{"id":26203,"date":"2007-06-29T07:00:01","date_gmt":"2007-06-29T14:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2007\/06\/29\/2007-mid-year-link-clearance\/"},"modified":"2007-06-29T07:00:01","modified_gmt":"2007-06-29T14:00:01","slug":"2007-mid-year-link-clearance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20070629-01\/?p=26203","title":{"rendered":"2007 mid-year link clearance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nA few random links that I&#8217;ve collected.\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZR7RHgdVTCg\">Das Holzf&auml;llerlied<\/a>.\n    The subtitles are from the original English version and do not\n    match the German.\n    (<a HREF=\"http:\/\/flyingpython.blogspot.com\/2005_03_01_flyingpython_archive.html#111187455556857250\">Lyrics here<\/a>.)\n    Even more impressive considering that the members of the Monty Python\n    troupe don&#8217;t actually speak German!\n<\/li>\n<li><a HREF=\"http:\/\/jkeyes.com\/2006\/04\/how_windows_was_born.php\">The really early history of Windows<\/a>.\n<\/li>\n<li><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2156843\/\">Explainer answers the unanswered<\/a>,\n    a follow-up to\n    <a HREF=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2006\/12\/21\/1340572.aspx\">\n    the unanswered Explainer questions<\/a>.\n<\/li>\n<li><a HREF=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/ntdebugging\/archive\/2007\/01\/04\/desktop-heap-overview.aspx\">More than you probably wanted to know about the desktop heap<\/a>.\n<\/li>\n<li>There&#8217;s a time and place for casual writing and a time and place\n    for formal writing.\n    <a HREF=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/nationworld\/2003448269_student26.html\">\n    Some students haven&#8217;t figured out that\n    classroom assignments fall into the latter category<\/a>.\n    <a HREF=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/businesstechnology\/2003502770_badwriting31.html\">Business schools have also taken notice<\/a>.\n<\/li>\n<li><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=6831815\">Sacha Baron Cohen drops character and is interviewed as himself<\/a>\n    rather than as his Borat persona.\n<\/li>\n<li><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.channel4.com\/itcrowd\"><i>The IT Crowd<\/i><\/a>,\n    Channel&nbsp;4&#8217;s riotously funny sitcom that brought you\n    0118 999 881 999 119 7253.\n    It&#8217;s actually quite easy to remember once you learn the jingle.\n<\/li>\n<li><a HREF=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/filecab\/pages\/file-backup-in-windows-vista-faq.aspx\">The Window Vista File Backup FAQ<\/a>\n    courtesy of\n    <a HREF=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/filecab\/\">\n    The Filing Cabinet<\/a>.\n<\/li>\n<li>Now that you&#8217;ve gone to all the effort of writing a book,\n    don&#8217;t be stingy when it comes to reviews.\n    <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2157866\">\n    Shell out the $399 and order a custom glowing review<\/a>.\n    Money well-spent.\n<\/li>\n<li>Whenever I visit the\n    <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.metmuseum.org\">\n    Metropolitan Museum of Art<\/a>,\n    I always make sure to pay a visit to\n    <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.metmuseum.org\/toah\/works-of-art\/17.120.204\/\">\n    <i>Young Woman Drawing<\/i><\/a>\n    on the second floor.\n    I think it&#8217;s my favorite work in the entire museum.\n<\/li>\n<li>James P.&nbsp;Burke does a bit of detective work and discovers\n    <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.drmomentum.com\/aces\/archives\/002867.html\">what drop shipping is<\/a>.\n<\/li>\n<li>Somebody seems to be taking the time to\n    <a HREF=\"http:\/\/kholeg.spaces.live.com\/\">\n    translate selected entries from blogs.msdn.com into Russian<\/a>.\n<\/li>\n<li><a HREF=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/justsean\/archive\/2006\/12\/12\/Microsoft_2700_s-secret-plans-_2D00_-revealed.aspx\">Microsoft&#8217;s secret plans &#8211; revealed<\/a>.\n    There&#8217;s still six months left in the year 2007.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\nAnd then the obligatory plug for my column in\n<a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/technet\/technetmag\/\">\nTechNet Magazine<\/a>:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/technet\/technetmag\/issues\/2007\/02\/WindowsConfidential\/\">A &#8220;Mixed&#8221; Blessing<\/a>.\n    It starts out with what for regular readers of this web site is\n    merely review,\n    but that&#8217;s just to set up for the second half.\n<\/li>\n<li><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/technet\/technetmag\/issues\/2007\/03\/WindowsConfidential\/\">Looking Smart by Being Stupid<\/a>.\n    Again, it starts out with a rehash of what many of you already know,\n    but the second half introduces new material.\n<\/li>\n<li><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/technet\/technetmag\/issues\/2007\/04\/WindowsConfidential\/\">The Power of Bugs<\/a>. (Suggestions for a better title welcome.)\n    The mysterious &#8220;Disable Synchronous Buffer Commits&#8221; setting.\n<\/li>\n<li><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/technet\/technetmag\/issues\/2007\/05\/WindowsConfidential\/\">Determining What Is Frequently Used<\/a>,\n    the TechNetification of the first half of the Start menu series.\n<\/li>\n<li><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/technet\/technetmag\/issues\/2007\/06\/WindowsConfidential\/\">What New Users See on the Start Menu<\/a>,\n    the second half of the Start menu series in TechNet form.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Random stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-26203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Random stuff.<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}