Mike Dimmick's Bleurgh

Following Ian 's example, I've added the No2ID PledgeBank petition flair to this site. It looks like this: The counter updates with...

I’ve had 24 copies of the I-Worm/Mytob.HI worm since 1am today. Either they’re sending to spam lists or there’s a lot of infections out ther...

From Paul Thurrott : a link to Java Rants, “ Will partnering with Intel give Apple a Mac faster than a PC? ” No. Let me expand. The theory g...

Want to keep your right, as a UK citizen[*], to privacy? Sign up for the No2ID pledge here . Via Ian . [*]Not a subject, dammit. I do not re...

Or at least, in the ‘My Pictures’ folder in Windows XP Explorer. Try it yourself – ensure the watermark is enabled. Then right click and sel...

I downloaded the Compact Framework 2.0 Redistributable yesterday as well, planning to do a little testing with one of our CF 1.0 apps. (I n...

Brad Abrams: Take the .NET Framework 2.0 Compatibility Challenge . I was at a slightly loose end yesterday afternoon, so I took advantage of...

How  long have we been waiting for Blizzard ’s StarCraft: Ghost ? I can’t recall – I think they first announced it in 2001 . This week at E3...

Xbox Backwards Compatibility Now that it's been announced at E3, I can finally reveal that the Xbox 360 feature I work on is... Xbox bac...

From Windows Mobile Platform Migration FAQ for Developers : Starting with Windows Mobile 5.0, only one instance of the installer (wceload.ex...

Today, Microsoft announced Windows Mobile 5.0 (codenamed ‘Magneto’). They’ve made two bone-headed decisions from a development perspective: ...

On the command line, that’s how. You must specify %1 in the command line somewhere, otherwise Explorer simply doesn’t do anything (it report...

One of the new features in Apple’s Mac OS X ‘Tiger’ is ‘Burn Folders’ – a folder which you can easily write to a CD by selecting the ‘Burn’ ...

Paul Thurrott: Tiger math 2: When a feature isn't a feature Apparently Apple are touting full-screen video playback as a new feature in ...

On top, Emperor Palpatine from the Star Wars trilogy. On the bottom, Pope Benedict XVI. Or is it the other way around?

Seen on Microsoft Typography news : Anger after Tory ads vandalised . It wasn’t me, but I can understand why they were vandalised. The Torie...

Chris Brumme’s blog was one of the first I started to read, after Scoble , Chris Sells and Don Box . He’s managed a tricky task of explain...

Mozilla and all their fans, and FOSS people in general, are fond of saying that Firefox has had over 25 million downloads. Sounds like a lot...

It looks like a couple of Jeffrey Richter ’s classic and essential Windows programming books have gone out of print: Programming Applicatio...

Normally, in Windows NT-family security, you cannot set the owner of a secured object (such as a file or folder, or a registry key) to someo...