I paid nearly £300 for my Playstation 3. I have clocked up over 1,000 hours of game time and my collection of titles fills up two ceiling-height cupboards; that is to say, I have spent a lot of money and time on my PS3.

I don’t expect it to break. Yesterday’s error, which saw PS3s across the country miserably fail to count up to 28, annoyed the Solid Snake out of me.

Yeah, it was something I might have expected from Nintendo. But not Sony. Feel free to explain to me why some Gnome Mage decided it would be a good idea to annoy their most loyal fanbase – those of us who queued up outside Game just to be the first to get our hands on the console? Of course the newer models weren’t going to be affected. Why the annoy casual crowd?

Anyway, as you can imagine, I had some time on my hands (What with not being able to go online lest all my achievements magically went the way of the Dodo) and after venting my frustrations on Rllmuk (the Sony PR department are going to have a great time trying to placate my anger), I thought about the issue.

I (correctly) predicted the problem was down to faulty calendar programming. Of course it was.

Initially I thought it might have been a network problem, but my VPN connection is consistently reliable. I ran the usual diagnostic checks on my SDSL line (only the best for casa da Hoosers) and couldn’t find an issue there either. But again, I didn’t expect it to be the source of the problem.

Anyway, when the news broke on IRC about the calendar error, I was livid. Suffice it to say, I took it out on some fools when the network eventually came back up later in the evening.

Poor form Sony. Poor form.

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