TSF Aware

David LeBlanc wrote an excellent overview of encrypted documents in Office.  A long, long time ago, I worked on the Word conversions team (it wasn’t even called Office then).  As part of my job, I wrote a document encryption filter.  More Read More...

Well, for one thing, it’s not that great for grabbing the current selection in the foreground application. There are several problems here: 1) You have to get your text service loaded into the target application. This can be slow. 2) Once your text service Read More...

I don't have anything better to blog about right now (I'm in the middle of reviews and designs), so I thought I would share a bit of whimsy - notably, this steampunk version of Star Trek. If you're familiar with A Trip to the Moon , you will find this Read More...

I suppose while I'm sending out the random link propagation, I should also mention LOLCODE - the programming language for really leet coders. I think it's related to the (deservedly) esoteric language valgol , from the 80's. Update: on second thought, Read More...

Enough about TSF for a while. :) I found this amazingly addictive game the other day called Desktop Tower Defense . It's sort of the reverse of Lemmings - instead of saving all the lemmings, you need to squash them all. There's an insane number of levels, Read More...

And now for something completely unrelated to TSF, or dictation: I'm going to pile onto the incredibly funny Star Trek/ lolcat spoof at granades.com. If you haven't seen it yet, it's pretty darn funny. Read More...