January 31st, 2012

The Freudian typo that will not die: Enchanced video quality

While wasting time doing valuable background research on my computer, I received the following suggestion:

For enchanced video quality, click here.

It’s good to know that the typo that I first encountered in 1993 is still alive and kicking.

(And even though it’s not important to the story, people will demand some sort of follow-up, so here it is: I submitted feedback to the vendor, who said that it was a known issue fixed in the next update.)

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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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