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