Year: 2010

Xbox and women

As per this Slashot story:

A new site allows lonely Xbox 360 gamers to pay a prescribed fee for a few minutes of game time with one of the ‘PlayDates’, a girl who is paid to play video games. Gamers can choose to have a ‘flirty’ or ‘dirty’ experience with one of the PlayDates. Is this what we meant when we said we wanted ‘adult gaming’?

Now that gives a totally new perspective for interpreting this image:

For those of you who haven’t noticed, the kid is in fact holding an Xbox controller in his hands.

Politically repressed 6 year olds

Via Slahdot I ended up reading New York Times interview with Sergey Brin.  Quote:

Mr. Brin lived in the Soviet Union until he was nearly 6 years old, and he said the experience of living under a totalitarian system that censored political speech influenced his thinking — and Google’s policy. “It has definitely shaped my views, and some of my company’s views,” he said.

I’m sure they meant it different or something got lost in translation (I am not a native English speaker after all), but I don’t see how being under 6 years of age, Sergey could have been influenced by the totalitarian system.  The only totalitarian system which kids of that age know about is the system of parental / guardian control.

User interface changes

Here is a bit of a conversation we had today in the office:

– I hate it!

– What?

– They changed the context menu slightly in Windows 7, re-arranged a few items.

– You mean you end up clicking on a wrong menu item all the time?

– Yes.

– Like what?  “Print this page and shut down the computer”?

– Yeah, very close.

– Imagine if there really would be such a choice.  Instead of, say, “Cancel” button.

– Someone should write a virus for this.  It will be the most annoying virus ever.

Trying out IntenseDebate

It’s been some time now since I wanted to play around with IntenseDebate.  Something triggered an action today and now this blog’s comments are powered by IntenseDebate.  All previous comments are imported and fully synchronized, and the new comments should be working now (tweaking ahead though).  I’d appreciate if you could leave a test comment to this post just so that I could see if it is really working.  You could also tell me what you think of IntenseDebate – and that would make your comment so much better…