Charles Petzold



Title Date Subject
The Wrath of God and the Ethics of Belief 2/21/2024 Philosophy
Reading (and Listening to) “Time’s Echo” 1/31/2024 Books
Reading “The World of Yesterday” 1/26/2024 Books
Can an AI Compose Music? 1/22/2024 Music
Swing States Graph, Logarithmic Style 12/29/2023 Politics
The Swing State Crapshoot 12/29/2023 Politics
Electoral College Pathologies 12/22/2023 Politics
The Systemic Racism of the Electoral College, Revisited 12/18/2023 Politics
AMC Disrespects Martin Scorsese 10/23/2023 Movies
Rereading Aldous Huxley’s “Point Counter Point” and “Devils of Loudun” 9/12/2023 Books
Reading “Humanly Possible” 8/11/2023 Books
Celebrating the Ligeti Centennial 7/2/2023 Blog
In Praise of Don Lancaster 7/1/2023 History
Morons and Oxymorons 6/26/2023 Music
Building a Virginal: Feeling Like I’m Just Getting Started… 5/17/2023 Virginal Project
Building a Virginal: Actual Music 5/11/2023 Virginal Project
Building a Virginal: Preparing the Jacks 5/10/2023 Virginal Project
Building a Virginal: The First Jack 4/24/2023 Virginal Project
Building a Virginal: Stringing Progress II 4/24/2023 Virginal Project
Building a Virginal: Stringing Progress I 4/16/2023 Virginal Project
Building a Virginal: Tools for Stringing 4/15/2023 Virginal Project
Building a Virginal: Keyboard Balancing 4/14/2023 Virginal Project
Building a Virginal: The Lid and Music Stand 4/12/2023 Virginal Project
Building a Virginal: Case Enhancements 4/10/2023 Virginal Project
Building a Virginal: Preparing the Soundboard 4/5/2023 Virginal Project
Building a Virginal: Cushioning the Keyboad 4/4/2023 Virginal Project
Building a Virginal: The Transposition Feature 3/31/2023 Virginal Project
Building a Virginal: Installing the Soundboard 3/30/2023 Virginal Project
Building a Virginal: Assembling the Case 3/28/2023 Virginal Project
Building a Virginal: Easing the Keys 3/13/2023 Virginal Project
Building a Virginal: The Ed Kottick Connection 3/8/2023 Virginal Project
Building a Virginal: The Keyboard Frame 3/5/2023 Virginal Project
2023 Project: Building a Virginal 3/3/2023 Virginal Project
From Bucket List to Float Tank 2/2/2023 Personal
My Binary Clock 12/5/2022 Code 2nd Edition
Talking “Code” with Kevin Craine 12/1/2022 Code 2nd Edition
Ten Steps to “Code” — A Kind of Memoir 11/17/2022 Personal
Reading “Confidence Man” 11/6/2022 Books
Talking “Code” with Tobias Macey 11/6/2022 Code 2nd Edition
Talking “Code” with Scott Hanselman 10/25/2022 Code 2nd Edition
Reading Annie Ernaux’s “Happening” 10/6/2022 Books
Talking “Code” with Carey Parker 9/13/2022 Code 2nd Edition
The Changes for the 2nd Edition of “Code” 9/5/2022 Code 2nd Edition
A Final Month of Women Composers 9/3/2022 Music
“Code” 2nd Edition Now Available! 8/7/2022 Code 2nd Edition
Even Another Month of Women Composers 8/1/2022 Music
Still Another Month of Women Composers 7/6/2022 Music
Announcing “Code” 2nd Edition 6/10/2022 Code 2nd Edition
Yet Another Month of Women Composers 6/2/2022 Music
Lissajous Animations Revisited 5/20/2022 JavaScript
Another Month of Women Composers 5/7/2022 Music
A Month of Women Composers 4/1/2022 Music
A Month of Black Composers 3/6/2022 Music
Reading Toni Morrison’s “Recitatif” 2/28/2022 Books
Julius Eastman’s “Stay On It” Incessantly 2/26/2022 Music
The Aphorisms of David Hume 1/31/2022 Books
A Concert Diary 12/21/2021 Music
Musical Myopia 10/2/2021 Music
Reading “Harlem Shuffle” 9/24/2021 Books
Matinées with Mom 8/20/2021 Personal
The Ruth Bader Ginsburg Criterion for String Quartets 8/11/2021 Music
Screw You, Microsoft Edge 8/8/2021 Commentary
Reading “I Alone Can Fix It” 8/7/2021 Books
Why Not Applaud Between the Movements? 7/15/2021 Music
Witnessing the Gestation of “The Third Mrs. Galway” 7/10/2021 Books
Celebrating the Flaubert Bicentennial with “Salammbô” 6/17/2021 Books
Reading “The Secret to Superhuman Strength” 5/24/2021 Books
Back in the Concert Hall 5/12/2021 Music
Undisembodying Recorded Music 5/10/2021 Music
Reading “The Haunting of Alma Fielding” 5/9/2021 Books
My Fake Dali 4/11/2021 Personal
Elder Care 4/6/2021 Personal
Cancelling π 3/14/2021 Petzold Book Blog
Reading “Klara and the Sun” 3/9/2021 Books
Reading “Wollstonecraft: Philosophy, Passion, and Politics” 3/8/2021 Books
Faith 2/2/2021 Philosophy
Reading Talia Lavin’s “Culture Warlords” 1/16/2021 Books
366 Deadlines: My Year with Beethoven 12/31/2020 Beethoven 250
My White Privilege 6/19/2020 Personal History
Reading “The Man in the Red Coat” 2/25/2020 Books
Reading “A Very Stable Genius” 2/4/2020 Books
Celebrating Beethoven 250 All Year Long 1/1/2020 Beethoven 250
Falling into the “Little Women” Vortex 12/30/2019 Books
How the Earth Got Old 12/19/2019 Computer of the Tides
The Lesser-Read George Eliot 11/22/2019 Books
Murder by Rifle vs. Death by Meteor 10/16/2019 Practical Math
Clever Cosmogonies of the 17th Century 10/8/2019 Computer of the Tides
The Racism of the Electoral College, Mathematically Demonstrated 8/26/2019 Mathematics
“Computer of the Tides” Chapter 4 Outtake 6/6/2019 Computer of the Tides
Reading Ian McEwan’s “Machines Like Me” 4/26/2019 Books
Reading “Stoner” by John Williams 4/22/2019 Books
Reading “Sounds Like Titanic” 4/7/2019 Books
Reflections on Rereading “Slaughterhouse-Five” 3/31/2019 Books
Haydn and Herschel in the Clair de Lune 3/25/2019 Computer of the Tides
π Does Not Exist 3/14/2019 Math
Biblical Chronology and the Encyclopædia Britannica 3/4/2019 Computer of the Tides
Reading “Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments” 2/27/2019 Black History Month
Reading “Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom” 2/25/2019 Black History Month
James Earl Jones Saves the Play 2/8/2019 Black History Month
Reading “Little Dancer Aged Fourteen” 1/30/2019 Books
Reading “Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely” 1/28/2019 Books
“All the Books of Moses / Were nothing but supposes” 1/26/2019 Computer of the Tides
Reading “Ada Lovelace: The Making of a Computer Scientist” 1/24/2019 Books
Reading “Bringing Down the Colonel” 1/21/2019 Books
Retirement and Realignment 9/14/2018 Career
“Computer of the Tides” – The Chapter 2 Schematic 5/7/2017 Computer of the Tides
The Dawn of the Sinusoid 4/8/2017 Computer of the Tides
“Computer of the Tides” Chapter 1 (Draft Preview) 12/29/2016 Computer of the Tides
Reading Steve Pincus’s “The Heart of the Declaration” 10/30/2016 Books
Reading Margot Lee Shetterly’s “Hidden Figures” 9/18/2016 Books
The Metric System for Angles and Time 6/5/2016 Math
The Worst Dental Clinic in New York City? 1/15/2016 New York City Life
Writing Xamarin.Forms Apps in F# 11/4/2015 Xamarin
More Bogus Gun Stats 10/10/2015 Practical Math
De-Obfuscating the Statistics of Mass Shootings 7/5/2015 Practical Math
Music Streaming for the Rest of Us 6/18/2015 Music
Reading “The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage” 5/25/2015 Books
Drones on Screen and Stage 5/21/2015 Politics
Pushback on “The Imitation Game” 1/16/2015 Annotated Turing
“The Imitation Game” and Alan Turing’s Real Contribution to Computing 12/11/2014 Annotated Turing
The Infamous Windows “Hello World” Program 12/8/2014 Windows
My Week at Xamarin Evolve 2014 10/29/2014 Xamarin
Stop Disseminating Bullshit! 10/26/2014 Politics
A Computer to Disprove Evolution? 9/15/2014 History of Computing
New Book — New Chapter in Life 8/7/2014 Xamarin
Reading Elizabeth Kolbert’s “The Sixth Extinction” 8/2/2014 Books
Seeing Mieczysław Weinberg’s “The Passenger” 7/16/2014 Music
Reading Amir Alexander’s “Infinitesimal” 6/28/2014 Books
Cut the Mic 5/4/2014 Music
I Have Cracked the 3D Pedagogical Nut! 2/4/2014 Windows 8
Character Formatting Extensions with DirectWrite 1/28/2014 Windows 8
Chatting with Shawn Wildermuth 1/20/2014 Personal
Christmas Puddings Tossed into the Fire 12/25/2013 Books
I, Health Insurer 12/15/2013 Personal
An Appeal for Clemency 12/9/2013 Miscellaneous
“with his back to the fire” (Anthony Trollope’s Tic) 12/1/2013 Books
When J&R Contracts, Classical Music Suffers 11/30/2013 New York City Life
Exquisitely Slow Music 11/22/2013 Music
I was at school that day 11/22/2013 Memories
On Seeing “12 Years a Slave” 11/17/2013 Movies
VirtualSurfaceImageSource and DPI Resolution 10/23/2013 Windows 8
Pagination with DirectWrite 10/11/2013 Windows 8
Sharing XAudio2 Code Between Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 Apps 10/2/2013 Windows Phone
The (Immersive and Transcendent) Forty Part Motet 9/23/2013 Music
Conversion of September 2013 DirectX Factor to Windows 8.1 9/4/2013 Windows 8
August DirectX Factor Converted to Windows 8.1 8/5/2013 Windows 8
Trying Out the New Windows 8.1 DirectX Project Templates 7/29/2013 Windows 8
Speaking at North Dallas .NET User Group on August 7 7/26/2013 Speaking
Multicolor Font Characters in Windows 8.1 6/28/2013 Windows 8
An Easy Grid Splitter for Windows 8 6/3/2013 Windows 8
Two Outstanding Documentaries 5/17/2013 Movies
Don’t Just Read “The Great Gatsby” 5/10/2013 Books
A Data Binding to the Text Property of Run? 4/15/2013 Windows 8
Spinning a Record Like a DJ in Windows 8 4/2/2013 Windows 8
Fast Map Zooming Using DirectX 3/9/2013 Windows 8
C++ Structures and Data Bindings 2/27/2013 Windows 8
My Ranking of the “Best Picture” Nominees 2/24/2013 Movies
Does This Non-Affine Transform Make My Butt Look Big? 2/4/2013 Windows 8
Speaking at vNext Orange County 1/25/2013 Speaking
“Programming Windows” 6th Edition Final Ebook Now Available 1/20/2013 Windows 8
Introducing DirectX Factor 1/3/2013 Windows 8
Rush Tickets for the Metropolitan Opera 1/2/2013 New York City Life
Windows 8 XAML Files and C++ Header Files 12/19/2012 Petzold Book Blog
First-Person Shooter 12/17/2012 Reflections
Bézier Circles and Bézier Ellipses 12/6/2012 Windows 8
The Lesson of GetIntermediatePoints 11/28/2012 Windows 8
Visiting Sixteen Neighborhood Bookstores on Small Business Saturday 11/25/2012 New York City
We Built It 11/5/2012 Politics
My (Ongoing) Week with Sandy 10/31/2012 New York City Life
Windows Phone 7.5, the Motion Sensor, and Astronomy 10/11/2012 Windows Phone
Appearing at Ada’s on October 30th 10/4/2012 Speaking
I Need a Windows 8 Tablet Recommendation! 9/11/2012 Windows 8
“Programming Windows” 6th Edition Release Preview Now Available! 8/14/2012 Windows 8
Last Day for the $20 “Programming Windows” 6th Edition Ebook Deal 8/13/2012 Windows 8
Windows 8 WriteableBitmap Pixel Arrays in C# and C++ 8/5/2012 Windows 8
Last Couple Weeks for the $20 EBook Deal 7/27/2012 Windows 8
I Owe My Success to the United States Government 7/20/2012 Personal
Five Ways to Incite Revolution 7/8/2012 Windows 8
Alan Turing’s Contribution 6/23/2012 The Annotated Turing
Updated Code Available for Programming Windows 6th Edition 6/5/2012 Windows 8
Programming Windows 6th Edition: What Happens Next? 6/1/2012 Windows 8
Last Day for the $10 Book Deal 5/31/2012 Windows 8
Programming Windows 6th Edition for the C++ Programmer 5/30/2012 Windows 8
Windows 8 Nervousness and a Trip in the Time Machine 5/30/2012 Windows 8
An Experiment in Book Publishing 5/28/2012 Windows 8
Why a 6th Edition? 5/25/2012 Windows 8
Programming Windows 6th Edition Preview Ebook Is Here! 5/17/2012 Windows 8
Programming Windows 6th Edition Preview Ebook Coming! 5/10/2012 Windows 8
2-4-6-8-10 4/23/2012 Windows 8
A Million Little Programs 4/2/2012 Windows 8
The Animated Pie Slice in Windows 8 3/30/2012 Windows 8
It’s All About the Code (and Books About Code) 3/28/2012 Books
The LoadJpeg Advantage on Windows Phone 3/17/2012 Window Phone
Bizarre Windows 8 Gradient Brush Bug 3/12/2012 Windows 8
“Programming Windows” 6ᵗʰ Edition 2/29/2012 Windows 8
Complimentary Copies 2/2/2012 Books
Windows 8 Touch Events Interactions 2/1/2012 Windows 8
Happy 75th Birthday, Philip Glass! 1/31/2012 Music
The Last Catfish in the East Village? 1/30/2012 New York City
Your Welcome 1/11/2012 Grammar
Rick Santorum and Group Marriage 1/7/2012 Politics
Parsing CSS for EPUB 12/26/2011 Windows 8
Windows 8 Dependency Property Strangeness 12/5/2011 Windows 8
Very Bad Writing 11/25/2011 Books
Hilary Hahn and the Ives Violin Sonatas 11/21/2011 Music
.NET Streams and Windows 8 IStreams 11/8/2011 Windows 8
Asynchronous Processing in Windows 8 11/7/2011 Windows 8
TODO: An EPUB Viewer for Windows 8 11/1/2011 Windows 8
Phree Book Reader Now Available 10/31/2011 Windows Phone
Happy 80th Birthday, Sofia Gubaidulina! 10/24/2011 Music
Car Wellness 10/20/2011 Books
SpinPaint for Windows 8 10/1/2011 Windows 8
Adventures in Electronic Music 9/29/2011 Music
Reading “The Fatal Gift of Beauty” 9/3/2011 Books
“The Trojan Women” at Franklin Stage 8/25/2011 Theater
Sleazebags 8/24/2011 Politics
Two Recent Interviews 8/19/2011 Interviews
Rick Santorum Wants Into Your Bedroom 8/1/2011 Politics
Visit Ada’s! 7/22/2011 Books
What is “Moral Relativism”? 7/21/2011 Politics
Freedom and Population 7/20/2011 Politics
My Idiotic Concept of Freedom 7/17/2011 Politics
Appearing at Ada’s Technical Books 7/11/2011 Speaking
Give us Feedback on my Windows Phone Book 7/9/2011 Windows Phone
By the Time We Got to CodeStock... 6/13/2011 Speaking
Reading “The Better Angel: Walt Whitman in the Civil War” 5/30/2011 Books
The Lost Opportunity of the “Atlas Shrugged” Movie 5/27/2011 Movies
Windows Phone Screen Shots 5/27/2011 Windows Phone
We Got Mangos And Bananas You Can Pick Right Off The Tree 5/20/2011 Windows Phone
Inspired by “Code” 5/12/2011 Books
Two Speaking Engagements Coming Up 4/5/2011 Speaking
Reading “Music for Silenced Voices” (and Listening to the Shostakovich String Quartets) 3/21/2011 Music
The Joyous Music of Jennifer Higdon 2/14/2011 Music
Tiger Mothers and the Future of Classical Music 2/8/2011 Music
Reading Books on the Phone 2/5/2011 Books
“Pierrot Lunaire” at Juilliard 1/19/2011 Music
Reading “Autobiography of an Execution” 1/13/2011 Politics
Tallying the Most *Popular* Composers 1/13/2011 Music
Twentieth-Century Music and Music Students 1/11/2011 Music
Rounding Up the Usual (Musical) Suspects 1/10/2011 Music
Hideous Jefferson Quotes, Real and Bogus 1/9/2011 Politics
My Father was a Troubleshooter 12/16/2010 Family
Extinct 12/13/2010 Books
Playing Music Files on WP7 11/19/2010 Windows Phone 7
Going to Market with Windows Phone 7 11/7/2010 Windows Phone 7
XNA Back Buffers and the Status Bar 11/3/2010 Windows Phone 7
“PWP7” Font Issues Fixed 11/3/2010 Windows Phone 7
“Programming Windows Phone 7” Now Available! 10/28/2010 Windows Phone 7
Windows Phone 7 and the Art of Presentation 10/20/2010 Windows Phone 7
“Naked Came the Null Delegate”: Chapter 2. Unhandled Exception 10/13/2010 Naked Came the Null Delgate
Multitasking on Windows Phone 7 8/17/2010 Windows Phone 7
How to Insult a Writer 8/16/2010 Writing Business
New Title! More Chapters! 8/2/2010 Windows Phone 7
The Disasters of Visual Design Tools 7/16/2010 Programming
Manipulation Events Update for the WP7 Beta 7/14/2010 Windows Phone 7
Windows Phone 7 Development Tools Now in Beta 7/13/2010 Windows Phone 7
For Wendy Friedlander 6/30/2010 Wendy Friedlander
Appearing on .NET Rocks 6/26/2010 Petzold Book Blog
The Mathematics of Pathological Tennis 6/25/2010 Tennis
Orientation Strategies for Windows Phone 7 6/16/2010 Windows Phone 7
Flip-Number Clock in Silverlight 6/16/2010 Silverlight
CompositionTarget.Rendering and RenderEventArgs 6/11/2010 Silverlight
Simulating Touch Inertia on Windows Phone 7 6/6/2010 Windows Phone 7
Great-Circle Arcs on the Sphere 6/5/2010 WPF 3D
A Circular Gradient Brush for Silverlight 6/5/2010 Silverlight
Basic Manipulation Event Handling in Windows Phone 7 6/1/2010 Windows Phone 7
The Limits of float 5/30/2010 Windows Phone 7
Tripp Palin, 16, Sues Mom, Others 5/28/2010 Satire
More Accelerometer Visualization on the Zune HD 5/27/2010 Windows Phone 7
Classical Music Being “Phased Out” 5/23/2010 Windows Phone 7
SpinPaint for Windows Phone 7 (with a Rant about Touch) 5/21/2010 Windows Phone 7
Navigating the Windows Phone 7 Documentation 5/6/2010 Windows Phone 7
“Programming Windows Phone 7” — Updated Source Code 5/5/2010 Windows Phone 7
Where’s the Grown-Up Version of Zune? 5/5/2010 Music
XNA 3D on the Zune HD? 5/4/2010 Windows Phone 7
Listening to the “Shutter Island” Soundtrack 4/30/2010 Music
Introducing PhoniePoint version 1E-10 4/29/2010 Windows Phone 7
Inventing the “Three-Finger Salute” 4/16/2010 History of Computing
Visualizing the Windows Phone Accelerometer (on a Zune HD) 4/5/2010 Windows Phone 7 Series
Using VertexPositionTexture on Windows Phone 3/30/2010 Windows Phone 7 Series
New Book: “Programming Windows Phone 7 Series” 3/15/2010 Windows Phone 7 Series
Pants on the Ground: The Silverlight Application 1/23/2010 Silverlight
Dear EarthLink Customer Support 1/13/2010 Petzold Book Blog
1859 Books: Harriet Beecher Stowe’s “The Minister’s Wooing” 12/31/2009 Sesquicentenniality
Silverlight Apps that Resize Themselves 12/17/2009 Silverlight
Experimental Embedding of Silverlight Apps in Blog Entries 12/15/2009 Silverlight
Listening to Cecilia Bartoli’s “Sacrificium” 12/7/2009 Music
Coding for Multi-Touch for Silverlight 3 12/1/2009 Silverlight
Text Deformation Based on Bézier Splines 11/29/2009 Silverlight
1859 Books: Charles Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species” 11/24/2009 Sesquicentenniality
Seeds Across the Oceans 11/23/2009 Books
1859 Books: Charles Dickens’ “A Tale of Two Cities” 11/21/2009 Sesquicentenniality
Text Morphing but with Decomposed Outlines 11/13/2009 Silverlight
Displaying Text at Angles 11/12/2009 Silverlight
Random Globules This Time 11/2/2009 Silverlight
Random Rectangles in Silverlight (using WriteableBitmap) 10/30/2009 Silverlight
Book Royalties, Advances, and “Retainers” 10/29/2009 Books
Reading “Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age” 10/19/2009 Books
Reality 10/18/2009 Television
1859 Crusades: John Brown’s Raid on Harpers Ferry 10/16/2009 Sesquicentenniality
WQXR, Fading Away 10/14/2009 Music
Manipulating Character Outlines in Silverlight 10/11/2009 Silverlight
Reading “Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth” 10/8/2009 Books
Adapting the Calendar Control for Week Numbers 10/7/2009 WPF Programming
Animated Dotted Text Outlines: Getting the Flicker Out 10/6/2009 Silverlight
Using Text Outlines in Silverlight 10/5/2009 Silverlight
1859 Books: Samuel Smiles’ “Self-Help” 9/29/2009 Sesquicentenniality
Long Division on “Mad Men” 9/16/2009 Math
1859 Speeches: Prince Albert’s Address to the BAAS 9/14/2009 Sesquicentenniality
The Problematic Mahler 10th 9/9/2009 Music
1859 Books: Harriet Wilson’s “Our Nig” 9/5/2009 Sesquicentenniality
1859 Music: Richard Wagner’s “Tristan und Isolde” 8/30/2009 Sesquicentenniality
Using Silverlight DeepZoom for a Document Viewer 8/27/2009 Silverlight
Roget’s Hierarchical Thesaurus in a Silverlight App 8/24/2009 Silverlight
Petition for an Apology to Alan Turing 8/18/2009 The Annotated Turing
Young Pianists at Shandelee 8/15/2009 Music
A Fluttering Photo Effect for Silverlight 3 8/11/2009 Silverlight
Dodecahedron for Silverlight 3 8/9/2009 Silverlight
Another Rotating 3D Figure for Silverlight 3 8/7/2009 Silverlight
A Rotating *Solid* Cube in Silverlight 3 8/6/2009 Silverlight
Taper Transforms with Matrix3DProjection: An Analytical Approach 7/31/2009 Silverlight
A Rotating Wireframe Cube for Silverlight 3 7/26/2009 Silverlight
Dulce et Decorum Est 7/26/2009 Miscellaneous
A Simple Silverlight 3 Synthesizer with Keyboard (of Sorts) 7/24/2009 Silverlight Sound Synthesis
Animated “3D” Text in Silverlight 3 7/23/2009 Silverlight
Using the Matrix3DProjection Class in Silverlight 3 7/23/2009 Silverlight
1859 Books: Tennyson’s “Idylls of the King” 7/17/2009 Sesquicentenniality
A Simple Electronic-Music Sequencer for Silverlight 3 7/12/2009 Silverlight Sound Synthesis
Classical Music and MP3 Players 7/6/2009 Music
1859 Books: George Meredith’s “The Ordeal of Richard Feverel” 6/20/2009 Sesquicentenniality
To Hobart Book Village (and Beyond) 6/17/2009 Books
1859 Science: John Tyndall and the Greenhouse Effect 6/10/2009 Sesquicentenniality
Flax Seed Bread 6/2/2009 Recipes
1859 Journalism: Harriet Martineau’s “Female Industry” 5/30/2009 Sesquicentenniality
Business Trips and Public Transportation 5/24/2009 Speaking
Realizing a Fisheye Effect in Silverlight 5/18/2009 Silverlight
Ursula Le Guin’s Faux Pas 5/13/2009 Books
1859 Art: Frederic Church’s “The Heart of the Andes” 4/27/2009 Sesquicentenniality
“Hearts and Minds” Redux 3/31/2009 Movies
1859 Books: Anthony Trollope’s “The Bertrams” 3/29/2009 Sesquicentenniality
WPF in F# 3/26/2009 WPF Programming
Silverlight sans Xaml 3/23/2009 Silverlight
Nothing Worthwhile Published Before 1776? 3/14/2009 Google Books
Reading Darwin’s “The Various Contrivances by Which Orchids are Fertilised by Insects” 3/8/2009 Books
Podcast of my Talk about Turing at the University of Toronto 3/6/2009 The Annotated Turing
1859 Books: John Stuart Mill’s “On Liberty” 2/26/2009 Sesquicentenniality
Speaking at the University of Toronto on March 5 2/24/2009 The Annotated Turing
Pinnacles of 19th Century Science 2/12/2009 Science
Reading “Darwin’s Sacred Cause” 2/8/2009 Books
Graphical Paths with Gradient Colors 2/5/2009 WPF Programming
1859 Books: George Eliot’s “Adam Bede” 2/1/2009 Sesquicentenniality
Non-Affine Transforms in Silverlight 1/30/2009 Silverlight
Reading Denis Dutton’s “The Art Instinct” 1/26/2009 Books
XamlCruncher for Silverlight 1/24/2009 Silverlight
Canonical Splines in WPF and Silverlight 1/22/2009 Silverlight
1859 Books: “Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám” 1/15/2009 Sesquicentenniality
Paradoxes of Infinity in “The Annotated Turing” 1/14/2009 The Annotated Turing
Reading Jane Mayer’s “The Dark Side” 1/11/2009 Books
Text-Morphing CheckBox Template for Silverlight 1/9/2009 Silverlight
Animated Polyline Interpolations in Silverlight 1/7/2009 Silverlight
Animating Points and PointCollections in Silverlight 1/5/2009 Silverlight
Mind Your Freeze and Q’s 1/4/2009 WPF Programming
Reading “For the Thrill of It” 1/2/2009 Books
Re-Infection with Recurrent Ear Worm 12/16/2008 Music
Elliott Carter’s Birthday Bash 12/12/2008 Music
Elliott Carter Music on YouTube (a Selection) 12/11/2008 Music
Elliott Carter’s Nineties (1999 – 2008) 12/11/2008 Music
Elliott Carter’s Eighties (1989 – 1998) 12/10/2008 Music
Elliott Carter’s Seventies (1979 – 1988) 12/9/2008 Music
Reading “Revolutionary Road” 12/8/2008 Books
Elliott Carter’s Sixties (1969 – 1978) 12/8/2008 Music
Elliott Carter’s Fifties (1959 – 1968) 12/5/2008 Music
Elliott Carter’s Forties (1949 – 1958) 12/4/2008 Music
Elliott Carter’s Late Twenties and Thirties (1936 – 1948) 12/2/2008 Music
The Idiots at HIP 12/2/2008 Miscellaneous
Celebrating the Elliott Carter Centennial 12/1/2008 Music
I Am *So* Ashamed of This Silverlight Hack 11/25/2008 Silverlight
Text on a Path in Silverlight 11/24/2008 Silverlight
My “MSDN Magazine” Article on Text on a Path 11/23/2008 WPF Programming
Concepts of Intelligent Design Prior to the Scientific Revolution 11/21/2008 Science
“Gretchen am Spinnrade” (the Silverlight version) 11/20/2008 Silverlight
Gosh, I Thought “PC Magazine” Died Years Ago 11/19/2008 Petzold Book Blog
Simple Cable Simulation 11/18/2008 WPF Programming
Jeff Prosise’s Silverlight Enigma Simulation 11/17/2008 The Annotated Turing
“Gretchen am Spinnrade” (dot xaml) 11/5/2008 WPF Programming
Happy Election Day from Real America! 11/4/2008 New York City Life
WPF Retained Graphics and the SubPropertiesDoNotAffectRender Flag 11/3/2008 Petzold Book Blog
Martin Davis Reviews “The Annotated Turing” for “American Scientist” 10/11/2008 The Annotated Turing
Remembering Paul Jacobs 9/25/2008 Music
Reading Trollope’s “The Way We Live Now” 9/23/2008 Books
Mahler 8th Not Awesome? 9/22/2008 Music
Atan2 and Exceptions (and why there aren’t any) 9/20/2008 Programming
I’ve Been .NET Rocked! 9/11/2008 Petzold Book Blog
My Article on Property-Changed Notifications in MSDN Magazine 9/7/2008 WPF Programming
Curved ScrollBars using WPF 3D 8/26/2008 3D Book
“Don Giovanni” for 200 8/4/2008 Life in Sullivan County
A Brief Proof That Unrelentingly Catchy Tunes Do Not Good Music Make 7/25/2008 Music
Software Development Meme 7/4/2008 Programming
It’s Got to be the *Right* Blog 7/2/2008 The Annotated Turing
Gay Rights and the Prosecution of Alan Turing 6/28/2008 The Annotated Turing
Perhaps It Wasn’t Peter Fonda 6/25/2008 The Annotated Turing
Reading Copeland’s “Colossus” 6/22/2008 Petzold Book Blog
Memorizing the Multiplication Tables 6/13/2008 Math
Reading Hodges’ “One to Nine” 6/9/2008 Books
“The Annotated Turing” Hot Off the Presses! 6/5/2008 The Annotated Turing
The Alan Turing / James Bond Connection 6/1/2008 The Annotated Turing
I’ll Be Doing a PDC2008 Pre-Con on WPF! 5/30/2008 PDC2008
Babies Are Illogical: The “Lost” “Chapter” of “Code” 5/28/2008 Code
Reading Brian Rotman’s “Ad Infinitum…” 5/25/2008 The Annotated Turing
Turing and Brouwer: The Unexplored Connection 5/22/2008 The Annotated Turing
Turing Machines That Run Forever 5/18/2008 The Annotated Turing
Reading Casti’s “The Cambridge Quintet” 5/12/2008 Books
The 300 Page Ideal 5/10/2008 The Annotated Turing
Letting Go of the Book 5/9/2008 The Annotated Turing
My Neighborhood, circa 1849 5/7/2008 New York City Life
The Old Design Argument, Now Politicized 4/24/2008 Movies
Rounded Graphics in WPF 4/17/2008 WPF Programming
“The Annotated Turing” Typographic Triumph 3/27/2008 The Annotated Turing
My New Book on Charles Babbage 3/20/2008 The Mathematics of Miracles
Top Dollar for Turing’s Paper 3/14/2008 The Annotated Turing
Can a Notebook be *Too* Thin? 3/11/2008 Reading
Can You Help Us with Marketing for “The Annotated Turing”? 3/7/2008 The Annotated Turing
“The Annotated Turing” Illustrated Bibliography 3/6/2008 The Annotated Turing
Of a Book Entitled “Mr. Turing’s Computing Machine” 3/1/2008 The Annotated Turing
Of a Book Entitled “Follow the Data” 2/26/2008 Books
Best Picture Nominees 2/20/2008 Movies
“A room without books is like a body without a soul” (Cicero) 2/13/2008 Satire
600 Lines is a Luxury 1/25/2008 Programming
Tennis and Technology 1/23/2008 Sports
Progressive Arcs in XAML 1/16/2008 WPF Programming
What Kind of Weirdo Company Makes a Product Like This??? 1/15/2008 Petzold Book Blog
R.E.S.P.E.C.T. 1/12/2008 Moves
Cabinet Perspective in WPF 3D 1/9/2008 3D Programming
Even Before I Was Born 1/7/2008 History of Computation
The Kindle Paradox 1/4/2008 Books
The Mathematics of ArcSegment 1/2/2008 WPF Programming
Big Changes for 2008 1/1/2008 Personal
A Little XAML for the New Year 12/31/2007 3D Programming
Variable-Width Lines in WPF 12/30/2007 WPF Programming
A “War and Peace” Christmas 12/30/2007 Music
Phi on You! Phi on You All! 12/27/2007 Miscellaneous
Article on Custom Controls and Templates 12/26/2007 WPF Programming
Three Favorite Compositions? 12/14/2007 Music
E. W. Hobson’s “Squaring the Circle” 12/13/2007 Books
Sorting Without Spaces 12/13/2007 Programming
How Many Thirteenth Roots? 12/12/2007 Mathematics
David Leavitt’s “The Indian Clerk” 12/12/2007 Books
Great Writing on the Web 12/11/2007 Internet
Let’s Not Be Too Hard On Huckabee 12/10/2007 Satire
High-Resolution Printing of WPF 3D Visuals 12/7/2007 3D Book
Using My Code in Your Projects 12/7/2007 Programming
Computers, Randomness, and Alan Turing 12/6/2007 The Annotated Turing
The Best Boxes for Books 12/5/2007 Books
The Turing Machine Goes Public 12/2/2007 The Annotated Turing
Turing and the Halting Problem 11/26/2007 The Annotated Turing
More Tapestries at the Met 11/25/2007 New York City Life
“The Annotated Turing” Tentative TOC 11/21/2007 The Annotated Turing
Kindle Me Elmo 11/20/2007 Books
Ira Levin, 1929–2007 11/15/2007 Books
Norman Mailer, 1923–2007 11/11/2007 Books
“The Annotated Turing” Coming Spring 2008! 11/4/2007 The Annotated Turing
Aspect (Ir)ratio(nality) 11/3/2007 Television
Why We Had to Get Married 11/2/2007 Wedding
Delivering Keynote at Memphis Day of .NET 10/31/2007 Speaking
Wedding’s Over — Back to Work 10/30/2007 Wedding
Portrait of the Happy Couple 10/29/2007 Wedding
Wedding Blog: Sanity Reigns 10/27/2007 Wedding
Don’t Neglect the Mahler 6th 10/25/2007 Petzold Book Blog
Looking Forward to “Print is Dead” 10/24/2007 Books
License to Wed 10/23/2007 Wedding
Bypassing the BulletDecorator 10/19/2007 WPF Programming
Anxiety Amid the Wool and Chalk 10/18/2007 Wedding
Eliminating the Middleman 10/17/2007 Writing Business
Get Real 10/17/2007 Opinions
Muggings 10/16/2007 Writing Business
The Commercial Market Failed Me, So ... 10/15/2007 Satire
How Old is Humbert Humbert? 10/10/2007 Books
We’re Getting Married! 10/9/2007 Wedding
Hard Work, No Pay: What’s the Point? 10/8/2007 Writing Business
Autumn Reading: “Exit Ghost” 10/7/2007 Books
Contemporary Cultural Values 10/7/2007 Observations
James Dobson Comes Out Against the Iraq War 10/5/2007 Satire
Wednesday is Library Day! 10/3/2007 Books
The Mathematics of Charmin® 9/29/2007 Math
Barack Obama Comes to The Village 9/28/2007 New York City Life
Google Books Just Can’t Get It Right 9/26/2007 Google Books
WPF Animations in Code without Storyboards 9/26/2007 WPF Programming
Our Books, Our Selves 9/24/2007 Books
St. Monday 9/24/2007 Miscellaneous
More Circuits in XAML 9/23/2007 WPF Programming
XAML XOR Gate Works Also 9/18/2007 WPF Programming
Three-Way Switch Demo in XAML 9/15/2007 WPF Programming
Persuading the Suspect to Sing (2007-08 Season) 9/14/2007 Television
“Helvetica” (the movie) 9/13/2007 Movies
Summer Reading: “Nonviolence” 9/11/2007 Books
Google Books Needs to Know What They Have 9/10/2007 Google Books
Google Books Needs to List the Issues 9/9/2007 Google Books
Out with the Old — At Least for Us 9/9/2007 New York City Life
Google Books Needs to be More Like JSTOR 9/8/2007 Google Books
Animating Attached Properties 9/8/2007 Petzold Book Blog
Google Books: A Bibliographic Disaster 9/7/2007 Google Books
E-Books Are Better Books 9/6/2007 Satire
Real-Time Cell-Shading in WPF 3D 9/6/2007 3D Book
Attempt at Simple WPF 3D Cell-Shading 9/5/2007 3D Book
Summer Reading: “The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling” 9/5/2007 Books
What do You Want Me to Write About? 8/31/2007 MSDN Magazine
The Petzold.Media3D Library: The “Wire” Classes 8/31/2007 3D Book
Assembling 3D Figures with Translation and Rotation 8/29/2007 3D Book
And Just How Important Are Teachers? 8/27/2007 Opinions
Non-Affine Transforms in 2D? 8/25/2007 3D Book
The Petzold.Media3D Library: Converting Algorithmic Triangle Meshes to XAML 8/24/2007 3D Book
The Petzold.Media3D Library: Uniting the Two Triangulation Strategies 8/24/2007 3D Book
The Petzold.Media3D Library: Algorithmic Transforms 8/20/2007 3D Book
Converting Non-Loose XAML to XBAP 8/19/2007 3D Book
Navigating the Provincetown Breakwater 8/16/2007 Vacation
It’s Off to Provincetown, MA 8/15/2007 Miscellaneous
The Petzold.Media3D Library: The “Visuals” Classes 8/15/2007 3D Book
The Petzold.Media3D Library: Fun with the Teapot 8/14/2007 3D Book
On Resignations in High Places 8/14/2007 Opinions
The Petzold.Media3D Library: Polyhedra 8/13/2007 3D Book
An Updated Petzold.Media3D.dll Already? 8/13/2007 3D Book
The Glorious Shadelee Music Festival 8/12/2007 Life in Sullivan County
My Brush with a Famous Obama Supporter? 8/12/2007 New York City Life
The Petzold.Media3D Library: The “Meshes” Classes 8/11/2007 3D Book
About That 3D Text... 8/11/2007 3D Book
3D Book Source Code and the Petzold.Media3D Library 8/11/2007 3D Book
How to Persuade Amazon to Deliver My 3D Programming Book to You 8/10/2007 3D Book
I Shoulda Read the Contract 8/10/2007 3D Book
Animating 3D Non-Affine Transforms 8/9/2007 3D Book
Amazon Still Has 3D Book Info Wrong 8/9/2007 3D Book
3D Non-Affine Transforms 8/6/2007 3D Book
“3D Programming for Windows” is Totally Real! 8/6/2007 3D Book
3D Graphics for Windows 8/3/2007 3D Book
I Hereby Declare August To Be.... 8/1/2007 3D Book
3D Book Delayed? No Way! 7/30/2007 3D Book
Ingmar Bergman, 1918-2007 7/30/2007 Movies
Summer Theatre: “The Cripple of Inishmaan” 7/29/2007 Theatre
Summer Reading: “After Dark” 7/28/2007 Books
Summer Reading: “Rousseau’s Dog” 7/28/2007 Books
My Week with Clarissa: The Postmortem 7/22/2007 Books
My Week with Clarissa: Day Seven 7/22/2007 Books
My Week with Clarissa: Day Six 7/21/2007 Books
My Week with Clarissa: Day Five 7/20/2007 Books
My Week with Clarissa: Day Four 7/19/2007 Books
My Week with Clarissa: The Photographic Record 7/18/2007 Books
My Week with Clarissa: Day Three 7/18/2007 Books
My Week with Clarissa: Day Two 7/16/2007 Books
Eric Sink on WPF 3D 7/16/2007 3D Book
My Week with Clarissa: Day One 7/16/2007 Books
My Week with Clarissa: The Full Title 7/15/2007 Books
My Week with Clarissa: The Reading Strategy 7/14/2007 Books
My Week with Clarissa: The Editions 7/13/2007 Books
My Week with Clarissa: Alternative Approaches 7/12/2007 Books
My Week with Clarissa: Background 7/12/2007 Books
My Week with Clarissa: The Concept 7/12/2007 Books
Beautiful “Beautiful Code” 7/11/2007 Beautiful Code
Summer Reading: “Inventing Human Rights” 7/11/2007 Books
Summer Reading: “The Duke’s Children” 7/10/2007 Books
Introducing XAML Cruncher 2.0 7/10/2007 3D Book
My iPhone Dysfunction 7/10/2007 Satire
Do You Blog About WPF Programming? 7/8/2007 3D Book
Summer Reading: “The Best and the Brightest” 7/4/2007 Books
Bethel Woods Disappoints Again 7/3/2007 Life in Sullivan County
Hyperstereo Photographs from the World Trade Center 6/29/2007 Photography
Summer Reading: “Maurice” 6/26/2007 Books
How to Read a Book 6/24/2007 Books
Happy Turing Day! 6/23/2007 Turing Book
Summer Reading: “The Engagement” 6/22/2007 Books
Gotta Get Me One of Those iPod Things 6/22/2007 Satire
Summer Movies: “Paprika” 6/21/2007 Movies
Bad Flash Flood Near Roscoe 6/21/2007 Life in Sullivan County
My Article on Animation Extensions in MSDN Magazine 6/19/2007 WPF Programming
Summer Reading: “Christopher and His Kind” 6/18/2007 Books
Cut to Silent Black; Hold; Roll Credits 6/17/2007 Movies
Demos from Chapter 9 of My 3D Book 6/11/2007 3D Book
Summer Reading: “On Chesil Beach” 6/8/2007 Books
Another “I Hate Computers” Day 6/4/2007 Computers
I’m Craving Books 6/3/2007 Books
E=mc² and the Sun 6/3/2007 Science
Sen. Brownback Still a Dogmatic Creationist 5/31/2007 Politics
“3D Programming for Windows” is in the System! 5/22/2007 3D Book
Early Summer This Year 5/18/2007 Life in Sullivan County
“The Tutors” Explores 16th Century Education 5/15/2007 Television
.NET Classes vs. Structures 5/13/2007 .NET Programming
Dependency Properties and Data Bindings 5/12/2007 WPF Programming
More Thoughts About WPF Books, Past and Future 5/4/2007 WPF Book
Devscovery Comes to New York City 5/4/2007 WPF Programming
Progress on the WPF 3D Book 5/2/2007 3D Book
Content is Still King, Right? Right? (Please?) 4/29/2007 WPF Book
20 Years Ago This Year 4/29/2007 Memories
XAML Resources and x:Name 4/28/2007 WPF Programming
The Future of Writing? 4/27/2007 WPF Book
Earth Day and Ayn Rand 4/22/2007 Memories
Lines with Arrows 4/19/2007 WPF Programming
Kurt Vonnegut, 1922-2007 4/12/2007 Books
“Boomsday” 4/10/2007 Books
“We Have Always Lived in the Castle” 4/7/2007 Books
The UAC is Your (Mostly Silent) Friend 4/2/2007 Vista
Would You Like to Publish My Next Book? 3/28/2007 Turing Book
Animating WPF Resources 3/25/2007 WPF Programming
“City of Laughter” 3/25/2007 Books
“The Year of Magical Thinking” 3/22/2007 Theater
FORTRAN 3/20/2007 Programming
FreezableCollection Tip 3/19/2007 WPF Programming
Daffy “Times” Article on Amazon and Classical Music 3/19/2007 Music
ClockRack Fix (But No ClockStrip Fix) 3/18/2007 PC Magazine Utilities
Let There Be Shadows (Part II) 3/16/2007 3D Book
Article in April 2007 MSDN Magazine 3/16/2007 WPF Programming
Betty Hutton and “The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek” 3/15/2007 Movies
Let There Be Shadows 3/12/2007 3D Book
“Beautiful Code” Coming in June 3/11/2007 Beautiful Code
Another Book Bites the Dust 3/9/2007 Windows Forms
More Gripes About XBAPs 3/8/2007 WPF
The “Vertigo” Effect in 3D 3/7/2007 3D Book
Why I Structured My Book Like I Did 3/5/2007 WPF Book
“An Inconvenient Truth” 3/4/2007 Movies
Asexual Reproduction of Teapots 3/1/2007 3D Book
“24” Bad for America? 2/26/2007 TV
Movies and Awards 2/24/2007 Movies
3D Teapot Tragedy 2/22/2007 3D Book
“Primates and Philosophers” 2/18/2007 Books
3D Robot Walks and, umm, Walks Some More 2/15/2007 3D Book
“The Radical and the Republican” 2/14/2007 Books
3D Book: Progress Report 2/5/2007 3D Book
My Sick, Sick, Xamled Mind 2/4/2007 3D Book
Happy Groundhog’s Day 2/2/2007 Miscellaneous
Congratulations to Chris Anderson! 2/1/2007 WPF
WQXR Back On Line 2/1/2007 Music
3D Fractal Cube 1/31/2007 3D Book
When Green Fuels Go Bad 1/31/2007 Miscellaneous
Foreign-Language Editions 1/29/2007 Petzold Book Blog
Karsten Extracts My Templates (Ouch!) 1/27/2007 WPF Programming
I Wish I Were in Melbourne 1/26/2007 Sports
How to Get SpotLight to Work 1/24/2007 3D Book
Visionary Directors from Mexico 1/22/2007 Movies
Keynoting at Devscovery 1/22/2007 Public Speaking
Bach via Barenboim 1/21/2007 Music
The Tiniest 3D Program 1/19/2007 3D Book
Flexibility with Property Elements 1/15/2007 WPF Programming
Of XAML and Screwball 1/14/2007 Movies
ArkivMusic Asking Interesting Questions 1/12/2007 Music
New Year’s Magic 1/1/2007 Petzold Book Blog
I Love Word 2007! 12/29/2006 Observations
My Head on a Sphere 12/27/2006 3D Book
“It Just Works” 12/25/2006 Computers
MeshGeometry3D Normals Demystified (Part 3 of 3) 12/22/2006 3D Book
You Can’t Make Brownies with Splenda® 12/22/2006 Food
Tired of the Same Old Christmas Music? 12/22/2006 Music
The Mysterious MeshGeometry3D Normals Property (Part 2) 12/17/2006 3D Book
Enlightened Views 12/17/2006 Opinions
The Mysterious Normals Property (Part 1) 12/16/2006 Petzold Book Blog
TextureCoordinates and TileBrushes 12/15/2006 3D Book
Normalization of TextureCoordinates 12/14/2006 3D Book
My Article on Templates in MSDN Magazine 12/13/2006 WPF Programming
“Windows 3D” Book Coming Summer 2007! 12/7/2006 3D Book
Autumn Reading: “CLR via C#” 12/6/2006 Books
“.NET Book Zero” Now Available 12/5/2006 Petzold Book Blog
Blaming the Troops 12/4/2006 Opinions
How Fast Do Memes Propagate Through Blogs? 11/30/2006 Miscellaneous
YAPAS 11/29/2006 Opinions
William Diehl, 1924-2006 11/28/2006 Books
Kludges and Spam Filters 11/27/2006 Opinions
Every Three Minutes 11/26/2006 Opinions
Our Dinner with Sarah 11/23/2006 Life in Sullivan County
Kael on “Nashville” 11/23/2006 Movies
What I Hate About XBAPs 11/22/2006 Windows Presentation Foundation
Robert Altman, 1925-2006 11/21/2006 Movies
Simulating Sines in XAML 11/19/2006 Windows Presentation Foundation
Vista Sings “New York, New York” 11/13/2006 Windows Vista
Converting EXE Projects to XBAPs 11/12/2006 Windows Presentation Foundation
Making Headway on the Movies 11/12/2006 Movies
The “Borat” Conundrum 11/11/2006 Movies
Run! Hide! Politics on the Loose! 11/10/2006 Blogging
Our Long National Nightmare is Over 11/8/2006 Petzold Book Blog
Great News in the N.Y. Times This Morning 11/8/2006 Food
What’s Wrong With Not Knowing? 11/5/2006 Observations
“.NET Book Zero” Coming Soon! 10/25/2006 Petzold Book Blog
“Richard Hoehler: For Real” 10/22/2006 Life in Sullivan County
XAML Spiral Animation 10/21/2006 Petzold Book Blog
“Alexander Nevsky” In Concert 10/20/2006 Music
My Familial Mets Connection 10/20/2006 Sports
Simple Play, Controversial Backdrop 10/19/2006 Theatre
Closing 2: CBGB 10/16/2006 New York City Life
Closing 1: Tower Records 10/16/2006 New York City Life
Movie Deluge 10/15/2006 Movies
Autumn Reading: “The Prime Minister” 10/15/2006 Books
Documentary: “The Ground Truth” 10/15/2006 Movies
Lieder Crazy 10/15/2006 Music
“Napoleon on the Nile” at Dahesh 10/11/2006 New York City Life
The Inevitable Errata List 10/11/2006 Petzold Book Blog
The Funny Side of Imperialism 10/4/2006 Observations
Autumn Reading: “A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines” 10/1/2006 Books
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An Afternoon at “The Daily Show” 9/25/2006 New York City Life
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Ikat Textiles at the Met 9/16/2006 New York City Life
“Apps = Code + Markup”: The Lost 3D Episode 9/12/2006 Petzold Book Blog
Reflections on the Anniversary of 9/11 9/11/2006 Remembrances
Unprocessed Film 9/10/2006 Remembrances
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As Quiet as a Snowfall 9/9/2006 Remembrances
RC1 Ready for Prime Time 9/8/2006 Petzold Book Blog
“The Wire” 4th Season 9/8/2006 Television
A Day at the U.S. Open 9/7/2006 New York City Life
Re-entry Accomplished 9/5/2006 New York City Life
Early Reviews of “Apps=Code+Markup” 9/3/2006 Petzold Book Blog
The Country-to-City Transition 9/3/2006 New York City Life
Congratulations on Release Candidate One! 9/2/2006 Petzold Book Blog
WPF Book Actually Totally Real 8/27/2006 Petzold Book Blog
Summer Reading: “Cousin Henry” 8/27/2006 Books
ECM and Bach: Coincidence or Trend? 8/26/2006 Music
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Summer Reading: “The One Percent Doctrine” 8/26/2006 Books
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Embedding Bitmaps in XAML Files 8/23/2006 Petzold Book Blog
VB .NET Book Declared “Out of Print” 8/23/2006 Petzold Book Blog
“Water” and “When the Levees Broke” 8/22/2006 Movies
To the County Fair We Go 8/18/2006 Life in Sullivan County
Glimmerglass Matinée 8/18/2006 Music
The Tim Sneath Challenge VI 8/17/2006 Petzold Book Blog
The Tim Sneath Challenge V 8/17/2006 Petzold Book Blog
The Tim Sneath Challenge IV 8/17/2006 Petzold Book Blog
The Tim Sneath Challenge III 8/17/2006 Petzold Book Blog
The Tim Sneath Challenge II 8/17/2006 Petzold Book Blog
The Tim Sneath Challenge I 8/17/2006 Petzold Book Blog
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XAML Puzzle-Solving 8/15/2006 Petzold Book Blog
Summer Reading: “The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer” 8/11/2006 Books
Was It Voltaire? (Follow Up) 8/9/2006 Musings
Garbage Cut, Garbage Pasted 8/8/2006 Musings
Support Your Local Independent Bookstore 8/7/2006 Life in Sullivan County
New York Liberty 80, Chicago Sky 69 8/6/2006 Basketball
Summer Reading: “Betraying Spinoza” 8/4/2006 Books
Billie Jean King Honored 8/3/2006 Tennis
An Alternative “Passion” 8/1/2006 Music
Wikiality 8/1/2006 Predictions
New York Liberty Steps Back from the Abyss 7/31/2006 Basketball
Bye Bye Mel 7/30/2006 Predictions
EBooks and Piracy 7/29/2006 Petzold Book Blog
Summer Reading: “Turing’s Delirium” 7/27/2006 Books
Summer Reading: “A History of Vector Analysis” 7/25/2006 Books
Book-Writing Advice 7/24/2006 Petzold Book Blog
Timothy Leary at “PC Magazine” 7/23/2006 Reminiscences
Animated Drawing Brushes 7/23/2006 Petzold Book Blog
Summer Reading: “The Magic Mountain” 7/23/2006 Books
The Book Shipped Today! Hurrah! Hurrah! 7/19/2006 Petzold Book Blog
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First Photograph of the New Baby 7/7/2006 Petzold Book Blog
3D Text Animation (dot xaml) 7/6/2006 Petzold Book Blog
Backslashes and Repercussions 7/6/2006 Reminiscences
Animated Reflected Text (dot xaml) 7/5/2006 Petzold Book Blog
Updated Applications Now Available 7/4/2006 Petzold Book Blog
Enough with the Explosions Already 7/4/2006 Musing
29° Makes the N.Y. Times 7/3/2006 Miscellaneous
Flooding In Roscoe 6/29/2006 Life in Sullivan County
June CTP Template Changes 6/27/2006 Petzold Book Blog
June CTP Imaging Issues 6/27/2006 Petzold Book Blog
June CTP Impact 6/27/2006 Petzold Book Blog
An Animation Involving a Text Geometry 6/25/2006 Petzold Book Blog
Dynamically Changing TreeView Contents 6/25/2006 Petzold Book Blog
On Writing Books 6/24/2006 Petzold Book Blog
How I’ll Spend My Summer Vacation 6/21/2006 Petzold Book Blog
Life is Full of Compromises 6/20/2006 Petzold Book Blog
Animation and Natural Law 6/16/2006 Petzold Book Blog
The Final Deadline 6/13/2006 Petzold Book Blog
ClockStrip Now Available 6/10/2006 Petzold Book Blog
Pages 6/10/2006 Petzold Book Blog
8-Bit Binary Adder in XAML 6/10/2006 Petzold Book Blog
WPF Ink and Graphics 6/2/2006 Petzold Book Blog
WPF Developers Just Too Damn Young? 5/28/2006 Petzold Book Blog
Typical Cat Behavior 5/26/2006 Cats
New Version of XAML Cruncher Available 5/24/2006 Petzold Book Blog
WinFx May Release 5/24/2006 Petzold Book Blog
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MatrixAnimationUsingPath Demo 5/17/2006 Petzold Book Blog
How to Index Arrays in XAML 5/10/2006 Petzold Book Blog
Deadline Reprieve 5/10/2006 Petzold Book Blog
The Demise of Hungarian Notation 5/4/2006 Petzold Book Blog
The Secret Identity of StatusBar 5/3/2006 Petzold Book Blog
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Squaring the Circle 4/22/2006 Petzold Book Blog
XAML Cruncher: Tiny Fixes 4/12/2006 Petzold Book Blog
To Infinity and Beyond 4/10/2006 Petzold Book Blog
RelativeSource Demo 4/10/2006 Petzold Book Blog
Another Xamlifferous Experience (an All-XAML Clock) 4/7/2006 Petzold Book Blog
The Book Is In The System! 4/6/2006 Petzold Book Blog
More Xamliffic Stuff 4/6/2006 Petzold Book Blog
Where Have All the XAML Flowers Gone? 4/5/2006 Petzold Book Blog
In Dreams Begin Responsibilities 4/5/2006 Musing
Crunch Time 4/5/2006 Petzold Book Blog
Have It Your Way 4/3/2006 Petzold Book Blog
I Saw a Silly Animation This Morning... 4/2/2006 Petzold Book Blog
The CSAML Spec: A Brief Preview 4/1/2006 Petzold Book Blog
Formatting Text Output in XAML 3/31/2006 Petzold Book Blog
Stanislaw Lem, 1921-2006 3/28/2006 Books
FillRule in WPF Animations 3/28/2006 Petzold Book Blog
“24” Update 3/27/2006 TV
Hybrid Clock Program Available 3/23/2006 Petzold Book Blog
RenderTransform vs. LayoutTransform 3/21/2006 Petzold Book Blog
Data-Binding Sources: The Three Alternatives 3/21/2006 Petzold Book Blog
Formatting Strings in XAML 3/20/2006 Petzold Book Blog
Console-Type Output in XAML? 3/18/2006 Petzold Book Blog
Dynamic Resources 3/16/2006 Petzold Book Blog
Introducing XAML Cruncher 3/12/2006 Petzold Book Blog
The Book Pipeline 3/5/2006 Petzold Book Blog
Animation Repetition 3/4/2006 Petzold Book Blog
WinForms: More Vital Than Ever 3/3/2006 Petzold Book Blog
New Directions for Microsoft Press 2/24/2006 Petzold Book Blog
Web Browser Apps 2/24/2006 Petzold Book Blog
Accessing Non-XAML Assemblies in XAML 2/23/2006 Petzold Book Blog
Styled Lines in XAML Revisited 2/23/2006 Petzold Book Blog
WPF Printing II 2/23/2006 Petzold Book Blog
Concert Overload Syndrome 2/22/2006 Book Breaks
Photo Op 2/22/2006 Miscellaneous
Tentatively Complete TOC 2/21/2006 Petzold Book Blog
Printing under WPF 2/20/2006 Petzold Book Blog
Hierarchical TreeView Templates 2/17/2006 Petzold Book Blog
Mysteries of Google 2/13/2006 Petzold Book Blog
The View from my Window 2/12/2006 Petzold Book Blog
Styled Lines 2/8/2006 Petzold Book Blog
Content Properties 2/7/2006 Petzold Book Blog
IMDB Junkie Misses Big Movie Moment 2/6/2006 Work Breaks
Avalon Talks 2/6/2006 Petzold Book Blog
Paperwork 2/2/2006 Petzold Book Blog
Real-Time Drop-Shadow Slam-Dunk 2/1/2006 Petzold Book Blog
Button Templates 1/30/2006 Petzold Book Blog
Table of Contents 1/29/2006 Petzold Book Blog
ListBox Templates 1/29/2006 Petzold Book Blog
Semifinals Post Mortem 1/26/2006 Work Breaks
Geek Gargon Breaks Out 1/25/2006 Petzold Book Blog
Australian Open: On to the Semi-Finals 1/25/2006 Work Breaks
OnRender Clipping Logic 1/24/2006 Petzold Book Blog
The Increasingly Useful Wikipedia 1/23/2006 Petzold Book Blog
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I Love Books 1/18/2006 Petzold Book Blog
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The Book’s Gotta Have It 1/16/2006 Petzold Book Blog
Graphic Novella Documents WPF Book Wars 1/9/2006 Petzold Book Blog
Label (and Button) Mnemonics 1/6/2006 Petzold Book Blog
Totally Cool Title 1/5/2006 Petzold Book Blog
Tablet PC Programming under WPF 1/5/2006 Petzold Book Blog
Braille’s Birthday 1/4/2006 Petzold Book Blog
Writing on the Installment Plan 1/3/2006 Petzold Book Blog
Doctorow’s March 1/2/2006 Petzold Book Blog
New Year’s Resolution 12/31/2005 Petzold Book Blog
Interactivityishness 12/30/2005 Petzold Book Blog
Rewiring Our Graphics Brains 12/29/2005 Petzold Book Blog
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Faster, Pussycat! Code! Code! 12/23/2005 Petzold Book Blog
Thinking Differently with WPF 12/22/2005 Petzold Book Blog
Floating Point: The Final Victory 12/21/2005 Petzold Book Blog
GridSplitter: FUBAR or Just Poorly Documented? 12/20/2005 Petzold Book Blog
Shorter Chapters 12/19/2005 Petzold Book Blog
Forget About Comprehensiveness 12/18/2005 Petzold Book Blog
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Don’t Even Try to Compete 12/17/2005 Petzold Book Blog
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Whither Programming Tutorials? 12/13/2005 Petzold Book Blog
I Found the File Dialog Boxes 12/10/2005 Petzold Book Blog
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Entrenched Standards 12/9/2005 Petzold Book Blog
King Kong, 1976 12/5/2005 Reminiscences
Progress and Pages 12/1/2005 Petzold Book Blog
The 96 DPI Solution 11/25/2005 Petzold Book Blog
XAML, Code, and TextBlock 11/20/2005 Petzold Book Blog
XAML Rules (but Code Suffers) 11/19/2005 Petzold Book Blog
Things You Shouldn’t Do When You’re Writing a Book 11/15/2005 Petzold Book Blog
“Power to the Pen” 11/15/2005 Articles
“Windows 1.0 and the Applications of Tomorrow” 11/11/2005 Appearances
DevConnections Jet Lag 11/8/2005 On the Road
My Mini-Keynote at DevConnections 11/5/2005 Appearances
Public Code 10/30/2005 Reminiscences
This Stuff is Trippy 10/28/2005 Petzold Book Blog
Programming vs. Visual Studio 10/27/2005 Petzold Book Blog
“Does Visual Studio Rot the Mind?” 10/18/2005 Appearances
Minimizing Distractions 10/17/2005 Petzold Book Blog
“Ink as a Graphical Medium” 10/12/2005 Appearances
Layout 10/8/2005 Petzold Book Blog
The Two APIs 10/4/2005 Petzold Book Blog
The Competition 9/25/2005 Petzold Book Blog
RichTextBox Selections 9/24/2005 Petzold Book Blog
Tennyson on Windows Programming 9/19/2005 Petzold Book Blog
How to Write a 1200-Page Book 9/15/2005 Petzold Book Blog
And Another Book Commences 8/26/2005 Petzold Book Blog
One Book Approaching Completion 8/25/2005 Petzold Book Blog
August 8/23/2005 Petzold Book Blog