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Monday, July 31, 2006 7:00 AM

Christmas gift idea for your favorite glasses-wearing geek

Best gift ever.
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Monday, July 31, 2006 7:00 AM

Just because I don't write about .NET doesn't mean that I don't like it

I'm just not an expert.
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Friday, July 28, 2006 7:00 AM

The Seattle Monorail has two trains, and they collided

Murphy's Law in action.
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Friday, July 28, 2006 7:00 AM

The efficiency of ordinal-based imports while still being name-based

Blending both worlds.
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Thursday, July 27, 2006 7:00 AM

Handy tip: If you're going to break into vehicles, the police vehicle service center is probably a bad place

Just saying.
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Thursday, July 27, 2006 7:00 AM

Index to the series on DLL imports and exports

For reference.
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Thursday, July 27, 2006 7:00 AM

Names in the import library are decorated for a reason

Makes autogenerating an import library kind of tricky.
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Wednesday, July 26, 2006 7:00 AM

Real Madrid (i.e., proper football) comes to Seattle

Real Madrid takes a trip across the pond.
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Wednesday, July 26, 2006 7:00 AM

What happens when you get dllimport wrong?

The linker tries to recover as best it can.
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Tuesday, July 25, 2006 7:00 AM

If you know German, the world is, well, slightly more confusing

Non-cognates.
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Tuesday, July 25, 2006 4:00 AM

Issues related to forcing a stub to be created for an imported function

When you ask C to do things it can't.
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Monday, July 24, 2006 7:00 AM

Raise la lanterne rouge

The nickname for the slowest cyclist to finish the Tour.
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Monday, July 24, 2006 7:00 AM

How a less naive compiler calls an imported function

Wherein the compiler is tipped off to funniness with imported functions.
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Friday, July 21, 2006 7:00 AM

Floyd Landis stuns everybody on stage 17; Raymond less impressive

An exciting stage.
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Friday, July 21, 2006 7:00 AM

I didn't realize that it was International Group B Strep Awareness Month

The national health observances calendar.
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Friday, July 21, 2006 7:00 AM

Calling an imported function, the naive way

Wherein the compiler doesn't know what's going on.
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Thursday, July 20, 2006 7:00 AM

Buy me some peanuts and a set of double-pointed 2's

Stitch and Pitch.
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Thursday, July 20, 2006 7:00 AM

Rethinking the way DLL exports are resolved for 32-bit Windows

Preserving the spirit while accommodating separate address spaces and new processors.
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Wednesday, July 19, 2006 7:00 AM

The traffic gods are punishing me for bicycling

If it's not one thing it's another.
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Wednesday, July 19, 2006 7:00 AM

Exported functions that are really forwarders

A new feature for Win32.
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Tuesday, July 18, 2006 7:00 AM

How are DLL functions exported in 32-bit Windows?

A table of function pointers.
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Monday, July 17, 2006 7:00 AM

The day the peloton lost its way

And the disaster that ensued.
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Monday, July 17, 2006 7:00 AM

How were DLL functions imported in 16-bit Windows?

A threaded linked list.
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Friday, July 14, 2006 7:00 AM

How were DLL functions exported in 16-bit Windows?

Two tables.
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Thursday, July 13, 2006 7:00 AM

Glass houses are great places to throw stones

The best way to get their attention.
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Wednesday, July 12, 2006 7:00 AM

Win $5000 every summer for life (some restrictions on your life apply)

"For life" isn't for life.
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Wednesday, July 12, 2006 7:00 AM

Pidls and monikers do roughly the same thing, just backwards

It's a matter of life and death.
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Tuesday, July 11, 2006 7:00 AM

News flash: Big houses have bigger heating bills

Reporting in the public service
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Tuesday, July 11, 2006 7:00 AM

Not everybody with a non-Windows partition type is a geek

Many OEMs ship with recovery partitions.
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Monday, July 10, 2006 7:00 AM

Wenn Ausländer Deutsch phonetisch singen

The results are kind of, well, painful.
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Monday, July 10, 2006 7:00 AM

Before you can learn to recognize what's wrong, you must learn to recognize what's right

Know what is normal so you can recognize the abnormal.
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Friday, July 07, 2006 7:00 AM

Mr. T prefers a double-shot of espresso with two graham crackers, go figure

A chance encounter with Mr. T.
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Friday, July 07, 2006 7:00 AM

No, really, why is it 160x31?

It's the size of a caption.
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Thursday, July 06, 2006 7:00 AM

Nearly 20 percent of daily smokers say they exercise three or more times a week

Cognitive dissonance?
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Thursday, July 06, 2006 7:00 AM

Is the maximum size of the environment 32K or 64K?

Yes.
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Wednesday, July 05, 2006 7:00 AM

Retail companies allegedly not collecting personal information as aggressively

A little story about RadioShack.
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Tuesday, July 04, 2006 7:00 AM

Things I've written that have amused other people, Episode 2

Go figure.
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Monday, July 03, 2006 7:00 AM

How do you use the bike rack on a Metro bus?

Fortunately, somebody else has pictures.
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Monday, July 03, 2006 7:00 AM

Security: Don't forget to initialize the stuff you don't care about

A generally-forgotten aspect to security.
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