The long awaited RFS dates are here. The system is currently updating and the dates can be seen live at:
The RFS announcements page
Merry Christmas everyone!
Update (11:30am) - Looks like that’s it. Haven’t seen any dates in well over an hour now. 88 released in total, with 31 triggering prior to 10/12/03 still lacking a RFS
For people who cannot be without exchange data, or are constantly on the move, I’ve set-up a simple WAP system that allows you to access exchange data from your phone.
A couple of example pictures can be seen here and here.
To access it, enter this URL in your WAP enabled mobile phone:
http://www.samknows.com/broadband/wap/STSWAY
(You can of course replace
I’ve implemented a couple of requests today…
Firstly, there are some new RFS countdown scripts on the exchange data pages. One is a static counter, the other is dynamic (Javascript).
Secondly, I’ve also added some additional data output functionality. If you use the output parser, then this might interest you. The 3 new functions allow you to
Thanks very much to everyone that has emailed me with hosting offers and recommendations!
This morning Duncan, from the excellent funkydunk.net, got in touch and offered me hosting for a very good price. If you’re in the market for any website design or hosting, drop him a line
About an hour later Anthony Bennett from
The new RFS dates are out! Most of the 32 that automatically triggered are here too. Sorry the site hasn’t yet updated to show them - bt.com hasn’t updated to reflect the dates yet. As soon as it does, the RFS announcements page will update fully.
Anyway, here’s the list. All of them are due to
As almost everyone reading this will be aware, the site was down from 11am to 6:35pm today. This was caused by a “Major Service Outage” at BT’s Reading POP, causing a whole bunch of areas in the south to be cut off - including where this site is hosted.
I’m extremely sorry to everyone who
The 11am update for all exchanges with campaigns listed against them propogated an incorrect number of registrations into my system. These registrations included duplicate registrations, which should be removed from the registration total.
The problem was fixed around midday and all the affected exchanges (approximately 180) had their registrations reverted back to their state at
Suprisingly few RFS dates were released today and they’re already causing a lot of controversy. The original 32 that triggered automatically on the 17th Nov are still waiting, and so are some exchanges which triggered shortly after.
Update at midday: BT.com has now updated to reflect the new dates, which are now shown on the
A few small updates on the site today, namely the league table for exchanges awaiting a RFS date now shows when they triggered, and the RFS announcement page now lets you view dates issued in the past day, week and all current RFS dates.
League table for exchanges awaiting a RFS date (order by trigger date)
RFS