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Sigh... I missed an opportunity to meet Lucy Hsu, ex-country manager of CodeGear Taiwan.
I had only realized Lucy is located in Taiwan when I arrived at the Taipei airport... I found out too late that there was a Skype application installed on the machine here.
A method to design records so that they're allocated on a specific byte boundary, such as 16 bytes, 512 bytes, 4096 bytes, etc.