… down for maintenance. We apologise for any inconvenience caused, and would like to reassure you that hordes of slavering demons will be sent forth at the first possible opportunity. The invasion of your lands and subjugation of its people into our demonic kingdom remains our highest priority. Thank you for your patience.

Actually, I’ve no idea on the status of the portal, or indeed the servers, at the moment. I was half tempted to stay up ’til midnight, but they don’t seem to like it at work when I doze off during meetings. Come to think of it, dozing off during meetings is an occupational hazard regardless of how much sleep I’ve had, but never mind.

My copy of The Burning Crusade turned up in the post yesterday, so I’ve at least got everything installed and ready, but if the servers are as stable as they were after the 2.00 patch I’m not really banking on getting much done in the next few days.

I’m rather hoping everyone who was taking part in a certain other stress test will be off to the Outlands, so I might get a little bit further than the server selection screen in that…