My sister is studying Bioengineering at the University of Michigan. She was showing me her group project. As a UM engineering grad I could not believe my eyes. One big WTF. Here's the whole story: The goal of the project is to develop a portable ultrasound machine that can be used in remote parts o... [More]

Today at work we ran into an interesting issue. Our Windows Forms-based application worked perfectly on the English Windows XP, but it looked weired on the Japanese version. It was quite noticable - size of some UI controls differed by about 2 pixels and the entire layout was out of wack (of cours... [More]