Two missed free throws, ordinarily the cause of a coach’s headache, became the symbol of sportsmanship in a Milwaukee boys’ basketball game earlier this month.

Read the story here: http://sports.espn.go.com/highschool/rise/basketball/boys/news/story?id=3914375

I’ve been thinking for awhile about our need to separate our lives into separate “categories”. I don’t know if everybody does it, but I know I do it, and I’m not alone. The reason I think of this is because I just saw @mosaicteam say they started a twitter account for their web design company.

The first example that I keep thinking of is myself and my websites. I have joshbetz.com, which I’ve been running for a few years, previously betzster.no-ip.org. When I decided that running my own server out of my basement wasn’t cutting it anymore I went to GoDaddy. When I bought joshbetz.com, GoDaddy did what GoDaddy does and let me know that joshbetz.org, joshbetz.net, joshbetz.tv, joshbetz.anything, was available. Wow, I thought, I’ll get a few of them, originally planning to point them all at joshbetz.com. It wasn’t a couple of weeks before I had a plan for all of them. I could put my web design services on joshbetz.net, my projects on joshbetz.org, and keep my blog on joshbetz.com.

The same thing happens, and on a much bigger scale, on social networks. Twitter comes to mind. How many people have multiple twitter accounts? Now, you don’t have multiple twitter accounts, but there are a few people that do. But it’s just for organization and ease of use right? Maybe.

Leo Laporte has an account for himself and an account for TWiT. Maybe all of Leo’s followers don’t care when MacBreak Weakly is recording, or maybe that’s why they’re following him.

I know we (I) have a twitter account for TSE (in addition to @joshbetz), but I only have 5 updates in a month. We’re in development, do we need a twitter account? It’s not a huge project and nobody’s following TSE on twitter. As for my websites, it’s probably not bad to separate my personal blog from the web design stuff, but having the projects separate?

Like I said, people need to have separate categories for basic things. That’s why I have a homework category in Things. If all my to-dos were all sitting in the inbox all the time, maybe sorted by date, I would never know what needed to get done first. I obviously have to finish my homework before I work on TSE or write blog posts, but if I didn’t have categories I would spend much of my time deciding what to do first, completely negating the purpose of a to-do list in the first place. But what’s too much? A separate domain for your  projects? A separate domain for each project?

The people from Twitter and Microsoft are teaming up to create the windtwitter.com website. At least that’s what it looks like from this screenshot.

I recently put windows 7 on my PC. The first time I installed the 32 bit version, when I wanted to run the 64 bit version. It wasn’t a huge problem, I just put the install disk back in and installed the 64 bit over the 32 bit. The only problem with this was that there were two Windows 7 entries in the bootloader.

This weekend I decided that I needed some more space on the Windows 7 partition, which should have been simple, but since the Windows 7 partition was at the back of the hard drive I couldn’t add to it. So after I shrunk the Windows XP partition I tried to reinstall Windows 7 in the empty space, the only problem was that it didn’t get added to the bootloader, so I had to go into “diskpart” and make the second partition active if I wanted to boot Windows 7 and then go back and make the first partition active if I wanted to boot Windows XP. In addition, both of the Windows 7 entries were still listed in the XP bootloader, but neither of them would boot anything.

I decided that would just wipe Windows 7 and reset the Windows XP bootloader, and hopefully after reinstalling Windows 7 everything will be well again. Here’s how to remove the Windows 7 bootloader. (Will also work for Vista).

How To: Remove Windows 7 Bootloader

1. Recover Console
2. Fixboot
3. Fixmbr

That’s all. Of course you should remember to backup everything just in case, but this worked for me.

Thanks to tech-recipes.com for pointing me in the right direction.