October 16th, 2003

The much-misunderstood "nop" action

Last month, the printers were reconfigured in our building and we got an announcement that went like this:

Subject: Printer/Copier Reconfiguration

Microsoft Digital Campus Program

Action Required

blah blah blah printers are being reconfigured blah blah blah

Action(s) to be taken: No action is required as the print path information will remain the same.

Sometimes you have to do nothing, and that counts as doing something.

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Raymond has been involved in the evolution of Windows for more than 30 years. In 2003, he began a Web site known as The Old New Thing which has grown in popularity far beyond his wildest imagination, a development which still gives him the heebie-jeebies. The Web site spawned a book, coincidentally also titled The Old New Thing (Addison Wesley 2007). He occasionally appears on the Windows Dev Docs Twitter account to tell stories which convey no useful information.

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