The Old New Thing

January 8, 2004 - The Old New Thing

It's called "proofreading", give it a shot why don't you

January 8, 2004 Jan 8, 2004 01/8/04
Raymond Chen
Like everybody else, I was checking out the new MSN home page and I clicked over to the tour. And right there as their top headline in the sample web page, it says, "Wierd items of the future". Ahem. It's spelled w-e-i-r-d. And on all of the MSN properties, like local city guides, you can see MSN's new motto: "More Useful Everyday". Um, ...

Budget cuts strike Swedish radio

January 8, 2004 Jan 8, 2004 01/8/04
Raymond Chen
Alas, budget cuts over at Sveriges Radio have reduced the staff of Klartext, the Swedish news program presented in easy Swedish, from three to two, so they won't be able to provide text summaries of the radio show. I had been using the summaries to help me fill in the gaps I had missed, but now I guess I'll just have to listen even more ...

The history of calling conventions, part 3

January 8, 2004 Jan 8, 2004 01/8/04
Raymond Chen
Okay, here we go: The 32-bit x86 calling conventions. (By the way, in case people didn't get it: I'm only talking in the context of calling conventions you're likely to encounter when doing Windows programming or which are used by Microsoft compilers. I do not intend to cover calling conventions for other operating systems or that are specific...