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I had a pretty quiet night. Made some money on the Man U match and bit here and there but nothing outrageous.

3.00 at Bath

pictures lost due to severe weather - thunder and lightening.

The winner was available at 4.2 when the race was suspended - would have been a good day to have someone at the course on the phone

I'll have to remember that. I can't wait for Kempton Park and Ascot to come back on line again. I'll have five big courses within easy driving distance then.

Youve got my phone number :-))))

Just backed Madrid at 2.02 - 30 secs later they scored :-)

Nice one Steve

Not doing much on the footy tonight, although green on Chelsea

2-1 now

time to green up :-)

best 5 mins going lol - how much skill has Robinho got

Turned over to the AC Milan game

theyre all over PSV but still 0-0 - tempted to put my Madrid profit on Milan

Great free kick from Beckham - Madrid now 4-1 up - hell of an even money shot at half time

Really pleased to see Woodgate get a goal, poor lad. He's come in for so much grief.

Had a bet on Real that I forgot about, rather pleased they won! :-)
Hope u didnt back AC Steve

Right, back to work for me tomorrow, so wishing you all the best of luck. Will only be able to post very sporadically until next year.

PS. Scrip, please don't forget the tutorial CD

pth

PTH

didnt back AC - scalped the draw :-)

Good luck back at work

See betfair has been down for over an hour since 5.11pm

i thought it was me! so much for the footie tonight

Still down

Will be very circumspect in using it tomorrow - they really do need to get this sorted out properly

19:45

We are still completing final testing, and are aiming to have the site back on-line in approximately 10 minutes.



.... and still down !

do other exchange sites have these problems that betfair have had ?

Here is the explanation.


" We have now identified and resolved the cause of this afternoons problems. You will probably be aware that each bet request that is generated receives a unique sequenced number. Today the bet sequence exceeded 2,147,483,647 and our applications were unable to recognise the next sequence of numbers. This meant that bets placed could not display on the web-site i.e. within the bet manager. Amendments to our code have been made which will enable a vastly increased numerical sequence, and this is a problem which will not re-occur in the future.

Given the problems earlier today, we fully understand that some people may have legitimate cause for compensation (for example, due to a duplicate bet placement when a technical error message was received following a first bet request). We will undertake to investigate any such claims, and deal with each one individually based on its own merits.

In order to undertake such individual investigation, immediate resolution is unlikely, but we will do everything possible to provide a full
response to each claim within 72 hours. Any claims in connection with this afternoons problems should be directed by email only to: bets@betfair.com. Please ensure that the account username is quoted within the email. "

So which tech wiz decided that 2,147,483,647 should be the last recognisable number ???

What so special about that no. ?