{"id":25623,"date":"2007-08-10T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-10T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2007\/08\/10\/things-ive-written-that-have-amused-other-people-episode-4\/"},"modified":"2007-08-10T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-10T10:00:00","slug":"things-ive-written-that-have-amused-other-people-episode-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20070810-00\/?p=25623","title":{"rendered":"Things I&#039;ve written that have amused other people, Episode 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my colleagues pointed out that my web site is listed in the references section of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/whdc\/driver\/kernel\/DLL_bestprac.mspx\"> this whitepaper<\/a>. It scares me that I&#8217;m being used as formal documentation because that is explicitly what this web site isn&#8217;t. I wrote back,<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"q\"><p> I really need to put a disclaimer on my web site. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p> FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> Remember, this is a blog. The opinions (and even some facts) expressed here are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of Microsoft Corporation. Nothing I write here creates an obligation on Microsoft or establishes the company&#8217;s official position on anything. I am not a spokesperson. I&#8217;m just this guy who strings people along in the hopes that they might hear a funny story once in a while.<\/p>\n<p> You&#8217;d think this was obvious, but apparently there are people who think that somehow <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2006\/11\/08\/1035971.aspx#1041611\"> what I write has the weight of official Microsoft policy and take my sentences apart as if they were legal documents<\/a> or who take my articles and declare them to be <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File_Allocation_Table#_ref-TechNet_on_FAT32_1\"> official statements from Microsoft Corporation<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my colleagues pointed out that my web site is listed in the references section of this whitepaper. It scares me that I&#8217;m being used as formal documentation because that is explicitly what this web site isn&#8217;t. I wrote back, I really need to put a disclaimer on my web site. FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26,134],"class_list":["post-25623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-other","tag-things-ive-written-that-have-amused-other-people"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>One of my colleagues pointed out that my web site is listed in the references section of this whitepaper. It scares me that I&#8217;m being used as formal documentation because that is explicitly what this web site isn&#8217;t. I wrote back, I really need to put a disclaimer on my web site. FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}