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When Baby Jesus disappears from a Nativity scene, he might be wearing a tracking device: For two consecutive years, thieves made off with the baby Jesus figurine in Wellington, a town of 60,000 in Palm Beach County, Fla. The ceramic original, donated by a local merchant, was made in Italy and worth about $1,800... Last year, officials took a G...

When you ask Explorer to navigate to a new location, the steps go roughly like this (vastly oversimplified): Pretty straightforward, right? Well, commenter dhiren asks: Any idea why the address bar in Explorer randomly decides to reset itself while you're typing in it? It's not like Explorer is saying, "Ha, ha! Sucker!" Explorer is just...

The Web page associated with my PDC 2008 talk has been updated to include the source code that I used for all of the demos. Other remarks:

When my colleagues discovered that Seattle bar Spitfire is opening a bar on the main Microsoft campus, a quick game of Name that bar sprung up. (Todd Bishop has his suggestions.) Here are some names we came up with: Though I suspect they'll just call it Spitfire. Sidebar: Although alcohol is available at many company-sponsored social ev...

Some time ago, Ry Jones decided to take something that I wrote and condense it to make it funnier: Don't embed pictures. ... This isn't Highlights magazine. Those ellipses are deceptive, because they hide a change of topic! As a result, the two unrelated sentences appeared to be connected to each other. The comment about Highlights magaz...

Thanks to short file names and hard links, a single file can go by multiple names. (And for the purpose of today's discussion, I'm treating the full path as the name instead of just the part after the last backslash. Don't make me bring back the nitpicker's corner.) For example, C:\PROGRA~1 and C:\Program Files are two possible names for the same d...

"High Contrast Mode" is an accessibility state controlled by the flag in the member of the structure. You can retrieve this structure programmatically by calling the function with the parameter; conversely, you update the setting programmatically with parameter. Programs are on their honor to query the "High Contrast Mode" flag and, if set, s...

It's certainly common at Microsoft, and probably common at many places, that a meeting runs over. The next group who has booked the room gathers outside waiting for the previous meeting to wrap up. Sometimes they wait timidly outside the door, and the group inside never realizes that they are running over. Late meetings have a cascade effect on th...

Last year, I sent some email to the people who run our team's check-in validation tool asking how I could add a new rule to the validation tests. One of the members wrote back, "You do it just like this guy," and sent me a reference to another check-in that added a validation rule. That other check-in was made by me. But wait, it gets better. ...