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All the icons, at the same [incorrect] size

So it was back in Behold the Table Driven Text Service, Part 6 (it is sufficient to be iconic, aka DaYi, DaYi Aynu!) when I showed this picture and was taken to task for not just looking in the resource directory so they could all be the same size. "But Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 31, 2008 7:16 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 0 Comments
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No lyrics required

I had somebody send me mail the other day, asking me if I wanted people to send me song lyrics questions like Liz used to (yes, that Liz -- should I be worried that I almost need to create a Liz blog topic now, and rename it to Sorting Liz all Out ?). Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 31, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 1 Comments
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A more usable Dutch keyboard that works properly?

I have been neglecting the Suggestion Box as of late, so I figured I should cover something over there. This one comes from Gé van Gasteren: My problem is caused by two circumstances: 1. In the Netherlands, most keyboards have US-style keytops with one Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 30, 2008 5:46 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 8 Comments

Behold the Table Driven Text Service, Part 7 (Configuration 'junk in the trunk', part 1)

Prior posts in the series: 0 (You have to start somewhere) 1 (Starting with a dictionary simple in every way) 2 (Three ways to convert!) 3 (Where do keystrokes come in?) 4 (Specifying when to modify, if not how) 5 (All about the language, baby!) 6 (it Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 30, 2008 5:31 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 7 Comments
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Behold the Table Driven Text Service, Part 6 (it is sufficient to be iconic, aka DaYi, DaYi Aynu!)

Prior posts in the series: 0 (You have to start somewhere) 1 (Starting with a dictionary simple in every way) 2 (Three ways to convert!) 3 (Where do keystrokes come in?) 4 (Specifying when to modify, if not how) 5 (All about the language, baby!) In some Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 29, 2008 6:16 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 15 Comments

What's in store for Bangalore? A guy who's not a beauter but he has his scooter!

Between the time I blogged about Bangalore Sans Scooter, aka Counting backward from ten in Sanskrit and now, many of my regular readers have been concerned about the situation with me and my scooter. I know this for a fact. Not because I am arrogant (which Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 29, 2008 6:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 0 Comments

Behold the Table Driven Text Service, Part 5 (All about the language, baby!)

Prior posts in the series: 0 (You have to start somewhere) 1 (Starting with a dictionary simple in every way) 2 (Three ways to convert!) 3 (Where do keystrokes come in?) 4 (Specifying when to modify, if not how) Last time I promised Next up, I'll cover Read More...
Posted Monday, January 28, 2008 6:31 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 10 Comments

What does the [cracked] SiaO crystal ball say about language support in XP SP3?

Over on the Microsoft VOLT users community, SpaceyT-17 asked: What updates related to Uniscribe, locales and language support are to be released in Windows XP Service Pack 3? To which O2K answered: I wanted to ask the same. But seems it's not finalize Read More...
Posted Monday, January 28, 2008 6:16 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 2 Comments

How would Harry Potter have pronounced शहिवाख़्‍ का दर्पण, anyway?

If you are a regular reader, you may recall the recent SiaO @ B.NET blog discussing a speaking engagement in Bangalore set up by regular reader Pavanaja U B. Now this had to happen without the scooter, because of the adventures I just pointed out in Bangalore Read More...
Posted Sunday, January 27, 2008 5:31 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 8 Comments

Bangalore Sans Scooter, aka Counting backward from ten in Sanskrit

No, the title is not about a new font name for the next version of Windows! It was inspiring, I could almost hear the Chad Michael Murray voiceover (re-used script from the One Tree Hill episode Pictures of You with the writer's strike and all): You ever Read More...
Posted Sunday, January 27, 2008 5:16 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 3 Comments

To Err is human, but to Geek is divine

I had the opportunity yesterday to Speak at Anna University (at the computer science center of the College of Engineering at Guindy) that was, in a word, amazing . The idea of doing something there started by someone who read here about my India trip Read More...
Posted Saturday, January 26, 2008 7:16 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 2 Comments

Overheard, yet again

The exact words: I apologize for being so shameless. She was subsequently assured that she had nothing to be ashamed of, since casual subconscious flirting between people slightly bored by their surroundings who would never take it any further given the Read More...
Posted Saturday, January 26, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 2 Comments
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On reversing the irreversible (grabbing the data, part I)

The first blog in this series was On reversing the irreversible (the introduction) and the second was On reversing the irreversible (The Set-Up) . The real question that comes up is how to make InitializeSortkeyReverseData[Ex] do the job here -- starting Read More...
Posted Friday, January 25, 2008 5:16 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 1 Comments

Behold the Table Driven Text Service, Part 4 (Specifying when to modify, if not how)

Prior posts in the series: 0 (You have to start somewhere) 1 (Starting with a dictionary simple in every way) 2 (Three ways to convert!) 3 (Where do keystrokes come in?) Now at this point some of the basic ideas are here as well as three kind of illustrative Read More...
Posted Friday, January 25, 2008 5:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 11 Comments
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Behold the Table Driven Text Service, Part 3 (Where do keystrokes come in?)

Prior posts in the series: 0 (You have to start somewhere) 1 (Starting with a dictionary simple in every way) 2 (Three ways to convert!) Now I did not start this at the beginning, I kind of picked it up in the middle. Here is some info that is nice to Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 24, 2008 7:16 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 12 Comments
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We could just treat every day like the weekend and see what that does to the software people?

From the Suggestion Box, a question from SiaO's favorite random reader, Tanveer Badar: Next question from the [not] random reader. You wrote way back in 2005 about ' How many days in a weekend? ' I left a comment there too (couldn't resist). :) I search Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 24, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 0 Comments

Behold the Table Driven Text Service, Part 2 (Three ways to convert!)

Prior posts in the series: 0 (You have to start somewhere) 1 (Starting with a dictionary simple in every way) That previous post introduced the MSDN_TableTextService_Simple.txt text file (right click on it and sve it somewhere if you want to use it). Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 23, 2008 7:16 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 15 Comments
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Chennai > Portland > Frankfurt, aka Madras after dark, aka Next time, just bring one laptop, Mr. Michael!

Now that was quite an interesting flight. Everything a nameless friend told me about how this was a much better trip in Economy than in Business was completely incorrect. I am going to have to look into upgrading for the return; though I could probably Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 23, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 4 Comments

Behold the Table Driven Text Service, Part 1 (Starting with a dictionary simple in every way)

Prior posts in the series: 0 (You have to start somewhere) To work with this file, you will want to right-click on the link and save if to a text file, the name should be MSDN_TableTextService_Simple.txt . Of course you can change the name, but the file Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 22, 2008 7:16 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 16 Comments
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Best possible support before there was support?

Raja asks via the Contact link: HI, I am using Windows 98 Second Edition as my OS. Pl suggest how to view MSN site in Tamil. Thank you. raja On the whole, the only real answer here is an upgrade since a lot of the basic language support needed for Tamil Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 22, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 0 Comments

Behold the Table Driven Text Service, Part 0 (You have to start somewhere!)

This is the first blog in a series that will talk about the table driven text service, a new feature added in Vista which, among other things, deals as decisively as possible with two conflicting issues: The limitations of keyboard layout DLL files in Read More...
Posted Monday, January 21, 2008 7:16 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 19 Comments
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YASSU (Yet another SIAO spam update)

A follow-up on that Hello! I am bored this afternoon. I am a nice Blog that would like to blog with you.... post from a week ago. :-) Spam at SIAO has been decreasing all week -- with the current count of messages assumed to be spam as of midnight at Read More...
Posted Monday, January 21, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 1 Comments
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NOT MEDICALLY NECESSARY per, by their own description, non-medical people

Nothing technical here, sorry! You may recall a couple of years back when I first mentioned the iBOT , the improvement over powered wheelchairs and scooters that lets you: Climb steps and stairs without forcing four bouncers to pick me and my scooter Read More...
Posted Sunday, January 20, 2008 4:31 PM by Michael S. Kaplan | 5 Comments

[Turning]Into dust, aka 'Some feelings may not be available in this blog'

Nothing technical in this navel-gazing worthless post, whatsoever.... So I have been unable to RAS in all weekend due to some random policy change on the RAS servers that Helpdesk wants to blame on my home network even though I get the same error when Read More...
Posted Sunday, January 20, 2008 11:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 1 Comments

SiaO @ B.NET

For all the 'Michael watchers' out there who were curious about that India trip .... I will be presenting an extended version of my recent Sorting It All Out - Even More Words on Collation talk that I did at the last Internationalization and Unicode Conference Read More...
Posted Saturday, January 19, 2008 10:41 PM by Michael S. Kaplan | 2 Comments

Think of this as a trial separation, dear

So you know that person I have talked about who is in love with my blog? I did suggest to her that this point, with me leaving town, and the state, and the country, and the continent for a bit, and with posts perhaps coming in at unusual times, it might Read More...
Posted Friday, January 18, 2008 8:01 PM by Michael S. Kaplan | 0 Comments
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It is exciting when at least half the people in the room have a more interesting/compelling story than you do

Yesterday was a fairly exciting day.... I had to fly down to San Francisco to get my visa for that trip to India I mentioned. You have to be at the Indian Consulate before 11am and then be there between 5:30pm-6pm to pick up your visa, if you want it Read More...
Posted Friday, January 18, 2008 11:59 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 2 Comments

Expertise isn't always everything (aka When the one who is learning teaches us something important)

The other day I was chatting by email with a developer on a unique problem -- she was trying to support vertical text. She had seen my blog Let's get vertical , but had not been able to find the TATE sample in the Platform SDK that I mentioned. This was Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 17, 2008 3:46 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 5 Comments

Virtual PC + Word 2007 ≠ AltGr support?

Some prior stabs on this topic: 28 Dec 2004 "To start press the ALTGR key." Hmm... where's the ALTGR key? 21 Apr 2005 Intuitive is in the eye of the beholder 2 May 2005 Virtual PC needs international thought about its keyboard support 15 Mar 2006 Multilingual Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 17, 2008 3:31 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 3 Comments

Paging King Canute.Net, your critical warnings are here to be swept back with the tide! (aka Spelling fetishists ≝ language mavens)

Visual Studio Team System has many warnings that are interesting under the what are they thinking? category: CA1703 : Resource strings should be spelled correctly CA1702 : Compound words should be cased correctly CA1701 : Resource string compound words Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 16, 2008 7:16 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 6 Comments

Heading over to India, for a bit

The folks in Tamil Nadu really wanted more time to talk to people on the Unicode side -- a technical meeting of the UTC South Asia Subcommittee of the Unicode Consortium on issues relating to encoding of Tamil characters. As a colleague stated in describing Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 16, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 20 Comments

If complex script fonts are going to exist in Windows, then one thing they cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion

I used to work across the hall from Shawn . His office, in addition to the large cardboard cutout of Mr. Spock: there are numerous pieces of Star Wars in the office -- a Sand-crawler, a Star Destroyer, a Death Star, an R2-D2, a TIE Fighter, a Darth Vader. Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 15, 2008 7:16 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 3 Comments

Long live The Wanker-Wingnut continuum, the Poor Man is dead

I have it on good authority that The Poor Man has gone off the air, for good this time. Some truly sad news, as anyone here who read them would readily attest to. In memoriam, I am going to repost a bit of my favorite post of theirs, the post that described Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 15, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 3 Comments
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On reversing the irreversible (The Set-Up)

The first blog in this series was On reversing the irreversible (the introduction) . First we'll lay put some requirements.... This is not a "call it once and then never again" kind of functionality, since the initial cost of building up the data needed Read More...
Posted Monday, January 14, 2008 7:16 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 2 Comments

Hello! I am bored this afternoon. I am a nice Blog that would like to blog with you....

Just a little update on the spam situation here at SiaO . I am overriding the default site spam scores with the score for flagging comments for moderation at 5 and the score for automatically deleting comments suspected to be spam at 12 . These two settings Read More...
Posted Monday, January 14, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 4 Comments
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It's not (aka She's not)

And playing on the stereo now is the last track on Aimee Mann's Lost in Space (It's Not): I keep going round and round on the same old circuit a wire travels underground to a vacant lot where something I can't see interrupts a current and shrinks the Read More...
Posted Monday, January 14, 2008 12:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 9 Comments
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On reversing the irreversible (the introduction)

The other day I was in a meeting where we happened to talk about getting characters from glyphid values.Of course I mentioned I had a blog entry about this (ref: Documented, schmockumented! It's still kind of cool.... ), at the same time pointing out Read More...
Posted Sunday, January 13, 2008 7:16 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 5 Comments

Brings whole new meaning to 'I'm drawing a blank here'

(This post intentionally blank) This post brought to you by ␢ and ⠀ ( U+2422 and U+2800 , aka BLANK SYMBOL and BRAILLE PATTERN BLANK) Since nothing else was going on, can I point out to people here that the television show Chelsea Lately has provided Read More...
Posted Sunday, January 13, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 2 Comments
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Blitzkrieging the landscape.NET (aka in this case, two) (aka When is obcaseinsensitive not ObCaseInsensitive?)

From the recently pre-recorded blogs collection... It all started with a security update. Well, in this case , two security updates. Both for ASP.Net: MSKB 917283 (MS06-033: A vulnerability in ASP.NET could allow information disclosure) MSKB 922770 (MS06-056: Read More...
Posted Saturday, January 12, 2008 7:16 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 4 Comments

How to seem shallow and sleazy in less than 30 seconds

So if you watch television you have probably seen it -- it is one if those freecreditreport.com commercials. You can watch it here or here: Now the script for this commercial is quite inspiring: Well I married my dreamgirl I married my dreamgirl But she Read More...
Posted Saturday, January 12, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 4 Comments
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Overheard, redux -- something about intentional, explicit acts?

Sometimes it really pays to have ears, I tell you. Now she is young, and maybe he is, too. Maybe not, I can't tell for sure. He looks young, but then so do I and I don't feel young at all. Anyway, just bits and pieces overheard: It's okay if I jump you Read More...
Posted Friday, January 11, 2008 6:59 PM by Michael S. Kaplan | 1 Comments
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Getting your Control to Function, and putting your Function in Control

From the recently pre-recorded blogs collection... The other day, Rob asked me via the Contact link: I'm trying to find a way to fix the function key on the Mac Book Pro I got to run Vista on. Yes, seems a bit silly to run Vista on a computer tuned for Read More...
Posted Friday, January 11, 2008 7:16 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 0 Comments
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Is your Gadget not working? The characters behind it may be too much of a distraction....

From the recently pre-recorded blogs collection... And no, this is not a post about ED or the drugs used for it, the way all 'Gadget' posts seem to be! Over in the microsoft.public.dotnet.internationalization newsgroup, Norman Diamond mentions: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/930135 Read More...
Posted Friday, January 11, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 2 Comments

Interview question of the Beast?

In the bold tradition of interview questions I might be willing to ask, and inspired by Event code of The Beast from earlier today, as modified by Lionel's comment pointing out the error in Heinlein's book... The question? Write a program to provide the Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 10, 2008 4:16 PM by Michael S. Kaplan | 21 Comments

ZunE ??????? ??? ??????? ???? (aka SIAO to Zune: Web sites can support Unicode now)

From the recently pre-recorded blogs collection... A follow-on blog from Zune 2.0 software is able to support Greek + Cyrillic + more Latin ... I don't actually get a whole lot of music from the online store, but I do get some (mostly the random stuff Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 10, 2008 7:16 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 5 Comments

Event code of The Beast

From the recently pre-recorded blogs collection... Always good for a laugh to see the error code make the error seem more serious. :-) Federation Service Proxy Communication Events 666 Microsoft-Windows-ADFS The Federation Service failed a privileged Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 10, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 8 Comments
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IDisposable...

Posted live, because I still care.... Worth is hard to judge. Am IDisposable now? And who will collect? I have to analyze the situation a bit further to be sure, but I am feeling kind of like a disposable resource at the moment. Thus the Haiku. I suppose Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 09, 2008 8:13 PM by Michael S. Kaplan | 7 Comments
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Oh (Saka to me, Saka to me, Saka to me, Saka to me) Whoa Babe (Just a little bit) A little respect (just a little bit)

From the recently pre-recorded blogs collection... (Hat tip and apologies to the Goddess Aretha whose version of the Otis Redding song provided the title inspiration, which is much more appropriate and/or wholesome than a [misquoted ]P.T. Barnum reference Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 09, 2008 7:16 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 2 Comments

Man in chair don't get busy with the au pair (aka Multiple sclerosis and new relationships)

From the recently pre-recorded blogs collection... Warning -- not even remotely technical, and thus entirely skippable for people wanting that sort of thing. You see, I've gotten some questions via the Contact Link recently from people wanting real information Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 09, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 5 Comments
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Feature 'A' + Feature 'B' = Bug 'C' ? (aka Localization in MSDN: content vs. samples)

From the recently pre-recorded blogs collection... Over in the microsoft.public.dotnet.internationalization newsgroup, Norman Diamond posted (in his unique way that all who know it treasure!): What do you call it when your version of Visual Studio promises Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 08, 2008 7:16 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 0 Comments

It (a) may not ever be posted, or (b) may have already been posted, or (c) may be somewhere in between

From the recently pre-recorded blogs collection... The other day I had somebody ask me about a blog that was going to be posted that she could not find. She wasn't sure whether it was problems with the search capabilities or it just wasn't put up yet Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 08, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 0 Comments
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How does Microsoft 'manage' to not correct a spelling error, exactly?

From the recently pre-recorded blogs collection... Flashback. Well, rewind and flashback. Not too far... Way back in May of 2005, Denis Onischenko mentioned : NativeName property of "uk" and "uk-UA" CultureInfo is misspelled. A few clarifying questions Read More...
Posted Monday, January 07, 2008 7:16 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 3 Comments

Baby, you had me at Oscar Wilde....

From the recently pre-recorded blogs collection... As readers here know, I mostly spent the holidays alone this year. Somewhere between my vacation I had to take (or lose), my feeling like I wanted a little solitude, and the infection related MS exacerbation Read More...
Posted Monday, January 07, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 0 Comments
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My name is Dragutsky. Michael Dragutsky.

From the not-so-recently pre-recorded but never-yet-posted blogs collection... I mentioned this in passing in a post back in June of 2005 ( Giving up on the phonemes ): Meanwhile I have sometimes considered changing my name back to the original family Read More...
Posted Sunday, January 06, 2008 7:16 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 6 Comments
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Barack Obama sorts it all out?

I guess we all (finally!) know how important collation is if presidential candidates are talking about it (ref: Barack Obama on Sorting Algorithms ): Schmidt: What's the fastest way to sort 32 bit numbers? Barack: Not bubble-sort. See the post for the Read More...
Posted Sunday, January 06, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 3 Comments

Zune 2.0 software is able to support Greek + Cyrillic + more Latin

Written several days ago... You may recall when I posted I guess we're not exporting the Zune just yet . It was a bit over a year ago.... In it, I pointed how that despite the Zune's clearly implied Unicode/CE roots that the full text display of large Read More...
Posted Saturday, January 05, 2008 7:16 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 6 Comments

It's not supposed to be about about how cool I am

There is a problem with posts like Burying the lead, aka A weekend perfected not by art but by mortality , which on the whole are quite well received. I will describe the problem by way of a bit from an episode of The West wing, where Jed Bartlet had Read More...
Posted Saturday, January 05, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 1 Comments
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Britney vs. Beatrice, aka On the future of [non-]popular knowledge

Written in Dec 2007.... A few years back I picked up a first edition copy of The Secret Archives of the Vatican , by Maria Luisa Ambrosini, and it is something I have looked at from time to time. I am not sure why it fascinates me, but it does. An amateur Read More...
Posted Friday, January 04, 2008 7:16 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 5 Comments
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Q&A based on outtakes from Burying the Lead....

Written 03 Jan 2008 at 3:00pm.... I have had several people ask me via the Contact link and even a few in person about the beginning of the story in Burying the lead, aka A weekend perfected not by art but by mortality . It really wasn't interesting, Read More...
Posted Friday, January 04, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 0 Comments
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So long and thanks for all the empty window offices?

Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western arm on the main Microsoft campus lies a small unregarded two-story building. Atop this building on the second floor is an utterly insignificant cluttered little office whose ape-descended Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 03, 2008 12:31 PM by Michael S. Kaplan | 7 Comments
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Throwing a BRIC [with Diwali written on it] at Outlook, aka Attn. Outlook: There *is* an 'I' in BRIC

A little over a year ago (in On holiday? Outlook might try to tell you where.... ) I discussed various shortcomings in the Holiday support in Outlook, limitations that make it unsuitable as support for NLS in Windows to simply "pick up" as is. In passing, Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 03, 2008 7:16 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 10 Comments

I don't know about knowing the people who say they DK (don't know) me

I have been mildly passive in LinkedIn and facebook , up to now. Basically, if someone invites me to become a part of their network or whatever, and I know them, then I accept their invite, and take a quick look at their contacts and if there are people Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 03, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 4 Comments
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All things being equal, the road on the map is much safer to use

A while back, Mark-Andre sent me the following message: Hi, I'm a young programmer interested in digging the subject you seem to be a specialist in. I'm currently making a keylogger, just for the fun of it, to see how it can be done (I just want to make Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 02, 2008 7:16 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 2 Comments

Here be dragons?

Dan's question is one that has been on some people's minds ffrom time to time for as long as I can remember: Based on code I’ve seen, I’d say that it’s okay to start threads (that call CRT functions) with CreateThread if you are dynamically linking to Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 02, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 3 Comments

Burying the lead, aka A weekend perfected not by art but by mortality

Nothing technical, though at least some explanation of what I have been up to for the last few days for people who were (a) interested, (b) concerned, or (c) both.... The beginning of the story isn't too terribly interesting: an old friend comes in from Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 01, 2008 2:59 PM by Michael S. Kaplan | 19 Comments

But I *am* Michael...

Just a follow-up to my friend Liz's I am not Michael post from Sunday. My friend Liz was visiting for the weekend, and I let her use my MacBook Pro booted into Panther Leopard (she is a Mac fan, always has been) to check e-mail. I did not remember that Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 01, 2008 2:39 PM by Michael S. Kaplan | 7 Comments
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