Buggin' My Life Away

Musings of a Mad Mac Maven

Repro, Man

Repro, Man Written communication is amazingly difficult. Even when you’re aware of some of the...

Author: Rick Schaut Date: 05/30/2004

Mac Office 2004 Launched

Mac Office 2004 LaunchedSince Mac Office 2004 is available in stores, we've announced that it's...

Author: Rick Schaut Date: 05/19/2004

More on Line Breaks

More on Line Breaks Pierre Igot took my little text-wrapping gaffe from the other day, and proceeded...

Author: Rick Schaut Date: 05/16/2004

Do You Remember?

Do You Remember So, I blogged about life in Mac BU, and Scoble picked up on it. It’s always...

Author: Rick Schaut Date: 05/14/2004

Word, Styles and Structure

Word, Styles and Structure In a couple of posts, I’ve talked about thinking in terms of...

Author: Rick Schaut Date: 05/13/2004

Text-Wrapping Breaks in Mac Word

Text-Wrapping Breaks in Mac Word Update: You can follow the steps in this post, or, as a reader...

Author: Rick Schaut Date: 05/13/2004

Doing it with Styles

Doing it with Styles I blogged earlier about one of the more subtle problems we created when we...

Author: Rick Schaut Date: 05/12/2004

Word and Pre-Printed Letterhead

Word and Pre-Printed Letterhead Well, comments to my recent posts are generating more topics for me...

Author: Rick Schaut Date: 05/02/2004

Unintended Consequences

Unintended Consequences In the comments to my last post, AC takes me to task for what is arguably...

Author: Rick Schaut Date: 05/01/2004

Where's Rick?

Where's Rick? Wow, leave blogging aside for a while, and the world just passes you by. The past few...

Author: Rick Schaut Date: 04/30/2004

Vanity License Plates

Vanity License Plates Mike Hall blogs about vanity license plates around Redmond. I’ve already...

Author: Rick Schaut Date: 04/16/2004

Music Recommendations Update

The results from my second submission finally came back this morning. The server’s estimated...

Author: Rick Schaut Date: 04/14/2004

iTunes Music Recommendations

The University of Illinois is working on a music rating project. You download an application that...

Author: Rick Schaut Date: 04/07/2004

It's Official

It's Official The press release went out at midnight, so I can talk a little bit about Mac Office...

Author: Rick Schaut Date: 04/06/2004

UI Design

Eric Raymond posted a rant about the CUPS installer. Then John Gruber commented on the rant, and Don...

Author: Rick Schaut Date: 04/02/2004

Got Milk?

Got Milk? Normal Rick Schaut 2 2004-04-01T13:30:00Z 2004-04-01T13:42:00Z 1 119 519 Microsoft Corp....

Author: Rick Schaut Date: 04/01/2004

RSS

In a comment to my bio, Scott points out that I was destined to blog. Scott and I met at...

Author: Rick Schaut Date: 03/27/2004

Display Only HTML

Display Only HTML Sorry I haven’t blogged for a while. There haven’t been a lot of quick...

Author: Rick Schaut Date: 03/27/2004

Where I'd Rather Be

Sometimes, information at your fingertips is a bad thing. For example, from my desktop at work, I...

Author: Rick Schaut Date: 03/22/2004

Mac Word Notes View and OneNote

Mac Word Notes View and OneNote Chris Pratley has blogged about OneNote, with a number of follow-ups...

Author: Rick Schaut Date: 03/17/2004

Coding Tricks and Interviewing

Coding Tricks and Interviewing My post on stupid coding tricks elicited some interesting responses,...

Author: Rick Schaut Date: 03/15/2004

David Stutz and Software "Commodification"

David Stutz and Software "Commodification" In my first post, I said that I probably wouldn’t...

Author: Rick Schaut Date: 03/09/2004

Stupid Coding Tricks

Stupid Coding Tricks Normal Rick Schaut 9 2004-03-06T18:46:00Z 2004-03-06T20:24:00Z 1 107 611...

Author: Rick Schaut Date: 03/06/2004

Cool Stuff at MS Research

The old saw about the “winner” being the one who dies with the most toys is a lie. After...

Author: Rick Schaut Date: 03/05/2004

Back to Work...

Well, I’m back. Comments have been re-enabled, so you can now read thoughts that had been...

Author: Rick Schaut Date: 02/24/2004

On Vacation

I'm a few states south, and a couple of time zones east, of Seattle (just off Galveston Bay,...

Author: Rick Schaut Date: 02/17/2004

We Don't Need No Steenkin'...

As I type this, I'm listening to some "Ten Years After" being played on an ELP model LT-1LRC laser...

Author: Rick Schaut Date: 02/15/2004

Andy Ihnatko's Gift...

IBM sent Andy Ihnatko a gift as a promo for their upcoming laptop. Check out the actual laptop he...

Author: Rick Schaut Date: 02/14/2004

Hungarian Notation

My dad always used to say, “Call me anything you want. Just don’t call me late for...

Author: Rick Schaut Date: 02/14/2004

My Comment Policy

Ground Rules Having had some time to browse a few of the other blogs on msdn.com, I think it only...

Author: Rick Schaut Date: 02/10/2004

Carbon vs. Cocoa

Yesterday I posted a link to Todd Bishop’s More on Mac BU. Among the comments to Todd’s...

Author: Rick Schaut Date: 02/10/2004

More on Microsoft Mac BU

Todd Bishop has a nice follow-up to the Seattle Post Intelligencer's article on Microsoft's Mac BU....

Author: Rick Schaut Date: 02/09/2004

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