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April 2008 - Posts

Wednesday, April 30, 2008 7:00 AM

Book me the next flight to Tokyo, no wait, the second flight

Hello, Kitty!
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Wednesday, April 30, 2008 7:00 AM

Some other places atoms (and the magical 0xC000) arise

A common way of turning a string into a number.
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Tuesday, April 29, 2008 7:00 AM

Racking up the frequent shopper points at the register office

Her fourth marriage, and she's only 24 years old.
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Tuesday, April 29, 2008 7:00 AM

Why do atoms start at 0xC000?

An artifact of the 16-bit implementation.
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Monday, April 28, 2008 7:00 AM

In search of: Rossio Train Station

It was around here somewhere.
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Monday, April 28, 2008 7:00 AM

Why does clearing document history also clear Run history?

Because people wanted it to.
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Friday, April 25, 2008 7:00 AM

News flash: Universities are more likely to admit students whose parents gave lots of money

Wake me when the surprise happens.
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Friday, April 25, 2008 7:00 AM

On the relationship between specific cases and general cases

A little logic lesson.
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Thursday, April 24, 2008 7:00 AM

Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work today, unless you work at main Microsoft campus, in which case, wait until summer

Schedule conflicts.
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Thursday, April 24, 2008 7:00 AM

User interface code + multi-threaded apartment = death

Multi-threaded apartments do not pump messages.
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Wednesday, April 23, 2008 7:00 AM

News flash: Alumni give to colleges and universities to get their kids admitted

No surprise here.
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Wednesday, April 23, 2008 7:00 AM

The double-click time tells the window manager how good your reflexes are

Sort of the dialog unit of time.
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Tuesday, April 22, 2008 7:00 AM

The concrete pedestrian bridge in the Washington Park Arboretum claims another victim

Low bridge, everybody down.
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Tuesday, April 22, 2008 7:00 AM

The contradictory dialog: Click Finish to begin

Are we finishing or begnning?
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Monday, April 21, 2008 7:00 AM

Fell the force

Engrish in Portugal.
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Monday, April 21, 2008 7:00 AM

Windows doesn't close windows when a user logs off; that's your call

That's what WM_ENDSESSION is for.
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Friday, April 18, 2008 7:00 AM

Special advance screening of five seconds of True Lies

Just for the company meeting.
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Friday, April 18, 2008 7:00 AM

Proto-Microspeak: Center of value

I'm not sure what it means.
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Thursday, April 17, 2008 7:00 AM

Baby Names for Dummies

What does it mean?
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Thursday, April 17, 2008 7:00 AM

One-line batch script to delete empty directories

Don't need a whole program.
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Wednesday, April 16, 2008 7:00 AM

Raymond misreads newspaper headlines, episode 2

The 200 back?
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Wednesday, April 16, 2008 7:00 AM

Raymond's reading list: The Mythical Man-Month, The Design of Everyday Things, and Systemantics

Required reading.
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Tuesday, April 15, 2008 7:00 AM

I know you can't provide tax advice, but I'm just looking for tax advice

The people who ask the library for help.
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Tuesday, April 15, 2008 7:00 AM

Email tip: Nostalgia is not a question

A corollary to "don't forget to ask your question".
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Monday, April 14, 2008 7:00 AM

Follow-up: That shopautodotca seocontest online contest

Unhappy winners.
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Monday, April 14, 2008 7:00 AM

Why doesn't Explorer let you create a file whose name begins with a dot?

Because that file would have no name.
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Friday, April 11, 2008 7:00 AM

We can't cut that; it's our last feature

Running out of options.
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Thursday, April 10, 2008 7:00 AM

The dead desktop computer: The good, the bad, and the ugly, but not in that order

At least I can see stuff again.
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Thursday, April 10, 2008 7:00 AM

Who defined my name first? Turnabout is fair play

Identifying who is creating the conflicting definition.
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Wednesday, April 09, 2008 7:00 AM

Use the #error directive to check whether the compiler even sees you

Untangling code that may not be.
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Tuesday, April 08, 2008 7:00 AM

Over 1500 times the net worth of Bill Gates yet nobody has heard of him

Those vanity directories.
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Tuesday, April 08, 2008 7:00 AM

I always get scared when I see people trying to organize the Internet into hierarchies

Because the world is not that simple.
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Monday, April 07, 2008 7:00 AM

How to tell which end of the Metro platform to stand on, and other survival tips for the Lisbon subway system

Things all the locals know.
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Monday, April 07, 2008 7:00 AM

What happened to winipcfg and netmon?

They're still there, just in a different guise.
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Friday, April 04, 2008 7:00 AM

21: like 24 but three hours shorter

Okay maybe not.
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Friday, April 04, 2008 7:00 AM

STATUS_BUFFER_OVERFLOW really should be named STATUS_BUFFER_OVERFLOW_PREVENTED

Because it's saying that the buffer would have overflowed, not that it did.
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Thursday, April 03, 2008 7:00 AM

When a treehouse just isn't good enough

Other things people have built in their backyard
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Thursday, April 03, 2008 7:00 AM

How do I force the ECHO command to echo?

The mysterious dot.
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Wednesday, April 02, 2008 7:00 AM

Lisbon: The city whose public transportation system operates in three dimensions

North, south, east, west, up, and down.
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Wednesday, April 02, 2008 7:00 AM

Maybe that's how you do it, but around here, we have a different convention for indicating which things are broken

It's called the garbage can.
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Tuesday, April 01, 2008 7:00 AM

Pranksters breathe a sigh of relief: There will never be a Building 7

Renumbered as Building 37.
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