Seattle got cold today. I don’t know why the temperature always seems to drop about 10 degrees the same weekend we turn back the clocks. Perhaps the temperature will drop one week later next year?
Slate’s Tim Harford speculates that the US would be better off with one national time zone.
Archive for October, 2006
Kenny read recently that the starting and ending dates for Daylight Savings Time would be changing, in order to conserve energy. He told me that the new “Fall Back” date was November 4, rather than the weekend before Halloween, as it nornally falls.
This morning, we got a phone call from our friend Nichol, reminding us […]
Seema has a good post explaining why software rendering is sometimes faster than hardware rendering for layered windows. In short, your software vs. hardware performance will depend on your specific video card. Seema suggests:
Key takeaway: a semi-transparent window is a particularly complex feature for WPF’s rendering system. Figure out early what type of hardware that […]
My friend and co-worker Hamid just pointed me to Clearification.com, a very interesting new joint project from the Windows Vista team and Demetri Martin. It hosts a series of episodes that tell the story of Demetri’s “condition,” and presumably how he overcomes it. Only the first episode is available now, but the others are all […]
I liked this AP headline today: Microsoft’s Vista May Arrive on Time. If the AP is starting to have confidence, we must be ready.
