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August 2007 - Posts

Friday, August 31, 2007 7:00 AM

The Great Muffin Heist of '07

No muffins today, sorry.
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Friday, August 31, 2007 7:00 AM

The Internet Explorer pop-up blocker follows guidelines, not rules

Because rules would make it impossible to improve.
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Thursday, August 30, 2007 7:00 AM

Somebody actually took the time to translate my book into Japanese, it appears

Though I can't read Japanese, so who knows.
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Thursday, August 30, 2007 7:00 AM

Microspeak: FMLA

Fire my lame anterior.
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Wednesday, August 29, 2007 7:00 AM

Follow-up: Mysterious Dietrich identified from that bizarre Ferarri crash

Not as happy as a little girl.
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Wednesday, August 29, 2007 7:00 AM

Kernel handles are not reference-counted

When you close it, it's over.
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Tuesday, August 28, 2007 7:00 AM

Airport travel tip: LAX Terminal 6 (United)

The same arrangement as at Newark.
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Tuesday, August 28, 2007 7:00 AM

With a new Start menu come new keyboard shortcuts

It's now based on what you do.
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Monday, August 27, 2007 7:00 AM

Is this the normal way of comparing toilets?

By golf ball capacity?
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Monday, August 27, 2007 7:00 AM

Yes indeed, all Microsoft files are (or should be) digitally signed

So I'm not quite sure what this person is getting at.
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Friday, August 24, 2007 7:00 AM

What happens at LL Bean at three in the morning?

There are people around, but they're not shopping.
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Friday, August 24, 2007 7:00 AM

Microspeak: Value proposition

The key take-away.
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Thursday, August 23, 2007 7:00 AM

Which Windows font is named after a tabloid headline?

Useless font trivia.
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Thursday, August 23, 2007 7:00 AM

Nested fly-out menus are a usability nightmare

And not just for novices.
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Wednesday, August 22, 2007 7:00 AM

The Northwest Mahler Orchestra presents Messiaen's Turangalîla Symphony

Love it or hate it.
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Wednesday, August 22, 2007 7:00 AM

Windows Vista has more extended options on the context menu

Hold down the shift key.
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Tuesday, August 21, 2007 7:00 AM

At last you can turn off the USB 2.0 balloon

Yes, I know already.
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Tuesday, August 21, 2007 7:00 AM

We're all in this together: Maintaining common tools

The tragedy of the commons.
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Monday, August 20, 2007 7:00 AM

When you copy a folder, why are the contents merged with the existing contents?

Because that's probably what you want.
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Monday, August 20, 2007 7:00 AM

Just because you're a control doesn't mean that you're necessarily inside a dialog box

Programs can certainly create controls outside of dialog boxes.
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Friday, August 17, 2007 7:00 AM

Do you have a Starbucks name?

Oprah.
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Friday, August 17, 2007 7:00 AM

What are these spurious nop instructions doing in my C# code?

They are for debugging.
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Thursday, August 16, 2007 7:00 AM

The Radioactive Boy Scout is back in the news

Going after those smoke detectors.
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Thursday, August 16, 2007 7:00 AM

What are these strange cmp [ecx], ecx instructions doing in my C# code?

They are null object tests.
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Wednesday, August 15, 2007 7:00 AM

For $15, you can purchase incorrect information, and to prevent people from getting it, you have to renew every three months

Somehow I'm not surprised that it's coming from Intelius.
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Wednesday, August 15, 2007 7:00 AM

C# static constructors are called on demand, not at startup

Watch out for those static constructors.
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Tuesday, August 14, 2007 7:00 AM

SIFF 2007 wrap-up: Grandhotel, The Boss of It All, Vacation

The last of the SIFF reviews.
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Tuesday, August 14, 2007 7:00 AM

What is the order of evaluation in C#?

Lexical left to right.
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Monday, August 13, 2007 7:00 AM

Math is hard, let's go shopp—oops

Subtraction is hard.
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Monday, August 13, 2007 7:00 AM

Why is the blog's subtitle "Not actually a .NET blog"?

CLR Week: A new annual tradition.
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Friday, August 10, 2007 7:00 AM

Things I've written that have amused other people, Episode 4

For entertainment purposes only.
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Thursday, August 09, 2007 7:00 AM

Martina Navratilova's final Wimbledon appearance, and this time she means it

Arguably the greatest female tennis player of all time.
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Thursday, August 09, 2007 7:00 AM

How do I get the handle of the primary monitor?

The primary monitor by definition has its upper left corner at (0, 0).
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Wednesday, August 08, 2007 7:00 AM

Bowling coming to Bellevue, and given the location, it's naturally upscale

In Lincoln Square.
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Wednesday, August 08, 2007 7:00 AM

Email tip: I don't have my bug numbers memorized

A little context helps.
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Tuesday, August 07, 2007 7:00 AM

One would be hard pressed to find a group of characters more in need of a lawyer

The legal status of Gilligan's Island.
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Tuesday, August 07, 2007 7:00 AM

It rather involved being on the other side of this airtight hatchway: Executable corruption

You're already running code, what more do you want?
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Monday, August 06, 2007 7:00 AM

The truth about 4/29 the government doesn't want you to know

The other government conspiracy.
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Monday, August 06, 2007 7:00 AM

Freudian typo: Enchanced metafiles

Really enhanced.
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Friday, August 03, 2007 7:00 AM

Probably the most expensive Harry Potter viewing I'll ever attend

Though not intentionally.
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Friday, August 03, 2007 7:00 AM

It was not one of Explorer's design goals to provide a Turing-complete interface for bulk file renaming

It does simple things.
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Thursday, August 02, 2007 7:00 AM

But now I'll never know which politician that alien backs for the next election

The demise of the Weekly World News.
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Thursday, August 02, 2007 7:00 AM

What is the difference between the Folder and Directory (and other special) progids?

The predefined (but not necessarily well-known) progids.
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Wednesday, August 01, 2007 7:00 AM

Note to locals: Lincoln Center is in New York City, not Bellevue

Of purely local interest.
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Wednesday, August 01, 2007 7:00 AM

Footnotes in Win32 history: VLM (Very Large Memory) support

Ah, the Alpha AXP.
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