It's just struck me that as a Mornington Crescent server, we have no game of MC running. Anyone interested? I'd like to give the new 2007 ruleset a go as it's shortly to be published...

[nights] Blimey, that's a bit radical, innit? MC on an MC website? Not sure I can cope. Besides, I've barely got used to HP2000. Do they think they've sorted the new version's DRM issues now, eh?

[SM] Last I heard, most of the national MC bodies had ratified it, with the exceptions of Monaco and East Cornwall. And I think the DRM nightmare will be with us for a while - last I heard, they were trying to make sure you only striled three times, then all your podumes would be deleted without warning. Perhaps better to wait a bit, hm?

All your podume are belong to us.

I'd play the 2007 ruleset. Though my copy hasn't arrived from Amazon so I may make some bad moves (but I'm no stranger to that to be honest!).

Mornington Crescent on the front cover of The Times today (somewhat gratuitously).

Where is MCiOS?? Or rather, where are all the games? The archive is also empty. I tried to create a new game and got Giant Ant Error. Is it time to panic??

It was there before 9.00AM this morning then it suddenly disappeared in the middle of my move! I guess its been hacked again.

Bloody hell! If anyone's got Dan's e-mail, give him a shout, quick!

It has rather shrunk.. I hope the games haven't been lost!

I've sent Dan a message about it already. 9:30 am in London is 2:30 am in Portland though, so I don't suppose he's up and about.

Yes, the middle of the night problem. We'll just have to wait. Hope it's ok...

[Tuj] Did you guess the ruleset?

[Kim] No, do tell ;)

Ah. Very odd. I'll take a look.

Well done, Dan - no idea what you did, but you fixed it! :-)

It may be a serious problem. Stay tuned.

It's not behaving very well. I've asked the crew at the facility to cycle the power. I have last night's nightly backup here -- it's automatically fetched on a schedule, so nothing will be lost. But as I say, there may be a hardware problem so things might be iffy for a while.

Okay, it's going to be out of service for a while, as in multiple days, I think. I'm going to need to reconfigure my mail to point somewhere else, too. Very annoying.