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Office 2003
It's been less than a day since I installed Office 2003 for the first time, and I've already had Winword.exe spin at 100% CPU while composing an e-mail in Outlook. Not terribly encouraging. Fortunately, killing it in taskman didn't hose Outlook.
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Pocket Outlook extension problems
Back during the summer I picked up one of those ViewSonic V37 PocketPC devices available free through an MSDN promotion. It was quite a step up, hardware-wise, from my old Palm IIIx - a nice color screen, MP3 playback, SD support. And a hell of a bargain. ;)
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Duplicate cleanup...grrrr
I just spent a bunch of time cleaning out a massive round of duplicate postings in NewsGator, presumably due to the updated .Text roll-out. It annoys me to no end that I have to waste time on this. Is this really necessary? Do other RSS readers handle it more gracefully, or is it a problem common to all readers? Does Atom improve things? Surely this is not an intractable problem.
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AlphaImageLoader weirdness
The AlphaImageLoader filter, which is used for rendering transparent PNGs in IE, seems to play some funny games with URLs. I'm running into a problem with a URL that contains a “+” sign. I'm using the JavaScript encodeURIComponent function, which converts the “+” into a %2B. However, for some reason when the HTTP request gets spit of the other end of the filter, it gets converted back into a + character (as shown by ieHttpHeaders), and ends up munged on the other end in ASP.NET. Other encoded characters, like spaces (%20) work fine. If I use a regular IMG tag instead of the filter, it works fine (except, of course, no transparency).
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IE Favorites with Longhorn
After mucking around in the badness that is the IE favorites system, I'm lefting wondering if there's hope for the future. Will IE use WinFS in Longhorn for storing favorites? Will we finally get searchable metadata for favorites? For the most part of I've given up on using favorites, relying on my googability for re-finding sites when I need them. Generally this works - until I realize that the only key words for identifying the site are too generic to be useful in Google. Then I long for superior bookmark system of that technical tour-de-force Netscape 2.0.