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The coach confirms: it was a Hail Michael pass. Judge's ruling? Incomplete...

As the end of the year approaches, I guess it is a time for reflection. Oh, I suppose resolutions for the new year. For those you can paste in mine from four years ago , as I am still striving on them. 2008 was kind of my worst year for as long as I have Read More...
Posted Wednesday, December 24, 2008 2:01 PM by Michael S. Kaplan | 2 Comments
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How are the Danes doing it?

WARNING: This blog has nothing whatsoever ¹ do with Nordic sex. Regular reader Santhosh Pillai had a question not too long ago that I found to be rather kick ass and cool, professionally speaking. It was: Hi, I am trying to figure out how these characters Read More...
Posted Thursday, December 18, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 2 Comments

UCS-2 to UTF-16, Part 9: The torrents of breaking CharNext/CharPrev

Previous blogs in this series of blogs on this Blog: Part 0: The intro, sans content Part 1: Getting the obvious out of the way Part 2: A&P of a 'linguistic character' Part 3: It starts with cursor movement (where MS simultaneously gets better and Read More...
Posted Tuesday, December 16, 2008 12:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 9 Comments

Frost's The Form Not Taken

Over in the Suggestion Box, Aaron asked: Hi again - question about one of your favorite codepages - 1258 (Vietnamese) and combining diacritics in regards to Unicode character U+1EB7 (LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH BREVE AND DOT BELOW - http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1eb7/index.htm) Read More...
Posted Monday, December 15, 2008 12:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 1 Comments

Why of why would it be in WIE?

I was in triage today, and we were looking at a bug. I can't remember what the bug was. Oh yeah, I remember. The Windows Reliability Wizard, when it is done running, puts up a report. The bug was a specific scenario where the report's information was Read More...
Posted Wednesday, December 10, 2008 12:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 0 Comments
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UCS-2 to UTF-16, Part 8: It's the end of the string as we know it (and I feel ellipses)

Previous blogs in this series of blogs on this Blog: Part 0: The intro, sans content Part 1: Getting the obvious out of the way Part 2: A&P of a 'linguistic character' Part 3: It starts with cursor movement (where MS simultaneously gets better and Read More...
Posted Tuesday, December 09, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 1 Comments

Sorting "Collate" all out

It was recently suggested to me that the terms COLLATION and COLLATE are confusing to people. Not people over here, I'd guess. And probably not so much the people who work in SQL Server or Access or really any database program -- anyone who places so Read More...
Posted Saturday, December 06, 2008 12:01 PM by Michael S. Kaplan | 2 Comments

"If you haven't had sex is six months..." the IM read

The mail I got the other day from Brett was pretty amusing (reposted uncensored with his permission, with no hint as to whether he was Anonymous1 or Anonymous2: Regards this conversation … anonymized for obvious reasons … Anonymous 1 [10:09 AM]: If you Read More...
Posted Friday, December 05, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 1 Comments

It isn't really RED versus GREEN

So the other day a bunch of people were talking about stuff that was GREEN and stuff that was (RED)™ . The (RED)™ thing you can read about here . They are working to solve big problems -- getting antiretroviral medicine to the people dying of AIDS in Read More...
Posted Friday, December 05, 2008 12:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 7 Comments
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UCS-2 to UTF-16, Part 7: If it makes the SQL Server columns too small then it made the Oracle columns either too smallER or too smallEST

Previous blogs in this series of blogs on this Blog: Part 0: The intro, sans content Part 1: Getting the obvious out of the way Part 2: A&P of a 'linguistic character' Part 3: It starts with cursor movement (where MS simultaneously gets better and Read More...
Posted Thursday, December 04, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 2 Comments

Want to hear about a cool new typographic convention? Khmer, and I'll tell you about it...

Now lots of people have already been talking about cool changes to fonts in Windows 7, such as blogs like Long Zheng's Improvements to fonts in Windows 7 , which talk about some of the long-awaited updates to the Fonts folder that will make so much of Read More...
Posted Wednesday, December 03, 2008 12:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 0 Comments

From I SCOOT to IBOT, #7 of ?? (Unintended movement of the joystick will result in unintended movement of the product)

Prior blogs in the series here and here and here and here and here and here . There has been a question about the steering of the IBOT that I have been trying to explain. I have kind of given up. Though I do notice some information in the instruction Read More...
Posted Tuesday, December 02, 2008 2:31 PM by Michael S. Kaplan | 4 Comments

I İ ı i before Ѐ ѐ unless you ask Y y ʏ

I was asked the other day what I thought about string comparisons. What with all the different recommendations floating around, all of the different possibilities, and all the unclear guidelines, the question was whether there was a succinct way to describe Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 26, 2008 12:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 2 Comments

UCS-2 to UTF-16, Part 6: An exercise left for whoever needs some exercise

Previous blogs in this series of blogs on this Blog: Part 0: The intro, sans content Part 1: Getting the obvious out of the way Part 2: A&P of a 'linguistic character' Part 3: It starts with cursor movement (where MS simultaneously gets better and Read More...
Posted Monday, November 24, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 3 Comments

Apocalypse Font (aka Guess they must have picked the wrong eight characters.)

The title of this blog is an allusion to Coppola's Apocalypse Now , and eventually I'll be quoting a bit of the Herr-provided narration (those are the pieces Martin Sheen read)... It all started with a seemingly innocent question the other day. It went Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 19, 2008 12:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 12 Comments
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