So Microsoft are simplifying Longhorn are they? It sounds to me like they're making it much more complex with the announcement that Avalon will also be available on XP. This is a really good thing because it means that Avalong can be adopted in the near future and we're not just looking at the 2010+ timeframe for being able to actually aford to support it and have users be able to run the programs.

I've created a second blog where I can rant about online games without annoying too many people. You can find it here.

Microsoft released a debugger example that does everything I was planning on talking about with the debugger articles so I'm not feeling that motivated to write them at the moment. I'll get back to them sometime I expect, and it's not as if I haven't known there was a managed debugger example going to be released for the last year or so. In the meantime I'm watching films that I know I should hate, but enjoying them. I even enjoyed Thunderbirds, so I think I must be broken. I'm also playing more games, with Eve being one of the ones that's eating up my...

It's just typical. You get to lunchtime on a Friday and the big boss casually drops the bombshell that the demo he was going to do on Thursday is now Tuesday and so your software has to be ready in a day and a half of work time. Only it's not that because the same boss signed off a precious day of holiday to you for the following Monday just a few days earlier so that just leaves a half day to get the work done. So now I have to work my arse off to get the work done...

There's a difference between "Scary" and "Dark", but I don't think ID know about this. Doom 3 isn't scary, it's just very predictable. Oh look, the lights have gone out... Oh look, I bet a monster will be here... Oh look, it looks gorgeous... Admittedly I've only played for a short time, but so far Doom hasn't exactly seemed like it is more than a game demo. Maybe it picks up as you get further in.