Obsolete Knowledge
12 06 2008A rant, albeit a mild one.
Why oh why do people write reams and reams of potentially useful (or even, not) information on their pages and then FAIL TO DATE THE DOCUMENT! :-SWEARY
The times I have looked for something on the ‘net, thought I’d found it only to find that it related to an obsolete issue or software version. This in itself it not so bad – after all, it might be categorised as “historical” – but only if it is dated! Even professional writers don’t seem to understand that without a date, readers cannot easily decide if the subject matter is still pertinent.
At least blogs auto-date their entries, which, if they do nothing else, is worthy of a cheer or two.
OK, <Flame off> normal service will now be resumed.
I find it frustrating as well… many the time I have been looking for information to help with a problem only to find out much later that the information is completely obsolete… much better to spend all of 5s and date the piece of writing.