March 13th, 2009

Raymond rewrites newspaper headlines, episode 2

The local community newspaper featured a color photograph of a twelve-year-old student holding a bright orange safety flag while another student crosses the street in front of him. The caption reads as follows:

XYZ School 6th-grader John Doe, at right, will be honored Friday night at Safeco Field as one of the state’s top safety patrol students.

“On Monday morning, he will be found stuffed inside his locker,” the caption did not conclude.

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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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