Text is beautiful

Their site made this:

http://textisbeautiful.net/

Downtime 11th December

Apologies for the whole day without updates.
Virgin Broadband had "A Nationwide fault affecting some customers"
Although the router appeared to be synchronising correctly, there was no service from early hours of 11th until about 4am on the 12th.
Things were a little slow for a while after reconnection, with some pages not updating, but it seems all is well now.
No data was lost, it only affected the online pages until everything was updated the following day.

To be fair I can only remember one other period of half day or so when the broadband service failed, although we have had broken phone line incidents which took several days to fix.

Today's snow

A short video from around 1pm when the showers were really getting going.
Will it last for weeks like in December 2010?
Probably not but it will be on the cold side right through until Christmas by the sound of it.
Tomorrow will see some thawing then the weekend is cold but drier.

Weather computer up-time

Must mention the little Samsung NC10 Netbook has been rebooted for the first time since April 18th and was still running Weather-Display flawlessly.
However there was a long list of Windows 7 updates waiting so I've done them - which required restart -  and I see more have appeared so may install those too then try for another record run!
The 'packets received' from the VP2 - since last program restart - was on about 9,500,000. (Nine and a half million)
The WD software has also been updated to the latest version..

Edit: at 5th December all important Windows Updates have been applied (145mb!) - so we are good to go for a long stretch.
I did a full backup just in case, but so far all seems to be running smoothly.