A brief stroll through time with Microsoft Windows and the "Add Font" dialog.
A question came up on IRC today regarding preprocessor macros and which ones are standard. Amazingly, MSDN does a good job of describing the standard macros and lists those non-standard but conventional macros implemented in Visual Studio. What it doesn't do is mention that some of those macros in fact aren't macros at all, but implicitly defined variables.
I explore the foibles of DNS lookups with proxy servers in Firefox 3, and try to determine why they cause my browser to hang intermittently.
Since I have utterly failed at maintaining Tomalak's Tuesday Tip — though I do intend to pick that up in 2009 — I have reformatted some conversation logs into interview style, as I found them quite interesting on the re-read. Hopefully someone out there might get something out of the ideas of myself and of people I know.
The BBC has completely changed its tune in the four months since placing the blame for the Ossetia conflict firmly on Russian policy.
I mean, you'd think that "BBC News at Ten" would actually be at Ten.
Why does this one man deserve so much more attention or respect than a hundred other reported casualties?
Arrogance abounds in a statement from the Bishop of Lancaster, who claims that graduates are spreading scepticism and sowing dissent. Imagine that…
I actually don't know whether this guy is serious or not. Given that he's one of the most influential conservative bloggers in the US, somehow I suspect that his apparent sarcasm was in fact not intended.
The Pope's been moaning that people of the world (and particularly Europe) aren't as interested in reading Christian religious texts as they used to be.
