June 30, 2010Jun 30, 201006/30/10Another round of the semi-annual link clearance.
A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages
If real life operated like MMORPGs.
Not fooling anybody.
Walt Mosspuppet has a blog!
No, there is an elephant in the way.
A hidden hole-in-the-wall restaurant in downtown Seattle.
June 30, 2010Jun 30, 201006/30/10A project many years ago neared the conclusion of one of its project milestones. Things were getting down to the wire, and upper management was concerned that the project may not reach the milestone on schedule.
To ensure success, they decided to send email.
June 29, 2010Jun 29, 201006/29/10Back in the crazy dot-com boom days, I knew someone who was into high-performance automobiles. And since these were the crazy dot-com boom days, he had the money to satisfy his urge to drive high-performance automobiles. He bought a used Ferrari,
June 28, 2010Jun 28, 201006/28/10In response to my story about creative-spelling Scrabble, some people volunteered their own personal variations, like Plausible Scrabble or Rude Word Scrabble.
One variation my friends and I sometimes play is Redneck Scrabble. All words must be spelled the way a redneck might spell it.
June 28, 2010Jun 28, 201006/28/10Commenter
Andrei
asks via the Suggestion Box
for help with
making the text transparent using
WM_CTLCOLORSTATIC.
“Instead of the radio button now there’s a black background.”
Let’s look at this problem in stages.
First, let’s ignore the transparent part and figure out
how to render text without a black background.
June 25, 2010Jun 25, 201006/25/10The match went so long that it exceeded the limits of the scoreboard! Deadspin pulls some choice quotes out of Xan Brooks’s descent into madness live-blogging the marathon Wimbledon match between John Isner and Nicolas Mahut.
Just read it. You can follow him as he loses his grip on reality before your very eyes.
June 25, 2010Jun 25, 201006/25/10The shape of the Windows screen pixel has changed over the years. It has always had a rectangular shape, but the ratio of height to width has varied. (Someday, somebody will come up with a display adapter with hexagonal or triangular pixels,
June 24, 2010Jun 24, 201006/24/10Occasionally the shell team will get a request from a customer via their customer liaison that requests information on how to accomplish something or other, and before we’ll answer the question, we want to know what the support boundaries are. For example,
June 23, 2010Jun 23, 201006/23/10One way to show that somebody is incompetent is to tell them that something they’re doing is stupid, even when it’s not what they’re doing. Take for example this comment saying that it’s stupid for copy and paste to use data objects which can allow code to execute.
June 22, 2010Jun 22, 201006/22/10In the standard File Open dialog in Windows Vista and Windows 7, the top of the navigation bar contains a section called Favorite Links (on Windows Vista) or just Favorites (on Windows 7). These items also appear in the Explorer window’s Navigation Pane. How do I customize those links?
