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The end of the world (as we know it)

16 November 2026

Well the past few days have been exciting, some might say horrifying.

As a world that has become increasingly reliant on technology, the end of last week was a sobering reminder that when such modern tech fails, the effects can be devastating.

First up was the crash of Microsoft's cloud-based services such as Outlook, Office 356, Teams and a raft of other services.

All over the world people were left twiddling their thumbs as they watched this essential collaboration tech crash and burn. Even something as simple as sending an email to a colleague or client became an impossibility. In fact I even read reports that some companies had resorted to using fax machines to get urgent communications delivered.

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Forums are Down

Damn, why is it so hard to keep any reliable forum capability going these days?

I'll be working to get the forums up again but it seems that it might not be a simple task. The hosting company has obviously changed something but now it's up to me to try and get PHPBB working with their new configuration :-/

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