March 13th, 2006

The social skills of a thermonuclear device, part 2

Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen

I guess I’m living up to my reputation of having the social skills of a thermonuclear device:

From: <name withheld>

It’d be awful swell of you to add my blog to your blogroll. You don’t know me, and I know you only by your superlative writings, but I’m a big fan.

http://<link withheld>

P.S. Would you like you home remortgaged? Are you in need of prescription drugs? Can you help me free up my Nigerian wealth?

My reply:

hey there – i actually am extremely selective about who goes on my blogroll. in fact I’m working on making it smaller, not bigger. sorry.

And the response:

From: <name withheld>

HOW RUDE!

Maybe the author of this cartoon was researching how to finish the story…

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Raymond Chen

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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