The Old New Thing

July 29, 2013 - The Old New Thing

I'm sure that Star Trek-themed parties exist, so why has no one ever scheduled one as a Microsoft holiday party?

July 29, 2013 Jul 29, 2013 07/29/13
Raymond Chen
I dreamed that I was attending a Star Trek-themed company party. Nobody was dressed as a Starfleet officer or anything exotic. Half of the people ignored the party theme and came in cocktail attire, and half were dressed in Renaissance or Elizabethan clothes, but they represented Star Trek aliens because they were not all white Europeans, and ...

A program for my nieces: The ABCs, part 4

July 29, 2013 Jul 29, 2013 07/29/13
Raymond Chen
Disabling autorepeat in my ABC program was largely sufficient to keep my nieces happy, given their instructions to press only one key at a time. Once in a while, though, they would hit the context menu key in the bottom right corner of the keyboard, and then they'd get stuck because they didn't know how to dismiss it. So let's disable that...