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November 2005 - Posts

Wednesday, November 30, 2005 7:54 AM

The Airline Screening Playset

And the gun fits into the suitcase.
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Wednesday, November 30, 2005 7:54 AM

Sometimes the fault is not in our stars but in ourselves

One of those "oops" moments.
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Tuesday, November 29, 2005 7:08 AM

The craft of UI design: flow|state

Jan Miksovsky's flow|state.
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Tuesday, November 29, 2005 7:07 AM

Taxes: Geopolitics

An important developer tax but one which is often impossible to pay.
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Monday, November 28, 2005 7:00 AM

Where does an IT guy from a major hotel chain stay at the PDC?

Non necessarily the obvious answer.
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Monday, November 28, 2005 7:00 AM

Taxes: Hierarchical Storage Management

Files that have been archived to tape.
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Friday, November 25, 2005 7:00 AM

How to get Raymond to stop being interested in talking with you

Probably works for a lot of people.
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Friday, November 25, 2005 7:00 AM

This video universally gets one of two reactions

Somebody's Personal Rapid Transit proposal for Microsoft Campus.
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Thursday, November 24, 2005 7:00 AM

What causes a program to be marked as "new" on the Start menu?

The first hour doesn't count.
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Wednesday, November 23, 2005 7:00 AM

Semaphores don't have owners

Semaphores merely have counts.
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Tuesday, November 22, 2005 7:00 AM

Why is a drive letter permitted in front of UNC paths (sometimes)?

Because some programs insist on drive letters.
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Tuesday, November 22, 2005 7:00 AM

The world's worst celebrity recasting of the American version of Harry Potter

Raymond's nightmare casting.
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Monday, November 21, 2005 7:00 AM

What's the difference between HWND_TOP and HWND_TOPMOST?

A distinction made more confusing by the similar names.
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Friday, November 18, 2005 7:00 AM

Mini-conversations at the stoplight during the bicycle commute

Conversations ten seconds at a time.
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Friday, November 18, 2005 7:00 AM

What does the word "supported" mean?

It's a tricky question.
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Thursday, November 17, 2005 7:00 AM

I didn't see Stephen Hawking in Seattle yesterday

But I'll tell a story anyway.
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Thursday, November 17, 2005 7:00 AM

Force-feeding the dogfood

One way to make sure everybody dogfoods a feature...
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Wednesday, November 16, 2005 7:00 AM

Another Schadenfreude-filled look back at the dot-com zaniness

Anybody remember Mercata?
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Wednesday, November 16, 2005 7:00 AM

Sampling every flavor of dogfood in the store

Running through all the variations.
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Tuesday, November 15, 2005 7:00 AM

In real life, nobody upgrades their server

For a specific definition of "upgrade".
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Monday, November 14, 2005 7:00 AM

Raymond's review of Pride and Prejudice (Keira Knightley version)

A satisfying adaptation.
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Monday, November 14, 2005 7:00 AM

What was Dr. Watson's original name?

Sherlock.
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Friday, November 11, 2005 7:00 AM

I just have a plain standard-issue guest chair

I aim for minimalism.
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Thursday, November 10, 2005 7:00 AM

The etymology of the word "traffic light"

Some languages are very creative with their term for those red/green thingies.
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Thursday, November 10, 2005 7:00 AM

When was the last time you formatted a floppy disk?

You probably can't remember.
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Wednesday, November 09, 2005 7:00 AM

Content owners need to review the designer art, too

Because sometimes it undermines the message.
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Wednesday, November 09, 2005 7:00 AM

The psychology of naming your internal distribution lists

The secret: Put "technical discussion" in the title
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Tuesday, November 08, 2005 7:00 AM

Hiding from the police? Try knitting a sweater

Well, okay, it didn't work.
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Tuesday, November 08, 2005 7:00 AM

Why was GlobalWire called GlobalWire?

It used a colloquial sense of the word "wire".
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Monday, November 07, 2005 7:00 AM

Take it easy on the automatic retries

They multiply.
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Friday, November 04, 2005 7:00 AM

It's not a book, but it's slightly closer

TechNet magazine picks me up as a contributor.
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Friday, November 04, 2005 7:00 AM

Why is there a special PostQuitMessage function?

Because it's not really a posted message.
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Thursday, November 03, 2005 7:00 AM

Look what the hurricanes blew into Lafayette, LA

Influx of young professionals revitalizes singles scene.
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Thursday, November 03, 2005 7:00 AM

To be a leader you must know when to follow

Your software is there for the users, not vice versa.
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Wednesday, November 02, 2005 7:00 AM

Blog design as a form of reality programming

When analogies go bad.
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Wednesday, November 02, 2005 7:00 AM

Found blog: The Piehole

I have no idea who this person is, but she's all attitude all the time.
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Wednesday, November 02, 2005 7:00 AM

Why is inline autocomplete disabled by default?

Because it turns out that it's a bad idea.
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Tuesday, November 01, 2005 7:00 AM

Bicycling from Mercer Island to Microsoft main campus

Everybody's got a favorite route.
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Tuesday, November 01, 2005 7:00 AM

Välkommen till Saerige?

Upside-down A masquerades as V.
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Tuesday, November 01, 2005 7:00 AM

The COM interface contract rules exist for a reason

You can't change an interface once it has shipped.
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