I Set an Alarm for a Robot Arm
I got up at 5:30am to watch a NASA livestream of the Dragon capsule getting grabbed by a robot arm, and it made me think about how bad we still are at streaming the moments that actually matter.
I Watched a Robot Arm Catch a Spaceship Before Coffee
I got up early to watch SpaceX's Dragon capsule get grabbed by the ISS's robot arm, and it was a much better tech story than another week of Facebook stock headlines.
Error 37 and Nine Days of Diablo III
Nine days into Diablo III, still annoyed about Error 37 and the always-online requirement, plus a quick aside on Facebook's sliding stock price.
Two 3 A.M. Alarms for One Rocket Launch
Two 3 AM alarms this week for one Falcon 9 launch, a scrub half a second before liftoff, and why I think SpaceX's Dragon flight deserves more attention than it's getting.
3 AM and a Dragon Left the Pad
I woke up at 3 AM to watch SpaceX launch the Dragon capsule live, three days after the first attempt aborted with half a second left on the clock.
Half a Second From Liftoff
I got up at 4:15 a.m. to watch SpaceX try to launch Dragon to the ISS, and it aborted half a second before liftoff. Some thoughts on that, plus a Diablo III error 37 rant.
Error 37 and Why I Needed the Internet to Play Alone
A rant about Diablo III's launch-night Error 37 mess and why a mostly single-player game needing a constant server connection still feels wrong.
Error 37 Is the Only Boss I Fought Last Night
Diablo III launched yesterday and Battle.net basically fell over. A rundown of Error 37, why always-online single-player is a bad idea, and how I spent launch night staring at a login screen instead of killing anything.
Error 37 and the Longest Tuesday
Diablo III launched today and immediately buckled under Error 37, and a mandatory-online single-player game turned out to be a bad combination with an overloaded login queue.
Yahoo's CEO Just Got Caught Faking a Computer Science Degree
Yahoo's CEO resigned over the weekend after it turned out his computer science degree never existed, and honestly the bigger scandal is that nobody checked for ten years.
Nobody Checked Yahoo's CEO's Resume Until It Was Too Late
Yahoo's CEO resigned today over a fake computer science degree on his resume, and the part that gets me isn't the lie, it's that nobody checked for years.
I Missed the WWDC Ticket Window By About Ten Minutes
WWDC 2012 tickets sold out in under two hours this week and I missed the window entirely. Some thoughts on the ticket rush, the eBay scalping mess, and what I'm actually hoping gets announced in June.