June 26, 2003

Funny. After writing about the thrills of playing non-violent video games in yesterday's blog, the New York Times doubles up on the topic with a related article today on (yes, you guessed it) the joys of casual gaming.

And speaking of playing games for entertainment: my friend Adam up in Toronto has just launched a kick-ass gambling site, NancyNevada.com. I'm usually not very fond of gambling sites - mainly because they either require you to sign up with them right away and give 'em your credit card number on the first registration page, or they force you download their software in order to play the games.

At NancyNevada's on the other hand, there is nothing to download (the games are java-based), and they have a section where you can play their casino-style games for the pure and simple fun of it - and for free. Of course you can play for money too - yet in an unusual twist, the site owners generously dispurse the advice, that while testing their games, they found Blackjack and Pai Gow to have the highest return rates. Way to go! So go check it out, folks. And relieve ol' Adam of some that cash that is bogging him down so terribly...

As a final note: A huge thanks to my buddy Scoble who, as a new Microsoft Evangelist, is already doing the good work, and has tracked down the one guy at MS who can (will?) help me and the rest of the "NMI: Parity Check" error sufferers find a solution to that nasty problem. He's promised to look into it and get back to me within the next two weeks.