The end of another week at Plusnet and I’m pulling double duty this week.

It’s been a week where a lot has happened, we were saddened last night to learn about the death of Michael Jackson. When news like that starts to break the world increasingly turns towards the Internet. Google initially thought they were under attack from people searching for the same thing, while Twitter and other sites crashed from the volume of hits.

The BBC saw a spike in hits on their news pages and began streaming the BBC News channel direct from the front page. We saw a 50% increase in iPlayer traffic (the live streaming TV is identified as iPlayer as it uses the same technology) at 11pm last night. There’s also been a small increase in YouTube and Streaming traffic today possibly from people watching/listening to Michael Jackson videos and songs.

Our thoughts at this time are with Michael’s family.

On a happier note we would like to welcome two new Plusnetters to the fold with birth of baby Oscar on Wednesday and baby Alexander this morning. Congratulations go out to Luke and Caroline, and Anthony and Helen, both mothers and babies are doing well.

We have only one submission today for the End of Day and it’s from James from the Comms and Training Team:

Today, our recently expanded team have been musing on the meaning of life, along with commenting on the weather and its hourly fluctuations. We also welcomed Mand back after a brief absence, but sadly lost Matt to the [insert name here] illness.

I’ve been looking after our forums and pretending to know how to use telnet. Mike, fortunately has been sat to my right poking me and trying to show me the error of my ways (Bradders says hi too). Mand has been looking after Home Phone and Chris has been sat in his chair looking smug (and decidedly not busy). Andy has been doing “content related stuff” and Bob has looked angry.

And that’s all, time to go home. Take care everyone and be careful, there’s a heatwave coming.

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