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Our last record attendance was:

Most users ever online was 99 on Sun Nov 15, 2009 10:40 am

Australian Eastern Summer Time

Using that as a template... We can try to break our record of 99 on Dhamma Wheel's birthday! Try to login, if you can at the following time (or before, just stay active, refresh the index page), based on your timezone:

Las Vegas (U.S.A. - Nevada) Thursday, 31 December 2009 at 3:40:00 PM
Madison (U.S.A. - Wisconsin) Thursday, 31 December 2009 at 5:40:00 PM
New York (U.S.A. - New York) Thursday, 31 December 2009 at 6:40:00 PM
London (U.K. - England) Thursday, 31 December at 11:40:00 PM
Berlin (Germany - Berlin) Friday, 1 January 2010 at 12:40:00 AM
Moscow (Russia) Friday, 1 January 2010 at 2:40:00 AM
Mumbai (India - Maharashtra) Friday, 1 January 2010 at 5:10:00 AM
Kolkata (India - West Bengal) Friday, 1 January 2010 at 5:10:00 AM
Bangkok (Thailand) Friday, 1 January 2010 at 6:40:00 AM
Beijing (China) Friday, 1 January 2010 at 7:40:00 AM
Perth (Australia - Western Australia) Friday, 1 January 2010 at 7:40:00 AM
Auckland (New Zealand) Friday, 1 January 2010 at 12:40:00 PM

SEE YOU THEN ! ! !

(thanks to Ben for calculating these times!)
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No problem David
Just to point out, those on the East Coast of Australia, the time for our 'bomb' is

Sydney, Melbourne and Hobart: 10.40 AM 1st Jan
Brisbane: 9.40 AM 1st Jan

My advice is for people to log on at least a few minutes early and perhaps say 'hello' here on this thread.
It'll be cool!
See you then!
metta

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Fantastic idea, David and Ben!

Erm... I have a NYE party the night before but I'll do my best to wake up early enough just to log in. :)
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“No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.”
- Cormac McCarthy, The Road

Learn this from the waters:
in mountain clefts and chasms,
loud gush the streamlets,
but great rivers flow silently.
- Sutta Nipata 3.725

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I'll be at work :(. I'll try to get on but, alas, it's not likely. Hey, wouldn't it be good to get everyone into chat to celebrate! Chat is so rarely used here, maybe this 'bomb' will kickstart it :)
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I've set my mobile 'phone alarm to remind me! I'll be here!! (Do we need to bring a bottle?) :jumping:
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Translation: Just to stir things up seemed a good reward in itself. ;)

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:rofl:
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David N. Snyder wrote: Perth (Australia - Western Australia) Friday, 1 January 2010 at 7:40:00 AM
You think I have nothing better to do at 7:40AM on new year's day than to log on to DhammaWheel?

...Well, you're right! Looking forward to it! :woohoo:
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Forgive me, I am a blonde.
I am always getting confused with those time zones:
David N. Snyder wrote:
London (U.K. - England) Thursday, 31 December at 11:40:00 PM
Berlin (Germany - Berlin) Friday, 1 January 2010 at 12:40:00 AM
...


SEE YOU THEN ! ! !

(thanks to Ben for calculating these times!)
so, UK times I understand, this is 20 minutes to midnight on New Year's Eve in the UK.
I.e. the Berlin time (relevant for me) would be 00.40 hrs (in Germany) on New Year's Day, right?

All this AM - PM stuff is confusing for someone on a 24-hrs system :)

It would be good if you could confirm or correct my translation before I am wasting a good night's sleep for nothing ;)
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Vardali wrote: All this AM - PM stuff is confusing for someone on a 24-hrs system :)

It would be good if you could confirm or correct my translation before I am wasting a good night's sleep for nothing ;)
For times with PM next to them, just add 12, for example:

3:40 pm = 1540
6:40 pm = 1840

with the exception of:

12:00 pm = 1200
12:00 am = 0000 (or 2400) midnight
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I am at work. I will log in, but will probably be a "silent participant". Happy Birthday!
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Unfortunately I won't have access to a computer at that time. Sorry!
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I don't see any sense in this intention. In my opinion it is just another bigger, greater, higher,more, ... Samsara.
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Hi Rhino,
Rhino wrote:I don't see any sense in this intention. In my opinion it is just another bigger, greater, higher,more, ... Samsara.
While what you say is true in the short term, at least we are all going to be logging on to a website dedicated primarily to Dhamma discussion (and secondarily to fun and games). We could be all agreeing to log on at the same time to a website devoted to man vs bear hot dog eating contests, or worse! Therefore perhaps an act of indulging in the trivial will help bring us closer to the non-trivial.

With Metta,

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1) Giving; expecting nothing back in return
2) Throwing things away
3) Contentment; wanting to be here, not wanting to be anywhere else
4) "Teflon Mind"; having a mind which doesn't accumulate things

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Will the web-server hosting dhamma-wheel be capable of dealing with, let's say 500 or more logins at once?
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