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January 2009 - Posts

My name is Michael Kaplan and I work for Корпорация Майкрософт

Software developer David's question was easy enough on the surface. I mean, it really didn;t seem like the kind of question that would inpsire deep conversations and government and language and politics and locales and so on: I recently found some data Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 08, 2009 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 12 Comments

After calling the airline, iBOT a ticket to Vegas!

It recently occurred to me that I don't need to keep continuing the I SCOOT to iBOT blog series under that name, since I have a category now. :-) I mean, it has been a while since I have had any real comparisons or contrasts with the scooter. Although Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 08, 2009 12:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 3 Comments
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Someone please detect if there's a BOM before the plane takes off!

One can really never get enough of puns about the BOM (Byte Order Mark) and TSA. And when I say one, I mean I. :-) Just think back to blogs like Don't sneak a BOM in on someone who promises to ignore free space or Everyone seems averse to the BOM these Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 07, 2009 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 9 Comments

Counting to four with the Holy Hand Grenade of Typography

It was like that scene out of Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the one about the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch : Particularly important is the counting to three after the pulling of the triggering pin (the surmounted cross), complicated by King Arthur's Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 07, 2009 12:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 12 Comments
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Does your font lie? Its dishonety may come home to roost....

Regular reader Pavanaja U B asked over in the Suggestion Box: In Word 2003 and prior, there was an option "not to display the font name in that font". This was very useful while using hacked non-English TTF fonts which were using the ASCII codes meant Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 06, 2009 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 3 Comments

Zune in the zone (aka It is not easy to embarrass a man with no shame)

I am a little embarrassed. For a man with no shame such as myself, this is quite a feat. I was not trying to set any kind of record with this "accomplishment", for what its worth. Nevertheless, I am a little embarrassed. Perhaps I should explain. You Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 06, 2009 12:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 4 Comments

MingLiU to me and you (and Ming Light to the people most likely to use it)

So over in the Suggestion Box, typography comrade Josh asked: I wonder if you could explore a bit of font naming history and discuss the "Ming LiU" font(s) that is included with Windows. Notice the uppercase 'U' at the end of "LiU"...it is not "Liu", Read More...
Posted Monday, January 05, 2009 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 3 Comments

You could have heard a pin drop when her G-string broke

And I am back, after my end of the year "vacation" from blogging. I hope you didn't miss me too much. You may not have even noticed I was gone. This is not a bad thing. I was in a meeting a few weeks ago with a colleague of mine, and we were talking about Read More...
Posted Monday, January 05, 2009 12:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 3 Comments
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