Friday 13th

If anything is going to go wrong ... today's the day!

[peewhy]

Before I came to work I looked out for black cats, never walked under a ladder, checked my post ... no bills, Google PR is the same, no PC's crashed, no screaming clients... so who's gonna spoil my day?

[DaveN]

one of our mailservers got hacked last night and they a have sent 2gigs worth of emails. Before I found out.

I funny thing is they left tracks and now i have two options

report them or mess them up.

Dave

[peewhy]

Go for both,

Plan B first, then plan A ... it's Friday 13th - take advantage!

[Skylo]

Mess them up Dave. Cheese and rice we did. A month ago some little punk hacked into our server and did much the same. Lets just say the punk got his come upens. Any way all is good on this side. Just hoping that the 13th omen does not affect me. We are sitting on the edge of our seats waiting for them to give the go ahead for the big wave competition in cape town. Biggest waves in Africa and we want to bunk the rest of the day to watch. Cross fingers for that huge swell please guys.

Happy Surfing
Skye

[peewhy]

Happy surfing Skylo - fingers crossed!

What's cheese and rice?

Peter

[limbo]

I was nearly tw@tted by a bus this morning. Buses and cylists make poor opponents! - I hope that is all that comes my way for the rest of today.

Cheese and rice

sounds like the son of that almighty dude up there - correct me if I'm wrong Skylo.

[Marketing Guy]

You hear the news?

MS bought Google.

Just announced on the BBC.

Seriously - look for yourself.....

Scott ;)

[lawman]

Hey Marketing Guy:

You don't get two bites at the apple. Friday 13th doesn't have anything to do with April 1.

lawman

[Marketing Guy]

Awwww :(

No fair....

[JonB]

well,my email account and website and isp's email is not working for past hour so i cant send and received email now.

[peewhy]

How do I box quotes?

>>>cheese and rice... oh I see, S.African rhyming slang!

It looks like Dave had the worst of Friday 13th.

I escaped! but it's on;y 9.54 pm 3 hours to g........aghhhh!

[Duckula]

My homely own site is pretty much down and apparently brought a slice of the net with it. Bad enough for me.

[tedster]

Vocabulary word: triskaidekaphobia

[peewhy]

Tedster, you might know this but I'll waffle on anyway ...

It's quite a new word, early 20th c, from Greek - treiskaideka - 13.

So worrying about 13 is quite modern, I always thought it had something to do with the last supper - thirteen guests at the table before Jesus was crusified, or thirteen steps to the guillotine.

But why Friday? - we don't seem to worry about the other six days.

[pixel_juice]

>>But why Friday? - we don't seem to worry about the other six days.

The 6th day of the week is traditionally bad news - execution (and crucifixion) day, apple-temptation day, and it's also a traditional pagan day of worship, so upstanding christian types have to hate it ;)

More vocab:

Paraskevidekatriaphobia (fear of Friday 13th)...

An aside - studies have shown that although less people drive on Friday 13th, there are actually a higher proportion of traffic accidents. And if you believe Friday 13th is unlucky, you are more likely to suffer bad luck...

[peewhy]

My grandad was born on friday 13th, he died on friday the 13th, the doctor said it was a very unlucky accident but queried why a 99 year old man spent so much time in a brothel.

[gopi]

Didnt noticed the date ...tried to buy a domain for a new project and suddenly noticed the date ...didnt wanted to start a new project from an unlucky date and just aborted the shopping cart ....

For me when it comes to Rational thinking vs Superstition , the later always wins :)

[peewhy]

The real irony would be not buying the domain because of the date and then finding it was sold on Friday 13th. Double jeopardy?

[AthlonInside]

My advertiser credit my money into my bank. It is a good day. :)

[peewhy]

Well there's a result!