Daylight Saving Time

Public opinion seems to be turning against Daylight Saving Time (DST), despite the fact that most of our clocks now change automatically, and despite the fact that most people don't even seem to have a clear understanding of what DST does, and what its purpose is. I'm not necessarily the biggest proponent of DST, but …

Analyzing some Windows Write files

Write is the word processing program that came with Microsoft Windows 3.x (and earlier versions of Windows, but it's 3.x that I'm concerned with here). Many thousands of free and shareware programs were written for Windows 3.x, and a lot of them include some documentation in Write's WRI file format. Objectively, most of them should …