minute you let it age it becomes expensive to keep functioning and secure. It's like a boat with a hull full of holes, keep patching and eventually you have no hull left and you're floating on a raft of patches. It's not dissimilar to our own website's problems.

The problem with the new site isn't really the design, once you get your head around the Favourite Locations concept it works pretty well. It could be a bit easier for new users to navigate, they needed a better onboarding experience. To me the main problem was that the high cost of the replacement basically gave people political ammunition to rally against change.

I have to work with arrange of age groups across the technology sector, my older segment is anchored in the desktop experience, we think of web experiences in terms of a keyboard and monitor first. Pretty much everybody under 40 thinks about phone first, some of them have no interest in the desktop and will sit at a workstation reading from their phone. To the oldies it looks like the youngies are bludging, the youngies think the oldies are Luddites.
I'm a Windows desktop oldie, just prefer the larger screen and keyboard.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: General Discussions
Last post by Baggers -
Well that wasn't fun! Power outage here for 5 hours last night. Enter the before mentioned 8kva generator - purred for the duration. Glad I serviced it couple of months ago - new plug, oil and all filters cleaned.

Fortunately, no fires. Thoughts and prayers to those in affected areas.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: General Discussions
Last post by LP -
Quote from: Lods – on
I'm not sure what was wrong with the old one.
Seemed pretty reliable and easy to understand.
I think the main problem with the old site was the growing cost to maintain it, the problem with all this technology is the minute you let it age it becomes expensive to keep functioning and secure. It's like a boat with a hull full of holes, keep patching and eventually you have no hull left and you're floating on a raft of patches. It's not dissimilar to our own website's problems.

The problem with the new site isn't really the design, once you get your head around the Favourite Locations concept it works pretty well. It could be a bit easier for new users to navigate, they needed a better onboarding experience. To me the main problem was that the high cost of the replacement basically gave people political ammunition to rally against change.

I have to work with a range of age groups across the technology sector, my older segment is anchored in the desktop experience, we think of web experiences in terms of a keyboard and monitor first. Pretty much everybody under 40 thinks about phone first, some of them have no interest in the desktop and will sit at a workstation reading from their phone. To the oldies it looks like the youngies are bludging, the youngies think the oldies are Luddites.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: General Discussions
Last post by deepbluesee -
Anyone watching I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here?
Def not my fav show but a bit of a mind numbing distraction on this V hot day.
Dyson Heppell, one of the 'players', is interesting to watch. Hasn't endeared himself to me. Lots of 'yeah brother' type positive talk.  Makes me wonder what he would have been like as a club captain. Seems a decent enough bloke ( all very edited of course) but way too cheesy as a leader. Not what I'd like as a club captain I don't think.
Then again,  maybe more players are actually like this.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: General Discussions
Last post by Baggers -
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And, speaking of rain, does anyone else think that the new BOM website is rubbish?

It felt a little awkward and needlessly complex initially, but over time I've got used to it and it feels quite okay now. I like the fact that you can geek out if you want to, or you can just check the basics.


Likewise, Pauly. Now that I'm used to it I find I can navigate it pretty well.

I was lucky when in the Navy to have a good mate who was a PO MET (Petty Officer, Meteorologist) who taught me lots of little tricks... especially how to understand highs, lows and isobars to understand and even predict future weather.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: General Discussions
Last post by PaulP -
Quote from: DJC – on
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And, speaking of rain, does anyone else think that the new BOM website is rubbish?

It felt a little awkward and needlessly complex initially, but over time I've got used to it and it feels quite okay now. I like the fact that you can geek out if you want to, or you can just check the basics.