Standard Disclaimer
Back in university I used to have a public directory (then a website) with a bunch of humour files that I had come across. Then I expanded that into a weekly mailout to friends. Then I graduated and all was pretty much forgotten.
Travel forward eight years or so, and do some massive find on my laptop, and what should reappear (indirectly) but my humour directory (when I switch machines I simply tar up my home directory and then dump it back out onto the new machine).
One of my favourite pieces from the collection was “Standard Disclaimer”. At the top of the file was a credit not as to where I “stole” the file… http://www.cen.uiuc.edu/~kbuxton. The magic of the Web is that stuff appears out of nowhere. The counter to that is that stuff is liable to disappear the day after. Or perhaps when said person graduates. Enter a Google search and I was able to find that kbuxton still exists. As does the standard disclaimer web page. Of course, I still have it in original text format on my laptop.
Thu, 27 Jan 2005 23:33 Posted in General
