I had never heard of Fatal1ty before JavaOne. He came to the After Dark Bash last Thursday at Moscone and annihilated challengers. I should have read about him in my American Way magazine on the flight out. This Johnathan Wendel is one impressive 18 year old who is the world champion in 5 first-person shooter games: Quake III, Alien vs. Predator 2, Unreal Tournament 2003, Doom 3, and Painkiller - and he is going for Quake IV next month.

I have never been a game player and games like these make me physically ill just watching. However, I started to think that maybe what we should be doing with Identity Management software, and maybe even all middleware software, is building installation and console experiences that provide a gamer-like experience. But that would suck because then I couldn't install and use my own products :-) I'm only half kidding.