Reactive360  now gathers 30 new customers each week, the latest being RBS !!!
Factors360 another 5.
Quck360 (the Free to use 360 feedback system) on average 10 each day.

So…..

Off we go again with a new development (maybe we get bored too easily).

Project Vulcan will be (when we finish it…. !!!) The first integrated live performance review and 360 feedback system.

As we get more of the wacky code generated we will post new links…

Fortunately it was – but some people have been less fortunate…………..

The problem was that the boats are moored to fixed pontoons which do not go up as the water rises. The mooring ropes therefore dragged some of the boats under.

All praise to the staff in the marina, they must have had the most stressful weekend of their lives and have done an amazing job to minimise the destruction.

The marina is closed and the ground floor flats surrounding the marina are all flood damaged, as the following youtube video shows:

The Westmorland Gazette reports around 20 boats as having sunk!

Some clever mathematicians out there will be able to calculate the biblical volume of water that could cause Windermere, a lake 12 miles long and a mile wide (at the widest point) to rise by 8 feet.

View of Swan and Royal from Castle Street

The first picture shows the Hotel from the front, looking completely undamaged – only the white hoardings suggest something is amiss (our front entrance is the brown door to the left).

The view from the ramparts of Clitheroe Castle shows a different story, the roof at the rear has been severely damaged and the people who were trapped inside this area had a very lucky escape.

View of Swan and Royal from Clitheroe Castle

The next photo was taken from our car park to the rear of our building and shows how close the fire was, and how incredibly lucky we were.I write this blog from the office in the corner on the first floor of the white building – just a little too close for comfort I think!!

This is a close-up view. I reckon if I had managed to find a toasting fork and a couple of loaves I could havepoked it out of the window and supplied the guys from the Clitheroe Fire Brigade with tea and toast all night!

By the way the good news is that the hotel is going to be rebuilt, but from talking to the contractors involved it looks like it will be a long job, anything up to a year.  It would have been a shame if it had been demolished, because as I discovered after a few Google searches, the place has had quite a history. Ghandi stayed there in the 1930′s and Winston Churchill stayed there during the second World War in 1942 when he came to meet Sir Frank Whittle, often referred to as the founder of the jet age, who was at  that time based at the Rolls Royce factory in Barnoldswick where he was developing his jet engine.

This last photo shows a group of contractors working on their battle plan to rebuild the Hotel. Note the boarded-up windows belonging to our neighbouring businesses who were less fortunate than ourselves. Over the past week there has been a steady stream of people carrying out boxes and filing cabinets – it looks like they will have to relocate for the foreseeable future.

 By the way, does anyone out there know the collective noun for a large group of people wearing hard hats and carrying clipboards?

Answers on a postcard please…………………..

See the articles in the local and national press:

Clitheroe Advertiser

BBC News

Our office shares an adjoining wall with the pub. So we were called out to allow Fireman Sam and his pals into our office to check the temperature of the walls !!

You know those contingency plans that are fully thought through but never tested – well as from now we can categorically state OURS WORKS.

Shut down the primary server – move the systems to a different server (in a cooler spot) and up-load all the live data from the mirror array – 15 minutes off-line…

Not bad for a group of guys with serious on-going hangovers – well it was Saturday night !!!

New beer venue required