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Windows Application Compatibility in the Real World

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Let's (Geek) Motor
The new phone books are here! The new phone books are here! Does my geekiness have no bounds? (Apparently not.) Now I just need to find somebody who has WNDPROC plates... Regardless, you can't possibly have forgotten (since I am compelled to remind you) Read More...
Conference Review Scores and Broken Keyboards
I had a bit of a bummer morning back at MMS 2008 . I woke up early (fortunately the conference was in Pacific and my body was in Central, so it was less torturous than getting up early normally is for me) and went down to get set up nice and early. I Read More...
Please Use Reply to All - I Am Not a Member of This Discussion Group
Every now and then, I see email sent to a discussion list that includes something like the following: "Please use Reply to All I am not a member of this discussion group." And sometimes you see something like this instead: "Please little-R, I am not a Read More...
My Worst Travel Day (So Far)
John Robbins asks, "What's your worst travel day?" Wow, he sure has me beat. I can't top that. My worst travel day so far was returning home from Taipei last year. We had been watching for days as they were reporting a typhoon might be heading towards Read More...
Looking Back at 2007
2007 was really a fun year - I had a blast. I finally started to get some traction documenting the shims provided in Windows - hopefully you like some of the changes Liz made in ACT 5.0.2 to add good documentation here. I've been talking about it all Read More...
Speaking With Authority on Subjects You Are Not Authoritative About
I've been on vacation for a couple of weeks, which has given me some down-time to do some reading and thinking. Of course, what I have thought about may not always be what the author intended for me to think about, but it tends to be the books with unexpected Read More...
Marshaling the U.S. Open Golf Tournament
I have been somewhat distracted lately, so it has been a while since I posted. I have been knee deep in a number of projects I am working on with one of our customers, and last week, I was volunteering as a Marshal at the U.S. Open Golf Tournament. Working Read More...
Random Meetings on the New York City Subway
When I first moved to New York City, many of my friends asked me how many famous people I have run into. While I did run in to Larry King at FAO Schwartz once, I am not aware of any other famous people that I have run into in the course of my daily wanderings. Read More...
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