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Seems to be getting to be fairly regular now that I get to do the Friday end of day. I wonder if it’s because I get to work late and everyone else wants to escape to the weekend? Nah, just being a cynic in my old age I think.

Well the sooner we start the closer we get to home time… or something like that. More…

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One of the biggest and most anticipated games of the year, Grand Theft Auto IV, was released last week. From Rockstar Games this is the sequel to the hugely successful Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas and has been released on both Xbox 360 and Playstation 3. Rumoured to have cost around $100m to develop with over 1,000 people working on it at some point it is the most expensive game ever.

• Initial figures suggest it has sold a record breaking 926,000 copies in the first week alone in the UK. That’s somewhere around 5% of all homes in the country.
• Our usage data shows that the day after release had the two busiest ever hours for gaming.
• It looks like a number of people stayed up very late into the morning on Wednesday playing it. Games and releases like this can have big impacts on usage for a short period as lots of people do the same thing at the same time. More…

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Myself and several other PlusNetters enjoyed GeekUp Sheffield last night. Now I’m heading back to London and hope to catch the end of the IxDA meetup. And then tomorrow afternoon there’s the TechCrunch UK meetup on the south bank. What fun! More…

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We’ve teamed up with Imagine publishing to offer you the chance to win one of 5 subscriptions to Total PC Gaming magazine, worth over £40. More…

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The sunny weather continues in Sheffield. Get those barbecues fired up if you haven’t already and make the best of it while it lasts. Remember last summer? Yeah, neither do I. More…

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The subject of filesharing is one that will run and run. It’s one that elicits emotion and gets people talking. Many many thousands, millions maybe, of people are interested in the subject whether as a file sharer themselves, a copyright holder (or both), an ISP, a legislator or just an outside observer. This subject has people talking and they have many opinions. We posted a couple of months ago about action taken by one software house against people they believed had illegally downloaded and/or uploaded their copyright material and we’ve responded to David Cameron’s call for ISPs to block copyright material. More…

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Pete said in a recent Tweet “I hate Tuesdays that masquerade as Mondays.. Bank Holidays are as much a curse as a blessing when you’ve deadlines to meet.” and I have to say, I agree with him. Today’s been a strange day, and coupled with the fact that everyone has twice the amount of work to do to catch up!

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As you may know by now, we’ve just increased the usage allowances on three of our Broadband Your Way products. But if you don’t know how much you use, how do you know which product to choose? Our new minisite can help. More…

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One of the blogs I regularly read is Graham Jones: Internet Psychologist. I happened to stumble across Graham’s writing after he wrote about a bad experience he’d had with PlusNet in 2006.

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A third of the year is gone already, this week has now finished… and next week is a short week with the Monday Bank Holiday (Hand’s up who’s forgotten?) so as well as there being reduced staffing at PlusNet Towers, there’ll also be no End of Day on Monday.

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