The Old New Thing

January 2009 - Page 4 of 4 - The Old New Thing

Kids love cake, but that doesn’t make them good judges of cake

January 2, 2009 Jan 2, 2009 01/2/09
Raymond Chen
My friend who got married last year went to the Seattle Wedding Show (here are some pictures from the 2007 show courtesy of a vendor's blog) and, through a series of circumstances not relevant to the story, combined the visit with a brief stint of babysitting for her nieces, one a tomboy and the other a girly-girl. The children's father came...

Why doesn’t Windows 95 format floppy disks smoothly?

January 2, 2009 Jan 2, 2009 01/2/09
Raymond Chen
Welcome, Slashdot readers. Remember, this Web site is for entertainment purposes only. Who spends all day formatting floppy disks? From the reaction of geekdom, it appears that there are lots of geeks who sit around formatting disks all day. (Psst, you can buy them pre-formatted.) But why did Windows 95 get all sluggish when you formatted...

Follow-up: A new DUI record set in the state of Washington

January 1, 2009 Jan 1, 2009 01/1/09
Raymond Chen
A year ago, I noted that a new DUI record had been set for the state of Washington. It took a while, but the story finally settled out. Recapping the story so far (links in the original article): The driver's attorneys eventually succeeded in having her released from jail (where she had been held on $300,000 bail) to a treatment center. ...