Quick Hits

* Whitney's starting to regain her voice, though it's still hurting her.

* New Automotive Segment: Cheap and Cheerful. Contenders would be the Smart Car, Scion xD (nee xA), Honda Fit, Toyota Yaris. This will be the hot market in the coming 5 years.

* Flooding rains throughout the area last night. Really, the last 28 days have been awful here in KY: The Super Tuesday tornado outbreak, Snow, Ice, Storms. Very, very violent stuff, really.

* Can't compliment enough the job the Chris Bailey's doing over at his Weather bog for WKYT here in Lex. Yes, he's a weather nerd, but it's good to love one's job! Kentuckians are obsessed about weather, and he sort of "feeds the need" as it were.

* "Shower Thought" of the day: To start a successful enterprise, you need something with a high barrier-to-entry, yet easy marketing. Your clientele should be upscale, or people reaching to be upscale. The prototype here is BMW--it's incredibly hard for other marques to duplicate the feel of a BMW (Lord knows they keep trying), but they practically sell themselves (word-of-mouth, cachet)

Comments

  1. Gaurav Kale3/10/2008 6:20 AM

    Hey I came across your blog searching from Google and found this post first: http://harvid.blogspot.com/2007/08/cupser-i-mean-xps.html. Do you really work on the printing team? Then I have a feature suggestion. How about fixing that age old problem in Windows where cancelled prints are not deleted immediately from Windows? Can MS fix that so that print jobs are deleted as soon as they're cancelled?

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  2. Harold Combs3/10/2008 7:36 AM

    @gaurav:

    I work on *a* printing team, but not at MSFT. We're users of the spooler API, but we don't have any control of its internal, sorry.

    I think the issue you're talking about comes about because the SpoolAPI architecture is very generic, and the spooler has to allow the Print Monitor, Language Monitor, and/or Port Monitor opportunity to clean-up a "deleted" job. If it just deleted the job out of the spooler immediately, it'd be like doing a 'kill -9' on a process, potentially leaving the downstream monitors (and maybe the printer!) in a bad state.

    Not sure that's the rationale, but that would line-up with the rest of the decisions I've seen in the Windows APIs :-)

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