No computers; high technology of a different sort today. Shuttle Atlantis has safely returned to earth for the last time ; the Space Shuttle Program is over. Which both makes me sad, and makes me breathe a huge sigh of relief. Thank goodness that is finally...

Todays post is based on a question from StackOverflow ; I liked it so much I figured hey, let's just blog it today. When you look at a string in C#, it looks to you like a collection of characters, end of story. But of course, behind the scenes there...

Today is the fifteenth anniversary of my first day of full time work here at Microsoft. Hard to believe it has been a decade and a half of writing developer tools. I am tremendously fortunate to be able to work with such a great team on such a great toolset...

There are all kinds of interesting things in the Unicode standard. For example, the block of characters from U+A000 to U+A48F is for representing syllables in the "Yi script". Apparently it is a Chinese language writing system developed during the Tang...

[No computer stuff today; just some fun for a Friday.] British fantasy author Neil Gaiman was in Seattle recently. I was so disappointed that I did not find out about it until it was too late to attend his event. It's a pity I missed it because I've been...