{"id":97675,"date":"2017-12-29T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-29T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/?p=97675"},"modified":"2019-03-13T01:21:35","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T08:21:35","slug":"20171229-00","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20171229-00\/?p=97675","title":{"rendered":"2017 year-end link clearance"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>    Iconic 1980s pop music song <i>Take On Me<\/i>     <a HREF=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MAFGdHvHxpU\">    performed on airhorn<\/a>.     <a HREF=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/?p=19653\">    Previously<\/a>:     <a HREF=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8HE9OQ4FnkQ\">    <i>Take On Me: Literal Lyrics<\/i><\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>    At an exhibition tennis match,     Kim Clijsters asks the crowd whether she should serve wide     or down the center.     A guy from the crowd shouts, &#8220;Body serve!&#8221;     <a HREF=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Z04Oe_GULao\">    Hilarity subsequently ensues<\/a>.     (Remember that Wimbledon dress code requires players to wear white.)     Sadly, the chair umpire did not announce,     &#8220;New balls, please.&#8221; <\/li>\n<li>    <a HREF=\"http:\/\/drhagen.com\/blog\/the-missing-11th-of-the-month\/\">    The missing 11th of the month<\/a>.     The 11th of the month is     mentioned in print significantly less than any other day,     and David Hagen wants to find out why. <\/li>\n<li>    At NDC Sydney 2016,     <a HREF=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20160528134223\/http:\/\/ndcsydney.com:80\/talk\/life-as-a-developer-my-code-does-not-work-because-i-am-a-victim-of-complex-societal-factors-that-are-beyond-my-control-and-do-not-involve-my-own-laziness\">    James Mickens presented<\/a> a talk titled     <a HREF=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/180568023\">    Life As A Developer:     My Code Does Not Work Because I Am A Victim Of     Complex Societal Factors That Are Beyond My Control     And Do Not Involve My Own Laziness<\/a>.     Of course, the actual talk has nothing to do with the title,     but you knew that because James Mickens. <\/li>\n<li>    <a HREF=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/uNjxe8ShM-8\">    PowerPoint is Turing complete<\/a>.     There&#8217;s also     <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.andrew.cmu.edu\/user\/twildenh\/PowerPointTM\/Paper.pdf\">    an accompanying paper<\/a>.     Even if you don&#8217;t read the whole thing,     go to the last sentence for the punch line. <\/li>\n<li>    <a HREF=\"http:\/\/asciiflow.com\/\">asciiflow<\/a>     lets you create diagrams in ASCII.     ASCII art diagrams in source code are the best diagrams. <\/li>\n<li>    <a HREF=\"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/aaron_margosis\/\">    Aaron Margosis<\/a>:     <a HREF=\"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/aaron_margosis\/2014\/11\/14\/it-rather-involved-being-on-the-other-side-of-this-airtight-hatchway-unquoted-service-paths\/\">    It rather involved being on the other side of this airtight hatchway:     Unquoted service paths<\/a>.     He wrote it so I don&#8217;t have to. <\/li>\n<li>    <a HREF=\"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/johnla\/2015\/09\/26\/the-inside-story-behind-ms08-067\/\">    The Inside Story Behind MS08-067<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>    <a HREF=\"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/mniehaus\/\">    Michael Niehaus<\/a>     writes about a new group policy that many organizations are     likely to be interested in:     <a HREF=\"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/mniehaus\/2017\/04\/13\/hiding-pages-in-settings-with-windows-10-1703\/\">    Hiding pages in Settings with Windows 10 1703<\/a>. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And the customary plug for my series of short videos on <i>One Dev Minute<\/i>: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>    <a HREF=\"https:\/\/channel9.msdn.com\/Blogs\/One-Dev-Minute\/One-Dev-Question-with-Raymond-Chen-Why-are-some-Keyboard-Shortcuts-specific-to-the-US-Keyboard\">    Why are some keyboard shortcuts specific to the US keyboard<\/a>? <\/li>\n<li>    <a HREF=\"https:\/\/channel9.msdn.com\/Blogs\/One-Dev-Minute\/One-Dev-Question-with-Raymond-Chen-Why-Does-CtrlF-in-Outlook-mean-Forward-instead-of-Find\">    Why does <kbd>Ctrl<\/kbd>+<kbd>F<\/kbd> in Outlook mean     &#8220;Forward&#8221; instead of &#8220;Find&#8221;?<\/a> <\/li>\n<li>    <a HREF=\"https:\/\/channel9.msdn.com\/Blogs\/One-Dev-Minute\/One-Dev-Question-with-Raymond-Chen-How-do-program-settings-work-in-virtual-desktops\">    How do program settings work in virtual desktops?<\/a> <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(While you&#8217;re there, why not check out the other <i>One Dev Minute<\/i> videos?) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another year passes.<\/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":[26],"class_list":["post-97675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-other"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Another year passes.<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97675","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=97675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97675\/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=97675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}