No, it's not the title of the next Harry Potter book, but more a summary of how my week-end went. I went and bought the book at midnight at our local ASDA store. I was shocked to see a very large queue, that's the first time I've seen that happen in all the Harry Potter years; it looks like the film and the book coming out at the same time has really fired folks imagination.
The last two books have been below par as far as I'm concerned, so it was with a little trepidation that I started to read this last book. I needn't have worried, JKR has done as all proud, this is the best one since GOF and in fact may well surpass it.
Well that took care of Saturday and so it was on to Sunday. The morning started the usual way, yawn, stretch, scratch my arse, check my email, the normal stuff. However, there was no email. Now that is normally bad news as where there is no email, there is normally no web site either. Yep, I checked and my site was down.
Now I host my site at with my old employer so I know there's no 24/7 support, so my site was down and it wasn't coming back 'til Monday morning at the earliest. Hey ho, not too worry, it could be worse. You may remember that whilst at my old employer I did some work for the Carnoustie Golf Links, home of The Open 2007 and they also host their web site.
Oh yes, that's right folks, as the golfers played out the final yesterday, and the BBC were driving traffic to the Carnoustie Golf Links web site; on the most important day for Carnoustie since The Open was last here 8 years ago - their web site was down! Ouch; if I were the General Manager at Carnoustie Golf Links I'd have some blunt questions for my ex-employer. As my favourite project manager used to say, "today I'm handing out lollipops and arse kickings; and I'm all out of lollipops!"