2 March 2010 0 Comments

Seeing double? You’re not drunk; you’re just running pseudo! (aka Announcement: Pseudo Day!)

Some of you regular readers 1 might recall LOCALE_SDECIMAL?

20 August 2009 0 Comments

When you’re in the red, you don’t have a lot of choices

This blog is not about the economy! Regular readers may remember this blog, where I mentioned how much I limited my negative categorizations — the whole English language and I was holding it down to three adjectives. It turns out that there is a part of Microsoft that has even less variability in its expression of negatives! :-) Over in the Suggestion Box, Johannes Rössel asked: Hello, I am currently trying the Windows 7 Beta and decided to play around a little with the Regional and Language Options.

22 July 2009 0 Comments

The Letter Police can EAT MY SHORTS!

Regular reader from way back (and perhaps still regular reader!) Jan Kučera asked over in the Suggestion Box: Hi again… I hope there are more people going to suggest a topic or place a question, otherwise I would feel a bit… alone

27 May 2009 0 Comments

The whole truth about MB_PRECOMPOSED and MB_COMPOSITE

As a by the way, this blog does NOT represent anything beyond my own personal thoughts. You could even blame it on my Tegretol dosage, to be perfectly honest (if the pain were not so intense I’d have skipped this med for sure). I am not even on the team that owns this code any more and I didn’t own it when I was then