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I can’t seriously call myself a gamer. I used to call myself a gamer, but that was a few good years ago now.
Playing computer games used to be a serious hobby for me, but marrying, having 2 kids, a dog, a career and just life in general kind of sets different priorities in life.
I even haven’t upgraded my PC for 6 years now, something I couldn’t even have imagined to happen just a few years ago. It’s a pretty week machine at this stage, and I couldn’t care less as long as I can communicate, watch movies, store photos etc.
So I can say that for the last few years I didn’t play, literally, at all. No games, nothing – But that’s life, I guess it’s normal.

BUT, I just read an announcement that made my gaming nerves twitch again.
Blizzard just announced they are working on Diablo 3.
The Diablo series of games was one of my favorite of all times, a cool rich (yet mindless fun) hack and slash that I spent a lot of hours with. The first Diablo was released more than 10 years ago, Diablo 2 was released around 8 years ago. So that’s how long it’s been. Wow, time flies when you’re having fun.

I know that I will buy (I will actually BUY this game!) along with a new PC that will run it decently – That’s just how much I’m exciting with the news.

That’s it, it’s finally here after almost 3 years of development - 2 hours ago Mozilla has officially released Firefox 3.
I immediately tried to download FF3 as it came out, but apparently, so did many other people so Mozilla’s servers were down. Now it’s 2 hours later and downloads are working!

So get going - Download Firefox 3

Top New Features

Password Manager
Remember site passwords without ever seeing a pop-up.
One-Click Bookmarking
Bookmark, search and organize Web sites quickly and easily.
Improved Performance
View Web pages faster, using less of your computer’s memory.
Smart Location Bar
Find the sites you love in seconds—enter a term for instant matches that make sense.
Instant Web Site ID
Avoid online scams, unsafe transactions and forgeries with simple site identity.
Full Zoom
See any part of a Web page, up close and readable, in seconds.
Platform-Native Look & Feel
Browse with a Firefox that’s integrated into your computer’s operating system.

Read the whole feature list

You’re also using Firefox, right?
I mean who doesn’t?

Well, version 3 of the world’s best Web browser, Firefox, will be released next week!
Tuesday, June 17th, according to Mozilla.

After development of nearly 3 (!!!) full years, the next major version will include many different new features, fixes and improvements.
But the most important one in the list, as far as I’m concerned, is the solution, finally, to the notorious memory usage bugs - Memory usage of Firefox 3 will be significantly improved and speeds will be improved quite dramatically as well.

Help Firefox set a Guinness World Record!

A quick and interesting article over at blog.washingtonpost.com discusses the new emerging trend in anti-virus software technology.

It’s program whitelisting. The concept itself is of course not a new one. Have one big list with signature of benign ALLOWED programs, and any program not in the list is a suspect and will not be allowed to run.

Even intuitively it’s clear that the security of whitelist-based solution is stronger and it doesn’t even matter how many new malwares are born everyday.

There are tradeoffs of course - The list of acceptable software is substantially larger than the list of malware and has a big overhead to maintain. It might damage the user experience by blocking a previously unknown non-malicious program.

But as computing gets stronger and better, and with concepts like cloud computing and self-learning whitelists, there are some that claim that that’s the direction the technology should be going.

Read Redefining Anti-Virus Software