Snatching Victory From the Jaws of Defeat

On Friday night, the Arsenal triumphed 133-130 over the Colorado 14ers in one of the stranger finishes that I’ve ever seen to a basketball game. The Arsenal forced overtime after trailing for the entire 4th quarter (and almost the entire second half) on a tip-in by Jamaal Thomas after an intentional free throw miss. Then, …

Even When You Wrote the Operating System, You Still Have to Work Around Other Peoples’ Bugs

For all the grief that Microsoft has taken in the past about the bugginess (real or imagined) of Windows, they have definitely put in a huge amount of effort to try and erase that perception. Readers of Raymond Chen’s excellent The Old New Thing blog will no doubt be familiar with the many tales regarding …

True Names and the Fracturing of Identity

I saw a post on the always-amusing Coding Horror regarding the fracturing of online identities. A couple of early blogging pioneers are mentioned, along with the number of separate profiles or identities that they seem to have — in the range of 20-30. The question is, which one of these is “truly” them? The somewhat …

Big Game Hunter (Not Starcraft Related)

In furtherance of my recent Gamerscore binge, I decided to branch out a little bit and explore a new game genre for me — hunting games. I rented Cabela’s Big Game Hunter for the 360, and just got done getting all 1000 Gamerscore a little while ago. I have to say that I was fairly …