Planned Obsolescence
I try to be good; I try to make multiple backups. What I hate most is that knawing feeling that you hope that at the end of the day, what you just did was completely pointless. You don't want to use them. You want to look at your backup media in 10 years and think "Huh. Oh yeah. I guess I can toss that now." But we're in that weird phase of technology where it's more of a pain in the ass than it used to be. Documents are easy. You can have duplicates all over God and creation: a key drive (or two or three of four), on CD, Mozy, Amazon S3, whatever. Music and video are another matter....
First Person
I suck at Starcraft. This would no doubt win me no friends in Korea, but it has to be said. I just don't click with management games, building games, God games. Starcraft, SimCity, Civilization. Any of 'em. It's not that I dislike them. I can quite understand why people play them. But their and my game+player lego simply doesn't click. And trust me, I've tried. This goes back to SimCity on the C64 nearly twenty years ago. I've given them a fair shot. It's just not working out for us. For a few years, I was on the organizing committee for the SIGGRAPH conference. Almost to a man, my colleagues on...