Serious hardware

Robbie Rix appreciates all the donated tenners

The last seven days saw an increase in the number of our web readers - well up on the average of recent weeks to 13,533 - but unfortunately there was no commensurate rise in online donations. In fact there were no PayPal donations at all!

We did, however, receive £120 in standing orders, plus there was a minor influx of cheques, thanks to a sudden delivery of mail, which included items posted the best part of a month ago. Amongst them was a nice little £25 from KT, £20 each from HG and FS, and £10 from five separate comrades - PI, NP, LF, CD and SD.

The good news is that we have already achieved our £1,000 target with over a week to go! The total stands at £1,032 and rising. Those new computers and an office printer are looking more and more like realistic propositions! And we could really do with them. The machine I am using right now kind of grinds to a halt when it downloads updates.

Talking of which, NP writes: “I know it’s only a tenner, but at least it’ll get you some stationery!” Well, actually, comrade, adding yours to all the other tenners, we are starting to think about some serious hardware.

I’m hoping that next week I can report a somewhat greater use of our PayPal facility (it can’t be any worse). After all, we can’t rely on too many cheques and postal orders during a post strike. And, the sooner we do get the extra cash we need for those computers, the more effectively we’ll be able to write our solidarity articles with the postal workers.

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Robbie Rix welcomes another increase in our internet readership

The success of the last few months' fighting funds looks set to continue in November. I can announce a brilliant start, with no less than £387 already in the kitty.

Of course, a good slice of this takes the form of start-of-the-month standing order donations (17 of them, totalling £262, in fact). But there will be rather less of those for the next few weeks. In addition I've just received TR's usual monthly £60 cheque - it's so regular (even with the postal strikes) that it's as good as a standing order.

Finally, we got four handy contributions via our website - £20 each from JS and PJ, £15 added to his subscription to the paper from MZ, plus a tenner from MP. PJ tells me: I've been meaning to make this donation for a while, but have been at the mercy of the capitalists. I know the feeling, comrade. For his part, JS specifies that his is a donation towards the new hardware. I'll be down PC World over the weekend, comrade.

Further good news comes with another increase in our internet readership - we had 16,249 visitors last week. This figure has been increasing steadily since our old website was hit early in the year, but, with the new site gradually being filled out, more and more web readers are now returning.

Most of our archives will be back up hopefully within the next week or so, but unfortunately there is a period of about 18 months that will be missing at first. Their restoration will require a period of "grunt work" from a team of comrades.

Perhaps I shouldn't say this during the current CWU dispute, but I'll keep you posted!

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