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Oct 11, 2007
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Unlikely excuses: A faulty microchip

Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen

Last year, a talking action figure was discovered to utter a curse word. A spokesperson for the store said that the problem might be a faulty microchip. Huh? What microchips fail by saying curse words? I mean, I can see the voice chip failing by generating static or chopping up the audio so as to become unintelligible, but what are the odds that...

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Oct 11, 2007
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Whose idea was it to make Ctrl+Backspace delete the previous word?

Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen

James Manning mentioned in a footnote to a blog entry on PowerShell and WMI that he considers the Ctrl+Backspace shortcut key a Windows-ism. Where did this shortcut key come from? From a fan of the Brief editor. A few people in the early days of the Internet Explorer group used the Brief editor, which uses Ctrl+Backspace as the shortcut key to ...

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