{"id":32813,"date":"2006-01-03T03:18:09","date_gmt":"2006-01-03T03:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2006\/01\/03\/2005-end-of-year-link-blowout-sale\/"},"modified":"2006-01-03T03:18:09","modified_gmt":"2006-01-03T03:18:09","slug":"2005-end-of-year-link-blowout-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20060103-09\/?p=32813","title":{"rendered":"2005 end-of-year link blowout sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> A quick list of links amassed over the past year. Not quite worth a posting on their own, but together they might mean something. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tobias-jung.de\/seekingprofont\/\">ProFont<\/a>,     a font for code.     Haven&#8217;t tried it out, but it looks intriguing. <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.annualcreditreport.com\/\">Free     annual credit reports<\/a>, one per credit reporting agency per year. <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.asp.net\/pglavich\/archive\/2004\/09\/29\/235670.aspx\">When people assume the system will never change, episode 2<\/a>:     Grovelling into the internals of .NET classes.     When this code breaks, who will take the blame? <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lostremote.com\/archives\/006342.html\">LR&#8217;s guide to the new newswriting<\/a>:     A quick reference to news cliches. <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/project-apollo.net\/text\/rpg.html\">The Grand List of Console Role Playing Game Cliches<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/spaces.msn.com\/members\/jvert\/Blog\/cns!1pZgrp-a2ufyKDqoWoA6v47g!211.entry\">Stupid debugger tricks<\/a>: Radix conversion. <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hydeparkrecords.net\/files\/htpug\/picking_up.htm\">Picking up girls can be as easy as opening a beer!<\/a> <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stern.de\/politik\/ausland\/amerika\/540008.html\">Living in America<\/a>:     The culture shock of moving from Germany to Los Angeles.     (<strong>Warning<\/strong>: In German.)     Heck, moving from <strong>anywhere<\/strong> to Los Angeles     would be a culture shock for most people&#8230; <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/psycho_milt\/sets\/347706\/\">Crashed cars of Kuwait<\/a>.     In a country with wide open roads     and little to no speed enforcement,     you wind up with a lot of abandoned crashed cars by the roadside. <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ski.ihoc.net\/\">SkiFree<\/a>,     the classic Windows skiing game.     I never got any good at it.     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