Yesterday the local Covid website said we had 7 new cases, for a total of 21. Today it says 6 new cases, for a total of 31?!

Behodar:

 

Yesterday the local Covid website said we had 7 new cases, for a total of 21. Today it says 6 new cases, for a total of 31?!

 

what do you call the local covid website?

they do re-categorize cases

Jase2985:

 

what do you call the local covid website?

 

This one: https://toiteora.govt.nz/public/covid-19/

My district (Whakatane) has jumped from 21 to 31 active cases even though only 6 new ones are listed.

Of course, in the grand scheme of things a discrepancy of 4 people isn't a big issue.

Probably cases originally reported in districts where they were tested and now counted under district of residence.

DonH:

 

Probably cases originally reported in districts where they were tested and now counted under district of residence.

 

or vise versa

happened a lot with the dunedin students

floydbloke:

When you put your facemask on ...

...and realise it's high time you brushed your teeth.

I pre-ordered a game several months ago, which is out today. The site said "Pre-order now for delivery on the release date". I've been looking forward to it and have taken the afternoon off work and plan to play it over the weekend.

A few days ago I got an email about it, which again mentioned that it would be delivered on release date. Additionally I have a subscription with the retailer which gives me a free upgrade to Saturday delivery.

So I was quite surprised and annoyed to find that they only bothered to ship it this morning via standard delivery, with an ETA of Monday!

Why Windows seems too find it necessary to start up some external HDDs when I just click on a new email to read it.

That's not just Windows. MacOS also loves to spin up every drive just on the off chance you're about to do something with one of them.

Behodar:

 

That's not just Windows. MacOS also loves to spin up every drive just on the off chance you're about to do something with one of them.

 

Checking your config to send it back to the mothership

Journeyman:

Russian tank runs over Ukrainian civilian car; driver survives

What's the "Ukrainian tank man" story?

Journeyman:

What's the "Ukrainian tank man" story?

Behodar: So I was quite surprised and annoyed to find that they only bothered to ship it this morning via standard delivery, with an ETA of Monday!

 

Well, it turned up today, so not as bad as it could've been.

I may or may not be getting a partial refund; the website says something like "if there was a thing saying "guaranteed release date delivery" when you ordered" but since I ordered several months ago I have no idea whether it was there at the time and there doesn't seem to be a way to tell after the fact!