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I know I'll Never say Never... again, at least

So, thinking about consequences of the CASING piece of Every character has a story #33: U+1e9e (CAPITAL SHARP S, Microsoft edition - Part 2) . And ignoring that we didn't follow my recommendation, since I've covered that, for now. Let's look at what we Read More...
Posted Thursday, July 30, 2009 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 3 Comments

Every character has a story #33: U+1e9e (CAPITAL SHARP S, Microsoft edition - Part 2)

You may want to start with Part 1 of this series.... Okay, here we go. Last time some of the font stuff was covered. It is nice when letters are given the opportunity to look good. In the end, what can often be more important than how something looks Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 29, 2009 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 9 Comments

Every character has a story #32: U+1e9e (CAPITAL SHARP S, Microsoft edition - Part 1)

Previous blogs about this letter: September 2005: Every character has a story #15: CAPITAL SHARP S (not encoded) May 2007: Every character has a story #26: CAPITAL SHARP S (might be encoded?) August 2007: Every character has a story #28: U+1e9e (CAPITAL Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 28, 2009 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 12 Comments

Pretty damn closer to top of the line

You may have heard that Windows 7 RTM'd the other day.... There were two machines of mine that I hadn't yet tried to upgrade as I was waiting for OEM support first. One of them was my Dell Precision Mobile Workstation, the one I mentioned in Pretty damn Read More...
Posted Friday, July 24, 2009 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 13 Comments
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The Letter Police can EAT MY SHORTS!

Regular reader from way back (and perhaps still regular reader!) Jan Kučera asked over in the Suggestion Box: Hi again... I hope there are more people going to suggest a topic or place a question, otherwise I would feel a bit... alone. Maybe you should Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 22, 2009 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 4 Comments

No disassemble #5! Redux

This blog has its roots (obviously) in its predecessor ( No disassemble #5! ). In that blog I described the method I had been using to safely transport myself and the iBot all over the country. And by safely I mean safely for the iBot, circumventing many Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 21, 2009 4:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 2 Comments
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Garbage in, garbage out -- and this means Ü!

So the other day a colleague over in C++-ville forwarded a bug report he was looking at, one he wanted my thoughts about. It went something like this: Repro Steps: + Change language in Control Panel under "Regional an Language Options" tab "Advanced" Read More...
Posted Monday, July 20, 2009 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 5 Comments

Anything still wrong is probably wrong for good....

Some complaints people have had about the doc story on some international issues have been around for a long time. Longer than this Blog in some cases. Now this Blog (and the constituent blogs thereof) has been around since the end of 2004. So if I point Read More...
Posted Monday, July 13, 2009 7:16 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 1 Comments

Atlas? Jove? Where's my Wubi? (The latter shrugged, the former nodded)

So some people noticed that the Wubi IME that used to work on Windows wasn't there anymore. You may be familiar with the story -- it was there for them in XP but then for Vista (and Windows 7) it wasn't. The funny thing for me about the Wubi IME is that Read More...
Posted Thursday, July 09, 2009 9:16 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 1 Comments

Suddenly the chair looks smarter and I am the one with the control issues

Just about every day I learn new things about the iBot. Mostly it is just consequences stuff, like when I think through logically how it works I understand why this new understanding is something that just logically makes sense. And of course each day, Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 08, 2009 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 3 Comments
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Buying the cow vs. the cut of beef you like

The other day a question came from someone doing some work to support MUI in their application. Their question was simple enough: Which one is preferred way GetFileMUIPath VS. GetThreadPreferredUILanguages? Although the question seems simple, the answer Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 07, 2009 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 2 Comments

Confessions of an iBot riding fool....

The following story is entirely¹ true. The iBot naturally raises questions in people's minds, questions beyond those that are answered in Google^H^H^H^H^H^HBing² searches. Like what happens if someone crashes into me? Or if I crash in to someone/something? Read More...
Posted Thursday, July 02, 2009 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 3 Comments
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