Monthly Archives: May 2007

Could Jericho End With Straight To TV/DVD Movie?

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According to an article posted on SyFy Portal it looks like there may yet be hope for Jericho. Nina Tassler, president of CBS Entertainment said Jericho message boards, “Thank you for supporting ‘Jericho’ with such passion. We truly appreciate the commitment you made to the series and we are humbled by your disappointment. In the coming weeks, we hope to develop a way to provide closure in the compelling drama that was the ‘Jericho’ story“.

If we’re lucky, this could mean that Jericho could get another season to wrap up the story, or better yet… they could produce a two-ish hour movie and push it straight to DVD/TV. I think a couple of straight-to-DVD movies would work well… combined with the Season 1 DVD set. Yeah, I’d buy it all. I enjoyed the show.

OCC Follow Up

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Wanted to follow up to the item I posted yesterday. Apparently the whole situation is more related to the new CMS system that OCC employed to managed articles. When the current staff converts the old articles to the new format, they have to pick someone from the current “reviewer” list. My name isn’t in the list, so they cannot pick me.

If that’s all it is, sounds like a simple solution… add my name to the list, even temporary, so that it can be selected. Or, depending on the language of the CMS, I’d assume PHP, simply edit the code. Shouldn’t be that had to do.

Sounds like the whole thing is more of a failure to plan than anything.

And yes, all of this holds true for articles that were written by other ex-staffers over the years, and not just me. Doesn’t make me any less upset to see my name gone from the work I did.

Starcraft II

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The gaming world rejoiced last night as Blizzard announced the latest game in development, Starcraft II. That’s right, after almost 9 years since the release of the original Starcraft game, we’re going to get some more zerg rush action!

It’s about frakking time! And it looks like they don’t plan to slow anything down…. “These three distinct and powerful races will clash once again in the fast-paced real-time strategy sequel to the legendary original, StarCraft“. That’s what I wanted to hear!

Alright OCC, Now I'm Pissed

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Alright, now I’m pissed at OverclockersClub.com…. you know, the site that I helped out with for many years before going off to try my own thing. I was reading a comment in the OCC forums that was talking about how the site recommends most of the products that they review these days. I went back and was looking up some of the reviews that I did oh-so-many-years-ago, only to find out that those reviews no longer have my name attached to them.

That’s right, the reviews I did don’t say reviewed by Bryan or even d3bruts1d. In some cases, the review simply says “Admin”, but what really pisses me off is when it is someone else’s name completely. Go look for your self…. try and find a review with my name on it.

Here are some examples….
eDimensional Wireless E-D Glasses Review says the review was done by Jeff Loper . Sorry, but that was my review. Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow (PC) Review, Unreal Tournament 2004 (PC) Review and Battlefield Vietnam Game Review… yup all reviews I did as well. Heck, in the Ahanix dboX Case Review you can even see my mother’s couch in the background. The COMDEX 2003 coverage was done by Matt Cameron and myself, yet are names are no longer on it. In this one, you can see me talking to a guy from Microsoft, and here I am getting my game on at the nVidia booth. Here is Matt posing with the ladies at the Biker’s Bash Pre-COMDEX show.

They didn’t stop with reviews… they even took my name off of guides. Remember the How To Use IRC guide? Written by me… now, if someone updated it down the road, it should have said “updated by” and someone else’s name… that’d have been cool. There’s my lapping guide which also doesn’t have my name on it.

What’s the point of removing my name as the author for the reviews/guides I did? Did they just want to remove any trace that I had once been a reviewer there? I don’t know if I’d go so far as to call it plagiarism, but it’s pretty damn close when you remove someone’s name from a piece of work and then call it your own.

Not cool OCC… not cool at all. If you don’t want my name associated with the site, even for past articles then you need to take those articles down. Don’t just replace my name with someone else’s… take everything down.

Update: Please see this follow up.