May 30th, 2006

Mellifluous NPR reporter name: Ofeibea Quist-Arcton

Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen

I first heard Ofeibea Quist-Arcton when she reported for the BBC. Now she’s on NPR (you can listen to her discuss corruption in Nigeria in this recent report), thereby wresting the title of “most mellifluous NPR reporter name” from its previous holder, Sylvia Poggioli. (Sylvia Poggioli’s dirty secret: She was born and grew up in the United States!) Other NPR personalities with cool-sounding names: Andrei Codrescu, Mandalit del Barco, Snigdha Prakash, and Eric Westervelt.

Christiane Amanpour has a nice name, too, but she works for CNN, not NPR.

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Old New Thing
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Non-Computer

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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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