Records are meant to be broken, or they say.  There are some records in sports that I think will never be broken.

• Jim Laker’s 19/90 at the 1956 Old Trafford Test against Australia. Ironically, Tony Lock who took the only other Australian wicket in the match, was brought in instead of the the fast bowlers to give Laker a better chance of claiming the 20th.
• Jahangir Khan’s 5 year unbeaten streak from 1981-86, when he won 555 consecutive matches. This is also the longest unbeaten run by any athlete in any professional sport.
• Don Bradman’s 99.94 Test Average. Did you know that he needed only 4 runs to reach the elusive 100 in his last inning, but was bowled for a duck.

Are there records that you think, will make this list?

How long can a bug go undetected, especially when it’s in a place that is widely used. How about 9 years? This one in the standard binary search in JDK was caused by the infamous overflow error. When the code was originally written, testing something like this was probably infeasible.

That brings up an interesting question, Should you keep testing even after you ship?

I have heard many interesting stories of how companies come up with their names. Here’s a pretty exhaustive list of etymologies. My favorite one:

Apple — for the favourite fruit of co-founder Steve Jobs and/or for the time he worked at an apple orchard. He was three months late in filing a name for the business, and he threatened to call the company Apple Computer if his colleagues didn’t suggest a better name by 5 p.m. Apple wanted to distance itself from the cold, unapproachable, complicated imagery created by other computer companies at the time — which had names such as IBM, DEC, Cincom and Tesseract — in order to get people to use them at home. They looked for a name that supported a brand positioning strategy that was to be perceived as simple, warm, human, approachable and different. Note: Apple had to get approval from the Beatle’s Apple Corps to use the name ‘Apple’ and paid a one-time royalty of $100,000 to McIntosh Laboratory, Inc., a maker of high-end audio equipment, to use the derivative name ‘Macintosh’ (’Mac’).