One of the things that blogging gives me is the chance to be verywrong in public. Yesterday , I claimed thatC's stdargs didn't let you peel some arguments off the front of a va_list and then pass the shortened list to another function,such as vprintf() . Well, no, and now I'll tell you why I'm wrong.

I'm clearly wrong in practice on x86 Unix machines with gcc, as a simpletest program easily demonstrated once

I really dislike Google's redesign of their search results, because theycommit one of my great irritations ; they putsite navigation on the left side (where it cuts off content in narrowwindows) instead of on the right (or on the bottom, or nowhere). Aftera few days of staring at the new design and grinding my teeth, I decidedto fix it.

Since I use Firefox, the modern way of fixing this is probablya Greasemonkey script. However I don't use Greasemonkey for