The Old New Thing

Things I've written that have amused other people, Episode 7

July 22, 2010 Jul 22, 2010 07/22/10

Raymond Chen

A customer asked for advice on how to accomplish something, the details of which are not important, except to say that what they were trying to do was far more complicated than the twenty-word summary would suggest. And I wasn't convinced that it was a good idea, sort of like asking for advice on how to catch a baseball in your teeth or pick ...