The Old New Thing

June 19, 2006 - The Old New Thing

Announcements on the ferry, one self-explanatory, one not

June 19, 2006 Jun 19, 2006 06/19/06
Raymond Chen
While I was riding the ferry last Saturday, there were two announcements made over the public address system. "All crew please report to the Second Mate's office." What were they all doing in the Second Mate's office? Would the whole crew fit into the office? And while all the crew are in the Second Mate's office, who's steering the ferry? ...

Why can't you programmatically reorder the items on the Start menu?

June 19, 2006 Jun 19, 2006 06/19/06
Raymond Chen
The classic Start menu and the "All Programs" portion of the Windows XP Start menu permit you to customize the order of the shortcuts that appear there. You can use drag/drop to rearrange them, or force them to be sorted by name. But why is there no programmatic interface to these actions? Because the power would be used for evil far ...