The Dark Balloon

A weblog by Hao Lian.
A terrible secret guarded by golems.
A note that thanks you for being born, all those years ago.

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And now: Queer Quotes.

On a Windows API tutorial about dragging text between applications:

Pre-emptive Igor Levicki comment: “Windows Vista should be dragged and dropped to the trash can.”

“What a drag: Dragging text,” The Old New Thing by Raymond Chen
[(2008 March 13) • • .]

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