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2008-01-01 - Fact of life People cant see things that are right in front of them.pdf
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2008-01-02 - A new DUI record set in the state of Washington.pdf
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2008-01-02 - You know the answer Window destruction.pdf
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2008-01-03 - In steady state only geeks install Windows but the hard part is getting to that steady state.pdf
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2008-01-04 - What does it mean when a display change is temporary.pdf
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2008-01-07 - Bait and switch literally applied to fish.pdf
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2008-01-07 - Clean-up functions cant fail because well how do you clean up from a failed clean-up.pdf
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2008-01-08 - Generating initials from a name is trickier than you think.pdf
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2008-01-08 - Taxes Files larger than 4GB.pdf
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2008-01-09 - Jag är inte heller en Microsoft-talesman på svenska.pdf
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2008-01-09 - The impact of hardworking employees on their less diligent colleagues.pdf
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2008-01-10 - How does the calculator percent key work.pdf
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2008-01-11 - In order to serve you better Chase resets your marketing preferences.pdf
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2008-01-11 - Windows is not an MFC delivery channel.pdf
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2008-01-14 - No matter where you put an advanced setting somebody will tell you that you are an idiot.pdf
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2008-01-15 - Use WM_WINDOWPOSCHANGED to react to window state changes.pdf
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2008-01-16 - Jerry Springer The Opera crosses the pond to visit Carnegie Hall.pdf
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2008-01-16 - Use WM_WINDOWPOSCHANGING to intercept window state changes.pdf
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2008-01-17 - How did registry keys work in 16-bit Windows.pdf
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2008-01-18 - Cant sing Cant dance Cant act Try the opera.pdf
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2008-01-18 - Why do registry keys have a default value.pdf
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2008-01-21 - If they had felt a little more mischievous when they titled the article Excerpts from Fischer-Spassky.pdf
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2008-01-21 - When computer programmers dabble in economics Paying parking tickets.pdf
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2008-01-22 - The Windows 95 volume control almost went to eleven.pdf
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2008-01-23 - Email tip Dont use a rude subject line just to make your message easier to spot.pdf
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2008-01-24 - Its one thing to say somebody should do this but doing it is another matter.pdf
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2008-01-25 - PLAY A Video Game Symphony comes to Seattle.pdf
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2008-01-25 - The classic start menu is even more classic than it looks.pdf
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2008-01-25 - What counts as a talent nowadays.pdf
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2008-01-28 - Crackpots in computer security Dont plug it in man.pdf
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2008-01-29 - The history of the Windows XP common controls.pdf
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2008-01-30 - Even without a nitpickers corner I have to worry about nitpickers.pdf
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2008-01-30 - Microspeak Housing.pdf
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2008-01-31 - Shell policy is not the same as security.pdf
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2008-01-31 - The dead home desktop problem returns.pdf
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2008-02-01 - Pass the whipped partially hydrogenated soybean and coconut oils please.pdf
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2008-02-01 - Strange bug assignment Programs are using too much memory.pdf
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2008-02-04 - DLL forwarding is not the same as delay-loading.pdf
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2008-02-04 - The dead home desktop returns from the dead.pdf
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2008-02-05 - Who decides what can be done with an object or a control.pdf
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2008-02-05 - Why did the display become a snapshot of the last time the monitor was plugged into the computer.pdf
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2008-02-06 - Otaku cosplay culture makes another inroad into North America.pdf
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2008-02-06 - When theres a problem with the platform you blame the platform whether its the platforms fault or not.pdf
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2008-02-07 - Grass jelly may be an Asian drink but its not crazy.pdf
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2008-02-07 - What did MakeProcInstance do.pdf
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2008-02-08 - Why couldnt you have more than one instance of a 16-bit multi-DS program.pdf
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2008-02-11 - Why does CtrlScrollLock cancel dialogs.pdf
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2008-02-12 - If you ask whether Ill be at a conference the answer is usually No.pdf
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2008-02-12 - Thank you people sitting behind me for explaining what the conductor is doing.pdf
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2008-02-13 - Controlling which devices will wake the computer out of sleep.pdf
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2008-02-13 - Follow-up Politically motivated armed robber being sent back to the US.pdf
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2008-02-14 - Bands of Valentine minstrels roaming campus.pdf
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2008-02-15 - Joshua Roman groupies may have to set up their frequent flyer accounts.pdf
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2008-02-15 - Theres more to switching stacks than just loading a new stack pointer.pdf
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2008-02-18 - Whats with all those spam ping-bots.pdf
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2008-02-18 - Why does Explorer show a sign even if there are no child folders.pdf
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2008-02-19 - If you used your credit card abroad between 1996 and 2006 you may be eligible for a class action laws.pdf
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2008-02-19 - When you ask somebody to take a look you need to tell them what you want them to find.pdf
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2008-02-20 - There can be more than one or zero Converting a process to a window.pdf
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2008-02-20 - Wait a second I thought we stopped doing this back in 2003.pdf
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2008-02-21 - Nobody actually talks the way they do in training videos do they.pdf
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2008-02-22 - Microspeak Assorted babble.pdf
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2008-02-25 - The United Kingdom of Great Britain Northern Ireland and France.pdf
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2008-02-25 - When somebody gives you a gift of code its more often than not a burden in disguise.pdf
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2008-02-26 - Losing the game of Last Checkin Chicken two products in a row.pdf
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2008-02-26 - TechDays 2008 learns the sneaky way of getting me to show up at your conference.pdf
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2008-02-27 - If you ask for STANDARD_RIGHTS_REQUIRED you may as well ask for the moon.pdf
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2008-02-27 - Making a reservation at the Asteroid and interrupting a cookie-bake.pdf
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2008-02-28 - Coca-Cola for breakfast Its not just for computer geeks any more.pdf
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2008-02-28 - Why are process and thread IDs multiples of four.pdf
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2008-02-29 - The 20082009 Seattle Symphony subscription season at a glance.pdf
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2008-02-29 - Why cant I get FormatMessage to load my resource string.pdf
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2008-03-03 - What do rocket scientists say when they want to say that something isnt hard.pdf
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2008-03-03 - Why does scheduling a task require a password.pdf
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2008-03-04 - Email tip A peer-to-peer discussion group does not come with a service level agreement.pdf
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2008-03-04 - I hadnt realized its an entire genre Music made from Windows system sounds.pdf
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2008-03-05 - Not my finest hour Using the wrong mouse.pdf
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2008-03-06 - How do I log on using a dial-up connection on Windows Vista.pdf
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2008-03-07 - The art of losing things Keep moving them around.pdf
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2008-03-07 - Why cant I convert a time zone abbreviation into a time zone.pdf
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2008-03-10 - Why isnt there a GetDlgItemFloat function.pdf
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2008-03-11 - Exercise doesnt have any effect unless you know youre doing it.pdf
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2008-03-11 - What a drag Dragging text.pdf
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2008-03-12 - What a drag Dragging a Uniform Resource Locator URL.pdf
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2008-03-13 - What a drag Dragging a Uniform Resource Locator URL and text.pdf
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2008-03-14 - If you grant somebody SeDebugPrivilege you gave away the farm.pdf
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2008-03-17 - I try not to rely on the kindness of strangers but its a pleasant surprise when strangers come throug.pdf
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2008-03-17 - Why cant you rename the Recycle Bin.pdf
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2008-03-18 - What a drag Dragging a virtual file HGLOBAL edition.pdf
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2008-03-19 - What a drag Dragging a virtual file IStream edition.pdf
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2008-03-20 - What a drag Dragging a virtual file IStorage edition.pdf
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2008-03-21 - How to write like Raymond What I tell you three times is true.pdf
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2008-03-21 - Raymonds highly scientific predictions for the 2008 NCAA mens basketball tournament.pdf
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2008-03-24 - Buses and trams going to this place called Reservado.pdf
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2008-03-24 - Whats the difference between the COM and EXE extensions.pdf
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2008-03-25 - Happy Waffle Day And other holidays named after food.pdf
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2008-03-25 - Whats the difference between int and INT long and LONG etc.pdf
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2008-03-26 - We hope you enjoyed this bus tour of Charles de Gaulle International Airport.pdf
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2008-03-26 - Why are structure names different from their typedef names.pdf
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2008-03-27 - Meet Deltalina the star of Deltas new in-flight safety video.pdf
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2008-03-27 - Why do structures get tag names even if there is a typedef.pdf
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2008-03-28 - Microspeak Newplacement.pdf
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2008-03-28 - The most academically elite team in college basketball in quest for their first conference win in 21 .pdf
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2008-03-31 - 2008 Q1 link clearance Microsoft blogger edition.pdf
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2008-03-31 - You can drag multiple virtual objects you know.pdf
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2008-04-01 - Pranksters breathe a sigh of relief There will never be a Building 7.pdf
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2008-04-02 - Lisbon The city whose public transportation system operates in three dimensions.pdf
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2008-04-02 - Maybe thats how you do it but around here we have a different convention for indicating which things .pdf
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2008-04-03 - How do I force the ECHO command to echo.pdf
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2008-04-03 - When a treehouse just isnt good enough.pdf
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2008-04-04 - 21 like 24 but three hours shorter.pdf
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2008-04-04 - STATUS_BUFFER_OVERFLOW really should be named STATUS_BUFFER_OVERFLOW_PREVENTED.pdf
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2008-04-07 - How to tell which end of the Metro platform to stand on and other survival tips for the Lisbon subway.pdf
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2008-04-07 - What happened to winipcfg and netmon.pdf
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2008-04-08 - I always get scared when I see people trying to organize the Internet into hierarchies.pdf
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2008-04-08 - Over 1500 times the net worth of Bill Gates yet nobody has heard of him.pdf
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2008-04-09 - Use the error directive to check whether the compiler even sees you.pdf
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2008-04-10 - The dead desktop computer The good the bad and the ugly but not in that order.pdf
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2008-04-10 - Who defined my name first Turnabout is fair play.pdf
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2008-04-11 - We cant cut that its our last feature.pdf
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2008-04-14 - Follow-up That shopautodotca seocontest online contest.pdf
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2008-04-14 - Why doesnt Explorer let you create a file whose name begins with a dot.pdf
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2008-04-15 - Email tip Nostalgia is not a question.pdf
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2008-04-15 - I know you cant provide tax advice but Im just looking for tax advice.pdf
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2008-04-16 - Raymond misreads newspaper headlines episode 2.pdf
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2008-04-16 - Raymonds reading list The Mythical Man-Month The Design of Everyday Things and Systemantics.pdf
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2008-04-17 - Baby Names for Dummies.pdf
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2008-04-17 - One-line batch script to delete empty directories.pdf
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2008-04-18 - Proto-Microspeak Center of value.pdf
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2008-04-18 - Special advance screening of five seconds of True Lies.pdf
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2008-04-21 - Fell the force.pdf
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2008-04-21 - Windows doesnt close windows when a user logs off thats your call.pdf
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2008-04-22 - The concrete pedestrian bridge in the Washington Park Arboretum claims another victim.pdf
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2008-04-22 - The contradictory dialog Click Finish to begin.pdf
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2008-04-23 - News flash Alumni give to colleges and universities to get their kids admitted.pdf
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2008-04-23 - The double-click time tells the window manager how good your reflexes are.pdf
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2008-04-24 - Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work today unless you work at main Microsoft campus in which case wait.pdf
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2008-04-24 - User interface code multi-threaded apartment death.pdf
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2008-04-25 - News flash Universities are more likely to admit students whose parents gave lots of money.pdf
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2008-04-25 - On the relationship between specific cases and general cases.pdf
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2008-04-28 - In search of Rossio Train Station.pdf
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2008-04-28 - Why does clearing document history also clear Run history.pdf
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2008-04-29 - Racking up the frequent shopper points at the register office.pdf
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2008-04-29 - Why do atoms start at 0xC000.pdf
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2008-04-30 - Book me the next flight to Tokyo no wait the second flight.pdf
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2008-04-30 - Some other places atoms and the magical 0xC000 arise.pdf
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2008-05-01 - Strange uses for window class atoms.pdf
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2008-05-01 - Why every advertising agency needs to have a review panel of twelve-year-old boys.pdf
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2008-05-02 - Canoeing around the Washington Park Arboretum.pdf
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2008-05-02 - You didnt know you could add properties by atom and its a good thing you didnt know.pdf
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2008-05-05 - If you pass invalid parameters then all bets are off.pdf
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2008-05-05 - News flash Its dangerous to drive a car if you are blind.pdf
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2008-05-06 - Email tip If they didnt get your message then they wont know that they didnt get it.pdf
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2008-05-06 - Psychic debugging Why does ExitProcess1 produce an exit code of zero.pdf
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2008-05-07 - Apparently Ive been promoted by mistake all these years.pdf
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2008-05-07 - The new dietary restriction landscape.pdf
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2008-05-08 - Gentle reminder On a dialog box do not give OK and Cancel accelerators.pdf
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2008-05-08 - The economics of soccer penalty kicks.pdf
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2008-05-09 - Data breakpoints are based on the linear address not the physical address.pdf
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2008-05-09 - Mothers Day is for all mothers not just your own mother.pdf
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2008-05-12 - How do I flash my window caption and taskbar button manually.pdf
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2008-05-12 - In Lisbon walkdont walk signs are mostly decorative.pdf
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2008-05-13 - The Big Red Switch really was big and red.pdf
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2008-05-14 - The dead desktop computer From good bad and ugly back to dead.pdf
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2008-05-14 - Why always Windows XP and Windows Vista and not just XP and Vista.pdf
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2008-05-15 - Build a slide show out of search results.pdf
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2008-05-15 - Selling your life for a quarter at a time.pdf
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2008-05-16 - I assume its cracking good though Im not the expert.pdf
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2008-05-16 - If users can shut down the machine its not a security hole if they can shut down the machine.pdf
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2008-05-19 - Bacalhau The unofficial national dish of Portugal and dont pass the salt.pdf
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2008-05-19 - Why is the function SHStripMneumonic misspelled.pdf
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2008-05-20 - König Drosselbart Performed in clay feathers and other strange materials.pdf
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2008-05-20 - The Phantom Bug Why doesnt MessageBox work from my WM_NCDESTROY handler.pdf
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2008-05-21 - Another interesting detail from the analysis of Windows Error Reporting data for Explorer.pdf
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2008-05-21 - Food discovery Vietnamese sandwiches aka bánh mì.pdf
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2008-05-22 - Microspeak On-board verb.pdf
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2008-05-23 - What does TranslateAccelerator do.pdf
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2008-05-26 - Welcome to the International Bank of Raymond.pdf
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2008-05-27 - The cultural axes of punctuality and waiting in line.pdf
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2008-05-27 - You cant give away something that isnt yours.pdf
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2008-05-28 - India Calling Call centers from the Indian point of view.pdf
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2008-05-28 - Reading a contract from the other side SHSetInstanceExplorer and SHGetInstanceExplorer.pdf
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2008-05-29 - The sad demise of whimsical teasing in Comic Chat.pdf
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2008-05-30 - Behind the Scenes at Mythbusters does not include experiments or explosions.pdf
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2008-05-30 - Why are some GDI functions named ExtXxx instead of XxxEx.pdf
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2008-06-02 - Raymond misreads newspaper headlines episode 3.pdf
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2008-06-02 - Why are accelerators for hidden controls still active.pdf
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2008-06-03 - Dlaczego Microsoft zatopił Polskę.pdf
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2008-06-03 - Food products that are offenses against nature Bisquick Shake n Pour.pdf
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2008-06-04 - Isnt the Learning Annex for total losers.pdf
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2008-06-04 - Why has my clipboard stopped working.pdf
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2008-06-05 - Portugal TechDays 2008 A report.pdf
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2008-06-06 - Million Dollar Password At least it shares a name with the original.pdf
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2008-06-06 - Why does OpenProcess succeed even when I add three to the process ID.pdf
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2008-06-09 - Money The new plagiarism.pdf
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2008-06-09 - Why are DLLs uninitialized in the wrong order.pdf
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2008-06-10 - Simply attach a piano to the end of the trebuchet.pdf
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2008-06-10 - There are only twelve function keys and who says theres somebody there to push them.pdf
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2008-06-11 - If you say that you dont care about something you shouldnt be upset that it contains garbage.pdf
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2008-06-12 - Email tip Pronouns in the subject line are in the eye of the beholder.pdf
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2008-06-13 - Dont be helpless You can find information too if you try.pdf
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2008-06-13 - Sometimes its easier just to let the native speaker win.pdf
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2008-06-16 - Blinding bank robbers with kindness.pdf
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2008-06-16 - How do the common controls convert between ANSI and Unicode.pdf
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2008-06-17 - Microspeak Pricing uplift.pdf
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2008-06-18 - MSDN-speak What does it mean when a parameter contains a value.pdf
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2008-06-19 - Why is there a menu show delay anyway.pdf
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2008-06-20 - Donations to the Microsoft Archives Pens CDs and paperweights.pdf
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2008-06-23 - Just because youre using a smart pointer class doesnt mean you can abdicate understanding what it doe.pdf
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2008-06-23 - Raymond misreads acronyms MSPP-PVP.pdf
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2008-06-24 - Dont require your users to have a degree in philosophy episode 3.pdf
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2008-06-25 - The difference between a junior and senior position at a video card company.pdf
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2008-06-26 - The disappointment of people who need to have their hand held from beginning to end.pdf
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2008-06-26 - The mystery of the garbage lady.pdf
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2008-06-27 - GUIDs are globally unique but substrings of GUIDs arent.pdf
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2008-06-30 - 2008 mid-year link clearance.pdf
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2008-06-30 - You dont need that 90 byte whereis program any more.pdf
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2008-07-01 - András Schiff 2006 lectures on the Beethoven piano sonatas.pdf
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2008-07-01 - Windows Vista changed the AltTab order slightly.pdf
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2008-07-02 - Raymond misreads newspaper head no wait I didnt.pdf
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2008-07-02 - Uninitialized floating point variables can be deadly.pdf
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2008-07-03 - How did the invalid floating point operand exception get raised when I disabled it.pdf
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2008-07-04 - Double the usual number of fire alarms today.pdf
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2008-07-04 - When anybody can look up your name in the company directory and pay a visit.pdf
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2008-07-07 - Why is the LOADPARMS32 structure so messed up.pdf
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2008-07-08 - The evolution of menu templates Introduction.pdf
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2008-07-08 - Wikipedia has created its own reactionary subculture.pdf
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2008-07-09 - The evolution of menu templates 16-bit classic menus.pdf
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2008-07-09 - Warning This cereal may contain traces of spiders.pdf
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2008-07-10 - News flash Car salesmen are sneaky and underhanded.pdf
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2008-07-10 - Whats the deal with that alternate form for menu item template separators.pdf
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2008-07-11 - Crazy ideas at the lunch table The ice cream bicycle.pdf
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2008-07-11 - The evolution of menu templates 32-bit classic menus.pdf
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2008-07-14 - When companies make it hard for you to pay money they are owed.pdf
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2008-07-14 - Why does the Install Font dialog look so old-school.pdf
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2008-07-15 - The evolution of menu templates 16-bit extended menus.pdf
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2008-07-16 - News flash Online drug sales are shady.pdf
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2008-07-16 - The evolution of menu templates 32-bit extended menus.pdf
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2008-07-17 - Microspeak Well actually management-speak.pdf
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2008-07-17 - The best building name on the University of Washington campus.pdf
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2008-07-18 - A new record for the shortest amount of time between an email message and its resend.pdf
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2008-07-18 - Dr Horribles Sing-Along Blog available online for a short time only.pdf
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2008-07-21 - A modest proposal Getting people to stop buying SUVs.pdf
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2008-07-21 - MessageBoxIndirect loads the icon itself you cant hand it a pre-loaded icon.pdf
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2008-07-22 - The Microsoft Company Picnic has as a side effect a demonstration of Microsofts rich cultural diversi.pdf
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2008-07-22 - Windows could not properly load the XYZ keyboard layout.pdf
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2008-07-23 - Theorize if you want but if the problem is right there in front of you why not go for the facts.pdf
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2008-07-23 - Things other people have written that have amused me.pdf
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2008-07-24 - Reading a contract from the other side Simulating a drop.pdf
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2008-07-25 - Simulating a drop part two.pdf
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2008-07-25 - Why seventh grade students want to go to weddings.pdf
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2008-07-28 - How can SIGINT be safely delivered on the main thread.pdf
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2008-07-29 - Be careful what you name your mailing list.pdf
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2008-07-29 - The sign that a trend is over It shows up in a movie.pdf
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2008-07-30 - What does each country claim for its own.pdf
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2008-07-30 - When I double-click an Excel spreadsheet Excel opens but the document doesnt.pdf
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2008-07-31 - Dont be helpless You can put things together it doesnt have to be a single command.pdf
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2008-08-01 - I warned you The dangers of attaching input queues.pdf
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2008-08-04 - Why when you sort by name doesnt it actually sort by name.pdf
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2008-08-05 - AOL is moving closer to jettisoning dial-up except for one person.pdf
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2008-08-05 - Microspeak The long pole.pdf
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2008-08-06 - The caret serves as the continuation character for batch files.pdf
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2008-08-06 - Whats with this MSH_MOUSEWHEEL message.pdf
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2008-08-07 - For that youll have to call security.pdf
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2008-08-07 - If the law says you cant file a petition you might need to file it anyway in case somebody later says.pdf
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2008-08-08 - If you return FALSE from DLL_PROCESS_ATTACH will you get a DLL_PROCESS_DETACH.pdf
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2008-08-08 - Raymond rewrites newspaper headlines.pdf
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2008-08-11 - Psychic debugging Why cant StreamReader read apostrophes from a text file.pdf
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2008-08-11 - Supplementary reading on the subject of anonymous functions and other CLR topics.pdf
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2008-08-12 - The implementation of iterators in C and its consequences part 1.pdf
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2008-08-12 - The unwritten rule of riding a Seattle Metro bus.pdf
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2008-08-13 - The implementation of iterators in C and its consequences part 2.pdf
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2008-08-14 - The gradual erosion of the car trip experience.pdf
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2008-08-14 - The implementation of iterators in C and its consequences part 3.pdf
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2008-08-15 - The implementation of iterators in C and its consequences part 4.pdf
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2008-08-15 - The Seattle Danskin Womens Triathlon 2008.pdf
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2008-08-18 - As a courtesy to performers and other audience members please turn off blinking head-mounted devices.pdf
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2008-08-18 - What happened to the Search option on the right hand side of the Start menu.pdf
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2008-08-19 - Its not Christmas Nobody enjoys unwrapping your present.pdf
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2008-08-20 - Icons and cursors know where they came from.pdf
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2008-08-20 - When somebody says a game is like chess it is usually completely unlike chess.pdf
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2008-08-21 - Oh no theres fog in San Francisco.pdf
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2008-08-21 - Why does Explorer generate a page fault every two seconds.pdf
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2008-08-22 - Destroying the module and resource information associated with an icon.pdf
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2008-08-22 - Keeping a visit a surprise after people have already guessed that youre coming.pdf
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2008-08-25 - Wedding two-year-old flower girl wildcard.pdf
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2008-08-25 - Why was the RAM drive removed from Windows 95.pdf
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2008-08-26 - DHS The Television Series the next chapter.pdf
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2008-08-26 - Microspeak Pencils down.pdf
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2008-08-27 - What does each country claim for its own greatest hits.pdf
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2008-08-27 - What possible use are those extra bits in kernel handles Part 1 Sentinels.pdf
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2008-08-28 - The stroke-count-based sort isnt random although it looks that way if you only see it in translation.pdf
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2008-08-28 - What possible use are those extra bits in kernel handles Part 2 Overcoming limited expressiveness.pdf
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2008-08-29 - What possible use are those extra bits in kernel handles Part 3 New object types.pdf
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2008-09-01 - How do I convert an error code to text when FORMAT_MESSAGE_FROM_SYSTEM doesnt work.pdf
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2008-09-01 - It helps if you write a cover letter and remember the name of your interviewer.pdf
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2008-09-02 - Tales from the interview Can you rotate this two-dimensional array.pdf
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2008-09-03 - Tales from the interview Lunch is not a competition.pdf
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2008-09-04 - Tales from the interview Lunch is not a competition episode 2.pdf
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2008-09-05 - Tales from the interview Anticipating your own incompetence is not a good interview strategy.pdf
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2008-09-08 - Ill see some of you in Los Angeles but this time itll be October.pdf
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2008-09-08 - QueryPerformanceCounter counts elapsed time not CPU cycles.pdf
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2008-09-09 - If you use an absurd signature I might end up sending it back to you.pdf
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2008-09-10 - And now your moment of reflection.pdf
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2008-09-10 - What were ShellExecute hooks designed for.pdf
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2008-09-11 - For a place thats supposed to be full of doctors they sure dont look like doctors.pdf
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2008-09-11 - Suggestion Box 3 short answers part 2 of who knows how many.pdf
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2008-09-12 - The terms of service you have to accept before you can see them.pdf
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2008-09-12 - Who is responsible for destroying the font passed in the WM_SETFONT message.pdf
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2008-09-15 - I no longer have to remind the payroll department to gear up for annual raises.pdf
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2008-09-16 - The purpose of charts is normally to make information easier not harder to understand.pdf
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2008-09-17 - Well at least thats one fewer program that relies on window handles being even numbers.pdf
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2008-09-18 - How can I tell that a directory is really a recycle bin.pdf
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2008-09-19 - How can I tell that a directory is weird and should be excluded from the user interface.pdf
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2008-09-19 - Steamy coffee leaves grounds for concern.pdf
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2008-09-22 - Ive seen why people steal the foreground window for their dialog box.pdf
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2008-09-22 - News flash Doing something that requires your attention reduces your ability to do other things at th.pdf
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2008-09-23 - Microspeak Space delivery.pdf
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2008-09-24 - How do I change the size of my desktop icons.pdf
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2008-09-24 - When attending a training session on how not to mess up your life try not to mess up your life.pdf
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2008-09-25 - Even if a function doesnt do anything you still have to call it if the documentation says so because .pdf
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2008-09-25 - The description of my 2008 PDC talk is wrong.pdf
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2008-09-26 - ERRORLEVEL is not ERRORLEVEL.pdf
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2008-09-29 - Anybody can make up a generic mapping.pdf
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2008-09-29 - Meet the authors Mario Hewardt and Daniel Pravat authors of Advanced Windows Debugging.pdf
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2008-09-30 - 2008 Q3 link clearance Microsoft blogger edition.pdf
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2008-09-30 - When computer programmers dabble in economics Buying prepaid lunch vouchers.pdf
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2008-10-01 - An artists conception of the new citizenship test.pdf
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2008-10-01 - Why do maximized windows lose their title bar translucency.pdf
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2008-10-02 - The dangers of setting your double-click speed too short.pdf
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2008-10-03 - Acquire and release sound like bass fishing terms but they also apply to memory models.pdf
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2008-10-03 - Stories of crossing into Canada The wedding.pdf
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2008-10-06 - Eventually nothing is special any more.pdf
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2008-10-07 - Microspeak Teaming.pdf
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2008-10-08 - Why does the Disk Management snap-in report my volume as Healthy when the drive is dying.pdf
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2008-10-09 - How can I increase the number of files I can open at a time.pdf
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2008-10-10 - How do I suppress the CapsLock warning on password edit controls.pdf
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2008-10-13 - Why does killing Winlogon take down the entire system.pdf
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2008-10-14 - Why does Task Manager let me kill critical system processes.pdf
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2008-10-15 - Disable your wireless network card to speed up VPNing.pdf
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2008-10-15 - Possessed A documentary about hoarding.pdf
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2008-10-16 - Psychic debugging Why your thread is spending all its time processing meaningless thread timers.pdf
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2008-10-17 - The cult of PowerPoint episode 2.pdf
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2008-10-20 - Off-Roading The Old New Thing.pdf
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2008-10-20 - Why cant you thunk between 32-bit and 64-bit Windows.pdf
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2008-10-21 - Strange things happen when you let people choose their own name part 1.pdf
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2008-10-22 - Strange things happen when you let people choose their own name part 2.pdf
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2008-10-23 - Strange things happen when you let people choose their own name part 3.pdf
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2008-10-24 - Man this housing downturn is hitting everyone.pdf
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2008-10-24 - Sucking the trap frame out of a kernel mode stack trace.pdf
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2008-10-27 - Ah local Los Angeles television news how I miss thee.pdf
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2008-10-27 - If you dont want to try to repair the data then dont but you should at least know that you have corru.pdf
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2008-10-28 - To climb the corporate ladder youll need some rope but rope has many purposes.pdf
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2008-10-28 - Typo patrol at the 2008 PDC.pdf
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2008-10-29 - PDC 2008 notes How to get to room 406A and other notes.pdf
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2008-10-29 - Why does my Run dialog say that tasks will created with administrative privileges.pdf
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2008-10-30 - Dude the admission bracelet goes around your wrist.pdf
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2008-10-30 - If youre going to reformat source code please dont do anything else at the same time.pdf
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2008-10-31 - Stick to the normal candy and nobody gets hurt.pdf
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2008-10-31 - Working with ambiguous and invalid points in time in managed code.pdf
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2008-11-03 - If theres already a bug its not surprising that theres a possibility for error.pdf
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2008-11-03 - Sensor development kits were flying off the shelves.pdf
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2008-11-04 - How did Spicy Hot V-8 vegetable juice get added to the complimentary beverages in Microsoft kitchens.pdf
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2008-11-04 - Quite possibly my last in-person ballot for a long time.pdf
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2008-11-05 - Microspeak Represent.pdf
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2008-11-06 - Does version 6 of the common controls support ANSI or not.pdf
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2008-11-06 - What seventh grade students want to be when they grow up an analysis.pdf
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2008-11-07 - Self-esteem gone overboard The perils of a global namespace.pdf
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2008-11-07 - What I dont get about bank robbers.pdf
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2008-11-10 - How slow do you have to slow-double-click for it to be a rename.pdf
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2008-11-10 - What do these topics have in common.pdf
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2008-11-11 - Now its like people buy sneakers to make money out of them.pdf
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2008-11-11 - You cant fight in here this is the War Room.pdf
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2008-11-12 - Doesnt matter what your marketing technique is for your compiler if nobody actually writes code in yo.pdf
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2008-11-13 - Rearranging the cities into a much more visually pleasing arrangement.pdf
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2008-11-13 - Why is the maximum bootini delay 11 million seconds.pdf
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2008-11-14 - Email tip If you ask a question that can be answered in only one way but thats not the answer dont be.pdf
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2008-11-17 - Why bother with RegisterWaitForSingleObject when you have MsgWaitForMultipleObjects.pdf
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2008-11-17 - Youd think this sort of disclaimer on childrens modeling clay would not be necessary.pdf
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2008-11-18 - Is second-hand advice better than no advice at all.pdf
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2008-11-19 - Adventures in product testing This phones so hot itll set your head on fire.pdf
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2008-11-19 - If you wait long enough everything is our top priority.pdf
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2008-11-20 - If everything is top priority then nothing is top priority.pdf
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2008-11-21 - Rachmaninov had big hands An illustration.pdf
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2008-11-21 - The great thing about priorities is that you can always go one higher.pdf
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2008-11-24 - Consequences of the Explorer view model If you create a view then you succeeded even if youd rather f.pdf
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2008-11-24 - When youre walking around a city you usually forget to look up.pdf
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2008-11-25 - Yes I filed an expense report for a hair dryer why do you ask.pdf
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2008-11-26 - The cost-benefit analysis of bitfields for a collection of booleans.pdf
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2008-11-27 - Not my finest hour Getting instructions on doing something Ive already done.pdf
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2008-11-27 - Welcome to the 2008 holiday shopping season.pdf
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2008-11-28 - Just because a method is called Refresh doesnt mean that it refreshes what you want.pdf
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2008-11-28 - The Ballard Locks will be empty this week.pdf
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2008-12-01 - Dont be helpless You can find information too if you try episode 2.pdf
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2008-12-01 - Oh I feel so bad for those poor Wall Street folks who have to have a normal party instead of a ridicu.pdf
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2008-12-02 - Raymonds technique for getting people to leave a meeting room when their meeting runs over.pdf
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2008-12-02 - That guy in the neighborhood who has way too many Christmas lights.pdf
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2008-12-03 - High Contrast Mode is not the same as High Contrast Scheme.pdf
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2008-12-03 - The struggle against those annoying plastic packages gains a few allies.pdf
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2008-12-04 - Neuroscience can be used for good or for evil this one might fall in the evil bucket.pdf
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2008-12-04 - When you start getting in-page errors on your hard drive its time to go shopping for a new hard drive.pdf
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2008-12-05 - Thrift stores drowning in Christmas impulse gifts from yesteryear.pdf
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2008-12-05 - Why are the generic version numbers called NTDDI.pdf
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2008-12-08 - A file can go by multiple names but two files cant have the same name.pdf
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2008-12-09 - Email tip If you want people to look at a screen shot you have to tell them what theyre looking at.pdf
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2008-12-09 - The role of vitamin D in beta cell function The dance.pdf
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2008-12-10 - A bar on Microsoft main campus What should we call it.pdf
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2008-12-10 - How do I change the directory Windows uses for user profiles.pdf
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2008-12-11 - Dont use global state to manage a local problem.pdf
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2008-12-11 - The Washington 2008 unclaimed property auction.pdf
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2008-12-12 - Being lucky may be a matter of observing things you werent planning to observe.pdf
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2008-12-12 - PDC 2008 notes The aftermath.pdf
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2008-12-15 - Today we use a GPS to locate Baby Jesus.pdf
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2008-12-15 - Why does the Explorer address bar reset itself while youre typing into it.pdf
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2008-12-16 - Microspeak Suited and booted.pdf
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2008-12-16 - The worms go in the worms go out.pdf
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2008-12-17 - How to create a Zune podcast from an audiobook or other files you already have.pdf
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2008-12-18 - How do I obtain the computer manufacturers name.pdf
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2008-12-19 - What is the mysterious fourth message box button.pdf
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2008-12-22 - On 64-bit Windows 32-bit programs run in an emulation layer and if you dont like that then dont use t.pdf
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2008-12-22 - The Fargo campus responds to Redmonds December 2008 storm conditions.pdf
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2008-12-23 - Misheard lyrics as applied to Christmas songs.pdf
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2008-12-23 - Why isnt there a SendThreadMessage function.pdf
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2008-12-24 - Foiled by my withered hand.pdf
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2008-12-25 - Then again sometimes the improvement is merely incremental.pdf
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2008-12-26 - Why are all computers shown with a Printers folder even if printer sharing is disabled.pdf
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2008-12-29 - Undecorating names to see why a function cant be found.pdf
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2008-12-30 - Crazy or cell phone.pdf
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2008-12-30 - Every crash is a potential security vulnerability.pdf
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2008-12-31 - 2008 year-end link clearance.pdf
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2008-12-31 - Sorry I dont get calls on this phone often.pdf
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