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Another WMP 12 Large Tag Bug

6 February 2009

When adding my collection of MP3s to the WMP 12 library, I found that some files were added without any of the metadata ordinarily read from the tags, like title, artist, and album. Further investigation showed that WMP 12 has a massive memory leak when reading tags from MP3s, causing it to chew up all available memory.

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OpenType Ligatures Coming to Word 14?

5 February 2009

While writing a long and interesting paper on Australia’s Telecommunications Access Regime, I found that Microsoft Office Word 12 has half-baked support for OpenType ligatures when running on the Windows 7 Beta. It appears Microsoft has been working on implementing OpenType ligatures in Word, and we may finally see support for them in Word 14.

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