As promised campers, I am back with a ever so brief update. I say brief, because believe it or not it is 21:34 on the Friday evening and yes it is another time that I find myself at work, staying late to repair permission issues on a server containing naughty things.

Well it’s not all bad, as once again I am able to catch up with some old TV from yester-year on the old laptop while the take ownership task i set in motion on 33GB of data was set off.

Today’s show from the BBC archives is This Morning with Richard not Judy, it was a show by Lee and Herring on Sunday afternoons BBC2. Series one was alright, but series two was where it was at. One of the best comedy programmes going, and the extra final scene to films was superb.

If you can find any sources on t’internet, get hold of them. You would be enthralled by the documentary classic “When things get knocked over, spilled or fall out of cupboards”.

Now the things afoot at work was an interview for a promotion. Oh yes, going from Minion to Semi-Minion with power over minions was the aim. All I had to do was present evidence to say that I had done something more than reading magazines of dubious semi-naked ladies of the evening and cheap tv shows, utilising the power of my yo-yo, and solving the riddle of time to save the world.

I spent a couple of nights putting all the material together, presented it in a nice binder, wore a tie and everything. And today campers, it happened. I am now officially a semi-minion with power over normal minions!!

Yes I have been promoted, and I will receive official confirmation in October by post, now if theory this means that I am due a pay rise, though how much remains to be seen. As it stands i am on around 60% of the average wage for this new grade. Yep, if I actually gave the real figures, it would raise eyebrows. It will be interesting to see what happens.

Have been spending a wee amount of time on the FaceBook nonsense, seeing what there is, got bored and then proceeded to make sure people knew my new title, the Lord of Leisure. The space adventurer is having a rest dammit!

Thursday, went out for dinner with Natalie, who was sad and and happy at a few things going on, it was a nice evening, and quite interesting to find out about the 4 groups of people that exist, and how some groups can get on fine with others and how some groups of people want to end up killing another. See I can be educated in deep s**t too!

That’s it really, there is nothing more I can say, at work as the copying work goes on. It is taking a long time to complete so as I watch on and hope that all works out, I bid you all good night, and hopefully I will be posting stuff from V tomorrow.

Thought this was very good when I saw it, not mine but at least it does seem to match what most people on the 2K forums are feeling as well. In fact it seems a lot of people are wanting a crack to be released as soon as possible for their own legitimately purchased titles.

I agree to a certain extent, why include activation, and then require to have the DVD in the drive all the time? Even owners of the game purchased through Steam, the service which provided you have a net connection, doesn’t require to have the media, and there is no restriction on how many PCs host the content. Seems to be a wrong thing to do, for me anyway.

Actually the game itself is fine. Just the protection for it has cost the publishers credibility and in today’s already fickle market where it appears there are fewer and fewer decent PC games, it could make things worse. The consoles really have a lot going for them now in terms of games, and due to certain companies choices like Microsoft’s engineering of the DirectX API, among others, we will never see the likes of Guitar Hero on PC.

Some would argue that’s a good thing, (Guitar Hero may not be their thing) I say no. As it stands give us all the good games we can have on PC. I would love Buzz to be on PC but it never will despite the fact that the controllers for it are USB and therefore no real extra cost would be incurred in porting it across.

There we are campers, the rant for the day. Stay tuned later on for further developments from the week’s fun and frolics!!