September 22nd, 2009

Things I've written that have amused other people, Episode 5

Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen

A question was sent to an internal discussion list for users of the XYZ tool:

From: Q
To: XYZ Users The GHI function in the JKL tool doesn’t work for me. «description of problem deleted»

I responded with this message:

To: Q, XYZ Users The JKL tool is not part of XYZ. You should contact the author of the JKL tool.

The reason why people were amused by this is that the author of the JKL tool is me. (Says so right there in the online help.)

As a final punch line, the person never did contact me.

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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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