It’s Tuesday morning, I haven’t had my coffee yet, and have a little bit of bear in me today. Grrrr! And nothing makes bears more feisty than orphaned and neglected toon signatures that have not been given the chance to shine. That, and maybe if you poke at him or steal the six pack that he rightfully stole from you because you left it sitting out overnight outside your tent.

Grrrr! /swipe

Ok, the criteria for this house cleaning… signature images and their correlating recordsets are being removed if:

• Has not been updated before April 1st
• No recent HTTP activity or requests with that image (not being used on websites or forums and seen)

One important piece has been left out… toons that are assigned to a member account. The above purge includes signatures bound to accounts that have no HTTP REQUEST activity (i.e., they are not being used or seen, and are not being served up by us).

May the purging begin.

// purge result: 136 signatures removed

While some of the French were confirming the semantics between this and next Wednesday, informing us that patch would be coming the Wednesday that follows this next Wednesday — phew need to catch my breath — patch 3.2 is effectively live today. I finished downloading it this morning and installing it and have to endure the 8–4:30 grind before I can battle the lag boss tonight.

In what is probably related news, the Armory server has not been refreshing data all weekend and is still out of date. So if you gained a level or two, racked up some achievement points, or got some uber gear in Ulduar and your stats aren’t reflecting it, give it a bit of time. We hope that the Armory will be refreshing data again after this patch hoopla settles down.