I’m an economics geek, so of course I’m a fan of Slate’s Moneybox column as well as The Dismal Science and most of all, Steven Landsburg’s gleefully provocative Everyday Economics. I’m also a language geek, so I’ve been quite enjoying the occasional Moneybox articles which decode CEO speak into plain English titled The CEO-English Phrase Book, thereby combine two geek topics into one.
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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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