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2003

Date Title
2003-07-21 / #0 Tweak UI 2.10 (11 comments) / other
2003-07-22 / #1 Why do you have to click the Start button to shut down? (22 comments) / history
2003-07-23 / #2 The scratch program (23 comments) / code
2003-07-24 / #3 More terse Q&A on Tweak UI 2.10 (2 comments) / other
2003-07-25 / #4 Scrollbars, part 2 (1 comment) / code
2003-07-28 / #5 Why doesn’t Windows have an “expert mode”? (15 comments) / history
2003-07-29 / #6 Scrollbars, part 3: Optimizing the paint cycle (1 comment) / code
2003-07-30 / #7 Why doesn’t the new Start menu use Intellimenus in the All Programs list? (8 comments) / history
2003-07-30 / #8 Answer to yesterday’s exercise (5 comments) / code
2003-07-31 / #9 Scrollbars, part 4: Adding a proportional scrollbar (0 comments) / code
2003-08-05 / #10 Answer to previous exercise (0 comments) / code
2003-08-05 / #11 Changing the Windows boot logo (12 comments) / history
2003-08-05 / #12 Keyboard accessibility for scrollbars (3 comments) / code
2003-08-07 / #13 Limitations on DLL resources in Windows 95 (1 comment) / history
2003-08-07 / #14 Scrollbars bart 6 – The wheel (4 comments) / code
2003-08-07 / #15 A subtlety in the keyboard code (0 comments) / code
2003-08-08 / #16 Why is a registry file called a “hive”? (9 comments) / history
2003-08-11 / #17 Answers to exercises (0 comments) / code
2003-08-11 / #18 Scrollbars part 7 – Integrality (0 comments) / code
2003-08-12 / #19 Why can’t I remove “for test/evaluation purposes only”? (3 comments) / history
2003-08-13 / #20 Scrollbars part 8 – Integral interactive resizing (0 comments) / code
2003-08-14 / #21 Windows 95 doesn’t boot with more than 1GB of RAM (12 comments) / history
2003-08-15 / #22 Answer to exercise (0 comments) / code
2003-08-16 / #23 A day in the trenches (7 comments) / other
2003-08-18 / #24 Why does Windows 95 have functions called BEAR, BUNNY and PIGLET? (16 comments) / history
2003-08-18 / #25 There will be a part 9 in the scrollbar series (1 comment) / code
2003-08-19 / #26 Lessons from the trenches (1 comment) / other
2003-08-20 / #27 What is in the “Windows 95 Special Edition” box? (2 comments) / history
2003-08-21 / #28 The secret life of GetWindowText (3 comments) / code
2003-08-22 / #29 Why isn’t my time zone highlighted on the world map? (35 comments) / history;time
2003-08-22 / #30 Knitting a pumpkin (3 comments) / non-computer
2003-08-25 / #31 Windows brings out the Rorschach test in everyone (10 comments) / history
2003-08-26 / #32 Rotating the Z-order (1 comment) / code
2003-08-27 / #33 What are those little overlay icons? (3 comments) / code;tipssupport
2003-08-27 / #34 What are all these files in my C:WINDOWSCSC directory? (12 comments) / tipssupport
2003-08-27 / #35 Why are these unwanted files/folders opening when I log on? (5 comments) / code;tipssupport
2003-08-28 / #36 Hardware backwards compatibility (11 comments) / history
2003-08-29 / #37 Painting only when your window is visible on the screen (6 comments) / code
2003-08-31 / #38 Setup could not verify integrity of file (0 comments) / tipssupport
2003-09-01 / #39 The default answer to every dialog box is “Cancel” (39 comments) / other
2003-09-01 / #40 Suburbs make you fat, researchers conclude (2 comments) / non-computer
2003-09-01 / #41 Even the trees are falling for the media’s lies (2 comments) / non-computer
2003-09-02 / #42 Determining whether your window is covered (0 comments) / code
2003-09-02 / #43 The World Adult Kickball Association (0 comments) / non-computer
2003-09-03 / #44 Why is there no programmatic access to the Start menu pin list? (49 comments) / history
2003-09-04 / #45 Why are the rules for GetWindowText so weird? (8 comments) / history
2003-09-05 / #46 How to recognize different types of timestamps from quite a long way away (11 comments) / code
2003-09-05 / #47 Case mapping on Unicode is hard (2 comments) / code
2003-09-05 / #48 Where is my program running from? (1 comment) / code
2003-09-08 / #49 An insight into the Windows 95 startup sound (14 comments) / history
2003-09-08 / #50 It’s a lot easier to write a column if you don’t care about accuracy (9 comments) / history
2003-09-09 / #51 Scrollbars part 9 – Maintaining the metaphor (2 comments) / code
2003-09-09 / #52 If you see only one Elvis vs. Mummy movie this year, make it this one (3 comments) / non-computer
2003-09-10 / #53 Why do some people call the taskbar the "tray"? (73 comments) / history
2003-09-10 / #54 Computers are still too hard to use. (11 comments) / other
2003-09-11 / #55 You too can dress like Raymond (8 comments) / tipssupport
2003-09-11 / #56 Scrollbars part 10 – Towards a deeper understanding of the WM_NCCALCSIZE message (2 comments) / code
2003-09-12 / #57 Why does the taskbar default to the bottom of the screen? (13 comments) / history
2003-09-12 / #58 Whimsical bug reports (12 comments) / other
2003-09-13 / #59 Answers to exercises (0 comments) / code
2003-09-13 / #60 I’m not sure if this was a dare (6 comments) / non-computer
2003-09-14 / #61 Something about Microsoft employees and milk (1 comment) / other
2003-09-15 / #62 Eric’s complete guide to BSTR semantics (11 comments) / code
2003-09-15 / #63 Scrollbars part 11: Towards an even deeper understanding of the WM_NCCALCSIZE message (6 comments) / code
2003-09-16 / #64 Why does Win32 fail a module load if an import could not be resolved? (6 comments) / history
2003-09-17 / #65 Scrollbars part 12: Applying WM_NCCALCSIZE to our scrollbar sample (2 comments) / code
2003-09-17 / #66 Answers to exercise from Scrollbars Part 11 (0 comments) / code
2003-09-17 / #67 The end of the scrollbar series (60 comments) / code
2003-09-18 / #68 Emergency vacation (10 comments) / non-computer
2003-09-18 / #69 Improving the world one bad analogy at a time (9 comments) / other
2003-09-19 / #70 How much is that gigabyte in the window? (20 comments) / other
2003-09-19 / #71 Pre-travel insomnia (13 comments) / non-computer
2003-09-20 / #72 When I dock my taskbar vertically, why does the word “Start” disappear? (7 comments) / history
2003-09-29 / #73 Back from Europe (6 comments) / non-computer
2003-09-29 / #74 Why you can’t rotate text (20 comments) / history
2003-09-29 / #75 In case people got the wrong impression (16 comments) / non-computer
2003-09-30 / #76 Why is the readonly property for folders so strange? (10 comments) / history
2003-10-01 / #77 Why do I get spurious WM_MOUSEMOVE messages? (8 comments) / code
2003-10-01 / #78 Jag taler lita svenska. (13 comments) / non-computer
2003-10-01 / #79 Jag skrivar svenska inte so bra. (6 comments) / non-computer
2003-10-02 / #80 Why does my Advanced Options dialog say ON and OFF after every option? (10 comments) / tipssupport
2003-10-02 / #81 What do the text label colors mean for files? (23 comments) / tipssupport
2003-10-03 / #82 Why can’t I use &-accelerators on the Start menu? (19 comments) / history
2003-10-06 / #83 Why does the System Properties page round the memory size? (3 comments) / history
2003-10-06 / #84 Researchers discover link between music and drinking (1 comment) / non-computer
2003-10-07 / #85 Stupid memory-mapping tricks (9 comments) / code
2003-10-07 / #86 Low-tech usability testing (1 comment) / history
2003-10-08 / #87 I’m doing this instead of writing a book (24 comments) / non-computer
2003-10-08 / #88 In Explorer, you can right-click the icon in the caption (15 comments) / tipssupport
2003-10-08 / #89 Why is address space allocation granularity 64K? (8 comments) / history
2003-10-09 / #90 Other uses for bitmap brushes (13 comments) / code
2003-10-10 / #91 Why doesn’t the clock in the taskbar display seconds? (27 comments) / history
2003-10-13 / #92 Why is there no WM_MOUSEENTER message? (6 comments) / code
2003-10-14 / #93 Answer to previous exercise (0 comments) / code
2003-10-14 / #94 Why don’t notification icons get a message when the user clicks the “X” button? (9 comments) / history
2003-10-15 / #95 What about BOZOSLIVEHERE and TABTHETEXTOUTFORWIMPS? (58 comments) / history
2003-10-15 / #96 Murphy’s law for school (2 comments) / non-computer
2003-10-16 / #97 The much-misunderstood “nop” action (6 comments) / non-computer
2003-10-16 / #98 Scrollbars redux: Part 12 (0 comments) / code
2003-10-17 / #99 Don’t let Marketing mess with your slides (5 comments) / history
2003-10-18 / #100 Curling anyone? (9 comments) / non-computer
2003-10-20 / #101 The more I learn about Sweden, the weirder it gets (10 comments) / non-computer
2003-10-20 / #102 What is the Alt+Tab order? (23 comments) / history
2003-10-21 / #103 Using the TAB key to navigate in non-dialogs (4 comments) / code
2003-10-22 / #104 What’s the deal with those reserved filenames like NUL and CON? (22 comments) / history
2003-10-23 / #105 Writing a sort comparison function (8 comments) / code
2003-10-24 / #106 Why Daylight Savings Time is nonintuitive (32 comments) / history;time
2003-10-25 / #107 Kinder Überraschungen (14 comments) / non-computer
2003-10-26 / #108 Being the Nobel Peace Prize (12 comments) / non-computer
2003-10-27 / #109 Getting a custom right-click menu for the caption icon (2 comments) / code
2003-10-28 / #110 When vendors insult themselves (14 comments) / history
2003-10-29 / #111 Drawing an active-looking caption even when not active (20 comments) / code
2003-10-30 / #112 I thought you said people don’t know how to read analog clocks (19 comments) / history
2003-10-31 / #113 Why highlighting by inverting colors is a bad idea (14 comments) / code
2003-11-03 / #114 The long and sad story of the Shell Folders key (43 comments) / code;history
2003-11-04 / #115 Just follow the rules and nobody gets hurt (16 comments) / code
2003-11-05 / #116 An anecdote about improper capitalization (8 comments) / other
2003-11-06 / #117 Why are companies so worried about retraining costs? (27 comments) / other
2003-11-06 / #118 Little facts you didn’t know about concrete (7 comments) / news-flash;non-computer
2003-11-07 / #119 Returning values from a dialog procedure (15 comments) / code
2003-11-10 / #120 How much do you expect from a framework layer? (10 comments) / other
2003-11-10 / #121 A warning to people averse to code (0 comments) / other
2003-11-10 / #122 Homework assignment about window subclassing (6 comments) / code
2003-11-11 / #123 Safer subclassing (5 comments) / code
2003-11-11 / #124 Welcome Martyn Lovell (0 comments) / other
2003-11-12 / #125 A different type of dialog procedure (2 comments) / code
2003-11-13 / #126 Answer to previous exercise about m_fRecursing (0 comments) / code
2003-11-13 / #127 Another different type of dialog procedure (4 comments) / code
2003-11-13 / #128 British newspapers are much more fun to read (14 comments) / non-computer
2003-11-14 / #129 Preventing edit control text from being autoselected in a dialog box (2 comments) / code
2003-11-17 / #130 Stay healthy: Drink Guinness (4 comments) / non-computer
2003-11-17 / #131 More stories of bad hardware (6 comments) / history
2003-11-17 / #132 Another favorite from the Grauniad (18 comments) / non-computer
2003-11-18 / #133 Make sure the buttons match the question (34 comments) / code
2003-11-19 / #134 Notepad’s geek options require Word Wrap be disabled (13 comments) / tipssupport
2003-11-19 / #135 How can I tell if I have the 64-bit edition of Windows? (6 comments) / tipssupport
2003-11-20 / #136 What’s the deal with the System Volume Information folder? (53 comments) / tipssupport
2003-11-21 / #137 Why isn’t Fast User Switching enabled on domains? (30 comments) / history
2003-11-24 / #138 A shortcut to the Run dialog (6 comments) / code;tipssupport
2003-11-24 / #139 You can drag/drop to the command prompt (17 comments) / tipssupport
2003-11-25 / #140 What do the letters W and L stand for in WPARAM and LPARAM? (22 comments) / history
2003-11-26 / #141 Other tricks with WM_GETDLGCODE (8 comments) / code
2003-11-27 / #142 It’s like the Swedes don’t want you to learn their language (15 comments) / non-computer
2003-11-28 / #143 Hello Sweden, you’re on fire (8 comments) / non-computer
2003-12-01 / #144 What are these strange values returned from GWLP_WNDPROC? (10 comments) / history
2003-12-01 / #145 What did the letters “NT” originally stand for? (4 comments) / history
2003-12-02 / #146 Which message numbers belong to whom? (18 comments) / code
2003-12-02 / #147 The New Old New Thing (10 comments) / other
2003-12-03 / #148 Which window style bits belong to whom? (6 comments) / code
2003-12-04 / #149 Which access rights bits belong to whom? (2 comments) / code
2003-12-05 / #150 Why do I have to return this goofy value for WM_DEVICECHANGE? (12 comments) / history
2003-12-07 / #151 At least she represents the United States faithfully (5 comments) / non-computer
2003-12-08 / #152 What’s with the catcow and dogoldfish? (26 comments) / tipssupport
2003-12-08 / #153 If FlushInstructionCache doesn’t do anything, why do you have to call it? (7 comments) / history
2003-12-09 / #154 Why you should never suspend a thread (8 comments) / code
2003-12-09 / #155 Scoble’s rant on UI defaults (33 comments) / history
2003-12-10 / #156 What is the command line length limit? (16 comments) / code
2003-12-11 / #157 How do I pass a lot of data to a process when it starts up? (18 comments) / code
2003-12-11 / #158 Voyage to Our Hollow Earth (4 comments) / non-computer
2003-12-12 / #159 Why are structure sizes checked strictly? (40 comments) / history
2003-12-12 / #160 Tote Hose in Weilburg (32 comments) / non-computer
2003-12-15 / #161 Welcome to the New Old New Thing (4 comments) / code;other
2003-12-15 / #162 The migration continues (4 comments) / other
2003-12-16 / #163 The unsafe device removal dialog (27 comments) / history
2003-12-17 / #164 Tinkering with the look (6 comments) / non-computer
2003-12-17 / #165 When marketing designs a screenshot (17 comments) / other
2003-12-18 / #166 What is the window nesting limit? (10 comments) / code
2003-12-18 / #167 How to void your warranty (21 comments) / code
2003-12-18 / #168 Rip-it (9 comments) / non-computer
2003-12-19 / #169 Sometimes, an app just wants to crash (14 comments) / history
2003-12-21 / #170 German sounds more and more like “Alles Lookenpeepers” every day (3 comments) / non-computer
2003-12-22 / #171 How do I determine whether I own a critical section if I am not supposed to look at internal fields? (16 comments) / code
2003-12-22 / #172 One in five Swedes steal their Christmas tree (5 comments) / non-computer
2003-12-22 / #173 The cult of PowerPoint (3 comments) / other
2003-12-23 / #174 When programs grovel into undocumented structures… (58 comments) / history
2003-12-24 / #175 Why not just block the apps that rely on undocumented behavior? (47 comments) / history
2003-12-25 / #176 What order do programs in the startup group execute? (22 comments) / tipssupport
2003-12-26 / #177 You can read a contract from the other side (8 comments) / code
2003-12-26 / #178 Famous people doing mundane things = news! (7 comments) / news-flash;non-computer
2003-12-27 / #179 How to hide privacy violations in a privacy disclosure statement (6 comments) / non-computer;reading-the-fine-print
2003-12-28 / #180 Danish so-called “pronunciation” (10 comments) / non-computer
2003-12-28 / #181 Another privacy policy that isn’t very private (6 comments) / non-computer
2003-12-29 / #182 What’s with those blank taskbar buttons that go away when I click on them? (41 comments) / tipssupport
2003-12-29 / #183 “Beam me up” is not yet recognized (2 comments) / other
2003-12-30 / #184 At least the Danes know how to count (17 comments) / non-computer
2003-12-30 / #185 What’s the difference between CreateMenu and CreatePopupMenu? (16 comments) / code
2003-12-30 / #186 People with almanacs may be terrorists, FBI warns (6 comments) / non-computer
2003-12-31 / #187 How to stop delivery of telephone books (29 comments) / non-computer
2003-12-31 / #188 College football commercialized? What ever gave you that idea? (1 comment) / non-computer

2004

Date Title
2004-01-01 / #0 Don’t trust the return address (17 comments) / code
2004-01-02 / #1 The history of calling conventions, part 1 (27 comments) / history
2004-01-05 / #2 Why does the x86 have so few registers? (23 comments) / history
2004-01-06 / #3 Why does the copy dialog give such horrible estimates? (34 comments) / other
2004-01-07 / #4 Words I’d like to ban in 2004 (39 comments) / microspeak;other
2004-01-07 / #5 The history of calling conventions, part 2 (15 comments) / history
2004-01-08 / #6 Budget cuts strike Swedish radio (4 comments) / other
2004-01-08 / #7 The history of calling conventions, part 3 (35 comments) / history
2004-01-08 / #8 It’s called “proofreading”, give it a shot why don’t you (28 comments) / other
2004-01-09 / #9 Ten-year-old + Microsoft Flight Simulator = terrorist (11 comments) / non-computer
2004-01-09 / #10 Why do member functions need to be “static” to be used as a callback? (17 comments) / history
2004-01-11 / #11 Is there an exclusionary rule in Sweden? (18 comments) / non-computer
2004-01-11 / #12 What’s old is new again… well it’s still old (3 comments) / other
2004-01-12 / #13 Why can’t I GetProcAddress a function I dllexport’ed? (17 comments) / code
2004-01-12 / #14 “Friends” is so trendsetting (9 comments) / non-computer
2004-01-13 / #15 The history of calling conventions, part 4: ia64 (35 comments) / history
2004-01-13 / #16 If you know Swedish, the world is funnier (31 comments) / non-computer
2004-01-14 / #17 The history of calling conventions, part 5: amd64 (32 comments) / history
2004-01-15 / #18 What can go wrong when you mismatch the calling convention? (75 comments) / code
2004-01-15 / #19 Google just keeps adding stuff (3 comments) / non-computer
2004-01-16 / #20 Aw, poor guy, he’s so depressed (2 comments) / non-computer
2004-01-16 / #21 How can a program survive a corrupted stack? (10 comments) / code
2004-01-19 / #22 Uninitialized garbage on ia64 can be deadly (23 comments) / code
2004-01-20 / #23 ia64 – misdeclaring near and far data (22 comments) / code
2004-01-21 / #24 Fixing security holes in other programs (36 comments) / other
2004-01-21 / #25 What tools should I assume everybody has? (24 comments) / other
2004-01-22 / #26 Cell phones: Can’t live with ’em, can’t live without ’em, but maybe can ban ’em (2 comments) / non-computer
2004-01-22 / #27 What happened to DirectX 4? (19 comments) / history
2004-01-23 / #28 German, the language of love? (35 comments) / non-computer
2004-01-23 / #29 The white flash (12 comments) / history
2004-01-24 / #30 In defense of the German language (24 comments) / non-computer
2004-01-25 / #31 German as RPN (23 comments) / non-computer
2004-01-26 / #32 David Hasselhoff’s daughters normal in every way (10 comments) / non-computer
2004-01-26 / #33 The hollow brush (8 comments) / code
2004-01-26 / #34 Blog going on autopilot for a while (3 comments) / other
2004-01-27 / #35 Undermining your own proclamation (4 comments) / non-computer
2004-01-27 / #36 Some reasons not to do anything scary in your DllMain (24 comments) / code
2004-01-28 / #37 Passenger announcements in the airport (4 comments) / non-computer
2004-01-28 / #38 Another reason not to do anything scary in your DllMain: Inadvertent deadlock (17 comments) / code
2004-01-29 / #39 Ikea walk-through (29 comments) / non-computer
2004-01-29 / #40 Integer overflow in the new[] operator (21 comments) / code
2004-01-30 / #41 How do we decide what features make it into a product? (0 comments) / other
2004-01-30 / #42 The format of string resources (34 comments) / code
2004-01-31 / #43 “Section 419” scammers arrested in Netherlands; Danish flag flies proudly (9 comments) / non-computer
2004-02-02 / #44 What goes wrong when you add “Copy To” to the context menu (17 comments) / tipssupport
2004-02-02 / #45 The management of memory for resources in 16-bit Windows (13 comments) / history
2004-02-03 / #46 Mismatching scalar and vector new and delete (16 comments) / code
2004-02-04 / #47 Answers to exercises – mismatching new/delete (13 comments) / code
2004-02-04 / #48 The Glass Engine and Ishkur’s Guide to Electronic Music (4 comments) / non-computer
2004-02-05 / #49 The layout of a COM object (39 comments) / history
2004-02-06 / #50 Adjustor thunks (15 comments) / history
2004-02-09 / #51 Pointers to member functions are very strange animals (19 comments) / code
2004-02-09 / #52 I think this counts as having come full circle (4 comments) / non-computer
2004-02-10 / #53 Answer to exercise: Pointer to member function cast (3 comments) / code
2004-02-10 / #54 Orkut’s privacy policy and terms of service (23 comments) / non-computer
2004-02-11 / #55 Sure, we do that (50 comments) / history
2004-02-11 / #56 Dunkin Donuts vs. Krispy Kreme (70 comments) / non-computer
2004-02-12 / #57 TEXT vs. _TEXT vs. _T, and UNICODE vs. _UNICODE (40 comments) / code
2004-02-12 / #58 Improbable Research comes to Seattle (1 comment) / non-computer
2004-02-13 / #59 Stories of going through airport security (13 comments) / non-computer
2004-02-13 / #60 Bad version number checks (33 comments) / history
2004-02-14 / #61 The Seattle Improbable Show (2004) (0 comments) / non-computer
2004-02-16 / #62 So what’s to do in Sweden? (104 comments) / non-computer
2004-02-16 / #63 The arms race between programs and users (69 comments) / history
2004-02-17 / #64 GetDialogBaseUnits is a crock (27 comments) / code
2004-02-17 / #65 The social skills of a thermonuclear device (48 comments) / non-computer;the-social-skills-of-a-thermonuclear-device
2004-02-18 / #66 Why are RECTs endpoint-exclusive? (38 comments) / history
2004-02-19 / #67 No code is an island (13 comments) / history
2004-02-19 / #68 Sorry the posts are late lately (11 comments) / non-computer
2004-02-20 / #69 Why do I get a QueryInterface(IID_IMarshal) and then nothing? (8 comments) / code
2004-02-21 / #70 Raymond’s comment policy (8 comments) / non-computer
2004-02-22 / #71 And we will build a processor with… ONE MILLION TRANSISTORS! (14 comments) / other
2004-02-23 / #72 Invalid thread and process IDs (21 comments) / code
2004-02-24 / #73 What’s so special about the desktop window? (26 comments) / code
2004-02-25 / #74 Why can’t I put hotlinks in notification icon balloon tips? (34 comments) / history
2004-02-26 / #75 Why do timestamps change when I copy files to a floppy? (17 comments) / history;time
2004-02-27 / #76 The correct order for disabling and enabling windows (42 comments) / code
2004-03-01 / #77 Why 16-bit DOS and Windows are still with us (65 comments) / history
2004-03-02 / #78 Why are HANDLE return values so inconsistent? (21 comments) / history
2004-03-02 / #79 Went to a Seattle Thunderbirds game this weekend (10 comments) / non-computer;the-wisdom-of-seventh-graders
2004-03-03 / #80 Calling the irony patrol (12 comments) / other
2004-03-03 / #81 Blow the dust out of the connector (42 comments) / tipssupport
2004-03-04 / #82 Sorry, my kitchen is on fire (21 comments) / non-computer
2004-03-04 / #83 Where do those customized web site icons come from? (63 comments) / tipssupport
2004-03-05 / #84 Defrauding the WHQL driver certification process (81 comments) / history
2004-03-05 / #85 Money can burn a hole in your pocket (17 comments) / non-computer
2004-03-08 / #86 Can you pass “Coaching Principles and Strategies of Basketball”? (15 comments) / non-computer
2004-03-08 / #87 C++ scoped static initialization is not thread-safe, on purpose! (49 comments) / code
2004-03-09 / #88 Char.IsDigit() matches more than just “0” through “9” (38 comments) / code
2004-03-09 / #89 Returning to Sweden, this time with some actual knowledge of Swedish (4 comments) / non-computer
2004-03-10 / #90 The Department of Homeland Security, the television series? (8 comments) / non-computer
2004-03-10 / #91 Why do operations on “byte” result in “int”? (38 comments) / history
2004-03-11 / #92 Why are dialog boxes initially created hidden? (17 comments) / history
2004-03-11 / #93 Tony Harding laces up again (15 comments) / non-computer
2004-03-12 / #94 What happens to those “To Any Soldier” care packages (5 comments) / non-computer
2004-03-12 / #95 What is the default security descriptor? (19 comments) / code
2004-03-15 / #96 How do I convert a SID between binary and string forms? (9 comments) / other
2004-03-15 / #97 Senators are really good at stock-picking (6 comments) / non-computer
2004-03-16 / #98 Why do text files end in Ctrl+Z? (34 comments) / history
2004-03-16 / #99 Still more creative uses for CAPTCHA (25 comments) / other
2004-03-17 / #100 Ännu skriver jag inte bra (11 comments) / non-computer
2004-03-17 / #101 More on the AMD64 calling convention (2 comments) / history
2004-03-17 / #102 On a server, paging = death (40 comments) / history
2004-03-18 / #103 Why is the line terminator CR+LF? (40 comments) / history
2004-03-18 / #104 The car with no user-serviceable parts inside (68 comments) / non-computer
2004-03-19 / #105 Catholic baseball fans want to eat meat on opening day (14 comments) / non-computer
2004-03-19 / #106 Why does the Resource Compiler complain about strings longer than 255 characters? (12 comments) / history
2004-03-20 / #107 The only logical conclusion is that he was cloned (6 comments) / non-computer
2004-03-22 / #108 A privacy policy that doesn’t actively offend me (8 comments) / non-computer
2004-03-22 / #109 Why an object cannot be its own enumerator (3 comments) / code
2004-03-23 / #110 @-notation was never legal in HTTP URLs anyway (21 comments) / other
2004-03-23 / #111 the qUirKY jaPan HomEPage (2 comments) / non-computer
2004-03-24 / #112 Some files come up strange in Notepad (29 comments) / history
2004-03-24 / #113 Out of the deep fryer (13 comments) / non-computer
2004-03-25 / #114 The SAS in-flight safety video (13 comments) / other
2004-03-25 / #115 Regular expressions and the dreaded *? operator (10 comments) / code
2004-03-25 / #116 URLs too small? Here comes hugeurl.com (7 comments) / other
2004-03-25 / #117 Swedish spicy food (3 comments) / non-computer
2004-03-26 / #118 The ways people mess up IUnknown::QueryInterface (33 comments) / history
2004-03-26 / #119 Yahoo’s privacy policy regarding web bugs (10 comments) / other
2004-03-27 / #120 What U.S. college students miss from home (11 comments) / other
2004-03-28 / #121 You know you’ve been in Sweden too long when… (14 comments) / other
2004-03-29 / #122 The army is cool, except for the part where you have to fight (26 comments) / other
2004-03-29 / #123 Why Ctrl+Alt shouldn’t be used as a shortcut modifier (22 comments) / history
2004-03-29 / #124 It’s embarrassing how little Swedish you need to know (27 comments) / other
2004-03-30 / #125 Where did my Task Manager tabs and buttons go? (33 comments) / tipssupport
2004-03-30 / #126 “Special skills” draft on the drawing board (5 comments) / other
2004-03-31 / #127 When temperance backfires (9 comments) / other
2004-03-31 / #128 The look of Luna (76 comments) / history
2004-04-01 / #129 The martial arts logon picture (20 comments) / history
2004-04-02 / #130 Why a really large dictionary is not a good thing (42 comments) / history
2004-04-05 / #131 How can I format my USB drive as NTFS? (26 comments) / tipssupport
2004-04-06 / #132 Reference counting is hard. (48 comments) / code
2004-04-07 / #133 A very brief anecdote about Windows 3.0 (14 comments) / history
2004-04-08 / #134 Where does the taskbar get grouped button titles from? (52 comments) / code
2004-04-09 / #135 A story about USB floppy drives (9 comments) / history
2004-04-09 / #136 Comparing the Norwegian, Swedish, and Danish languages. (14 comments) / other
2004-04-12 / #137 Extraterrestrial income (2 comments) / non-computer
2004-04-12 / #138 The random number seed can be the weakest link (19 comments) / code
2004-04-13 / #139 Unicode collation is hard (8 comments) / code
2004-04-13 / #140 First thing we do is kill all the jerks (38 comments) / non-computer
2004-04-14 / #141 Playing on an entirely different level (11 comments) / non-computer
2004-04-14 / #142 Not all short filenames contain a tilde (50 comments) / code
2004-04-15 / #143 Astonishingly, rules apply to everyone. (48 comments) / non-computer
2004-04-15 / #144 Why can’t I install Windows on my USB drive? (35 comments) / other
2004-04-16 / #145 Sorry, no free ice cream in Tennessee; it’s illegal (6 comments) / non-computer
2004-04-16 / #146 Mapping all those “strange” digits to “0” through “9” (14 comments) / code
2004-04-19 / #147 A $2 billion bridge to one person (27 comments) / non-computer
2004-04-19 / #148 WM_KILLFOCUS is the wrong time to do field validation (31 comments) / code
2004-04-20 / #149 Why can’t the system hibernate just one process? (48 comments) / history
2004-04-20 / #150 Beethoven as ambient music (7 comments) / non-computer
2004-04-21 / #151 Why the compiler can’t autoconvert foreach to for (11 comments) / code
2004-04-21 / #152 Good-Bye, Lenin! (30 comments) / non-computer
2004-04-22 / #153 NFL cracks down on grandstanding (11 comments) / non-computer
2004-04-22 / #154 Cleaner, more elegant, and wrong (84 comments) / code
2004-04-23 / #155 How to retrieve text under the cursor (mouse pointer) (23 comments) / code
2004-04-23 / #156 News flash: People are fooled by the Onion (7 comments) / news-flash;non-computer
2004-04-26 / #157 In order to demonstrate our superior intellect, we will now ask you a question you cannot answer. (54 comments) / other
2004-04-26 / #158 Musings on formal and informal address (22 comments) / non-computer
2004-04-27 / #159 Why doesn’t C# have “const”? (45 comments) / history
2004-04-27 / #160 Nobody said it was a democracy (10 comments) / non-computer
2004-04-28 / #161 What, going to Sweden *again*? (10 comments) / non-computer
2004-04-28 / #162 What is __purecall? (39 comments) / code
2004-04-29 / #163 Using the echo command to remember what you were doing. (43 comments) / tipssupport
2004-04-29 / #164 $501 for 510g of peanut butter (8 comments) / non-computer
2004-04-30 / #165 Where does the taskbar get grouped button icons from? (20 comments) / other
2004-04-30 / #166 Extreme croquet (7 comments) / non-computer
2004-05-01 / #167 You wanted Extreme Crochet? (3 comments) / non-computer
2004-05-03 / #168 Today is Swedish tax day (16 comments) / non-computer
2004-05-03 / #169 Why does my hard drive light flash every few second? (22 comments) / code
2004-05-04 / #170 Truckers block highway to protest high gas prices (21 comments) / non-computer
2004-05-04 / #171 Is open source the new monoculture? (63 comments) / other
2004-05-05 / #172 Dead man running (7 comments) / non-computer
2004-05-05 / #173 Broadcasting user-defined messages (5 comments) / history
2004-05-06 / #174 Why did InterlockedIncrement/Decrement only return the sign of the result? (16 comments) / history
2004-05-06 / #175 Chris Pratley’s history lesson (9 comments) / history
2004-05-06 / #176 Scripting is a two-edged sword (15 comments) / other
2004-05-07 / #177 When should your destructor be virtual? (20 comments) / code
2004-05-07 / #178 Batman and Robin patrolling Whitley (2 comments) / non-computer
2004-05-07 / #179 Image File Execution Options (5 comments) / other
2004-05-10 / #180 There are two types of scrollbars (26 comments) / code
2004-05-10 / #181 A guide to British pub etiquette (25 comments) / non-computer
2004-05-11 / #182 Links about COM threading models (2 comments) / code
2004-05-11 / #183 How do the FILE_SHARE_* bits interact with the desired access bits? (19 comments) / code
2004-05-12 / #184 Varför läser jag svenska? (16 comments) / non-computer
2004-05-12 / #185 Is your web site an open relay? (20 comments) / other
2004-05-13 / #186 Thinking through a feature (75 comments) / other
2004-05-13 / #187 Norway: Pros and cons (13 comments) / non-computer
2004-05-14 / #188 When do you disable an option and when do you remove it? (18 comments) / other
2004-05-14 / #189 Who’ll be where for whom? (1 comment) / non-computer
2004-05-14 / #190 How did those FILE_SHARE_* values come to be? (0 comments) / history
2004-05-17 / #191 Plane-spotters to require government license (3 comments) / non-computer
2004-05-17 / #192 When do you put … after a button or menu? (34 comments) / other
2004-05-18 / #193 String sorting is not done by ASCII code any more. (31 comments) / code
2004-05-18 / #194 The coolest thing you can do with a Gameboy is not “play a game on it” (5 comments) / non-computer
2004-05-19 / #195 Beware the hash reset attack (18 comments) / other
2004-05-19 / #196 Letterboxing: Geocaching without the GPS (4 comments) / non-computer
2004-05-20 / #197 Coffee machine or assault weapon? (12 comments) / non-computer
2004-05-20 / #198 Do you know when your destructors run? Part 1. (11 comments) / code
2004-05-21 / #199 You can do anything at zombo.com, anything at all (15 comments) / non-computer
2004-05-21 / #200 Do you know when your destructors run? Part 2. (33 comments) / code
2004-05-24 / #201 Callback, the safety newsletter for the aviation community (9 comments) / non-computer
2004-05-24 / #202 Extending the Internet Explorer context menu (46 comments) / code
2004-05-25 / #203 The F*deral Bur*au of Inv*stigations (12 comments) / non-computer
2004-05-25 / #204 When you change the insides, nobody notices (74 comments) / history
2004-05-26 / #205 Art too bad to be ignored (1 comment) / non-computer
2004-05-26 / #206 How does the desktop choose the icon label color? (16 comments) / tipssupport
2004-05-27 / #207 Meet Anton Chekhov (7 comments) / non-computer
2004-05-27 / #208 What is the difference between Minimize All and Show Desktop? (40 comments) / tipssupport
2004-05-28 / #209 How do you undo Minimize All and Show Desktop? (18 comments) / tipssupport
2004-05-28 / #210 High-performance multithreading is very hard (11 comments) / code
2004-05-28 / #211 Kipping (10 comments) / non-computer
2004-05-31 / #212 Chewing gum legalized in Singapore (16 comments) / non-computer
2004-05-31 / #213 Why is the default 8-bit codepage called “ANSI”? (14 comments) / history
2004-06-01 / #214 What does SHGFI_USEFILEATTRIBUTES mean? (12 comments) / code
2004-06-01 / #215 French schoolchildren invited to draw their impressions of the United States (56 comments) / non-computer
2004-06-02 / #216 The dreaded “main” threading model (7 comments) / history
2004-06-02 / #217 Letter carriers rebel (19 comments) / non-computer
2004-06-03 / #218 Need to add 1.5kg and 350g? (36 comments) / non-computer
2004-06-03 / #219 My first death threat (32 comments) / history
2004-06-04 / #220 An easy way to determine whether you have a particular file permission (21 comments) / code
2004-06-04 / #221 Do not underestimate the power of the game Deer Hunter (35 comments) / history
2004-06-07 / #222 Deleted but not yet forgotten (18 comments) / code
2004-06-07 / #223 The suburbs make you fat, more researchers conclude (12 comments) / non-computer
2004-06-08 / #224 When can a thread receive window messages? (16 comments) / code
2004-06-08 / #225 Let there be a grand clubhouse feast! (3 comments) / non-computer
2004-06-09 / #226 Calculate the speed of light by microwaving marshmallows (4 comments) / non-computer
2004-06-09 / #227 What are these directories called 0409 and 1033? (34 comments) / other
2004-06-10 / #228 Speeding up adding items to a combobox or listbox (33 comments) / code
2004-06-10 / #229 Did you know that Baltimore has a Rumor Control Center? (11 comments) / non-computer
2004-06-11 / #230 A hidden performance cost of regional windows (22 comments) / code
2004-06-11 / #231 Taiwan law requires writing to go left-to-right instead of top-to-bottom (29 comments) / non-computer
2004-06-14 / #232 What is the difference between HINSTANCE and HMODULE? (15 comments) / history
2004-06-14 / #233 Norway works to lengthen its lead (25 comments) / non-computer
2004-06-15 / #234 What was the purpose of the hPrevInstance parameter to WinMain? (28 comments) / history
2004-06-15 / #235 Augusto Pinochet’s beverage preferences are a matter of national security (26 comments) / non-computer
2004-06-16 / #236 Verifying that your system files are digitally signed (13 comments) / tipssupport
2004-06-16 / #237 Anybody remember Blade Squad or MV24? (12 comments) / non-computer
2004-06-17 / #238 The evolution of dialog templates – Introduction (10 comments) / history
2004-06-17 / #239 Exploding frying pans (8 comments) / non-computer
2004-06-18 / #240 Tweaked comment policy (0 comments) / other
2004-06-18 / #241 The evolution of dialog templates – 16-bit Classic Templates (14 comments) / history
2004-06-18 / #242 Too late, Mr. Jenkins. You were an F7 back at question 2 (9 comments) / non-computer
2004-06-21 / #243 Drug dealers have to pay taxes too. (19 comments) / non-computer
2004-06-21 / #244 The evolution of dialog templates – 32-bit Classic Templates (21 comments) / history
2004-06-22 / #245 The evolution of dialog templates – 16-bit Extended Templates (4 comments) / history
2004-06-22 / #246 When cafeteria pricing meets mathematics (38 comments) / non-computer
2004-06-23 / #247 The only way you’re going to wake up next to Claudia Schiffer (3 comments) / non-computer
2004-06-23 / #248 The evolution of dialog templates – 32-bit Extended Templates (10 comments) / history
2004-06-24 / #249 The evolution of dialog templates – Summary (4 comments) / history
2004-06-24 / #250 At least it’s easier than learning Finnish (38 comments) / non-computer
2004-06-25 / #251 Monitor giving you a headache? Check the refresh rate. (46 comments) / tipssupport
2004-06-25 / #252 Hong Kong crocodile caught at last. (6 comments) / non-computer
2004-06-25 / #253 Suggestion box (142 comments) / pages
2004-06-25 / #254 The suggestion box is now open (0 comments) / other
2004-06-28 / #255 When does SHLoadInProc unload a DLL? (13 comments) / code
2004-06-28 / #256 Ringside seats at Fruit Fly Fight Club (7 comments) / non-computer
2004-06-29 / #257 The difference between thread-safety and re-entrancy (19 comments) / code
2004-06-29 / #258 You can already see the bug report that led to this dialog box (24 comments) / other
2004-06-30 / #259 Fees disguised as taxes (16 comments) / non-computer
2004-06-30 / #260 Why does the Links folder keep re-creating itself? (49 comments) / history
2004-07-01 / #261 What’s this fascination with Germanic languages? (28 comments) / non-computer
2004-07-01 / #262 Why can’t I use the same tree item multiple times? (17 comments) / history
2004-07-02 / #263 Being in upper management must damage certain portions of your brain (18 comments) / other
2004-07-02 / #264 Don’t name your DLL “Security.dll” (32 comments) / history
2004-07-05 / #265 What’s the difference between SHGetMalloc, SHAlloc, CoGetMalloc, and CoTaskMemAlloc (16 comments) / history
2004-07-05 / #266 Another chance to see Elvis take on a mummy (10 comments) / non-computer
2004-07-06 / #267 Diagnosing a problem with calling conventions (3 comments) / code
2004-07-06 / #268 Differences between managers and programmers (50 comments) / other
2004-07-07 / #269 Obtaining a window’s size and position while it is minimized (14 comments) / code
2004-07-07 / #270 Differences between managers and programmers, part 2 (29 comments) / other
2004-07-08 / #271 Lighting organic material and sucking it into your lungs (29 comments) / non-computer
2004-07-08 / #272 Why does icon text get a solid background if drop shadows are disabled? (49 comments) / other
2004-07-09 / #273 How does Add/Remove Programs get the size and other information? (120 comments) / other
2004-07-12 / #274 Welcoming a new era in Swiss army knives (18 comments) / non-computer
2004-07-12 / #275 Positioned vs. non-positioned listview views (7 comments) / code
2004-07-13 / #276 Watch out for those sample URLs (29 comments) / history
2004-07-13 / #277 There are two things you can do if you have a mad crush on a boy (3 comments) / non-computer
2004-07-14 / #278 How do you detect “Large Fonts”? (58 comments) / code
2004-07-15 / #279 Why “Under Construction” should be made illegal on the web (29 comments) / other
2004-07-15 / #280 Don’t forget to #define UNICODE if you want Unicode (9 comments) / code
2004-07-16 / #281 How to display a string without those ugly boxes (17 comments) / code
2004-07-19 / #282 Wrapper templates to make writing callback functions slightly easier (18 comments) / code
2004-07-20 / #283 Querying information from an Explorer window (37 comments) / code
2004-07-21 / #284 Why was nine the maximum number of monitors in Windows 98? (44 comments) / history
2004-07-22 / #285 Why can’t you trap TerminateProcess? (25 comments) / other
2004-07-23 / #286 Why do some process stay in Task Manager after they’ve been killed? (35 comments) / code
2004-07-26 / #287 A twenty-foot-long computer (20 comments) / history
2004-07-26 / #288 Slightly closer to a proper football (i.e., soccer) match (25 comments) / non-computer
2004-07-27 / #289 Disabling the program crash dialog (48 comments) / code
2004-07-27 / #290 Norway, drunk on success, becomes a country of layabouts (11 comments) / non-computer
2004-07-28 / #291 The evolution of mascara in Windows UI (86 comments) / history
2004-07-29 / #292 When should you use a sunken client area? (23 comments) / code
2004-07-30 / #293 What is the DS_CONTROL style for? (16 comments) / code
2004-08-02 / #294 The company picnic, sponsored by Microsoft (11 comments) / non-computer
2004-08-02 / #295 How to set focus in a dialog box (22 comments) / code
2004-08-04 / #296 Never leave focus on a disabled control (16 comments) / code
2004-08-04 / #297 Why .shared sections are a security hole (30 comments) / code
2004-08-04 / #298 Spammers look stupid when they don’t read the blog they spam on (8 comments) / non-computer
2004-08-05 / #299 The oft-misunderstood /3GB switch (32 comments) / other
2004-08-06 / #300 Kernel address space consequences of the /3GB switch (22 comments) / other
2004-08-09 / #301 Myth: Without /3GB the total amount of memory that can be allocated across all programs is 2GB (10 comments) / other
2004-08-10 / #302 Myth: Without /3GB a single program can’t allocate more than 2GB of virtual memory (40 comments) / other
2004-08-11 / #303 Myth: You need /3GB if you have more than 2GB of physical memory (38 comments) / other
2004-08-12 / #304 Myth: The /3GB switch expands the user-mode address space of all programs (46 comments) / other
2004-08-13 / #305 Why does Exchange recommend /3GB if you have more than 1GB of physical memory? (17 comments) / other
2004-08-16 / #306 Myth: The /3GB switch lets me map one giant 3GB block of memory (20 comments) / other
2004-08-17 / #307 Why is the virtual address space 4GB anyway? (58 comments) / other
2004-08-18 / #308 Myth: PAE increases the virtual address space beyond 4GB (13 comments) / other
2004-08-18 / #309 Why all these articles about PAE and /3GB? (22 comments) / other
2004-08-19 / #310 Myth: In order to use AWE, you must enable PAE (15 comments) / other
2004-08-20 / #311 Writing your own menu-like window (32 comments) / code
2004-08-20 / #312 The curious interaction between PAE and NX (5 comments) / other
2004-08-22 / #313 Summary of the recent spate of /3GB articles (36 comments) / other
2004-08-23 / #314 The kooky STRRET structure (10 comments) / history
2004-08-23 / #315 Finished competing in your event? Let the games begin! (10 comments) / non-computer
2004-08-24 / #316 Beware of non-null-terminated registry strings (25 comments) / code
2004-08-25 / #317 Why can’t you treat a FILETIME as an __int64? (27 comments) / code;time
2004-08-26 / #318 Why do some structures end with an array of size 1? (41 comments) / code
2004-08-27 / #319 Importance of alignment even on x86 machines (17 comments) / history
2004-08-30 / #320 Importance of alignment even on x86 machines, part 2 (7 comments) / history
2004-08-30 / #321 The sociology of the mobile phone (9 comments) / non-computer
2004-08-31 / #322 Reading a contract from the other side: Application publishers (7 comments) / code
2004-09-01 / #323 How to find the Internet Explorer binary (45 comments) / code
2004-09-02 / #324 Why does Windows keep your BIOS clock on local time? (44 comments) / history
2004-09-03 / #325 Even in computing, simultaneity is relative (31 comments) / code
2004-09-06 / #326 The shift key overrides NumLock (22 comments) / other
2004-09-06 / #327 More dictionaries you didn’t realize you needed (5 comments) / non-computer
2004-09-07 / #328 What about Steve? (3 comments) / non-computer
2004-09-07 / #329 Converting a byte[] to a System.String (7 comments) / code
2004-09-08 / #330 Why is the page size on ia64 8K? (31 comments) / history
2004-09-09 / #331 Why isn’t the original window order always preserved when you undo a Show Desktop? (52 comments) / code
2004-09-10 / #332 Storsjöodjur hunting season will opening soon (3 comments) / non-computer
2004-09-10 / #333 Sometimes the bug isn’t apparent until late in the game (42 comments) / history
2004-09-13 / #334 How does Windows exploit hyperthreading? (42 comments) / other
2004-09-14 / #335 The x86 architecture is the weirdo (67 comments) / other
2004-09-15 / #336 Interlocked operations don’t solve everything (17 comments) / code
2004-09-16 / #337 A visual history of spam (and virus) email (156 comments) / other
2004-09-16 / #338 What happens when you specify RegexOptions.ECMAScript? (8 comments) / code
2004-09-17 / #339 Why does my mouse/touchpad sometimes go berzerk? (67 comments) / tipssupport
2004-09-20 / #340 How to host an IContextMenu, part 1 – Initial foray (20 comments) / code
2004-09-21 / #341 Pitfalls in handling the WM_CONTEXTMENU message (29 comments) / code
2004-09-21 / #342 Swedes struggle with the meaning of sick leave (7 comments) / non-computer
2004-09-22 / #343 How to host an IContextMenu, part 2 – Displaying the context menu (6 comments) / code
2004-09-22 / #344 How to contact Raymond (0 comments) / pages
2004-09-23 / #345 How to host an IContextMenu, part 3 – Invocation location (5 comments) / code
2004-09-23 / #346 Penguins do not fall over! (20 comments) / non-computer
2004-09-24 / #347 How to host an IContextMenu, part 4 – Key context (6 comments) / code
2004-09-24 / #348 The unrecognized assistants on those do-it-yourself shows (28 comments) / non-computer
2004-09-27 / #349 How to host an IContextMenu, part 5 – Handling menu messages (2 comments) / code
2004-09-28 / #350 How to host an IContextMenu, part 6 – Displaying menu help (14 comments) / code
2004-09-29 / #351 What does boldface on a menu mean? (5 comments) / tipssupport
2004-09-29 / #352 Still more goofy terms of service – restrictions on information disclosure (20 comments) / non-computer
2004-09-30 / #353 How to host an IContextMenu, part 7 – Invoking the default verb (3 comments) / code
2004-10-01 / #354 How to host an IContextMenu, part 8 – Optimizing for the default command (5 comments) / code
2004-10-04 / #355 How to host an IContextMenu, part 9 – Adding custom commands (5 comments) / code
2004-10-04 / #356 Those partisan non-partisan groups (31 comments) / non-computer
2004-10-05 / #357 The macros for declaring and implementing COM interfaces (16 comments) / history
2004-10-06 / #358 How to host an IContextMenu, part 10 – Composite extensions – groundwork (11 comments) / code
2004-10-07 / #359 How to host an IContextMenu, part 11 – Composite extensions – composition (6 comments) / code
2004-10-08 / #360 Cooking for engineers (22 comments) / non-computer
2004-10-08 / #361 Why is there a separate GetSystemDirectory function? (18 comments) / history
2004-10-11 / #362 What’s the atom returned by RegisterClass useful for? (8 comments) / history
2004-10-12 / #363 People lie on surveys and focus groups, often unwittingly (81 comments) / other
2004-10-13 / #364 Dispatching items collected from the suggestion box (62 comments) / other
2004-10-14 / #365 The procedure entry point SHCreateThreadRef could not be located… (86 comments) / tipssupport
2004-10-14 / #366 Little facts you didn’t know about volcanoes (9 comments) / news-flash;non-computer
2004-10-15 / #367 Logical consequences of the way Windows converts single-clicks into double-clicks (39 comments) / code
2004-10-18 / #368 Implementing higher-order clicks (35 comments) / code
2004-10-19 / #369 The compatibility constraints of even your internal bookkeeping (51 comments) / history
2004-10-20 / #370 How does Explorer detect whether your program supports long file names? (70 comments) / history
2004-10-21 / #371 Let WMI do the heavy lifting of determining system information (35 comments) / code
2004-10-22 / #372 Why doesn’t Setup asks you if you want to keep newer versions of OS files? (34 comments) / history
2004-10-25 / #373 Accessing the current module’s HINSTANCE from a static library (21 comments) / code
2004-10-25 / #374 If the Euro 2004 tournament were a video game (7 comments) / non-computer
2004-10-26 / #375 The strangest way of detecting Windows NT (20 comments) / other
2004-10-27 / #376 Sometimes you can’t read the text under the cursor (13 comments) / other
2004-10-28 / #377 Where did windows minimize to before the taskbar was invented? (39 comments) / history
2004-10-29 / #378 Why didn’t the desktop window shrink to exclude the taskbar? (36 comments) / history
2004-11-01 / #379 What was the difference between LocalAlloc and GlobalAlloc? (26 comments) / history
2004-11-02 / #380 What was the point of the GMEM_SHARE flag? (4 comments) / history
2004-11-02 / #381 And to think they let me get away with it for five years (23 comments) / non-computer
2004-11-03 / #382 Why do I sometimes see redundant casts before casting to LPARAM? (25 comments) / history
2004-11-04 / #383 A history of GlobalLock, part 1: The early years (33 comments) / history
2004-11-05 / #384 A history of GlobalLock, part 2: Selectors (15 comments) / history
2004-11-08 / #385 Ein hundert Dinge, die in den Vereinigten Staaten besser bleiben (22 comments) / non-computer
2004-11-08 / #386 A history of GlobalLock, part 3: Transitioning to Win32 (14 comments) / history
2004-11-09 / #387 A history of GlobalLock, part 4: A peek at the implementation (11 comments) / history
2004-11-10 / #388 Why does Windows not recognize my USB device as the same device if I plug it into a different port? (66 comments) / other
2004-11-11 / #389 Advantages of knowing your x86 machine code (74 comments) / code
2004-11-12 / #390 Will dragging a file result in a move or a copy? (80 comments) / tipssupport
2004-11-15 / #391 Asking questions where the answer is unreliable anyway (39 comments) / other
2004-11-16 / #392 What is this Xerox directory doing in Program Files? (47 comments) / tipssupport
2004-11-16 / #393 Exploiting the inattentive (32 comments) / exploiting-the-inattentive;non-computer
2004-11-17 / #394 How do I break an integer into its component bytes? (20 comments) / code
2004-11-17 / #395 Poking at diploma mills: Kennedy-Western University (41 comments) / non-computer
2004-11-18 / #396 If a program and a folder have the same name, the shell prefers the program (26 comments) / history
2004-11-18 / #397 Am I sorry or not? (14 comments) / class=
2004-11-19 / #398 The various ways of sending a message (51 comments) / code
2004-11-22 / #399 When people ask for security holes as features: World-writable files (39 comments) / history;when-people-ask-for-security-holes-as-features
2004-11-23 / #400 Why do folders like “My Pictures” come back after I delete them? (47 comments) / code
2004-11-24 / #401 Why can’t you drop directly onto a taskbar button? (73 comments) / other
2004-11-25 / #402 A sample of desktop icon text effects (66 comments) / other
2004-11-26 / #403 Simple things you can do with the ShellExecuteEx function (29 comments) / code
2004-11-29 / #404 Why doesn’t the RunAs program accept a password on the command line? (57 comments) / other
2004-11-30 / #405 What’s the difference between GetKeyState and GetAsyncKeyState? (14 comments) / code
2004-12-01 / #406 What is the purpose of the bmPlanes member of the BITMAP structure? (21 comments) / history
2004-12-02 / #407 Why did Windows 95 run the timer at 55ms? (32 comments) / history
2004-12-03 / #408 Why are documents printed out of order when you multiselect and choose “Print”? (26 comments) / other
2004-12-06 / #409 Dragging a shell object, part 1: Getting the IDataObject (20 comments) / code
2004-12-07 / #410 Dragging a shell object, part 2: Enabling the Move operation (24 comments) / code
2004-12-07 / #411 Researchers find connection between lack of sleep and weight gain (31 comments) / non-computer
2004-12-08 / #412 Dragging a shell object, part 3: Detecting an optimized move (4 comments) / code
2004-12-08 / #413 It is not illegal to use James Bond style tactics for winning at the roulette wheel (10 comments) / non-computer
2004-12-09 / #414 Time to dust off your conspiracy theories (15 comments) / non-computer
2004-12-09 / #415 Dragging a shell object, part 4: Adding a prettier drag icon (0 comments) / code
2004-12-10 / #416 For all your chicken sequencing needs (11 comments) / non-computer
2004-12-10 / #417 Dragging a shell object, part 5: Making somebody else do the heavy lifting (3 comments) / code
2004-12-13 / #418 Why do I get E_NOINTERFACE when creating an object that supports that interface? (5 comments) / code
2004-12-13 / #419 Tintin goes to the neurologist (38 comments) / non-computer
2004-12-14 / #420 Why do dialog editors start assigning control IDs with 100? (13 comments) / history
2004-12-14 / #421 Scientists come one step closer to the perfect poppy-seed bagel (10 comments) / non-computer
2004-12-15 / #422 This Game Boy won’t hurt a bit, just help the Powerpuff Girls count backwards from ten (6 comments) / non-computer
2004-12-15 / #423 The hunt for a faster syscall trap (14 comments) / history
2004-12-16 / #424 Optimization is often counter-intuitive (25 comments) / other
2004-12-16 / #425 How to get more hits on Google than even Steve Ballmer (36 comments) / other
2004-12-17 / #426 How did Windows 95 rebase DLLs? (23 comments) / history
2004-12-17 / #427 Excellent blog about Windows and Unicode (23 comments) / other
2004-12-20 / #428 Don’t save anything you can recalculate (15 comments) / history
2004-12-21 / #429 Sometimes people don’t like it when you enforce a standard (50 comments) / other
2004-12-22 / #430 BOOL vs. VARIANT_BOOL vs. BOOLEAN vs. bool (29 comments) / code
2004-12-23 / #431 Do you need clean up one-shot timers? (12 comments) / code
2004-12-24 / #432 Why does the system convert TEMP to a short file name? (22 comments) / code
2004-12-24 / #433 How to open those plastic packages of electronics without injuring yourself (57 comments) / non-computer
2004-12-27 / #434 Alton Brown book tour 2005: I’m Just Here for More Food (11 comments) / non-computer
2004-12-27 / #435 You can create an infinitely recursive directory tree (40 comments) / other
2004-12-28 / #436 Computing the size of a directory is more than just adding file sizes (30 comments) / other
2004-12-29 / #437 Using fibers to simplify enumerators, part 1: When life is easier for the enumerator (28 comments) / code
2004-12-30 / #438 Using fibers to simplify enumerators, part 2: When life is easier for the caller (16 comments) / code
2004-12-31 / #439 Using fibers to simplify enumerators, part 3: Having it both ways (28 comments) / code

2005

Date Title
2005-01-03 / #0 Using fibers to simplify enumerators, part 4: Filtering (1 comment) / code
2005-01-04 / #1 Using fibers to simplify enumerators, part 5: Composition (11 comments) / code
2005-01-05 / #2 You don’t need to run away from home to join the circus (6 comments) / non-computer
2005-01-05 / #3 PulseEvent is fundamentally flawed (44 comments) / code
2005-01-06 / #4 A rant against flow control macros (53 comments) / other
2005-01-07 / #5 How can code that tries to prevent a buffer overflow end up causing one? (65 comments) / code;history
2005-01-10 / #6 Taskbar notification balloon tips don’t penalize you for being away from the keyboard (70 comments) / code
2005-01-10 / #7 Seattle Snowstorm 2005 (insert swooshy sound effect) (50 comments) / non-computer
2005-01-11 / #8 Why doesn’t \ autocomplete to all the computers on the network? (63 comments) / history
2005-01-11 / #9 Marriage as a cross-branding opportunity (10 comments) / non-computer
2005-01-12 / #10 User interface design for vending machines (75 comments) / non-computer
2005-01-13 / #11 User interface design for interior door locks (75 comments) / non-computer
2005-01-13 / #12 User interface design for vending machines – answer to puzzle (38 comments) / non-computer
2005-01-14 / #13 Cleaner, more elegant, and harder to recognize (116 comments) / other
2005-01-17 / #14 How did MS-DOS report error codes? (62 comments) / history
2005-01-18 / #15 The importance of error code backwards compatibility (83 comments) / history
2005-01-19 / #16 CreateProcess does not wait for the process to start (16 comments) / code
2005-01-20 / #17 A 90-byte “whereis” program (41 comments) / tipssupport
2005-01-20 / #18 Hyperlinking to Hutchison Whampoa Limited forbidden (47 comments) / other
2005-01-21 / #19 Why are kernel HANDLEs always a multiple of four? (27 comments) / code
2005-01-24 / #20 Bringing cryptic command lines to Windows (46 comments) / other
2005-01-24 / #21 Alton Brown book appearance report (18 comments) / non-computer
2005-01-25 / #22 Why do files and directories with no time/date mess up sorting in Explorer? (24 comments) / tipssupport
2005-01-26 / #23 The strangest way of rounding down to the nearest quarter (38 comments) / other
2005-01-27 / #24 Control how much network bandwith Automatic Updates will use (50 comments) / tipssupport
2005-01-28 / #25 Capturing the current directory from a batch file (37 comments) / tipssupport
2005-01-31 / #26 Why did the Win64 team choose the LLP64 model? (110 comments) / history
2005-02-01 / #27 How to detect programmatically whether you are running on 64-bit Windows (46 comments) / code
2005-02-02 / #28 The history of the Windows PowerToys (81 comments) / history
2005-02-03 / #29 Why is breadth-first searching better for file system tree walking? (17 comments) / history
2005-02-04 / #30 What’s the deal with the DS_SHELLFONT flag? (34 comments) / code
2005-02-07 / #31 Why does DS_SHELLFONT = DS_FIXEDSYS | DS_SETFONT? (23 comments) / history
2005-02-08 / #32 What other effects does DS_SHELLFONT have on property sheet pages? (22 comments) / code;history
2005-02-09 / #33 The dangers of filtering window messages (21 comments) / code
2005-02-10 / #34 Why do minimized windows have an apparent size of 160×31? (31 comments) / history
2005-02-11 / #35 Windowless controls are not magic (61 comments) / other
2005-02-14 / #36 LoadLibraryEx(DONT_RESOLVE_DLL_REFERENCES) is fundamentally flawed (25 comments) / code
2005-02-14 / #37 How to act like you know Chinese even though you don’t (34 comments) / excursions-into-east-asian-pop-music;non-computer
2005-02-15 / #38 You cannot globally reserve user-mode address space (41 comments) / code
2005-02-16 / #39 Limitations of the shell animation control (15 comments) / code
2005-02-17 / #40 MsgWaitForMultipleObjects and the queue state (37 comments) / code
2005-02-18 / #41 Modality, part 1: UI-modality vs code-modality (26 comments) / code;modality
2005-02-21 / #42 Modality, part 2: Code-modality vs UI-modality (19 comments) / code;modality
2005-02-22 / #43 Modality, part 3: The WM_QUIT message (23 comments) / code;modality
2005-02-23 / #44 Modality, part 4: The importance of setting the correct owner for modal UI (19 comments) / code;modality
2005-02-24 / #45 Modality, part 5: Setting the correct owner for modal UI (10 comments) / code;modality
2005-02-25 / #46 Two brief reminiscences on the Windows XP “Comments?” button (35 comments) / history
2005-02-28 / #47 Modality, part 6: Interacting with a program that has gone modal (14 comments) / code;modality
2005-02-28 / #48 “Support our troops” wristbands provide only 1/3 support (43 comments) / non-computer
2005-03-01 / #49 Modality, part 7: A timed MessageBox, the cheap version (34 comments) / code;modality
2005-03-01 / #50 Suggestion Box 2 (191 comments) / pages
2005-03-02 / #51 The scratch window (14 comments) / code
2005-03-02 / #52 Curling proves itself much more exciting than hockey this year (14 comments) / non-computer
2005-03-03 / #53 The bonus window bytes at GWLP_USERDATA (35 comments) / code
2005-03-03 / #54 Raymond’s random walk, from Swedish designers to Mr. Monkey (9 comments) / non-computer
2005-03-04 / #55 Modality, part 8: A timed MessageBox, the better version (16 comments) / code;modality
2005-03-07 / #56 A timed context menu (25 comments) / code
2005-03-08 / #57 Keep your eye on the code page (47 comments) / other
2005-03-09 / #58 Using SystemParametersInfo to access user interface settings (54 comments) / code
2005-03-10 / #59 Why does SystemParametersInfo hang when I pass the SPIF_SENDCHANGE flag? (5 comments) / code
2005-03-11 / #60 Performance gains at the cost of other components (64 comments) / other
2005-03-11 / #61 VegFest 2005 this weekend – and – vegetarian is as vegetarian does (35 comments) / non-computer
2005-03-14 / #62 A subtlety in restoring previous window position (34 comments) / other
2005-03-14 / #63 Dot-Con Job: How InfoSpace took its investors for a ride (8 comments) / non-computer
2005-03-15 / #64 Windows are not cheap objects (73 comments) / history
2005-03-16 / #65 Windows NT Security in Theory and Practice (4 comments) / other
2005-03-16 / #66 The great Alaskan ice sculpture (3 comments) / non-computer
2005-03-17 / #67 Your exception handler can encounter an exception (26 comments) / code
2005-03-17 / #68 Competing to be the worst-dressed couple in America (24 comments) / non-computer
2005-03-18 / #69 Confusion over whether you have Windows XP SP1 or SP2 (38 comments) / tipssupport
2005-03-21 / #70 Psychic debugging: Why your expensive four-processor machine is ignoring three of its processors (57 comments) / other
2005-03-22 / #71 Why does the debugger show me the wrong function? (44 comments) / code
2005-03-23 / #72 Why does the debugger show me the wrong virtual function? (22 comments) / code
2005-03-24 / #73 Pointers to virtual functions with adjustors (8 comments) / code
2005-03-25 / #74 If you disable drag/drop on the Start menu, you also disable right-click (26 comments) / tipssupport
2005-03-25 / #75 The invisible price reduction (17 comments) / non-computer
2005-03-28 / #76 When a program asks you a question and then gets upset if you answer it (33 comments) / history
2005-03-28 / #77 The CEO-to-English Phrase Book, a continuing series from Slate (10 comments) / non-computer
2005-03-29 / #78 The dialog manager, part 1: Warm-ups (20 comments) / code
2005-03-29 / #79 Adventures in product testing: Candles that catch fire (8 comments) / non-computer
2005-03-30 / #80 The dialog manager, part 2: Creating the frame window (16 comments) / code
2005-03-31 / #81 The dialog manager, part 3: Creating the controls (14 comments) / code
2005-03-31 / #82 Neuroscience in the service of basketball fans (3 comments) / non-computer
2005-04-01 / #83 The dialog manager, part 4: The dialog loop (24 comments) / code
2005-04-04 / #84 The dialog manager, part 5: Converting a non-modal dialog box to modal (9 comments) / code
2005-04-05 / #85 The dialog manager, part 6: Subtleties in message loops (3 comments) / code
2005-04-06 / #86 The dialog manager, part 7: More subtleties in message loops (10 comments) / code
2005-04-07 / #87 The dialog manager, part 8: Custom navigation in dialog boxes (1 comment) / code
2005-04-08 / #88 The dialog manager, part 9: Custom accelerators in dialog boxes (2 comments) / code
2005-04-11 / #89 The end of one of the oldest computers at Microsoft still doing useful work (45 comments) / dead-computers;other
2005-04-12 / #90 There’s an awful lot of overclocking out there (76 comments) / other
2005-04-13 / #91 Using the powers of mathematics to simplify multi-level comparisons (15 comments) / code
2005-04-14 / #92 Computing the interval between two moments in time (20 comments) / code
2005-04-15 / #93 Tweaking our computation of the interval between two moments in time (6 comments) / code
2005-04-15 / #94 News flash: Everybody has to pay income tax (24 comments) / news-flash;non-computer
2005-04-18 / #95 What is the HINSTANCE passed to CreateWindow and RegisterClass used for? (10 comments) / code
2005-04-18 / #96 Project update: Voyage to Our Hollow Earth (4 comments) / non-computer
2005-04-19 / #97 When people ask for security holes as features: Hiding files from Explorer (40 comments) / history;when-people-ask-for-security-holes-as-features
2005-04-20 / #98 What is the DC brush good for? (21 comments) / code
2005-04-21 / #99 The Itanium’s so-called stack (6 comments) / code
2005-04-21 / #100 Sweden’s Worst Driver (19 comments) / non-computer
2005-04-22 / #101 The new scratch program (49 comments) / code
2005-04-25 / #102 What is the HINSTANCE passed to SetWindowsHookEx used for? (20 comments) / code
2005-04-25 / #103 Welcome to Millennium Tower, due for completion in May 2005 (15 comments) / non-computer
2005-04-26 / #104 Thread messages are eaten by modal loops (3 comments) / code
2005-04-26 / #105 If you pull a 1920’s fire extinguisher out of the ocean, for pete’s sake don’t drink it! (5 comments) / non-computer
2005-04-27 / #106 Watching thread messages disappear (3 comments) / code
2005-04-28 / #107 Rescuing thread messages from modal loops via message filters (11 comments) / code
2005-04-29 / #108 Building a dialog template at run-time (21 comments) / code
2005-05-02 / #109 Another dead computer: My personal laptop (33 comments) / dead-computers;other
2005-05-03 / #110 Managing the UI state of accelerators and focus rectangles (15 comments) / code
2005-05-04 / #111 When people ask for security holes as features: Stealing passwords (33 comments) / history;when-people-ask-for-security-holes-as-features
2005-05-05 / #112 How do I cover the taskbar with a fullscreen window? (44 comments) / code
2005-05-06 / #113 How to query properties of the taskbar (14 comments) / code
2005-05-09 / #114 Developing a Chinese/English dictionary: Introduction (28 comments) / code
2005-05-10 / #115 Loading the dictionary, part 1: Starting point (33 comments) / code
2005-05-11 / #116 Loading the dictionary, part 2: Character conversion (24 comments) / code
2005-05-12 / #117 The Microsoft corporate network: 1.7 times worse than hell (17 comments) / history
2005-05-13 / #118 Loading the dictionary, part 3: Breaking the text into lines (28 comments) / code
2005-05-16 / #119 Loading the dictionary, part 4: Character conversion redux (24 comments) / code
2005-05-17 / #120 You can’t escape those AOL CDs (15 comments) / other
2005-05-18 / #121 Loading the dictionary, part 5: Avoiding string copying (28 comments) / code
2005-05-19 / #122 Loading the dictionary, part 6: Taking advantage of our memory allocation pattern (25 comments) / code
2005-05-20 / #123 When is a window visible yet not visible? (6 comments) / code
2005-05-20 / #124 I’d like to register my stolen car, please (7 comments) / non-computer
2005-05-23 / #125 Why are DLLs unloaded in the "wrong" order? (15 comments) / other
2005-05-24 / #126 Boil first, then mash (40 comments) / non-computer
2005-05-24 / #127 Understanding ternary raster operations (9 comments) / code
2005-05-25 / #128 The effect of SetCursor lasts only until the next SetCursor (8 comments) / code
2005-05-26 / #129 Why does Add or Remove Programs show a large blank space? (43 comments) / tipssupport
2005-05-27 / #130 When is x/2 different from x>>1? (25 comments) / code
2005-05-30 / #131 You can’t simulate keyboard input with PostMessage (15 comments) / code
2005-05-30 / #132 Shocked (shocked!) that patronage exists in Chicago politics (4 comments) / non-computer
2005-05-31 / #133 Using modular arithmetic to avoid timing overflow problems (21 comments) / code
2005-06-01 / #134 Using /LARGEADDRESSAWARE on 64-bit Windows for 32-bit programs (11 comments) / other
2005-06-01 / #135 Why don’t you ever see a rat vomiting? (10 comments) / non-computer
2005-06-02 / #136 If strncpy is so dangerous, why does Visual Studio 2005 still support it? (45 comments) / other
2005-06-02 / #137 The 2005 Seattle Chicken Tour (4 comments) / non-computer
2005-06-03 / #138 Why does Windows XP SP2 sometimes forget my CD autoplay settings? (34 comments) / tipssupport
2005-06-06 / #139 A quick puzzle about security and synchronization (14 comments) / code
2005-06-06 / #140 Adam Felber teaches us how to avoid setting off motion detectors (15 comments) / non-computer
2005-06-07 / #141 What if two programs did this? (54 comments) / other
2005-06-07 / #142 Answer to quick puzzle about security and synchronization (5 comments) / code
2005-06-08 / #143 Why don’t control panel programs and property sheets show up in the taskbar? (50 comments) / history
2005-06-08 / #144 Can you trust the Man on the Street interview? (13 comments) / non-computer
2005-06-09 / #145 Why can’t the default drag/drop behavior be changed? (44 comments) / other
2005-06-10 / #146 Why does Explorer eject the CD after you finish burning it? (44 comments) / tipssupport
2005-06-10 / #147 Maintaining high standards at the International Frederic Chopin Piano Competition (12 comments) / non-computer
2005-06-13 / #148 Displaying the dictionary, part 1: Naive version (14 comments) / code
2005-06-13 / #149 Seattle International Juggling Festival 2005 (6 comments) / non-computer
2005-06-14 / #150 Displaying the dictionary, part 2: Using text callbacks (12 comments) / code
2005-06-15 / #151 Displaying the dictionary, part 3: Using an owner-data listview (26 comments) / code
2005-06-16 / #152 What is the difference between "Unpin from Start menu" and "Remove from this list"? (34 comments) / tipssupport
2005-06-17 / #153 Why do NTFS and Explorer disagree on filename sorting? (11 comments) / other
2005-06-17 / #154 Is there ever such a thing as a good letter from the IRS? (22 comments) / non-computer
2005-06-20 / #155 What’s the difference between autocomplete and dropdown history? (5 comments) / tipssupport
2005-06-20 / #156 Perhaps this is what airport security is worried about (12 comments) / non-computer
2005-06-21 / #157 The Date/Time control panel is not a calendar (85 comments) / history
2005-06-21 / #158 Google is the cute two-year-old girl with curly blond hair that gets all the attention (85 comments) / other
2005-06-22 / #159 Why does the Run dialog autocorrect but not the Run key? (3 comments) / code
2005-06-22 / #160 I’ll see (some of) you in Los Angeles in September (49 comments) / other
2005-06-23 / #161 Why does the CreateProcess function do autocorrection? (64 comments) / history
2005-06-24 / #162 Why can’t I get the pixels of a window that isn’t visible on screen? (30 comments) / code
2005-06-27 / #163 Why are there broadcast-based mechanisms in Windows? (22 comments) / history
2005-06-28 / #164 Why do Microsoft code samples tend to use ZeroMemory instead of { 0 }? (24 comments) / other
2005-06-28 / #165 Drink at work: The blog of a cartoonist (10 comments) / non-computer
2005-06-29 / #166 A simple story in pictures (6 comments) / non-computer
2005-06-29 / #167 Why isn’t Windows Setup just a disk reimage plus a registry dump? (21 comments) / other
2005-06-30 / #168 Beware of roaming user profiles (38 comments) / code
2005-07-01 / #169 What’s the difference between My Documents and Application Data? (21 comments) / code
2005-07-01 / #170 I hope you weren’t using those undocumented critical section fields (25 comments) / code
2005-07-04 / #171 Some holiday fun: Puzzle #1 (1 comment) / non-computer
2005-07-04 / #172 Some holiday fun: Puzzle #2 (1 comment) / non-computer
2005-07-04 / #173 Some holiday fun: Puzzle #3 (3 comments) / non-computer
2005-07-04 / #174 Some holiday fun: Puzzle #4 (0 comments) / non-computer
2005-07-04 / #175 Some holiday fun: Puzzle #5 (0 comments) / non-computer
2005-07-04 / #176 Some holiday fun: Puzzle #6 (2 comments) / non-computer
2005-07-04 / #177 Some holiday fun: Puzzle supplementary material (6 comments) / non-computer
2005-07-05 / #178 Using script to query information from Internet Explorer windows (14 comments) / code
2005-07-05 / #179 Answers to yesterday’s holiday fun puzzles (3 comments) / non-computer
2005-07-06 / #180 What’s the point of DeferWindowPos? (23 comments) / code
2005-07-07 / #181 What are SYSTEM_FONT and DEFAULT_GUI_FONT? (22 comments) / history
2005-07-07 / #182 What struck me about life in the Republic (41 comments) / non-computer
2005-07-08 / #183 How can I recover the dialog resource ID from a dialog window handle? (4 comments) / other
2005-07-08 / #184 The best book on ActiveX programming ever written (14 comments) / other
2005-07-11 / #185 Converting from traditional to simplified Chinese, part 1: Loading the dictionary (10 comments) / code
2005-07-12 / #186 Converting from traditional to simplified Chinese, part 2: Using the dictionary (8 comments) / code
2005-07-13 / #187 Converting from traditional to simplified Chinese, part 3: Highlighting differences (5 comments) / code
2005-07-14 / #188 Where did the names of the computer Hearts opponents come from? (13 comments) / history
2005-07-14 / #189 When Marketing edits your PDC talk description (23 comments) / other
2005-07-15 / #190 The apocryphal history of file system tunnelling (34 comments) / history
2005-07-18 / #191 If InitCommonControls doesn’t do anything, why do you have to call it? (13 comments) / history
2005-07-18 / #192 Watching the game of "Telephone" play out on the Internet (21 comments) / other
2005-07-19 / #193 What is the deal with the ES_OEMCONVERT flag? (14 comments) / history
2005-07-20 / #194 Why does FindFirstFile find short names? (21 comments) / history
2005-07-20 / #195 The Northwest Mahler Festival performs Mahler’s Second Symphony ("Resurrection") (8 comments) / non-computer
2005-07-21 / #196 News flash: Going for a walk on a nice day makes you feel better (10 comments) / news-flash;non-computer
2005-07-21 / #197 FindFirstFile is not a SQL query (15 comments) / code
2005-07-22 / #198 The importance of passing the WT_EXECUTELONGFUNCTION flag to QueueUserWorkItem (17 comments) / code
2005-07-22 / #199 Marin Alsop to be music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (16 comments) / non-computer
2005-07-25 / #200 Dinner at the Herbfarm in Woodinville (9 comments) / non-computer
2005-07-25 / #201 On paying for your meal upon leaving a restaurant (14 comments) / other
2005-07-26 / #202 What is the difference between WM_DESTROY and WM_NCDESTROY? (16 comments) / code
2005-07-27 / #203 When the normal window destruction messages are thrown for a loop (17 comments) / code
2005-07-28 / #204 What is this "web site" thing you are talking about? (29 comments) / history
2005-07-29 / #205 Does Windows have a limit of 2000 threads per process? (30 comments) / other
2005-08-01 / #206 Microsoft Company Picnic 2005 (14 comments) / non-computer
2005-08-01 / #207 Rendering standard Windows elements (15 comments) / code
2005-08-02 / #208 Rendering menu glyphs is slightly trickier (11 comments) / code
2005-08-03 / #209 Drawing a monochrome bitmap with transparency (6 comments) / code
2005-08-03 / #210 Watch out, there are Swedes in the hallway! (10 comments) / non-computer
2005-08-04 / #211 Double-clicking radio buttons (9 comments) / code
2005-08-04 / #212 On speaking a particular language in the presence of non-speakers (30 comments) / non-computer
2005-08-05 / #213 Why does the Internet Explorer animated logo arrange its frame vertically? (17 comments) / code
2005-08-05 / #214 Have you made any assignments in this space? (35 comments) / other
2005-08-08 / #215 The dangers of playing focus games when handling a WM_KILLFOCUS message (8 comments) / code
2005-08-08 / #216 Hey, who flattened the hills? (4 comments) / non-computer
2005-08-09 / #217 That’s about the size of it (37 comments) / non-computer
2005-08-09 / #218 The dangers of messing with activation when handling a WM_ACTIVATE message (5 comments) / code
2005-08-10 / #219 How can a company get access to Windows Error Reporting data? (38 comments) / other
2005-08-10 / #220 Why is Windows Error Reporting nicknamed "Dr. Watson"? (33 comments) / history
2005-08-11 / #221 Adding a lookup control to the dictionary: Just getting it on the screen (0 comments) / code
2005-08-11 / #222 Whatever you do, don’t ask for coffee (9 comments) / non-computer
2005-08-12 / #223 Adding a lookup control to the dictionary: Searching Pinyin (4 comments) / code
2005-08-15 / #224 The poor man’s way of identifying memory leaks (17 comments) / code
2005-08-15 / #225 On being attacked by a sidewalk (23 comments) / non-computer
2005-08-16 / #226 When people ask for security holes as features: Silent install of uncertified drivers (79 comments) / history;when-people-ask-for-security-holes-as-features
2005-08-17 / #227 Why is processor affinity inherited by child processes? (23 comments) / code
2005-08-17 / #228 What I’ll be doing at this year’s PDC (6 comments) / other
2005-08-18 / #229 Let’s just make up some dollar values and print them as fact (35 comments) / other
2005-08-18 / #230 What are the access rights and privileges that control changing ownership of an object? (11 comments) / other
2005-08-19 / #231 Justifiable assault with folding chair (23 comments) / other
2005-08-19 / #232 How many floppy disks did Windows 95 come on? (36 comments) / history
2005-08-19 / #233 This might be for real, even though it comes out at 7am (37 comments) / non-computer
2005-08-22 / #234 How do you convince developers to pay their "taxes"? (68 comments) / other
2005-08-23 / #235 Why are icons multiples of 8 pixels in width? (20 comments) / other
2005-08-24 / #236 Buying an entire Egghead Software store (22 comments) / history
2005-08-24 / #237 A ticket to the Windows 95 launch (23 comments) / history
2005-08-24 / #238 Marymoor Park summer movie series 2005 is nearly over (7 comments) / non-computer
2005-08-25 / #239 Windows 95 crashes a cash register (46 comments) / history
2005-08-26 / #240 Free bicycles to borrow at Marymoor Park (7 comments) / non-computer
2005-08-26 / #241 If you squint you might be able to make out my name (4 comments) / other
2005-08-29 / #242 Why is the default console codepage called “OEM”? (7 comments) / history
2005-08-29 / #243 What program did you get, Danny? (0 comments) / history
2005-08-30 / #244 Program names in file type handlers need to be fully-qualified (29 comments) / code
2005-08-30 / #245 On the adult appeal of dodgeball (7 comments) / other
2005-08-31 / #246 Understanding hash codes (23 comments) / code
2005-08-31 / #247 Hoping the worst-case scenario doesn’t come to pass (15 comments) / non-computer
2005-09-01 / #248 More undocumented behavior and the people who rely on it: Output buffers (42 comments) / code
2005-09-02 / #249 Precision is not the same as accuracy (44 comments) / other
2005-09-05 / #250 Spider Solitaire unseats the reigning champion (38 comments) / other
2005-09-06 / #251 Windows Server 2003 can take you back in time (34 comments) / tipssupport
2005-09-07 / #252 Declared unsuitable for minors in Australia! Sort of. (17 comments) / non-computer
2005-09-07 / #253 Why aren’t low-level hooks injected? (10 comments) / code
2005-09-08 / #254 Why does the function WSASetLastError exist? (10 comments) / history
2005-09-08 / #255 I won’t be signing books but don’t let that stop you (12 comments) / other
2005-09-09 / #256 Reading the output of a command from batch (48 comments) / code
2005-09-12 / #257 Understanding the consequences of WAIT_ABANDONED (27 comments) / code
2005-09-12 / #258 Richard E. Grant as Dr. Who (10 comments) / non-computer
2005-09-13 / #259 Annoying renditions of the songs of Elvis (6 comments) / non-computer
2005-09-13 / #260 Why is there no all-encompassing superset version of Windows? (55 comments) / other
2005-09-13 / #261 Sorry I missed you all this morning (4 comments) / other
2005-09-14 / #262 The double-Ctrl+Alt+Del feature is really a kludge (39 comments) / other
2005-09-14 / #263 Like an invention out of Harry Potter, except that Harry’s would use a quill (4 comments) / non-computer
2005-09-14 / #264 Typo patrol at the PDC (10 comments) / other
2005-09-15 / #265 Fiddling with the fonts, part 1: Making the Chinese characters larger (16 comments) / code
2005-09-16 / #266 Fiddling with the fonts, part 2: Keeping the English font small (14 comments) / code
2005-09-19 / #267 Why doesn’t Microsoft give every employee a UPS? (30 comments) / other
2005-09-19 / #268 Corrections to the answers I gave at the end of my PDC talk (16 comments) / other
2005-09-20 / #269 Please disconnect all cell phones, signal watches, and pagers (4 comments) / non-computer
2005-09-20 / #270 Things to do at Microsoft when the power goes out (46 comments) / other
2005-09-21 / #271 Giving fair warning before plugging in your computer (17 comments) / other
2005-09-21 / #272 Black(out) humor at the 2005 PDC (7 comments) / other
2005-09-22 / #273 Coming to the completely opposite conclusion on Windows versions (22 comments) / other
2005-09-22 / #274 Contradictory feedback from my 2005 PDC talk (10 comments) / other
2005-09-23 / #275 Ten things I noticed at the 2005 PDC (13 comments) / other
2005-09-23 / #276 The Double-E Half Hour of Pain (4 comments) / non-computer
2005-09-25 / #277 This is an unsupported ride, so if you stop, you will fall over (5 comments) / non-computer
2005-09-26 / #278 Kurt would have wanted it that way (10 comments) / history
2005-09-26 / #279 Raymond’s 2005 MVP Global Summit event diary (21 comments) / other
2005-09-27 / #280 COM object destructors are very sensitive functions (20 comments) / code
2005-09-28 / #281 Avoiding double-destruction when an object is released (23 comments) / code
2005-09-29 / #282 On objects with a reference count of zero (12 comments) / code
2005-09-29 / #283 The DHS television show was all a scam, it appears (2 comments) / non-computer
2005-09-30 / #284 English Cut: Bringing bespoke tailoring into the general consciousness (12 comments) / non-computer
2005-09-30 / #285 But I have Visual Basic Professional (39 comments) / history
2005-09-30 / #286 The reverse-engineering of PDC 2005 pass colors (11 comments) / other
2005-10-03 / #287 Consequences of the scheduling algorithm: Low priority threads can run even when higher priority threads are running (31 comments) / code
2005-10-03 / #288 Perhaps I like the phrase "withered hand" a bit too much (13 comments) / non-computer
2005-10-04 / #289 Consequences of the scheduling algorithm: Sleeping doesn’t always help (20 comments) / code
2005-10-04 / #290 Katamari Damacy: The most screwed-up video game ever (22 comments) / excursions-into-east-asian-pop-music;non-computer
2005-10-05 / #291 My history of time is briefer than yours (7 comments) / non-computer
2005-10-05 / #292 Running old programs in a virtual machine doesn’t necessarily create a good user experience (37 comments) / other
2005-10-06 / #293 The unfortunate interaction between LOAD_LIBRARY_AS_DATAFILE and DialogBox (6 comments) / code;history
2005-10-06 / #294 Jensen Harris joins the 7am club (5 comments) / other
2005-10-07 / #295 On the dangers of sharing your apartment (1 comment) / code
2005-10-07 / #296 Your profiling tools can manufacture performance issues where there were none (14 comments) / other
2005-10-10 / #297 The difficult balancing act between customization and supportability (9 comments) / other
2005-10-10 / #298 Thread affinity of user interface objects, part 1: Window handles (7 comments) / code
2005-10-11 / #299 Thread affinity of user interface objects, part 2: Device contexts (9 comments) / code
2005-10-11 / #300 New blog on integrating Groove with Office (25 comments) / other
2005-10-12 / #301 Thread affinity of user interface objects, part 3: Menus, icons, cursors, and accelerator tables (3 comments) / code
2005-10-12 / #302 Newark Liberty International Airport Terminal A travel tips (35 comments) / non-computer
2005-10-13 / #303 Thread affinity of user interface objects, part 4: GDI objects and other notes on affinity (4 comments) / code
2005-10-13 / #304 Make money working at home in your pajamas, and it’s completely legal! (13 comments) / non-computer
2005-10-14 / #305 Thread affinity of user interface objects, part 5: Object clean-up (23 comments) / code
2005-10-14 / #306 The history of the path separator in Japanese and Korean Windows (10 comments) / history
2005-10-17 / #307 The undeletable Outlook folder (35 comments) / tipssupport
2005-10-18 / #308 Answering the phone, a classic rookie mistake (17 comments) / other
2005-10-18 / #309 Be careful what you name your product group (20 comments) / history
2005-10-19 / #310 There’s something about Rat Poker (56 comments) / other
2005-10-19 / #311 Follow-up: Portsmouth Spinnaker Tower now open, but maybe you should take the stairs (10 comments) / non-computer
2005-10-20 / #312 Quick and dirty buzzword bingo cards in Excel (5 comments) / code
2005-10-20 / #313 The things in the PDC 2005 introductory video (29 comments) / other
2005-10-21 / #314 Why is it even possible to disable the desktop anyway? (13 comments) / history
2005-10-24 / #315 Fair Isle: Knitters Wanted (4 comments) / non-computer
2005-10-24 / #316 New device detected: Boeing 747 (29 comments) / history
2005-10-25 / #317 One person’s discoverable feature is another person’s annoyance (28 comments) / other
2005-10-25 / #318 It’s like being at the PDC, but without the lines or the tote bag (7 comments) / other
2005-10-25 / #319 Seattle Twenty-Five for $25 November 2005 restaurant list is available (12 comments) / non-computer
2005-10-26 / #320 When programs assume that the system will never change, episode 1 (100 comments) / history
2005-10-26 / #321 PC Magazine interviews "the team behind Windows" on its twentieth birthday (18 comments) / history
2005-10-27 / #322 Why is the OEM code page often called ANSI? (15 comments) / history
2005-10-27 / #323 Without a doubt, the world’s worst online Swedish lessons (16 comments) / non-computer
2005-10-28 / #324 How to recognize different types of sentinel timestamps from quite a long way away (21 comments) / code;time
2005-10-28 / #325 Even in the enlightened year of 2005, we have programs that don’t handle long file names (42 comments) / other
2005-10-31 / #326 The Hallowe’en-themed lobby (12 comments) / history
2005-10-31 / #327 Night of the Knitting Dead (1 comment) / non-computer
2005-11-01 / #328 The COM interface contract rules exist for a reason (17 comments) / code
2005-11-01 / #329 Välkommen till Saerige? (4 comments) / non-computer
2005-11-01 / #330 Bicycling from Mercer Island to Microsoft main campus (8 comments) / non-computer
2005-11-02 / #331 Why is inline autocomplete disabled by default? (33 comments) / history
2005-11-02 / #332 Blog design as a form of reality programming (12 comments) / non-computer
2005-11-02 / #333 Found blog: The Piehole (8 comments) / non-computer
2005-11-03 / #334 To be a leader you must know when to follow (17 comments) / history
2005-11-03 / #335 Look what the hurricanes blew into Lafayette, LA (3 comments) / non-computer
2005-11-04 / #336 Why is there a special PostQuitMessage function? (12 comments) / code
2005-11-04 / #337 It’s not a book, but it’s slightly closer (23 comments) / other
2005-11-07 / #338 Take it easy on the automatic retries (54 comments) / code
2005-11-08 / #339 Why was GlobalWire called GlobalWire? (10 comments) / history
2005-11-08 / #340 Hiding from the police? Try knitting a sweater (5 comments) / non-computer
2005-11-09 / #341 The psychology of naming your internal distribution lists (8 comments) / other
2005-11-09 / #342 Content owners need to review the designer art, too (14 comments) / non-computer
2005-11-10 / #343 When was the last time you formatted a floppy disk? (55 comments) / history
2005-11-10 / #344 The etymology of the word "traffic light" (62 comments) / non-computer
2005-11-11 / #345 I just have a plain standard-issue guest chair (42 comments) / other
2005-11-14 / #346 What was Dr. Watson’s original name? (11 comments) / history
2005-11-14 / #347 Raymond’s review of Pride and Prejudice (Keira Knightley version) (14 comments) / non-computer
2005-11-15 / #348 In real life, nobody upgrades their server (42 comments) / other
2005-11-16 / #349 Sampling every flavor of dogfood in the store (13 comments) / history
2005-11-16 / #350 Another Schadenfreude-filled look back at the dot-com zaniness (15 comments) / non-computer
2005-11-17 / #351 Force-feeding the dogfood (27 comments) / history
2005-11-17 / #352 I didn’t see Stephen Hawking in Seattle yesterday (10 comments) / non-computer
2005-11-18 / #353 What does the word "supported" mean? (18 comments) / other
2005-11-18 / #354 Mini-conversations at the stoplight during the bicycle commute (4 comments) / non-computer
2005-11-21 / #355 What’s the difference between HWND_TOP and HWND_TOPMOST? (19 comments) / history
2005-11-22 / #356 The world’s worst celebrity recasting of the American version of Harry Potter (32 comments) / non-computer
2005-11-22 / #357 Why is a drive letter permitted in front of UNC paths (sometimes)? (19 comments) / history
2005-11-23 / #358 Semaphores don’t have owners (16 comments) / code
2005-11-24 / #359 What causes a program to be marked as "new" on the Start menu? (50 comments) / other
2005-11-25 / #360 This video universally gets one of two reactions (27 comments) / non-computer
2005-11-25 / #361 How to get Raymond to stop being interested in talking with you (46 comments) / other
2005-11-28 / #362 Taxes: Hierarchical Storage Management (11 comments) / code
2005-11-28 / #363 Where does an IT guy from a major hotel chain stay at the PDC? (9 comments) / other
2005-11-29 / #364 Taxes: Geopolitics (23 comments) / code
2005-11-29 / #365 The craft of UI design: flow|state (41 comments) / other
2005-11-30 / #366 Sometimes the fault is not in our stars but in ourselves (14 comments) / other
2005-11-30 / #367 The Airline Screening Playset (6 comments) / non-computer
2005-12-01 / #368 What one Windows XP feature am I most proud of? (56 comments) / other
2005-12-02 / #369 Psychic debugging: Why your CPU usage is hovering at 50% (24 comments) / other
2005-12-02 / #370 Derren Brown’s tips on being a psychic (17 comments) / non-computer
2005-12-05 / #371 Using floppy disks as semaphore tokens (19 comments) / history
2005-12-05 / #372 It’s always a good idea to check your sources (35 comments) / non-computer
2005-12-06 / #373 When a token changes its meaning mid-stream (11 comments) / history
2005-12-06 / #374 Humanity’s greatest invention, according to seventh grade students (42 comments) / non-computer;the-wisdom-of-seventh-graders
2005-12-07 / #375 Whimsical embarrassment as a gentle form of reprimand (39 comments) / history
2005-12-07 / #376 Rory Blyth explains the difference between 720p and 1080i (7 comments) / other
2005-12-08 / #377 Using a physical object as a reminder (8 comments) / history
2005-12-08 / #378 The not-entirely-unwitting victims of the Daily Show interview (7 comments) / non-computer
2005-12-09 / #379 On the inability to support hardware that nobody makes any more (67 comments) / history
2005-12-12 / #380 Your debugging code can be a security hole (18 comments) / code
2005-12-12 / #381 Experiencing the world from flight level 210 (8 comments) / non-computer
2005-12-13 / #382 We Microsoft bloggers do talk to each other occasionally, y’know (11 comments) / other
2005-12-14 / #383 On the ambiguity of uniqueness (27 comments) / code
2005-12-14 / #384 Whole lotta cranking going on (10 comments) / non-computer
2005-12-15 / #385 You probably don’t want to run programs directly off your USB memory drive (42 comments) / other
2005-12-15 / #386 A note to headhunters: Check your links (15 comments) / other
2005-12-16 / #387 The Dead Sea Scrolls are coming to Seattle (13 comments) / non-computer
2005-12-16 / #388 When hyperthreading is enabled, all the processors are virtual (25 comments) / other
2005-12-19 / #389 Beware the Image File Execution Options key (20 comments) / other
2005-12-19 / #390 Music to slip into a playlist to see if anybody is listening (10 comments) / non-computer
2005-12-20 / #391 Why does Windows setup lay down a new boot sector? (77 comments) / other
2005-12-20 / #392 "Pro forma" was so 1990’s (12 comments) / non-computer
2005-12-21 / #393 The office disco party (34 comments) / history
2005-12-22 / #394 Why do up-down controls have the arrows backwards? (29 comments) / history
2005-12-23 / #395 On the "Days without a pony" web page (22 comments) / other

2006

Date Title
2006-01-03 / #0 Why did the Windows 95 CD have extra fun stuff? (13 comments) / history
2006-01-03 / #1 If one certification is good, more must be better (13 comments) / other
2006-01-03 / #2 There’s more to calling a function than just getting the types to match (15 comments) / code
2006-01-03 / #3 On the abuse of properties (15 comments) / code
2006-01-03 / #4 2005 end-of-year link blowout sale (11 comments) / other
2006-01-03 / #5 The world’s slowest RET instruction (4 comments) / code
2006-01-03 / #6 Taxes: Remote Desktop Connection and painting (40 comments) / code
2006-01-04 / #7 Taxes: Detecting session state changes, such as a locked workstation (23 comments) / code
2006-01-04 / #8 Don’t underestimate the resourcefulness of people trying to be annoying (17 comments) / other
2006-01-05 / #9 The first rule about knit club… (7 comments) / non-computer
2006-01-05 / #10 Converting between LCIDs and RFC 1766 language codes (17 comments) / code
2006-01-06 / #11 Why do image lists and tool bars use horizontal strips if vertical is so much better? (12 comments) / code
2006-01-06 / #12 Where do call signs come from? (18 comments) / non-computer
2006-01-09 / #13 When programs assume that the system will never change, episode 3 (37 comments) / history
2006-01-09 / #14 Beware the MSJ subscription scam (7 comments) / other
2006-01-10 / #15 The decoy display control panel (25 comments) / history
2006-01-11 / #16 The decoy visual style (79 comments) / history
2006-01-12 / #17 When web sites rely on security holes (44 comments) / history
2006-01-13 / #18 Why do words beginning with "home" get treated as URLs? (21 comments) / tipssupport
2006-01-13 / #19 France, she is, how you say, on sale! (46 comments) / non-computer
2006-01-16 / #20 Understanding what things mean in context: Dispatch interfaces (23 comments) / code
2006-01-16 / #21 At least there’s a funny side to spam (7 comments) / non-computer
2006-01-17 / #22 ReadProcessMemory is not a preferred IPC mechanism (32 comments) / code
2006-01-18 / #23 The cost of trying too hard: Splay trees (22 comments) / code
2006-01-18 / #24 From Doom to Gloom: The story of a video game (15 comments) / other
2006-01-19 / #25 The cost of trying too hard: String searching (22 comments) / code
2006-01-19 / #26 How air conditioning revolutionized competitive bicycling (7 comments) / non-computer
2006-01-20 / #27 The vtable does not always go at the start of the object (15 comments) / code
2006-01-23 / #28 If your callback fails, it’s your responsibility to set the error code (39 comments) / code
2006-01-23 / #29 There are two types of rebates, and you need to be on the alert (34 comments) / non-computer
2006-01-24 / #30 Performance consequences of polling (52 comments) / code
2006-01-24 / #31 Creepy messages in your baggage (19 comments) / non-computer
2006-01-25 / #32 You can call MsgWaitForMultipleObjects with zero handles (11 comments) / code
2006-01-25 / #33 Welcome to the United States, unless you’re a Canadian technologist who is an invited guest at a Microsoft conference, in which case, keep out (32 comments) / non-computer
2006-01-26 / #34 Pumping messages while waiting for a period of time (13 comments) / code
2006-01-26 / #35 Stephen Tolouse’s reminiscences of Windows 95 RTM day (12 comments) / history
2006-01-27 / #36 Waiting for all handles with MsgWaitForMultipleObjects is a bug waiting to happen (14 comments) / code
2006-01-30 / #37 Liquefied NBA points apparently cannot be sold on eBay (3 comments) / non-computer
2006-01-30 / #38 Why does a corrupted binary sometimes result in "Program too big to fit in memory"? (44 comments) / history
2006-01-31 / #39 Why does the Recycle Bin have different file system names on FAT and NTFS? (24 comments) / history
2006-01-31 / #40 "I attack the kobold wearing the headdress made of human ears" (7 comments) / non-computer
2006-02-01 / #41 The military marriage of convenience (15 comments) / non-computer
2006-02-01 / #42 The per-class window styles and things really are per-class (13 comments) / code
2006-02-02 / #43 Be careful when interpreting security descriptors across machine boundaries (6 comments) / code
2006-02-02 / #44 The pornography of food (4 comments) / non-computer
2006-02-03 / #45 Mysterious things Steve Yi has eaten (18 comments) / non-computer
2006-02-03 / #46 You can’t even trust the identity of the calling executable (15 comments) / code
2006-02-06 / #47 Beware of redirected folders, too (32 comments) / code
2006-02-06 / #48 You know you’re in trouble when your channel loses to dead air (35 comments) / non-computer
2006-02-07 / #49 Viewing function composition as transformation of the domain (12 comments) / code
2006-02-07 / #50 Apparently I can’t take myself anywhere (23 comments) / non-computer
2006-02-08 / #51 Comparing writing specifications to writing code (35 comments) / other
2006-02-09 / #52 Shifting from program management to programming also affects your social life (29 comments) / other
2006-02-10 / #53 The dangers of sleeping on a UI thread (48 comments) / code
2006-02-13 / #54 That’s just super (and a note on baking) (20 comments) / microspeak;other
2006-02-14 / #55 Other things people do with beta versions of the operating system (5 comments) / history
2006-02-14 / #56 Studs from Microsoft (11 comments) / other
2006-02-15 / #57 The "symmetric" in symmetric multiprocessing really means "symmetric" (19 comments) / other
2006-02-15 / #58 Recycling old PCs and cell phones (12 comments) / other
2006-02-16 / #59 Because programmers were trusted to do the right thing, part 2 (133 comments) / code
2006-02-17 / #60 Not all team integrations go smoothly (23 comments) / history
2006-02-17 / #61 Diving into kernel mode with Doron (3 comments) / other
2006-02-20 / #62 Why does my program run faster if I click and hold the caption bar? (46 comments) / code
2006-02-20 / #63 How the study of languages influences one’s appreciation of international competition (9 comments) / non-computer
2006-02-21 / #64 In pursuit of Michael Cassini, "the king of con" (15 comments) / non-computer
2006-02-21 / #65 In pursuit of the message queue (16 comments) / code
2006-02-22 / #66 The performance cost of reading a registry key (48 comments) / code
2006-02-22 / #67 Games give you hand-eye coordination and spatial intelligence together with map-reading skills (16 comments) / non-computer
2006-02-23 / #68 Enumerating threads in a process (11 comments) / code
2006-02-23 / #69 That $9 you got from the PayPal settlement? Taxable income. (12 comments) / non-computer
2006-02-24 / #70 Why can’t I disable the Cancel button in a wizard? (40 comments) / other
2006-02-24 / #71 The Top Gear Winter Olympics 2006 (28 comments) / non-computer
2006-02-27 / #72 Changing a window class affects all windows which belong to that class (12 comments) / code
2006-02-27 / #73 Ry Jones seems particularly amused by things I’ve written (16 comments) / other;things-ive-written-that-have-amused-other-people
2006-02-28 / #74 Raymond, you so write like a girl (21 comments) / non-computer
2006-03-01 / #75 Keep your eye on the code page, practical exam (24 comments) / code
2006-03-02 / #76 Restating the obvious about the WM_COMMAND message (27 comments) / code
2006-03-02 / #77 Martha, Martha, Martha! (17 comments) / non-computer
2006-03-03 / #78 Very late remarks on the original Chinese dictionary series (5 comments) / code
2006-03-03 / #79 The peculiar appeal of the Baseball Uncyclopedia (3 comments) / other
2006-03-06 / #80 The ForceAutoLogon setting doesn’t do what most people think (12 comments) / tipssupport
2006-03-06 / #81 Other things happen for a reason, too (23 comments) / other
2006-03-07 / #82 The consequences of invalidating the null window (32 comments) / code
2006-03-07 / #83 Raymond, you even pose like a girl (22 comments) / non-computer
2006-03-08 / #84 Why is there no message for disabling the Cancel button on a wizard? (12 comments) / code
2006-03-08 / #85 Reading the fine print, episode 2: Portable headphones (23 comments) / non-computer;reading-the-fine-print
2006-03-09 / #86 Reading the fine print, episode 3: What’s in the bottle? (44 comments) / non-computer;reading-the-fine-print
2006-03-09 / #87 If you ask for a window caption, you also get a border (26 comments) / code
2006-03-10 / #88 Why does the size of a combo box include the size of the drop-down? (21 comments) / history
2006-03-10 / #89 Betsy’s interview tip: Wear pants (10 comments) / non-computer
2006-03-13 / #90 A thread waiting on a synchronization object could be caught napping (14 comments) / code
2006-03-13 / #91 The social skills of a thermonuclear device, part 2 (17 comments) / other;the-social-skills-of-a-thermonuclear-device
2006-03-14 / #92 Controlling resource consumption by meting out work items (23 comments) / code
2006-03-14 / #93 Top ten things to do to make your application a Vista application (45 comments) / other
2006-03-15 / #94 On the fuzzy definition of a "Unicode application" (33 comments) / other
2006-03-15 / #95 Das Buch der verrückten Experimente (24 comments) / non-computer
2006-03-16 / #96 Really, college athletics is about education (not) (29 comments) / highly-scientific;non-computer
2006-03-16 / #97 Why does the version 6 animation control not use a background thread? (23 comments) / code
2006-03-17 / #98 Raymond’s highly scientific predictions for the 2006 NCAA men’s basketball tournament (3 comments) / highly-scientific;non-computer
2006-03-17 / #99 You never know until you test it with real users (16 comments) / other
2006-03-20 / #100 Basic ground rules for programming – function parameters and how they are used (48 comments) / code
2006-03-21 / #101 Why doesn’t Windows File Protection use ACLs to protect files? (57 comments) / other
2006-03-21 / #102 On the alert for expired food-handling licenses (30 comments) / non-computer
2006-03-22 / #103 Solving one problem by creating a bigger problem (84 comments) / other
2006-03-22 / #104 Make sure to handle carcinogens safely before inhaling a different carcinogen (17 comments) / non-computer
2006-03-23 / #105 Before you develop a solution, make sure you really understand the problem (21 comments) / other
2006-03-23 / #106 Where technology names came from: WiFi and FireWire (4 comments) / history
2006-03-24 / #107 The simplified office (24 comments) / other
2006-03-27 / #108 Why doesn’t the window manager just take over behavior that used to be within the application’s purview? (59 comments) / code
2006-03-27 / #109 Public service announcement for Roman Catholics: Sunday is not a fast day (46 comments) / non-computer
2006-03-28 / #110 Why are there two copies of Notepad? (85 comments) / history
2006-03-28 / #111 The rise and fall of the German language (32 comments) / non-computer
2006-03-29 / #112 Inadvertently passing large objects by value (41 comments) / code
2006-03-30 / #113 How would you solve this compatibility problem: Network interoperability (200 comments) / other
2006-03-30 / #114 Diese Briefe wurden von unserem chinesischen Freund übersetzt (26 comments) / non-computer
2006-03-31 / #115 The network interoperability compatibility problem, first follow-up of many (133 comments) / other
2006-04-03 / #116 Doing the best we can until time travel has been perfected (64 comments) / other
2006-04-03 / #117 What seventh-grade students want to be when they grow up (19 comments) / non-computer;the-wisdom-of-seventh-graders
2006-04-04 / #118 Spamming the event log doesn’t make things any better (19 comments) / other
2006-04-04 / #119 German adjectives really aren’t that hard; they just look that way (19 comments) / non-computer
2006-04-05 / #120 Adding flags to APIs to work around driver bugs doesn’t scale (20 comments) / other
2006-04-05 / #121 USER and GDI compatibility in Windows Vista (7 comments) / other
2006-04-06 / #122 It’s more efficient when you buy in bulk (29 comments) / other
2006-04-06 / #123 Sometimes you just have to make a snap decision (41 comments) / non-computer
2006-04-07 / #124 Computing over a high-latency network means you have to bulk up (65 comments) / other
2006-04-07 / #125 News for dummies now available in podcast form (17 comments) / non-computer
2006-04-10 / #126 Be very careful if you decide to change the rules after the game has ended (35 comments) / other
2006-04-10 / #127 You’d think it’d be easy to give away a ticket to the symphony (11 comments) / non-computer
2006-04-11 / #128 What’s the deal with the house in front of Microsoft’s RedWest campus? (23 comments) / history
2006-04-12 / #129 Why is the Microsoft Protection Service called "msmpsvc"? (40 comments) / history
2006-04-12 / #130 News for dummies in French and English (21 comments) / non-computer
2006-04-13 / #131 Where did the name for Microsoft Access come from? (15 comments) / history
2006-04-13 / #132 Chain tax preparers do not fare well in undercover investigation (16 comments) / non-computer
2006-04-14 / #133 Where did start.com get its name? (14 comments) / history
2006-04-17 / #134 Locale-sensitive number grouping (67 comments) / code
2006-04-17 / #135 Merchandise your food with pride (43 comments) / microspeak;non-computer
2006-04-18 / #136 How to fill in that number grouping member of NUMBERFMT (9 comments) / code
2006-04-18 / #137 Maybe you don’t sound like Carl Kasell, but you can have his job (3 comments) / non-computer
2006-04-19 / #138 Adding a new flag to enable behavior that previously was on by default (73 comments) / other
2006-04-19 / #139 The 2006/2007 Seattle Symphony subscription season at a glance (10 comments) / non-computer
2006-04-20 / #140 More about the house in front of Microsoft’s RedWest campus (8 comments) / history
2006-04-21 / #141 Then again, it might not be overclocking after all (22 comments) / other
2006-04-24 / #142 Troubleshooting tips are not formal product documentation (20 comments) / other
2006-04-24 / #143 Ich habe meinen Computer zu Deutsch gewechselt (49 comments) / non-computer
2006-04-25 / #144 No, really, you need to pass all unhandled messages to DefWindowProc (22 comments) / code
2006-04-25 / #145 Correctly spell xerophthalmia and the crowd goes wild (7 comments) / non-computer
2006-04-26 / #146 No good deed goes unpunished: Bug assignment (36 comments) / no-good-deed-goes-unpunished;other
2006-04-27 / #147 A new scripting language doesn’t solve everything (96 comments) / other
2006-04-28 / #148 What does CS_SAVEBITS do? (35 comments) / code
2006-04-28 / #149 Grace period for Swedish currency conversion extended to the end of the year (35 comments) / non-computer
2006-05-01 / #150 What’s so special about bitmaps and DCs? (31 comments) / code
2006-05-01 / #151 Tips from an American on on driving in Taiwan (19 comments) / non-computer
2006-05-02 / #152 A cache with a bad policy is another name for a memory leak (37 comments) / code
2006-05-03 / #153 The alertable wait is the non-GUI analog to pumping messages (20 comments) / code
2006-05-04 / #154 Doing quick arithmetic from the command prompt (64 comments) / tipssupport
2006-05-04 / #155 On the bogusness of reporting the winning word in a spelling bee (33 comments) / non-computer
2006-05-05 / #156 What can I do with the HINSTANCE returned by the ShellExecute function? (17 comments) / history
2006-05-08 / #157 It rather involved being on the other side of this airtight hatchway (47 comments) / other
2006-05-08 / #158 Seattle boating season opens but never closes (4 comments) / non-computer
2006-05-09 / #159 Subtle ways your innocent program can be Internet-facing (26 comments) / other
2006-05-09 / #160 Why doesn’t Ethan Hunt have to wear identification? (51 comments) / non-computer
2006-05-10 / #161 Solutions that don’t actually solve anything (48 comments) / other
2006-05-11 / #162 Automatic messages when you’re not in the office – the infamous OOF (28 comments) / other
2006-05-12 / #163 When people mimic the display rather than the actual data (25 comments) / other
2006-05-12 / #164 On languages and spelling (43 comments) / non-computer
2006-05-15 / #165 The first word on the command line is the program name only by convention (28 comments) / other
2006-05-16 / #166 Command line redirection is performed by the command line interpreter (31 comments) / tipssupport
2006-05-16 / #167 The real scoop on the the x64 calling convention on 64-bit Windows (19 comments) / code
2006-05-17 / #168 Beware of digits before the redirection operator (29 comments) / tipssupport
2006-05-17 / #169 Don’t mention the war. I mentioned it once, but I think I got away with it all right (14 comments) / non-computer
2006-05-18 / #170 The redirection operator can occur in the middle of the command line (10 comments) / tipssupport
2006-05-18 / #171 Making up new Winter Olympic events (13 comments) / non-computer
2006-05-19 / #172 Redirecting output can result in altered program behavior (15 comments) / code
2006-05-19 / #173 Raymond 1, Sidewalk 1 (12 comments) / non-computer
2006-05-22 / #174 How do I write a regular expression that matches an IPv4 dotted address? (54 comments) / code
2006-05-23 / #175 That mysterious J (33 comments) / other
2006-05-23 / #176 Raymond makes a psychic prediction for 2006 (99 comments) / other
2006-05-24 / #177 Beware the C++ implicit conversion (47 comments) / code
2006-05-25 / #178 Using Yoda on an x86 may be hazardous to your systems’ health (20 comments) / history
2006-05-26 / #179 Assaulting users with dialog box after dialog box (61 comments) / other
2006-05-27 / #180 Wordplay (the movie) (5 comments) / non-computer
2006-05-29 / #181 Every discipline has its crackpots: Stories of mathematics (31 comments) / non-computer
2006-05-30 / #182 People are very sensitive to how the icons look (37 comments) / other
2006-05-30 / #183 Mellifluous NPR reporter name: Ofeibea Quist-Arcton (18 comments) / non-computer
2006-05-31 / #184 Do it for Katie (18 comments) / history
2006-06-01 / #185 What does the CS_OWNDC class style do? (34 comments) / code;history
2006-06-02 / #186 What does the CS_CLASSDC class style do? (26 comments) / code;history
2006-06-05 / #187 Why can’t you say </script> in a script block? (61 comments) / code
2006-06-06 / #188 The forgotten common controls: The page scroller (25 comments) / history
2006-06-06 / #189 Apparently driving is messed up in a lot of countries (25 comments) / non-computer
2006-06-07 / #190 If you’re going to try to simulate user actions, make sure the user can do them (5 comments) / code
2006-06-07 / #191 Disaster averted, thanks to undisclosed government action, no really (16 comments) / non-computer
2006-06-08 / #192 The forgotten common controls: The MenuHelp function (4 comments) / code
2006-06-09 / #193 Why did the Add or Remove Programs control panel try to guess all that information? (38 comments) / history
2006-06-09 / #194 What happened to the traffic circle at the corner of 156th Ave NE and NE 56th Way? (57 comments) / non-computer
2006-06-12 / #195 Remember what happens when you broadcast a message (20 comments) / code
2006-06-13 / #196 Fumbling around in the dark and stumbling across the wrong solution (68 comments) / other
2006-06-13 / #197 Lies and statistics: 600,000 Chinese engineers (43 comments) / non-computer
2006-06-14 / #198 Pitfalls of transparent rendering of anti-aliased fonts (41 comments) / code
2006-06-15 / #199 Window class properties apply to all windows that belong to the class (6 comments) / code
2006-06-15 / #200 It’s a good idea to get somebody who knows the language to be your proofreader (22 comments) / non-computer
2006-06-16 / #201 Understanding what significant digits really mean (40 comments) / other
2006-06-19 / #202 Why can’t you programmatically reorder the items on the Start menu? (47 comments) / other
2006-06-19 / #203 Announcements on the ferry, one self-explanatory, one not (13 comments) / non-computer
2006-06-20 / #204 A single-instance program is its own denial of service (35 comments) / other
2006-06-20 / #205 Three-Minute Masterpieces (2006) (1 comment) / non-computer
2006-06-21 / #206 Psychic debugging: Understanding DDE initiation (11 comments) / code
2006-06-21 / #207 It’s still not a democracy, but at least other people have noticed, too (14 comments) / non-computer
2006-06-22 / #208 An auto-reset event is just a stupid semaphore (31 comments) / code
2006-06-22 / #209 The continuing phenomenon of size inflation in fast food (67 comments) / non-computer
2006-06-23 / #210 The subtle usability considerations of conference nametags (44 comments) / non-computer
2006-06-26 / #211 Coding in-place tooltips (17 comments) / code
2006-06-26 / #212 Look who bought my name (36 comments) / other
2006-06-27 / #213 Using custom-draw in tooltips to adjust the font (2 comments) / code
2006-06-27 / #214 … so it doesn’t poop all over your office (14 comments) / non-computer
2006-06-28 / #215 Multiplexing multiple tools into one in a tooltip (8 comments) / code
2006-06-29 / #216 Generating tooltip text dynamically (15 comments) / code
2006-06-30 / #217 2006 mid-year link clearance (8 comments) / non-computer
2006-06-30 / #218 Congratulations, Montréal, on finally paying for the 1976 Olympic Games (11 comments) / non-computer
2006-07-03 / #219 Security: Don’t forget to initialize the stuff you don’t care about (16 comments) / code
2006-07-03 / #220 How do you use the bike rack on a Metro bus? (24 comments) / non-computer
2006-07-04 / #221 Things I’ve written that have amused other people, Episode 2 (7 comments) / non-computer;things-ive-written-that-have-amused-other-people
2006-07-05 / #222 Retail companies allegedly not collecting personal information as aggressively (45 comments) / non-computer
2006-07-06 / #223 Is the maximum size of the environment 32K or 64K? (39 comments) / code
2006-07-06 / #224 Nearly 20 percent of daily smokers say they exercise three or more times a week (18 comments) / non-computer
2006-07-07 / #225 No, really, why is it 160×31? (15 comments) / history
2006-07-07 / #226 Mr. T prefers a double-shot of espresso with two graham crackers, go figure (5 comments) / non-computer
2006-07-10 / #227 Before you can learn to recognize what’s wrong, you must learn to recognize what’s right (11 comments) / code
2006-07-10 / #228 Wenn Ausländer Deutsch phonetisch singen (18 comments) / non-computer
2006-07-11 / #229 Not everybody with a non-Windows partition type is a geek (79 comments) / other
2006-07-11 / #230 News flash: Big houses have bigger heating bills (18 comments) / news-flash;non-computer
2006-07-12 / #231 Pidls and monikers do roughly the same thing, just backwards (11 comments) / other
2006-07-12 / #232 Win $5000 every summer for life (some restrictions on your life apply) (17 comments) / non-computer
2006-07-13 / #233 Glass houses are great places to throw stones (105 comments) / other
2006-07-14 / #234 How were DLL functions exported in 16-bit Windows? (20 comments) / history
2006-07-17 / #235 How were DLL functions imported in 16-bit Windows? (16 comments) / history
2006-07-17 / #236 The day the peloton lost its way (21 comments) / non-computer
2006-07-18 / #237 How are DLL functions exported in 32-bit Windows? (27 comments) / other
2006-07-19 / #238 Exported functions that are really forwarders (15 comments) / other
2006-07-19 / #239 The traffic gods are punishing me for bicycling (8 comments) / non-computer
2006-07-20 / #240 Rethinking the way DLL exports are resolved for 32-bit Windows (17 comments) / other
2006-07-20 / #241 Buy me some peanuts and a set of double-pointed 2’s (8 comments) / non-computer
2006-07-21 / #242 Calling an imported function, the naive way (14 comments) / other
2006-07-21 / #243 I didn’t realize that it was International Group B Strep Awareness Month (4 comments) / non-computer
2006-07-21 / #244 Floyd Landis stuns everybody on stage 17; Raymond less impressive (17 comments) / non-computer
2006-07-24 / #245 How a less naive compiler calls an imported function (9 comments) / other
2006-07-24 / #246 Raise la lanterne rouge (6 comments) / non-computer
2006-07-25 / #247 Issues related to forcing a stub to be created for an imported function (16 comments) / other
2006-07-25 / #248 If you know German, the world is, well, slightly more confusing (36 comments) / non-computer
2006-07-26 / #249 What happens when you get dllimport wrong? (12 comments) / other
2006-07-26 / #250 Real Madrid (i.e., proper football) comes to Seattle (7 comments) / non-computer
2006-07-27 / #251 Names in the import library are decorated for a reason (23 comments) / other
2006-07-27 / #252 Index to the series on DLL imports and exports (9 comments) / other
2006-07-27 / #253 Handy tip: If you’re going to break into vehicles, the police vehicle service center is probably a bad place (5 comments) / non-computer
2006-07-28 / #254 The efficiency of ordinal-based imports while still being name-based (10 comments) / other
2006-07-28 / #255 The Seattle Monorail has two trains, and they collided (26 comments) / non-computer
2006-07-31 / #256 Just because I don’t write about .NET doesn’t mean that I don’t like it (48 comments) / other
2006-07-31 / #257 Christmas gift idea for your favorite glasses-wearing geek (8 comments) / non-computer
2006-08-01 / #258 C# nested classes are like C++ nested classes, not Java inner classes (24 comments) / code
2006-08-02 / #259 The implementation of anonymous methods in C# and its consequences (part 1) (50 comments) / code
2006-08-03 / #260 The implementation of anonymous methods in C# and its consequences (part 2) (15 comments) / code
2006-08-03 / #261 News Flash: Big houses also cost more to cool (5 comments) / news-flash;non-computer
2006-08-04 / #262 The implementation of anonymous methods in C# and its consequences (part 3) (38 comments) / code
2006-08-07 / #263 The day Tully’s ran out of coffee (17 comments) / non-computer
2006-08-07 / #264 Even more about C# anonymous methods, from the source (81 comments) / other
2006-08-08 / #265 Candidate for most obscure keyboard shortcut: Shift+F8 (28 comments) / other
2006-08-08 / #266 A look inside WinInet’s index.dat file and changes in IE7 and Vista (5 comments) / non-computer;tipssupport
2006-08-09 / #267 How were window hooks implemented in 16-bit Windows? (9 comments) / history
2006-08-10 / #268 One way people abused hooks in 16-bit Windows (11 comments) / history
2006-08-10 / #269 Space scientist James Van Allen (1914–2006) (16 comments) / non-computer
2006-08-11 / #270 Why does SetWindowsHookEx take an HINSTANCE parameter? (10 comments) / history
2006-08-11 / #271 Exploiting the inattentive, episode 2: The unlabeled line (42 comments) / exploiting-the-inattentive;non-computer
2006-08-14 / #272 Why can’t I see all of the 4GB of RAM in my machine? (34 comments) / other
2006-08-14 / #273 The cultural anthropology of getting on a bicycle (53 comments) / non-computer
2006-08-15 / #274 Do not change program semantics in the debug build (36 comments) / code
2006-08-15 / #275 Cool web site: Bill Monk (9 comments) / non-computer
2006-08-16 / #276 Accessibility is not just for people with disabilities (21 comments) / code
2006-08-16 / #277 Computer monitors float, screen upwards (7 comments) / non-computer
2006-08-17 / #278 Don’t trust the return address, no really (18 comments) / code
2006-08-17 / #279 A modest proposal: On allowing mobile phones on airplanes (48 comments) / a-modest-proposal;non-computer
2006-08-18 / #280 Applications and DLLs don’t have privileges; users do (75 comments) / other
2006-08-18 / #281 We encourage everyone to pack gel-filled bras in their checked baggage (23 comments) / non-computer
2006-08-21 / #282 Sucking the exception pointers out of a stack trace (20 comments) / code
2006-08-21 / #283 [6] days since last monorail breakdown (11 comments) / non-computer
2006-08-22 / #284 Who says there’s only one? There can be more than one logon session (60 comments) / code
2006-08-22 / #285 Raymond’s excursions into East Asian pop music, episode 2: China Dolls (中國娃娃) (16 comments) / excursions-into-east-asian-pop-music;non-computer
2006-08-23 / #286 Environment variable expansion occurs when the command is read (27 comments) / code
2006-08-24 / #287 Those folks from Birmingham talk funny, and I mean that in a scientific way (18 comments) / non-computer
2006-08-24 / #288 Moving a file does not recalculate inherited permissions (39 comments) / other
2006-08-25 / #289 We know it’s insecure, but we want to do it anyway (25 comments) / other
2006-08-28 / #290 Try to avoid having BOOL function parameters (66 comments) / code
2006-08-28 / #291 How did "Start Me Up" become the theme for the Windows 95 launch? (11 comments) / history
2006-08-29 / #292 As I recall, Germany did not ratify the United States Constitution (37 comments) / other
2006-08-30 / #293 If you work at a company, it’s not your computer any more (24 comments) / other
2006-08-30 / #294 How do you wash soap? (30 comments) / non-computer
2006-08-31 / #295 The dialog class goes under the sneaky name WC_DIALOG (15 comments) / code
2006-08-31 / #296 The wisdom of seventh graders: Contributions to class discussion (5 comments) / non-computer;the-wisdom-of-seventh-graders
2006-09-01 / #297 On the unanswerability of the maximum number of user interface objects a program can create (23 comments) / code
2006-09-01 / #298 You’re white. Do you want to be in my friend’s soap opera? (12 comments) / non-computer
2006-09-04 / #299 I think I’ve just broken the internet (15 comments) / other
2006-09-05 / #300 Just change that 15 to a 1 (51 comments) / other
2006-09-06 / #301 You already know what your target architecture is (or at least you should) (30 comments) / code
2006-09-06 / #302 In case of fire, go to lunch (22 comments) / non-computer
2006-09-07 / #303 You have to free memory with the same allocator that allocated it: Logical consequences (31 comments) / code
2006-09-07 / #304 What you don’t apologize for is as important as what you do (25 comments) / non-computer
2006-09-08 / #305 Const pointers: Logical consequences (19 comments) / code
2006-09-08 / #306 Turns out you can’t learn Mandarin Chinese by watching television (16 comments) / non-computer
2006-09-11 / #307 If you ask a Yes/No question, make sure the user also knows what happens when they say No (63 comments) / other
2006-09-12 / #308 Grammar review: Verb+particle versus compound noun (32 comments) / non-computer
2006-09-13 / #309 Philosophical discussion on when to mark a method as virtual (30 comments) / code
2006-09-13 / #310 Raymond’s excursions into East Asian pop music, episode 3: Morning Musume (モーニング娘) (26 comments) / excursions-into-east-asian-pop-music;non-computer
2006-09-14 / #311 The danger of using boldface for Chinese characters (34 comments) / code
2006-09-14 / #312 The lost follow-ups: Products and people that appear to have vanished without a trace (29 comments) / other
2006-09-15 / #313 Allocating and freeing memory across module boundaries (55 comments) / code
2006-09-15 / #314 Disaster averted, thanks to international time zones (14 comments) / non-computer
2006-09-18 / #315 Sometimes my psychic powers are weak (11 comments) / other
2006-09-18 / #316 Project Update 2: Voyage to Our Hollow Earth (12 comments) / non-computer
2006-09-19 / #317 Why doesn’t the Shutdown dialog use Alt to get alternate behavior? (59 comments) / other
2006-09-19 / #318 The tale of the radioactive Boy Scout (7 comments) / non-computer
2006-09-20 / #319 Don’t forget to unregister your window classes when your DLL shuts down dynamically (11 comments) / code
2006-09-20 / #320 It is as if our leaders have not been educated in orbital space colonization (7 comments) / non-computer
2006-09-21 / #321 If you don’t trust your administrators, you’ve already lost (34 comments) / other
2006-09-21 / #322 It’s that season again: The Microsoft Company Meeting (16 comments) / other
2006-09-22 / #323 Things you already know: How do I wait until my dialog box is displayed before doing something? (53 comments) / code
2006-09-22 / #324 Hand gestures for numbers (21 comments) / non-computer
2006-09-25 / #325 Waiting until the dialog box is displayed before doing something (30 comments) / code
2006-09-25 / #326 Filming for The Battle in Seattle has begun (21 comments) / non-computer
2006-09-26 / #327 Isn’t DDE all asynchronous anyway? (12 comments) / code
2006-09-26 / #328 News flash: The heart produces urine (17 comments) / news-flash;non-computer
2006-09-27 / #329 IsBadXxxPtr should really be called CrashProgramRandomly (81 comments) / code
2006-09-28 / #330 Saturday is Museum Day, courtesy of Smithsonian Magazine (3 comments) / non-computer
2006-09-28 / #331 When you crash, make sure you crash in the right place (20 comments) / code
2006-09-29 / #332 Quotation marks around spaces aren’t necessary in the PATH environment variable (28 comments) / tipssupport
2006-09-29 / #333 Eating Belgian food at Brouwer’s Cafe in Fremont (39 comments) / non-computer
2006-10-02 / #334 Does a dual-core processor count as one or two for licensing purposes? (24 comments) / other
2006-10-02 / #335 Any similarity to actual German or Swedish words is purely coincidental (25 comments) / non-computer
2006-10-03 / #336 There’s a reason why envelopes have backs (34 comments) / other
2006-10-03 / #337 If only he’d known to offer to back up their PC instead (2 comments) / non-computer
2006-10-04 / #338 You can invent new adjectives too (27 comments) / microspeak;non-computer
2006-10-05 / #339 Why does Windows hide keyboard accelerators and focus rectangles by default? (92 comments) / history
2006-10-06 / #340 A very brief return to part 6 of Loading the Chinese/English dictionary (14 comments) / code
2006-10-09 / #341 How Raymond learns languages (and why it’s not working) (54 comments) / non-computer
2006-10-10 / #342 When something is available for the user, which user are we talking about? (22 comments) / code
2006-10-11 / #343 Proto-Microspeak: The goat rodeo (14 comments) / microspeak;other
2006-10-12 / #344 How do I prevent multi-line edit controls from eating the Enter key? (9 comments) / code
2006-10-12 / #345 Shifting fortunes at Airbus over the A380 (20 comments) / non-computer
2006-10-13 / #346 Why do I see the same fake names in Microsoft samples over and over? (27 comments) / other
2006-10-16 / #347 640 x 480 is still not dead (52 comments) / other
2006-10-16 / #348 Raymond’s excursions into East Asian pop music, episode 4: Yuki (15 comments) / excursions-into-east-asian-pop-music;non-computer
2006-10-17 / #349 What does the letter "T" in LPTSTR stand for? (35 comments) / code
2006-10-17 / #350 Answering phones at KUOW for their Fall 2006 pledge drive (10 comments) / non-computer
2006-10-18 / #351 Don’t require your users to have a degree in philosophy (61 comments) / other
2006-10-18 / #352 Dead Sea Scrolls lectures available online (or in person if you can get there) (3 comments) / non-computer
2006-10-19 / #353 No good deed goes unpunished, part 2 (33 comments) / code;email;no-good-deed-goes-unpunished
2006-10-20 / #354 How do I shut down a workstation via Remote Desktop? (35 comments) / tipssupport
2006-10-20 / #355 Wired Magazine’s report on that bizarro Ferarri crash (11 comments) / non-computer
2006-10-23 / #356 Psychic debugging: Why doesn’t my program show up when I call ShellExecute? (22 comments) / code
2006-10-23 / #357 Quick and dirty Hallowe’en costume for physics geeks (10 comments) / non-computer
2006-10-24 / #358 More tales of dead computers: My home desktop (75 comments) / dead-computers;other
2006-10-24 / #359 Invalidating the null window redux (51 comments) / history
2006-10-25 / #360 Offline mode silently prevents you from streaming media content (14 comments) / tipssupport
2006-10-25 / #361 Non-resolution of the dead home desktop problem (90 comments) / dead-computers;other
2006-10-26 / #362 For a brief shining moment, DirectX was more popular than another word that ends in x (29 comments) / history
2006-10-26 / #363 Let the dead computer scavenging commence! (28 comments) / dead-computers;other
2006-10-27 / #364 The great Polish Sea -or- We forgot Poland! (56 comments) / history;time
2006-10-27 / #365 Now it looks like I speak far more languages than I actually do (18 comments) / other
2006-10-30 / #366 Why can’t I get my program to use more than 50% of the CPU? (22 comments) / tipssupport
2006-10-30 / #367 Руками не трогать! (31 comments) / non-computer
2006-10-31 / #368 Separated at birth: The Windows XP SP2 launch team (11 comments) / non-computer
2006-10-31 / #369 So that’s what daddy does at work (16 comments) / non-computer
2006-11-01 / #370 I bet somebody got a really nice bonus for that feature (132 comments) / other
2006-11-02 / #371 Make sure you disable the correct window for modal UI (10 comments) / code
2006-11-03 / #372 How do I convert an HRESULT to a Win32 error code? (32 comments) / code
2006-11-06 / #373 On the importance of backwards compatibility for large corporations (62 comments) / other
2006-11-06 / #374 Tonya and Nancy: The Opera (4 comments) / non-computer
2006-11-07 / #375 There’s going to be an awful lot more overclocking out there (39 comments) / other
2006-11-07 / #376 Aspiring to the wrong office on election day (28 comments) / non-computer
2006-11-08 / #377 How do I test that return value of ShellExecute against 32? (39 comments) / code
2006-11-09 / #378 Why can’t you use the Tab key to select items from the auto-complete drop-down? (17 comments) / other
2006-11-09 / #379 A modest proposal: Solving the problem of steroids in baseball (25 comments) / a-modest-proposal;non-computer
2006-11-10 / #380 Converting an HRESULT to a Win32 error code: Diagram and answer to exercise (60 comments) / code
2006-11-13 / #381 What do bitwise operations mean for colors? (9 comments) / code
2006-11-13 / #382 New dessert lounge: Coco la ti da (8 comments) / non-computer
2006-11-14 / #383 Blitting between color and monochrome DCs (7 comments) / code
2006-11-14 / #384 Keeping classic hardware alive through emulation (25 comments) / history
2006-11-15 / #385 Manipulating the DIB color table for fun and profit (17 comments) / code
2006-11-16 / #386 Using DIB sections to perform bulk color mapping (6 comments) / code
2006-11-17 / #387 The window manager moves the mouse; applications choose the cursor (34 comments) / tipssupport
2006-11-20 / #388 It takes only one program to foul an upgrade (32 comments) / code
2006-11-20 / #389 Paradoxically, you should remove the smart card when logging on with a smart card (23 comments) / tipssupport
2006-11-21 / #390 What is the process by which the cursor gets set? (10 comments) / code
2006-11-22 / #391 The quiet dream of placebo settings (35 comments) / history
2006-11-23 / #392 Placebo setting: QoS bandwidth reservation (27 comments) / tipssupport
2006-11-24 / #393 Sometimes you need to recalibrate your progress reports (11 comments) / history
2006-11-27 / #394 It’s not surprising at all that people search for Yahoo (99 comments) / other
2006-11-28 / #395 What went wrong in Windows 95 if you use a system color brush as your background brush? (24 comments) / code;history
2006-11-29 / #396 A fork is an easy-to-find nonstandard USB device (43 comments) / other
2006-11-30 / #397 It took two of us to keep up with one Bob (32 comments) / other
2006-12-01 / #398 Nailing down what constitutes valuable consideration (59 comments) / other
2006-12-04 / #399 The name WinMain is just a convention (37 comments) / code
2006-12-04 / #400 The wisdom of seventh graders: What to do with a time machine (part 1) (96 comments) / non-computer;the-wisdom-of-seventh-graders
2006-12-05 / #401 How do I find all files with at least one space in their name? (44 comments) / tipssupport
2006-12-05 / #402 The wisdom of seventh graders: What to do with a time machine (part 2) (38 comments) / non-computer;the-wisdom-of-seventh-graders
2006-12-06 / #403 If you let people read a file, then they can copy it (67 comments) / other
2006-12-06 / #404 The wisdom of seventh graders: What to do with a time machine (part 3) (23 comments) / non-computer;the-wisdom-of-seventh-graders
2006-12-07 / #405 Okay, I changed my mind, I wrote a book after all (97 comments) / other
2006-12-08 / #406 Do not overload the E_NOINTERFACE error (26 comments) / code
2006-12-08 / #407 Throwing things into a blender and seeing what happens (10 comments) / non-computer
2006-12-11 / #408 What does an invalid handle exception in LeaveCriticalSection mean? (27 comments) / other
2006-12-12 / #409 A high waiter count on a free critical section may indicate a lock convoy (16 comments) / code
2006-12-12 / #410 Jeanne Martinet teaches you how to survive a party where you don’t know anybody (10 comments) / non-computer
2006-12-13 / #411 Displaying infotips for folded and unfolded listview items (13 comments) / code
2006-12-13 / #412 Maybe if it had characters and stuff and different levels, it would be OK (19 comments) / non-computer
2006-12-14 / #413 Computing listview infotips in the background (21 comments) / code
2006-12-16 / #414 Why do user interface actions tend to occur on the release, not on the press? (39 comments) / code
2006-12-18 / #415 Do not write in-process shell extensions in managed code (42 comments) / code
2006-12-18 / #416 Some call it context, others call it reference data, but whatever it is, it’s yours (24 comments) / code
2006-12-19 / #417 I bet somebody is looking to get a really nice bonus for that feature: Attention (73 comments) / other
2006-12-19 / #418 Pacific Northwest storm recovery continues (16 comments) / non-computer
2006-12-20 / #419 The evolution of version resources – 16-bit version resources (14 comments) / history
2006-12-21 / #420 The evolution of version resources – 32-bit version resources (6 comments) / history
2006-12-21 / #421 The unanswered Explainer questions (12 comments) / non-computer
2006-12-22 / #422 The evolution of version resources – corrupted 32-bit version resources (11 comments) / history
2006-12-25 / #423 The Old New Thing book will also be available electronically (13 comments) / other
2006-12-26 / #424 The first parameter to VerQueryValue really must be a buffer you obtained from GetFileVersionInfo (3 comments) / code
2006-12-26 / #425 I can’t believe they actually can’t think of a name for the recent storm (10 comments) / non-computer
2006-12-27 / #426 The social skills of a thermonuclear device, part 3 (34 comments) / other;the-social-skills-of-a-thermonuclear-device
2006-12-28 / #427 Linda Hunt’s advice for Oscar-winners (3 comments) / non-computer
2006-12-28 / #428 Stop the madness: Subdirectories of My Documents (118 comments) / other
2006-12-29 / #429 2006 end-of-year link clearance (24 comments) / non-computer

2007

Date Title
2007-01-01 / #0 The family technical support department: Everything is Outlook (63 comments) / other
2007-01-02 / #1 Why can’t I GetProcAddress for CreateWindow? (18 comments) / code
2007-01-03 / #2 Wait, but why can I GetProcAddress for IsDialogMessage? (21 comments) / history
2007-01-04 / #3 How a bullet turns into a beep (20 comments) / other
2007-01-05 / #4 What(‘s) a character! (53 comments) / code
2007-01-08 / #5 Why do property sheets sometimes take a first-chance exception? (19 comments) / history
2007-01-09 / #6 What triggers the recall of an offline file? (4 comments) / code
2007-01-09 / #7 Article of clothing or tasty dessert? (21 comments) / non-computer
2007-01-10 / #8 How do I load an entire file into a rich text control? (5 comments) / code
2007-01-10 / #9 Ken Levine teaches us about television script writing (2 comments) / non-computer
2007-01-11 / #10 How do I put more than 32,000 characters into a rich text control? (10 comments) / code
2007-01-11 / #11 The history of the RichEdit control from Murray Sargent (0 comments) / history
2007-01-12 / #12 How do I print the contents of a rich text control? (5 comments) / code
2007-01-15 / #13 Does Microsoft internally use MFC for writing Windows apps? (38 comments) / other
2007-01-15 / #14 The wisdom of sev^H^H^Heighth graders: It was not just white people who were helped by Martin Luther King (26 comments) / non-computer;the-wisdom-of-seventh-graders
2007-01-16 / #15 EnumChildWindows already enumerates recursively (15 comments) / code
2007-01-16 / #16 One Armstrong = 13.5 mph (42 comments) / non-computer
2007-01-17 / #17 Should all windows appear in the taskbar? (63 comments) / other
2007-01-17 / #18 Iced-over roads + people who can’t drive = very expensive (and dangerous) game of billiards (64 comments) / non-computer
2007-01-18 / #19 Email tip: Choose a subject line that is meaningful to the recipient, not to the sender (40 comments) / email;non-computer
2007-01-19 / #20 What does the fCreate parameter to SHCreateStreamOnFileEx mean? (9 comments) / code
2007-01-19 / #21 2006 storm aftermath: A look back (34 comments) / non-computer
2007-01-22 / #22 The cost of continuously-visible affordances with dynamic states (18 comments) / code
2007-01-23 / #23 Non-psychic debugging: If you can’t find something, make sure you’re looking in the right place (21 comments) / code
2007-01-23 / #24 Unexpected consequences of writing a book: Public appearances (31 comments) / non-computer
2007-01-24 / #25 The undeletable Outlook folder, episode 2 (11 comments) / tipssupport
2007-01-24 / #26 Walking through packed snow and ice with a little more confidence (17 comments) / non-computer
2007-01-25 / #27 Where did the Windows Vista wallpaper images come from? (49 comments) / history
2007-01-25 / #28 Not my finest hour: Where are my keys? (44 comments) / non-computer
2007-01-26 / #29 The /MAXMEM switch doesn’t set the maximum amount of memory Windows will use (12 comments) / other
2007-01-26 / #30 The real underground (and subway) (10 comments) / non-computer
2007-01-29 / #31 If vertical strips are better, why do toolbars use horizontal strips? (12 comments) / code
2007-01-30 / #32 Unusual uses for a ball-point pen: Breaking into the debugger (27 comments) / history
2007-01-31 / #33 Crackpots in computer security: A complete solution to computer security (33 comments) / other
2007-01-31 / #34 If you ask an author to sign a book, you have to tell him/her what to write (17 comments) / non-computer
2007-02-01 / #35 The network interoperability compatibility problem, second follow-up (60 comments) / other
2007-02-02 / #36 The ironic thing about fixing a bug (42 comments) / other
2007-02-02 / #37 Super Bowl Sunday: The day the entire country stops doing anything (23 comments) / non-computer
2007-02-02 / #38 The publicity machine doesn’t stop: TechNet podcast interview (14 comments) / non-computer
2007-02-05 / #39 Why did Explorer say "The target you specified is on the desktop"? (34 comments) / history
2007-02-05 / #40 Public service announcement for United States taxpayers: In tax year 2006, you can claim a $30 refund if you owned a telephone (75 comments) / non-computer
2007-02-06 / #41 Bonus material for The Old New Thing (the book) is now available for download (28 comments) / non-computer
2007-02-06 / #42 Why can’t I create my dialog box? Rookie mistake #1 (21 comments) / code
2007-02-07 / #43 Why can’t I create my dialog box? Rookie mistake #2 (8 comments) / code
2007-02-07 / #44 Maintaining standards of Japanese food abroad (47 comments) / non-computer
2007-02-08 / #45 Why does my property sheet blink and the immediately disappear? (15 comments) / code
2007-02-08 / #46 Who is most likely to be awarded a MacArthur Fellowship? (1 comment) / non-computer
2007-02-09 / #47 Do I need rush processing? Beats me! (23 comments) / other
2007-02-09 / #48 Long Zheng interviews Hamad Darwish about those Windows Vista wallpapers (2 comments) / other
2007-02-12 / #49 Why doesn’t the window manager unregister window classes when the owning DLL unloads? (15 comments) / history
2007-02-12 / #50 Performance evaluation euphemisms invading everyday speech (ironically) (16 comments) / non-computer
2007-02-13 / #51 Email tip: Don’t add people to a thread without saying why (27 comments) / email;non-computer
2007-02-13 / #52 Email tip: Barry Leiba expounds on subject lines (4 comments) / email;non-computer
2007-02-14 / #53 Technology hypochondriacs (21 comments) / other
2007-02-15 / #54 Why can’t you set the command prompt’s current directory to a UNC? (53 comments) / history
2007-02-15 / #55 There’s not much luggage space, unless you dump the snow (7 comments) / non-computer
2007-02-16 / #56 Why don’t I use any class libraries in my sample code? (28 comments) / code
2007-02-16 / #57 News flash: Professional athletes do it for the money (33 comments) / news-flash;non-computer
2007-02-19 / #58 What does LockWindowUpdate do? (28 comments) / code
2007-02-20 / #59 How is LockWindowUpdate meant to be used? (16 comments) / code
2007-02-20 / #60 Crush Finder experiment gets off the ground at Princeton (25 comments) / non-computer
2007-02-21 / #61 With what operations is LockWindowUpdate meant to be used? (19 comments) / code
2007-02-21 / #62 Mandarin Chinese gaining popularity in public schools (31 comments) / non-computer
2007-02-22 / #63 With what operations is LockWindowUpdate not meant to be used? (28 comments) / code
2007-02-22 / #64 How to get your laptop to resume from standby in under two seconds (49 comments) / tipssupport
2007-02-23 / #65 Final remarks on LockWindowUpdate (38 comments) / code
2007-02-23 / #66 The 2007/2008 Seattle Symphony subscription season at a glance (9 comments) / non-computer
2007-02-23 / #67 I wouldn’t be surprised if O. J. Simpson wrote a new book (9 comments) / non-computer
2007-02-26 / #68 Please feel free to stop using DDE (62 comments) / code
2007-02-26 / #69 The politician’s fallacy and the politician’s apology (35 comments) / non-computer
2007-02-27 / #70 What does an NMI error mean? (The infamous "Hardware Malfunction") (28 comments) / tipssupport
2007-02-27 / #71 How hard could it be? Must provide own garage. (22 comments) / non-computer
2007-02-28 / #72 Another retired computer: The Alpha Rawhide (22 comments) / dead-computers;other
2007-02-28 / #73 More Vista wallpapers from Hamad Darwish (5 comments) / tipssupport
2007-03-01 / #74 If you have to ask, you’re probably doing something wrong (79 comments) / other
2007-03-01 / #75 West Bank Story, the movie that sells itself in five seconds (5 comments) / non-computer
2007-03-02 / #76 The .Default user is not the default user (30 comments) / other
2007-03-02 / #77 Public service announcement for Seattle area taxpayers: Some transit taxes can be itemized and deducted (11 comments) / non-computer
2007-03-05 / #78 Hiding files is not the same as protecting them (55 comments) / other
2007-03-05 / #79 It’s official, it’s the Hannukah Eve Storm of 2006 (2 comments) / non-computer
2007-03-06 / #80 Things I’ve written that have amused other people, Episode 3 (9 comments) / non-computer;things-ive-written-that-have-amused-other-people
2007-03-06 / #81 What was the first parameter to CoInitialize used for? (2 comments) / history
2007-03-07 / #82 Microspeak: Sit in it! (14 comments) / microspeak;other
2007-03-07 / #83 The wisdom of seventh graders: John Locke and influential persons (17 comments) / non-computer;the-wisdom-of-seventh-graders
2007-03-08 / #84 The GETDISPINFO notifications tell you what information they want (1 comment) / code
2007-03-08 / #85 Just what the world has been wishing for: Surströmming ice cream (17 comments) / non-computer
2007-03-09 / #86 Don’t be so fast to discount those oddball time zones (38 comments) / other;time
2007-03-09 / #87 This American Life: What I Learned From Television, Seattle edition (4 comments) / non-computer
2007-03-12 / #88 Raymond’s highly scientific predictions for the 2007 NCAA men’s basketball tournament (17 comments) / highly-scientific;non-computer
2007-03-12 / #89 What is a SM_SLOWMACHINE? (26 comments) / history
2007-03-13 / #90 The only thing you can do with display names is display them (23 comments) / code
2007-03-13 / #91 Out there gathering map data, one intersection at a time (20 comments) / non-computer
2007-03-14 / #92 Don’t require your users to have a degree in philosophy, episode 2 (69 comments) / other
2007-03-14 / #93 News flash: Snacks at the theater concession stand are not good for you (4 comments) / news-flash;non-computer
2007-03-15 / #94 Email tip: Don’t forget to ask your question (45 comments) / non-computer
2007-03-16 / #95 The format of accelerator table resources (9 comments) / code
2007-03-16 / #96 Verizon backs down on made-up fees and then adds them anyway (31 comments) / non-computer
2007-03-19 / #97 How do the menu functions find items? (7 comments) / code
2007-03-20 / #98 I bet somebody is looking to get a really nice bonus for that feature: Uninstall (59 comments) / other
2007-03-20 / #99 The early stages of Joshua Roman groupie-dom (6 comments) / non-computer
2007-03-21 / #100 You don’t know what you do until you know what you don’t do (45 comments) / other
2007-03-22 / #101 Excursions in composition: Sequential stream concatenation (18 comments) / code
2007-03-23 / #102 Excursions in composition: Adding rewind support to a sequential stream (15 comments) / code
2007-03-23 / #103 The wisdom of seventh graders and you: Design a course (70 comments) / non-computer;the-wisdom-of-seventh-graders
2007-03-26 / #104 Passing by address versus passing by reference, a puzzle (29 comments) / code
2007-03-26 / #105 The publicity machine continues: A chat with Scott Hanselman and Hanselminutes (11 comments) / non-computer
2007-03-27 / #106 Microspeak: Calibration (38 comments) / microspeak;other
2007-03-28 / #107 Why are there both TBSTYLE_EX_VERTICAL and CCS_VERT? (13 comments) / other
2007-03-28 / #108 The social skills of a thermonuclear device, part 4 (27 comments) / other;the-social-skills-of-a-thermonuclear-device
2007-03-29 / #109 The buffer size parameter to GetFileVersionInfo is the size of your buffer, no really (30 comments) / code
2007-03-29 / #110 How to talk like Marketing: The awareness space (13 comments) / non-computer
2007-03-30 / #111 On the effect of dandruff on climate (4 comments) / non-computer
2007-03-30 / #112 What do the colors in the elevation dialog mean? (73 comments) / tipssupport
2007-04-02 / #113 Why do operating system files still adhere to the old 8.3 naming convention? (44 comments) / history
2007-04-02 / #114 Groundwork being laid for Vladimir Putin to run for his fourth term (out of a maximum of two) (32 comments) / non-computer
2007-04-03 / #115 Why does my thread pool use only one thread? (32 comments) / code
2007-04-04 / #116 His lips are moving: In order to serve you better (44 comments) / non-computer
2007-04-04 / #117 Your chance to meet Raymond if you are near Palo Alto on the 23rd (28 comments) / non-computer
2007-04-05 / #118 Why can’t I display a tooltip for a disabled window? (16 comments) / code
2007-04-05 / #119 On the enduring appeal of Walker, Texas Ranger (11 comments) / non-computer
2007-04-06 / #120 Code is read much more often than it is written, so plan accordingly (53 comments) / other
2007-04-06 / #121 When very young children try too hard to act nonchalant (5 comments) / non-computer
2007-04-09 / #122 Why doesn’t the taskbar return to its original size when I return my settings to their original values? (36 comments) / code
2007-04-10 / #123 What is the default version of a header file? (34 comments) / code
2007-04-10 / #124 What’s the row of numbers on the copyright page of books? (21 comments) / non-computer
2007-04-10 / #125 Enjoy our Bluetooth devices with a glass of beer or wine (Bluetooth device optional) (27 comments) / non-computer
2007-04-11 / #126 What’s the difference between WINVER, _WIN32_WINNT, _WIN32_WINDOWS, and _WIN32_IE? (33 comments) / code
2007-04-11 / #127 Oh no, I have an obstructed view of Joshua Roman! (9 comments) / non-computer
2007-04-12 / #128 What is the default version of the shell common controls? (14 comments) / code
2007-04-13 / #129 Email tip: People didn’t answer your first email for a reason (60 comments) / email;non-computer
2007-04-16 / #130 Changes to power management in Windows Vista (70 comments) / other
2007-04-16 / #131 See the Seattle Symphony on television in high definition (2 comments) / non-computer
2007-04-17 / #132 The Notepad file encoding problem, redux (65 comments) / other
2007-04-17 / #133 No farting please, we’re Americans (20 comments) / non-computer
2007-04-18 / #134 Psychic debugging: Why you can’t control page navigation when using PSP_DLGINDIRECT (6 comments) / code
2007-04-18 / #135 Trivia: Pea, marble, dime, nickel, quarter, half dollar, walnut… (16 comments) / non-computer
2007-04-19 / #136 Perhaps the movies made too literal a translation (29 comments) / non-computer
2007-04-20 / #137 The format of bitmap resources (6 comments) / code
2007-04-20 / #138 The wisdom of seventh graders: Designing an elective course (43 comments) / non-computer;the-wisdom-of-seventh-graders
2007-04-23 / #139 Psychic debugging: When reading unfamiliar code, assume it’s mostly correct (14 comments) / other
2007-04-23 / #140 Given a choice between two options, you influence the result by adding a third, inferior, alternative (33 comments) / non-computer
2007-04-24 / #141 What is the underlying object behind a COM interface pointer? (9 comments) / other
2007-04-24 / #142 How much time does it take for a pedestrian to cross the street? (28 comments) / non-computer
2007-04-25 / #143 Identifying an object whose underlying DLL has been unloaded (10 comments) / other
2007-04-25 / #144 There’s something about Christopher Walken (12 comments) / non-computer
2007-04-26 / #145 Using the "gu" debugger command to find the infinite loop (15 comments) / other
2007-04-26 / #146 The intermediate value theory helps your table but not necessarily your beer (28 comments) / non-computer
2007-04-27 / #147 Stupid debugger tricks: Calling functions and methods (14 comments) / code
2007-04-27 / #148 News Flash: Not being able to watch Jay Leno is not an emergency (10 comments) / news-flash;non-computer
2007-04-30 / #149 The default verb is not necessarily "open" (19 comments) / code
2007-04-30 / #150 Everyone should have a house pianist (18 comments) / non-computer
2007-05-01 / #151 Microspeak: Operationalize (27 comments) / microspeak;other
2007-05-01 / #152 Two web sites that read the fine print (22 comments) / non-computer
2007-05-02 / #153 The old-fashioned theory on how processes exit (27 comments) / code
2007-05-02 / #154 Male perceptions of body image in Taiwan (9 comments) / non-computer
2007-05-03 / #155 Quick overview of how processes exit on Windows XP (37 comments) / other
2007-05-03 / #156 Unexpected consequences of self-checkout (45 comments) / non-computer
2007-05-04 / #157 How my lack of understanding of how processes exit on Windows XP forced a security patch to be recalled (78 comments) / code
2007-05-04 / #158 But they’re not (puts on sunglasses) going to get away with murder (12 comments) / non-computer
2007-05-07 / #159 Drag and drop is a general purpose transfer model, not exclusive to Explorer directories (15 comments) / code
2007-05-07 / #160 Metromint: What were they thinking? (30 comments) / non-computer
2007-05-08 / #161 The administrator is an idiot (104 comments) / other
2007-05-08 / #162 Session 0 isolation: Where backward compatibility loses to security (39 comments) / code
2007-05-09 / #163 Don’t be helpless: At least look at the function you’re using (61 comments) / other
2007-05-09 / #164 Revelations of My Friends: An ancestor of today’s Mad Libs (1 comment) / non-computer
2007-05-10 / #165 Email tip: Don’t ask the same question multiple times in different groups (28 comments) / email;non-computer
2007-05-11 / #166 Performing an operation in each subdirectory of a directory tree from batch (46 comments) / tipssupport
2007-05-11 / #167 Evergreen Philharmonic Baroque Festival 2007 (7 comments) / non-computer
2007-05-14 / #168 Service required * Brewer error * (26 comments) / non-computer
2007-05-15 / #169 Command lines need to be quoted; paths don’t (27 comments) / other
2007-05-15 / #170 Get Sea-Tac flight information (including gate and baggage claim) via email (3 comments) / non-computer
2007-05-16 / #171 Why are console windows limited to Lucida Console and raster fonts? (59 comments) / other
2007-05-16 / #172 Please refer to the instructions that don’t exist (30 comments) / non-computer
2007-05-17 / #173 We’re all in this together: No good deed goes unpunished, redux (18 comments) / no-good-deed-goes-unpunished;other
2007-05-17 / #174 Store Wars and the Meatrix (4 comments) / non-computer
2007-05-18 / #175 Getting in on the action while it’s still there (12 comments) / other
2007-05-18 / #176 Don’t drive your pick-up onto the roof of a house, especially if, well, read on (19 comments) / non-computer
2007-05-21 / #177 Don’t be helpless: I don’t know anything about MFC modal loops, but unlike some people, I’m not afraid to find out (24 comments) / code
2007-05-21 / #178 The unidentified award (39 comments) / non-computer
2007-05-22 / #179 You’re not my manager, so I’m not going to ask how high when you tell me to jump (44 comments) / other
2007-05-22 / #180 Another chapter in Swedish political hypocrisy (2007 edition) (18 comments) / non-computer
2007-05-23 / #181 Suggestion Box 3 (469 comments) / pages
2007-05-23 / #182 Microspeak: The forcing function (12 comments) / microspeak;other
2007-05-23 / #183 Das Leben der Anderen (28 comments) / non-computer
2007-05-24 / #184 We should just get rid of that stupid middle tier (28 comments) / other
2007-05-24 / #185 Being nominated for the Nobel Prize isn’t as big a deal as it sounds (20 comments) / non-computer
2007-05-25 / #186 The parameters to PostQueuedCompletionStatus are not interpreted (6 comments) / code
2007-05-25 / #187 Raymond’s SIFF schedule (2007) (16 comments) / non-computer
2007-05-28 / #188 Cool, they’re using Roman numerals! (26 comments) / other
2007-05-29 / #189 Psychic debugging: Why does FormatMessage say the resource couldn’t be found? (25 comments) / code
2007-05-29 / #190 Let’s talk like people (22 comments) / non-computer
2007-05-30 / #191 The sad predicament of the unempowered manager (38 comments) / other
2007-05-30 / #192 The three things you need to know about tsunamis (9 comments) / non-computer
2007-05-31 / #193 Visual C++ 2005 will generate manifests for you (23 comments) / code
2007-05-31 / #194 You’d think questions about underwear were understood to be off-limits (14 comments) / non-computer
2007-06-01 / #195 Inserting as many layers between the message and reality as possible (14 comments) / non-computer
2007-06-01 / #196 I took the Monorail to the Shadow of the Moon (15 comments) / non-computer
2007-06-04 / #197 Choosing a provocative debug signature (19 comments) / history
2007-06-04 / #198 Death at a Funeral, Cashback, and Tell No One (5 comments) / non-computer
2007-06-05 / #199 Compatibility constraints of the water cooler (33 comments) / non-computer
2007-06-05 / #200 It’s official: The logo for the London 2012 Olympic Games is hideously ugly (55 comments) / non-computer
2007-06-06 / #201 Email tip: Lay off the massive email signatures (50 comments) / email;non-computer
2007-06-06 / #202 How not to prepare for the STP (2007 edition) (14 comments) / non-computer;stp
2007-06-07 / #203 How do I inflate a bicycle tire with a potato? (45 comments) / other
2007-06-07 / #204 The meaning of a red traffic light is open to interpretation (51 comments) / non-computer
2007-06-08 / #205 Why does canonical order for ACEs put deny ACEs ahead of allow ACEs? (31 comments) / tipssupport
2007-06-08 / #206 shopautodotca seocontest online contest tacitly encourages comment spam (29 comments) / non-computer
2007-06-11 / #207 What determines which programs show up on the front page of the Windows XP Start menu? (57 comments) / other
2007-06-11 / #208 The New York City Profit Calculator (15 comments) / non-computer
2007-06-12 / #209 Points are earned by programs, not by shortcuts (63 comments) / other
2007-06-12 / #210 I never thought of it before, but drumming is a metaphor for life! (2 comments) / non-computer
2007-06-13 / #211 The program doesn’t have to be run from the Start menu to earn Start menu points (29 comments) / other
2007-06-13 / #212 SIFF reviews: Falling, 2 Days in Paris, Hula Girls (5 comments) / non-computer
2007-06-14 / #213 If you pin a program, it doesn’t show up in the frequently-used programs list (18 comments) / other
2007-06-14 / #214 The Thing? Mystery of the desert (4 comments) / non-computer
2007-06-15 / #215 What other programs are filtered from the Start menu’s list of frequently-used programs? (22 comments) / other
2007-06-15 / #216 "Super" watch, episode 2 (5 comments) / other
2007-06-18 / #217 Why does a new user get stuff on their Start menu right off the bat? (34 comments) / other
2007-06-18 / #218 Project Update 3: Voyage to Our Hollow Earth (8 comments) / non-computer
2007-06-19 / #219 What is the impact on the Start menu of long-running programs? (33 comments) / other
2007-06-19 / #220 I’m pretty sure he’s going to be the envy of his next school reunion (15 comments) / non-computer
2007-06-20 / #221 More Start menu fine-tuning: Choosing a better representative for a frequently-run program (10 comments) / other
2007-06-20 / #222 In order to serve you better: Frequent flyer miles expiring sooner (33 comments) / non-computer
2007-06-21 / #223 How does the Windows XP Start menu decide that a program is newly-installed? (16 comments) / other
2007-06-21 / #224 What is the international sign for "you left something on the roof of your car"? (41 comments) / non-computer
2007-06-22 / #225 Even advanced users liked the Windows XP Start menu (61 comments) / other
2007-06-22 / #226 Einstein the geographer? A hoax. (6 comments) / non-computer
2007-06-25 / #227 There’s no point improving the implementation of a bad idea (42 comments) / other
2007-06-25 / #228 Why the Fantastic 4 Human Torch ATV is the Worst Movie Tie-In Toy Ever (8 comments) / non-computer
2007-06-26 / #229 Why do DLGC_WANTALLKEYS and DLGC_WANTMESSAGE have the same value? (18 comments) / code
2007-06-26 / #230 What’s all this stuff hanging from that utility pole? (4 comments) / non-computer
2007-06-27 / #231 Those who do not understand the dialog manager are doomed to reimplement it, badly (23 comments) / code
2007-06-27 / #232 Overheard conversation in the cockpit that you might not want to have heard (24 comments) / non-computer
2007-06-28 / #233 If it’s optional, then don’t make it mandatory (31 comments) / non-computer
2007-06-29 / #234 2007 mid-year link clearance (11 comments) / non-computer
2007-06-29 / #235 Don’t forget to pass the current directory along with the command line to your single-instance program (30 comments) / code
2007-07-02 / #236 Image File Execution Options just inserts the debugger in front of the command line (24 comments) / other
2007-07-02 / #237 The conversations backstage at computer Go tournaments (7 comments) / other
2007-07-03 / #238 If the system says that an embedded string could not be converted from Unicode to ANSI, maybe it’s trying to tell you something (17 comments) / code
2007-07-03 / #239 The audacity of selling things that don’t belong to you (8 comments) / non-computer
2007-07-04 / #240 Holidays for fireworks (and generally blowing up stuff) from around the world (74 comments) / non-computer
2007-07-05 / #241 QueryPerformanceCounter is not a source for unique identifiers (29 comments) / code
2007-07-05 / #242 Raymond’s tips on selecting a memorable greeting card (11 comments) / non-computer
2007-07-06 / #243 It rather involved being on the other side of this airtight hatchway: If they can run code, then they can run code (24 comments) / other
2007-07-06 / #244 Redmond Derby Days 2007 this weekend (5 comments) / non-computer
2007-07-09 / #245 It’s not enough to say that something is bad; you have to say what would be better (33 comments) / non-computer
2007-07-09 / #246 A modest proposal: Solving the problem of traffic in Seattle caused by sporting events (52 comments) / a-modest-proposal;non-computer
2007-07-10 / #247 The forgotten common controls: The ShowHideMenuCtl function (17 comments) / code
2007-07-10 / #248 That leaves more hot German babes for me! (41 comments) / non-computer
2007-07-11 / #249 How to check for errors from SetFilePointer (25 comments) / code
2007-07-11 / #250 Those who do not understand history are doomed to repeat it… on YouTube (15 comments) / non-computer
2007-07-12 / #251 If you want a modeless dialog, then create a modeless dialog already (29 comments) / code
2007-07-12 / #252 Seattle street signs for sale, used, but for ten bucks you can’t complain (13 comments) / non-computer
2007-07-13 / #253 I was sort of interested at first, but now I’m not so sure any more (26 comments) / other
2007-07-13 / #254 The dangers of conversation fragments: Overheard on the Burke-Gilman trail (18 comments) / non-computer;stp
2007-07-16 / #255 How are window manager handles determined in 16-bit Windows and Windows 95? (18 comments) / history
2007-07-16 / #256 Creative armed robbery defense: Political asylum (9 comments) / non-computer
2007-07-17 / #257 How are window manager handles determined in Windows NT? (29 comments) / history
2007-07-17 / #258 Not my finest hour: Driving a manual transmission (81 comments) / non-computer
2007-07-18 / #259 Why is the limit of window handles per process 10,000? (37 comments) / history
2007-07-18 / #260 If you read any book about traditional weddings in Russian history, there must be a fight (9 comments) / non-computer
2007-07-19 / #261 You don’t optimize for the case where somebody is mis-using your system (29 comments) / other
2007-07-19 / #262 Food products that are offenses against nature: Fast Franks (55 comments) / non-computer
2007-07-20 / #263 Screwing the computer parts back together is the most dangerous step (43 comments) / other
2007-07-20 / #264 Apparently some people consider this a vacation; I consider it insane (11 comments) / non-computer;stp
2007-07-23 / #265 The real cost of compatibility is not in the hacks; the hacks are small potatoes (42 comments) / other
2007-07-23 / #266 Tips for doing the Seattle to Portland (STP) in two days: What I learned in 2007 (13 comments) / non-computer;stp
2007-07-24 / #267 Just because you say something in my presence and I don’t raise an objection doesn’t mean that I agree (51 comments) / email;non-computer
2007-07-24 / #268 Seattle to Portland (STP) 2007 trip report, part 1 of 4: Seattle to Spanaway (10 comments) / non-computer;stp
2007-07-25 / #269 What is Dave’s frame class? (48 comments) / history
2007-07-25 / #270 Seattle to Portland (STP) 2007 trip report, part 2 of 4: Spanaway to Toledo (7 comments) / non-computer;stp
2007-07-26 / #271 Seattle to Portland (STP) 2007 trip report, part 3 of 4: Toledo to St. Helens (14 comments) / non-computer;stp
2007-07-26 / #272 How do the names in the file security dialog map to access control masks? (9 comments) / tipssupport
2007-07-27 / #273 Don’t just grab the foreground window and host UI on it (58 comments) / code
2007-07-27 / #274 Seattle to Portland (STP) 2007 trip report, part 4 of 4: St. Helens to Portland and beyond (15 comments) / non-computer;stp
2007-07-30 / #275 There’s a whole Internet out there, folks, you might want to check it out (22 comments) / other
2007-07-30 / #276 Stuart Stevens takes performance-enhancing drugs in order to see what they do (9 comments) / non-computer
2007-07-31 / #277 What is the lpdwHandle parameter in GetFileVersionInfoSize used for? (17 comments) / history
2007-07-31 / #278 I just discovered that the Scandinavian Gift Shop in Ballard is closing (8 comments) / non-computer
2007-08-01 / #279 Footnotes in Win32 history: VLM (Very Large Memory) support (37 comments) / history
2007-08-01 / #280 Note to locals: Lincoln Center is in New York City, not Bellevue (6 comments) / non-computer
2007-08-02 / #281 What is the difference between the Folder and Directory (and other special) progids? (23 comments) / code
2007-08-02 / #282 But now I’ll never know which politician that alien backs for the next election (13 comments) / non-computer
2007-08-03 / #283 It was not one of Explorer’s design goals to provide a Turing-complete interface for bulk file renaming (41 comments) / other
2007-08-03 / #284 Probably the most expensive Harry Potter viewing I’ll ever attend (17 comments) / non-computer
2007-08-06 / #285 Freudian typo: Enchanced metafiles (10 comments) / other
2007-08-06 / #286 The truth about 4/29 the government doesn’t want you to know (11 comments) / non-computer
2007-08-07 / #287 It rather involved being on the other side of this airtight hatchway: Executable corruption (22 comments) / other
2007-08-07 / #288 One would be hard pressed to find a group of characters more in need of a lawyer (0 comments) / non-computer
2007-08-08 / #289 Email tip: I don’t have my bug numbers memorized (38 comments) / email;other
2007-08-08 / #290 Bowling coming to Bellevue, and given the location, it’s naturally upscale (7 comments) / non-computer
2007-08-09 / #291 How do I get the handle of the primary monitor? (30 comments) / code
2007-08-09 / #292 Martina Navratilova’s final Wimbledon appearance, and this time she means it (5 comments) / non-computer
2007-08-10 / #293 Things I’ve written that have amused other people, Episode 4 (66 comments) / other;things-ive-written-that-have-amused-other-people
2007-08-13 / #294 Why is the blog’s subtitle "Not actually a .NET blog"? (11 comments) / history
2007-08-13 / #295 Math is hard, let’s go shopp—oops (60 comments) / non-computer
2007-08-14 / #296 What is the order of evaluation in C#? (68 comments) / code
2007-08-14 / #297 SIFF 2007 wrap-up: Grandhotel, The Boss of It All, Vacation (7 comments) / non-computer
2007-08-15 / #298 C# static constructors are called on demand, not at startup (55 comments) / code
2007-08-15 / #299 For $15, you can purchase incorrect information, and to prevent people from getting it, you have to renew every three months (27 comments) / non-computer
2007-08-16 / #300 What are these strange cmp [ecx], ecx instructions doing in my C# code? (41 comments) / code
2007-08-16 / #301 The Radioactive Boy Scout is back in the news (25 comments) / non-computer
2007-08-17 / #302 What are these spurious nop instructions doing in my C# code? (31 comments) / code
2007-08-17 / #303 Do you have a Starbucks name? (36 comments) / non-computer
2007-08-20 / #304 Just because you’re a control doesn’t mean that you’re necessarily inside a dialog box (25 comments) / history
2007-08-20 / #305 When you copy a folder, why are the contents merged with the existing contents? (33 comments) / other
2007-08-21 / #306 We’re all in this together: Maintaining common tools (23 comments) / other;the-social-skills-of-a-thermonuclear-device
2007-08-21 / #307 At last you can turn off the USB 2.0 balloon (84 comments) / tipssupport
2007-08-22 / #308 Windows Vista has more extended options on the context menu (63 comments) / tipssupport
2007-08-22 / #309 The Northwest Mahler Orchestra presents Messiaen’s Turangalîla Symphony (13 comments) / non-computer
2007-08-22 / #310 Disclaimers and such (2 comments) / other;pages
2007-08-23 / #311 Nested fly-out menus are a usability nightmare (74 comments) / other
2007-08-23 / #312 Which Windows font is named after a tabloid headline? (23 comments) / history
2007-08-24 / #313 Microspeak: Value proposition (14 comments) / microspeak;other
2007-08-24 / #314 What happens at LL Bean at three in the morning? (11 comments) / non-computer
2007-08-27 / #315 Yes indeed, all Microsoft files are (or should be) digitally signed (52 comments) / other
2007-08-27 / #316 Is this the normal way of comparing toilets? (21 comments) / non-computer
2007-08-28 / #317 With a new Start menu come new keyboard shortcuts (54 comments) / tipssupport
2007-08-28 / #318 Airport travel tip: LAX Terminal 6 (United) (15 comments) / non-computer
2007-08-29 / #319 Kernel handles are not reference-counted (16 comments) / code
2007-08-29 / #320 Follow-up: Mysterious Dietrich identified from that bizarre Ferarri crash (7 comments) / non-computer
2007-08-30 / #321 Microspeak: FMLA (78 comments) / microspeak;other
2007-08-30 / #322 Somebody actually took the time to translate my book into Japanese, it appears (29 comments) / other
2007-08-31 / #323 The Internet Explorer pop-up blocker follows guidelines, not rules (52 comments) / other
2007-08-31 / #324 The Great Muffin Heist of ’07 (15 comments) / non-computer
2007-09-03 / #325 Knock knock. Who’s there? Not you any more. (16 comments) / history
2007-09-03 / #326 Belated follow-up: Mike Goodspaceguy Nelson running for public office, again (3 comments) / non-computer
2007-09-04 / #327 Does creating a thread from DllMain deadlock or doesn’t it? (25 comments) / code
2007-09-04 / #328 Volunteers help save fruit from home fruit trees from going to waste (8 comments) / non-computer
2007-09-05 / #329 Whenever there is a coordination problem, somebody says, "Hey, let’s create a process!" (36 comments) / non-computer
2007-09-05 / #330 I mean, come on, these are laptops (2 comments) / non-computer
2007-09-06 / #331 If your theory is "build it and they will come", you have to make sure there is a "they" (14 comments) / non-computer
2007-09-06 / #332 It’s that season again: The 2007 Microsoft Company Meeting (4 comments) / other
2007-09-07 / #333 Sometimes it feels like the effort isn’t even appreciated (28 comments) / other
2007-09-07 / #334 Wayback machine: The Fake Job (7 comments) / non-computer
2007-09-10 / #335 If control-specific messages belong to the WM_USER range, why are messages like BM_SETCHECK in the system message range? (9 comments) / code
2007-09-10 / #336 The Minimalist Jukebox Festival (8 comments) / non-computer
2007-09-11 / #337 What’s the difference between EM_UNDO and WM_UNDO? (2 comments) / code
2007-09-11 / #338 The wisdom of seventh graders: A Wrinkle in Time (33 comments) / non-computer;the-wisdom-of-seventh-graders
2007-09-12 / #339 Making some statements and asking for advice isn’t a question (21 comments) / email;non-computer
2007-09-12 / #340 Astrologers struggling with reclassification of Pluto (44 comments) / non-computer
2007-09-13 / #341 Why isn’t QuickEdit on by default in console windows? (46 comments) / history
2007-09-13 / #342 Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory now more popular than vice versa (15 comments) / non-computer
2007-09-14 / #343 The code page on the server is not necessarily the code page on the client (10 comments) / code
2007-09-14 / #344 Another type of misplaced apology: Apologizing for not knowing the penalty (37 comments) / non-computer
2007-09-17 / #345 What do I do with per-user data when I uninstall? (42 comments) / other
2007-09-17 / #346 Nearly everybody has a $500 flashlight (30 comments) / non-computer
2007-09-18 / #347 Why is my delay-rendered format being rendered too soon? (5 comments) / code
2007-09-18 / #348 Japanese street fashion reaches Finland (15 comments) / non-computer
2007-09-19 / #349 What happens if you pass a source length greater than the actual string length? (26 comments) / code
2007-09-19 / #350 Playing the hippie poetry game for four cents per line (5 comments) / non-computer
2007-09-20 / #351 It rather involved being on the other side of this airtight hatchway: Elevation to administrator (38 comments) / code
2007-09-20 / #352 Find the Flowers vs Minesweeper (53 comments) / other
2007-09-21 / #353 What’s the BS_PUSHLIKE button style for? (23 comments) / code
2007-09-21 / #354 The Microsoft Cafeteria Tour (Redmond 2006 Edition) (5 comments) / other
2007-09-24 / #355 How do I put a different wallpaper on each monitor? (76 comments) / tipssupport
2007-09-25 / #356 Microspeak: Going forward (37 comments) / microspeak;other
2007-09-26 / #357 The first day at Microsoft: A fender-bender (30 comments) / non-computer
2007-09-27 / #358 Why did the shortcut template change in Windows Vista? (50 comments) / history
2007-09-27 / #359 2007 Museum Day, courtesy of Smithsonian Magazine (5 comments) / non-computer
2007-09-28 / #360 2007 Q3 link clearance: Microsoft blogger edition (16 comments) / tipssupport
2007-10-01 / #361 Suggestion Box 3, short answers (part 1 of who knows how many) (40 comments) / other
2007-10-02 / #362 Don’t assume the first person to run your program is an administrator (52 comments) / code
2007-10-02 / #363 Where did WiX get its name? (1 comment) / history
2007-10-03 / #364 The most important choice in writing is not what you say, it’s what you don’t say (34 comments) / other
2007-10-03 / #365 Another celebrity knitter: Tracey Ullman (9 comments) / non-computer
2007-10-04 / #366 The perils of translating words blindly without verifying them in context (51 comments) / non-computer
2007-10-05 / #367 The early days of the Microsoft cafeterias (4 comments) / history
2007-10-05 / #368 The dangers of taking a service droid off script (25 comments) / non-computer
2007-10-08 / #369 Which windows appear in the Alt+Tab list? (16 comments) / code
2007-10-09 / #370 Why does ICE16 complain about product names longer than 63 characters? (19 comments) / tipssupport
2007-10-09 / #371 The three tiers of a mixing room of a movie studio (3 comments) / non-computer
2007-10-10 / #372 Microspeak: Actionable (31 comments) / microspeak;non-computer
2007-10-11 / #373 Whose idea was it to make Ctrl+Backspace delete the previous word? (32 comments) / history
2007-10-11 / #374 Unlikely excuses: A faulty microchip (22 comments) / non-computer
2007-10-12 / #375 No good deed goes unpunished: Free code samples (36 comments) / no-good-deed-goes-unpunished;other
2007-10-12 / #376 Not the best way to start out a form letter (17 comments) / non-computer
2007-10-15 / #377 Why aren’t shortcuts as easy as unix links? (66 comments) / code
2007-10-15 / #378 Nicolas Bourbaki, perhaps the biggest inside joke in mathematics (7 comments) / non-computer
2007-10-16 / #379 How do I delay the automatic logon process? (62 comments) / tipssupport
2007-10-17 / #380 The wrong way to check whether the mouse buttons have been swapped (39 comments) / code
2007-10-18 / #381 Win32 user interface work is inherently single-threaded (53 comments) / code
2007-10-19 / #382 Other problems traced to violating COM single-threaded apartment rules in the shell (45 comments) / code
2007-10-22 / #383 The best way to process Unicode input is to make somebody else do it (23 comments) / code
2007-10-23 / #384 Superstition: Why is GetFileAttributes the way old-timers test file existence? (45 comments) / history
2007-10-24 / #385 What’s the difference between LVM_HITTEST and LVM_INSERTMARKHITTEST? (3 comments) / code
2007-10-25 / #386 What’s the deal with the EM_SETHILITE message? (28 comments) / history
2007-10-26 / #387 If you pass enough random numbers, eventually one of them will look valid (12 comments) / code
2007-10-26 / #388 The King County Council race gets even stranger (10 comments) / non-computer
2007-10-29 / #389 Why doesn’t Explorer show recursive directory size as an optional column? (43 comments) / history
2007-10-30 / #390 You can’t change it, but you can hide it and add something that looks like it (43 comments) / tipssupport