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	<title>Arnout's Eclectica</title>
	<link>http://grootveld.com</link>
	<description>But I digress...</description>
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		<title>Another T9 collision</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some four years ago, I wrote in Fun with Markov chains about T9 collisions (the fact that predictive text input on mobile phones sometimes turns out interesting alternatives). Last night I was contacted by someone who'd found the original post and was looking for a T9 collision translation (i.e. translating a T9 pair in language [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://grootveld.com/archives/65/another-t9-collision</link>
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		<title>Microsoft Forefront in action&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How to disable Outlook: Thanks, eh.]]></description>
		<link>http://grootveld.com/archives/61/microsoft-forefront-in-action</link>
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		<title>KEYWORD= no_go: relationship</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My company sent out an e-mail newsletter today, and I was just taking a quick peek at the bounces and out-of-office messages. One stood out: Microsoft Forefront Security for Exchange Server has matched a filter. Filter name: "KEYWORD= no_go: relationship" State: Purged I guess "relationship" features relatively frequently in spam, but bouncing an email just [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://grootveld.com/archives/57/keyword-no_go-relationship</link>
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		<title>The lyrics of Nanou 2 performed by Aphex Twin are missing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When Aphex Twin's "Nanou 2" just came up on my playlist, I decided to Google it, hoping for some "if you like X, you'll also like Y" serendipity. No such luck, but one of the first hits read: &#160;&#160;Unfortunately the lyrics of Nanou 2 performed by Aphex Twin are missing. Surprising, that. (And if that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://grootveld.com/archives/40/the-lyrics-of-nanou-2-performed-by-aphex-twin-are-missing</link>
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		<title>Hash heads and happy compilers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just came across the following line in the sources to zlib: if (hash_head) hash_head = 0; /* to make compiler happy */]]></description>
		<link>http://grootveld.com/archives/31/hash-heads-and-happy-compilers</link>
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		<title>Troubleshooting a scheduled task</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How to run <code>cmd.exe</code> non-interactively if you're not an admin.]]></description>
		<link>http://grootveld.com/archives/30/troubleshooting-a-scheduled-task</link>
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		<title>Debugging a printer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lately, our Canon S750 printer has started showing its age (nearly 6 years, which is not bad at all). It begun with a very sudden change in B&#38;W print quality, which was mostly taken care of by cleaning the print head. Today it stopped functioning altogether. It took me a while to notice that the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://grootveld.com/archives/29/debugging-a-printer</link>
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		<title>Synchronizing two batch files using WAITFOR.exe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was writing some unit tests today where I wanted to start some process asynchronously, but have it automatically exit after a specified number of seconds. Preferably something that's available on a standard W2K3 box, so that I wouldn't be creating any additional prerequisites for other developer boxes or the build machine. Usually I just [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://grootveld.com/archives/28/synchronizing-two-batch-files-using-waitforexe</link>
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		<title>*UPDATE* on REGEDIT experiments</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In my previous post, I wrote about some findings w.r.t. REGEDIT. One of them was about a limitation on the depth of key hierarchies during a registry export. When I found out about this limitation, I was actually encountering stack overflows in REGEDIT. However, shortly afterwards I wasn't able to reproduce that behaviour, so I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://grootveld.com/archives/27/update-on-regedit-experiments</link>
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		<title>REGEDIT experiments</title>
		<description><![CDATA[NOTE (2008-08-21): Also see the update to this post. I've been working on a tool that can export registry information in REGEDIT's .REG format. Since that format doesn't seem to be fully documented, I spent quite some time experimenting with REGEDIT. Here are some of my more interesting findings (all on W2K3). No expansion beyond [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://grootveld.com/archives/26/regedit-experiments</link>
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		<title>And then, for the main course we&#8217;ll have&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was just looking at Recipezaar for some culinary inspiration, and found the following "popular recipes" on the home page:]]></description>
		<link>http://grootveld.com/archives/25/and-then-for-the-main-course-well-have</link>
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		<title>VMWare statement on &#8220;Industry Events&#8221; and &#8220;News and Awards&#8221;?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just received issue 49 of VMWare's corporate newsletter. Since I don't let GMail automatically download images, this is what the message looked like initially: After downloading the images, it looks like this: Blah blah indeed.]]></description>
		<link>http://grootveld.com/archives/23/vmware-statement-on-industry-events-and-news-and-awards</link>
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		<title>Making HttpWebRequest work while having Fiddler decrypt SSL</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just a quick reminder to myself, so that I can forget about it... Fiddler can act as a man-in-the-middle and decrypt SSL traffic, but then System.Net.Security rightfully complains about an invalid remote certificate ("The remote certificate is invalid according to the validation procedure."). This results in a System.Net.WebException "The underlying connection was closed: Could not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://grootveld.com/archives/22/making-httpwebrequest-work-while-having-fiddler-decrypt-ssl</link>
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		<title>URL-encoded slashes in System.Uri</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two weeks ago, an ex-colleague asked me to take a look at a problem that he and his team had encountered. They tried using a System.Uri with URL-encoded slashes, but those slashes kept ending up unencoded in the resulting URI: Uri uri = new Uri("http://somesite/media/http%3A%2F%2Fsomesite%2Fimage.gif"); Console.WriteLine(uri.AbsoluteUri); // Output: http://somesite/media/http%3A//somesite%2Fimage.gif That's a totally different URL, which [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://grootveld.com/archives/21/url-encoded-slashes-in-systemuri</link>
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		<title>Zen error messages</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Triggered by Brent Strange's recent Defect of the day, I remembered a few similarly Zen-like ones from a product I worked on years ago:]]></description>
		<link>http://grootveld.com/archives/20/zen-error-messages</link>
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		<title>&#x25a1;ntern&#x25a1;t&#x25a1;&#x25a1;n&#x25a1;l&#x25a1;z&#x25a1;t&#x25a1;&#x25a1;n?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Looking for information about IRIs, I ended up at W3C's Internationalized Resource Identifiers page. Funnily enough (if you're a Unicode geek, that is...), this page deals with i18N topics but has an encoding issue: (I've notified W3C's web-human about the fact that the page is served as UTF-8, but contains Latin-1 characters.Updated on 2008-04-29: The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://grootveld.com/archives/19/nterntnlztn</link>
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		<title>Colleagues from home</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I was enjoying my sabbatical last year, I'd set up my LinkedIn profile to read "Principal Sabbatical Enjoyer at home". Ever since, I've been receiving notifications from LinkedIn, telling me to get back in touch with colleagues from home:]]></description>
		<link>http://grootveld.com/archives/18/colleagues-from-home</link>
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		<title>Terminology clash</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes, words can have a very different meaning from one night to the next... Last night, I looked at some CDO-related stuff on MSDN, and then hibernated my computer. Tonight, I woke up my computer after having watched an episode of Dexter. Having a Firefox tab titled "BodyParts Property" didn't have any special connotations last [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://grootveld.com/archives/17/terminology-clash</link>
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		<title>Registration-free COM</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A while ago, I had the following problem: The build system needed to run a unit test of some code that depended on some COM object. That COM object was not installed on the build system (it wasn't a part of the system we were developing). Installing that COM object would mean having to install [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://grootveld.com/archives/16/registration-free-com</link>
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		<title>No, no, it&#8217;s resting, look!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the first 6+ years of its existence, http://grootveld.com said: "This page intentionally left blank." I maybe should have kept it that way, but late April last year, I decided to start blogging. Just like everybody else (although a few years later than most...). I managed to create a few posts for about a month, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://grootveld.com/archives/15/no-no-its-resting-look</link>
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