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Thursday, January 31, 2008 6:01 PM

Craig's Bug

One of the things I love about this job is tracking downinteresting bugs. It’s like readinga good who-done-it, complete with plot twists, multiple potential suspects and a fascinating array of characters. Late last September, Craig Eisler submitted a
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Monday, January 21, 2008 2:54 PM

What the Hell is That?

Seattle. Middle of January. Nothing in the sky but this huge, yellow thing. Looking at it hurts your eyes. In that context, read this transcript . "Don't put your lips on it!" Rick Currently playing in iTunes: Afternoon by the Pat Metheny Group
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Friday, January 11, 2008 11:56 AM

Trading Fours

I've had quite a bit of positive feedback on my last post, so I thought I'd do another musical post. "Trading fours," or "trading eights," is a jazz term that refers to one or more soloists taking turns in a solo. The idea is for each musician to pick
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Tuesday, January 08, 2008 12:49 PM

The Music of Derek Trucks

It's mid afternoon Saturday, July 27, 2007. The scene is Toyota Park, suburban Chicago, Illinois, home of some minor league soccer team. We're between acts during the Crossroads Guitar Festival, and Bill Murray walks out to introduce the next act. A few
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Monday, January 07, 2008 3:19 PM

Finding My Voice Again

Wow. What a stretch. We shipped the bits for Office 2008 off to manufacturing back in December, and that very day I was still in the office until 10:00 that night doing some prep work for the next release of Office. Having been head down in Office 2008
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Friday, July 27, 2007 12:42 PM

The OOF Infinite Loop

I'm surprised that I haven't hit this before at Microsoft, but I actually hit an OOF infinite loop today. For those who don't know, "OOF" is an acronym that refers to someone being out of the office. The Exchange team gives a nice run-down on the history
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Saturday, June 09, 2007 10:21 AM

The GM Shuffle

By now you’ve read the news . MacBU has a new general manager . I only found out about this via e-mail on Thursday, and, yesterday, I got a chance to meet Craig. I’ll get to my initial impressions of Craig in a bit, but I also want to talk a bit about
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Wednesday, May 02, 2007 2:48 PM

Your Text Here

On one of the many informational, internal e-mail lists of which I am a member, someone, today, posted one of those ubiquitous "How-Do-I" requests where the solution involves some form of "your text here". Someone replied with a nice and quick answer
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Wednesday, April 04, 2007 6:48 PM

There Comes a Time

In every project, there's a point where you have to stop tweaking this and touching up that little bit of behavior and focus on just fixing bugs. If you don't, then you never ship. Nadyne gave some of the details over on mac mojo . Well, we're getting
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Tuesday, January 16, 2007 7:50 PM

John Madden?

Kinda makes ya wonder... Rick Currently playing in iTunes: Boom! Boom! by John Lee Hooker
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Wednesday, January 10, 2007 3:18 PM

Lounging Around at MacWorld

MacWorld always has its surprises, but some of them are quite personal. For me, the surprise was the discovery, at 5:20 this morning, that a previous occupant of my hotel room had set the alarm-clock but hadn't turned off the alarm. I've been told by
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Thursday, December 14, 2006 2:14 PM

BBEdit 8.5

MacWorld has a decent review of BBEdit 8.5 , but it fails to mention a new feature that is of particular use to programmers. One of the features of CodeWarrior that I'd missed was the syntax highlighting that the IDE applied to symbols that were defined
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Thursday, December 07, 2006 10:04 AM

Open XML Converters for Mac Office

There’s been a bit of flak about the Office Open XML file format converters for Mac Office. Sheridan posted an update on MacMojo, and Schwieb weighed in regarding some of the comments that people have made. There’s quite a bit of speculation gong on,
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Monday, August 28, 2006 1:26 PM

Muddy Mojo Waters

Somewhere in the backroads of Issaquena County, Mississippi, along the banks of the Mississippi river, McKinley Morganfield was born. Likely due to his early life so close to the Mississippi river, McKinley later came to be known as Muddy Waters. The
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Thursday, August 24, 2006 11:42 PM

Claiming Technorati

My profile is Technorati Profile . Nothing to see. Move along, now. Rick
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