I didn't know what was causing this problem first. I tried to login to the Playstation Network (PSN) and always got the "An error has occurred. You have been signed out of PlayStation Network (8001050F)"-error. I first suspected my internet connection. The annoying part here was, that the internet connection test on my PS3 showed that my internet connection worked, but the PSN login didn't. The funny part then was, that I first searched for the Twitter account of Sony PlayStation (https://twitter.com/SonyPlayStation) to find information about this issue, instead of searching for the official blog, where the actual information about the network status was posted (http://blog.us.playstation.com/2010/03/latest-info-on-playst...). Anyway, thanks to their Twitter account I got to the network status message on their blog, and I was somehow happy to know that it's a known issue and that they're working on it (this point goes to Sony's Incident Management). Now I hope I didn't lose any of my hard-earned trophies :)

When I heard about this Sunday night, the fact that it happened on the last day in February immediately set off little warning bells in the back of my head. And while we can hope to be wrong about such basic things, unfortunately that's what it usually is.

The worst part was being unable to play games that had trophies offline. It may be an overblown worry, but I couldn't help conceiving future scenarios where I couldn't play titles in my game library in the future (after this generation of consoles).

Apparently there are still people/companies who roll their own leap year routines... :-/

Reminded me of the android camera issue on the Droid :) ...dates!

Zune as well: http://www.zuneboards.com/forums/zune-news/38143-cause-zune-...

…and in a twist of fate, it turns out the problem was caused by the same bit of silicon as the Zune issue: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digital-foundry-vs-apocaly...