July 2nd, 2008

Raymond misreads newspaper head… no wait, I didn’t!

I have a habit of misreading newspaper headlines, so I simply assumed that this was just another one: Phelps sets word record in 400 IM. (And no, I don’t normally read the Rocky Mountain News. The actual headline was printed across the top of the June 30 Seattle Times Sports section, but I couldn’t find the headline in the online archives, so I found another newspaper with the same headline.)

Wow, how fast did he IM 400 words?

Duh, I must’ve misread it. Obviously the headline said world record.

No wait, it really was word record!

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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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