One of the minor Valentine's Day traditions at Microsoft is the charity fundraiser based on identifying targets and embarrassing them in front of all their colleagues. In exchange for a charitable donation to the American Heart Association (get it?) an a cappella group will travel to an office or conference room of your designation (conference ...
The accused armed robber who is using political asylum as his defense has been re-apprehended and will not fight being returned to the United States. I guess he needs to update the "About Me" section of his blog...
I haven't experienced this problem, but I know of people who have. They'll put their laptop into suspend or standby mode, and after a few seconds, the laptop will spontaneously wake itself up. Someone gave me this tip that might (might) help you figure out what is wrong. Open a command prompt and run the command powercfg -devicequery ...
I didn't get a chance to thank you after the concert, but I did want to express my appreciation for the running commentary you provided during the performance of last week's concert of Debussy, Schönberg and Brahms. Most people wait until the break between pieces, some may even dare to exchange information in whispers during the performance, ...
It seems that whenever there is a technology conference, there's a decent chance that somebody will ask me via email or a comment whether I'm going. The default answer to Are you going to this conference? is No. You may find it hard to believe, but going to conferences around the world is not part of my job. My job is to sit in front of a ...
Commenter Adam Russell asks why Ctrl+ScrollLock cancels dialogs. Easy. Because Ctrl+ScrollLock is the same as Ctrl+Break, and Ctrl+Break cancels dialogs. Okay, that answer actually raises two more questions. First, why is Ctrl+ScrollLock the same as Ctrl+Break? This is a consequence of the backward compatibility designed into the Enhanced ...
Recall that the identified a set of variables. This causes a bit of a problem if your program has multiple data segments; in other words, multiple sets of variables. In such a program, the code would load the data segment of whatever variable it needed each time it needed to access a variable from a different segment. This was no problem at all ...
Chris Pirillo discovered Crazy Asian Drinks, a Web site devoted to the beverage preferences of people from the eastern part of Asia. Now, the text is really funny (which is important), but I would like to come to the defense of grass jelly drink. First of all, when I was growing up, grass jelly wasn't a drink. It was a dessert. It came in a ...
doesn't do anything. What's the point of a macro that doesn't do anything? It did something back in 16-bit Windows. Recall that in 16-bit Windows, the was the mechanism for identifying a data segment; i.e., a bunch of memory that represents the set of variables in use by a module. If you had two copies of Notepad running, there was one ...
In the summer of 2006, a Japanese-inspired maid café opened in Toronto. Known as the iMaid Cafe, it offers Chinese food served by young Chinese women in French maid costumes, while Japanese pop music plays in the background. Owner Aaron Wang explains the concept to Canadian television...
