Well I just had to didn't I? After the comments over the last hour or so. Having read his profile, quite a few of his posts and comments, I have been entertained, enlightened, educated and of course embiggened, so I felt he was right in asking just where his lifetime achievement award was, so here it is;

Unless you prefer this sort?

Please raise your glasses to Vendbien (and give him one) and toast an award a long time in the making, and I'm sure just as long in the celebrating . it's a good thing he's just joined the household, at least he won't have to drive home.

Oh, and as to the other thing, the imagination is always fertile ground, but I'll leave a little something in your room.

Right, next through the door is FPTV , I can't work out if that stands for Festival Portuguese Television or Front Projection Television (hence the 'blog title). Now FPTV is a little secretive, but given that he, or she, has got two pictures of John Simm (one as a Camberwicked Sam Tyler) on their profile, I'm thinking we have a thing or two in common . Add to that they've just signed up for Lin's DW quiz, so we'll get to know each other I'm sure over the next five harrowing weeks. Although one has to worry about someone that signed up on April 1st...or is that just me?

So make yourself at home, grab a drink etc and be assured you're surrounded by people that will understand the need to kvetch about the crazy picture questions you are about to get exposed to.

Alright my rage against the machine 'blog has been front page long enough and it looks like we're all in a standoff with TV.com at the moment, neither group appears to be budging so I thought it was time I went back to my long neglected and somewhat embarrassing habit of welcoming newcomers to the house.

There have been quite a few since the last time I did this, but when I went to research them for the little blurb I do, some of them appear to have disappeared, and some, well I'm not quite sure why they would track me in the first place, so in the end I think I'm down to four new lunatics, sorry inductees.

So without further blabbering, please say hello to Marie-lee, I'm going to go with that actually being her name, but I've been wrong before - LM springs to mind. She's an Aussie and fan of Doctor Who, Robin Hood and Midsomer Murders, seriously how could I not like her? Although can't sympathise with the ironing, I don't even own an ironing board, although the idea of turning up to a wedding in PJ's is enticing (hey if The Doctor and Tommy can save the world in them, why not?)

So, ML, pull up a beanbag, grab a drink or whatever else takes your fancy and welcome aboard.

Lin has probably said pretty much everything that can be said in her 'blog about the appalling behaviour of TV.com in its decision to create duplicate guides for shows beginning their airing run in the US. It all began with The Sarah Jane Adventures, a show I have contributed to in the past and one that being part of the Whoniverse has a place dear to my heart, but the rot has spread, and it seems it is happening not just to UK based shows, but to Canadian as well. I can easily see it jumping to Australian, New Zealand in fact pretty much any English-speaking country is ripe for this particular form of racism, and whilst I dislike the word and all it implies I cannot help but think it is apt here.

This is not a business decision on CNET's part, or if it is it is a bad one. The reason this site is successful is the users, global participants who have a shared passion for the products of the tv industry and come to this place to discuss and debate, to argue and agree, to console and comfort over what happens to our 'on-screen' friends. Without those users, the sponsors and advertisers would not get the amount of exposure that they do, they would not be linked to a successful and vibrant community and without seeing a bang for their buck they would leave. How can annoying your major asset be a good way to keep a business going?

We have to fight this, it's no longer on the beaches, landing grounds, or in the fields and in the streets, but once again we will defend to the death our native product, and aiding each other like good comrades to the utmost of our strength.

Spread the word to all you know, and let the halls of CNET ring with the voice of our displeasure.

*Edit* Well it looks like the first battle has been won and the duplicate guides are being removed, in fact that was the message I got back on the couple of subs I put in requesting my original subs removal from the duplicate guide. There was even a message to submit them to the original guide as that was the right place. It made me laugh. Oh and I noticed the comments on the front page from the Torchwood finale 'Thanks to the Brits our guide has trivia, quotes and more!' Hysterical.

Still the war is not yet won, and we need to keep up the pressure and let tv.com know just how we can work together.

It's been a few days since I saw Exit Wounds and I thought I'd have got over it, but I really haven't, I've watched it once, which is a singular experience when it comes to Torchwood, but I can't make myself watch it again. They killed Toshiko and that sucks, more than I thought it would, more than it probably should but it does and I'm not forgiving them, and I'm going to respond in the only way I can. I'm not going to buy anything Torchwood related ever again, no DVD's, no books, no advertising dollars from watching, nothing which adds to their prestige or pocket. Stuff them, they killed my girl, and it won't ever be right again.

Goodbye Beautiful girl, you deserved so much better than this.