Posted by
Andrews on Saturday, February 23, 2008 12:05:56 PM
As I have picked up several new readers, I figure it is time to formally state the rules by which I write my blog. I have mentioned them before in passing, but never officially stated the promises I made to my readers. So, for the first time, here are the promises I made when I started this blog:
1. I promise to respond to every comment as soon as I read it. I will try my best to make every response substantial, though, should I not understand your point, I will say so. Provided I can follow your point, I will do my best to reply in as intelligent a manner as possible.
2. I promise to thank every reader for their comments, as I really do appreciate anyone who takes the time to read my writing, and especially those who bother to tell me their reaction. Positive or negative, every comment will get my thanks.
3. I promise to keep my writing as close to the topic as possible. Very rarely I will stray a bit and write something off topic, such as my early "
Spelling Nazi" essay, but in general I will do my best to write on matters political and cultural and leave the other topics for other fora*.
4. I promise at least one post a week. In the past few months I have exceeded that greatly, but, should my pace slow, I still promise at least one a week.
Those are the promises with which I started writing, and I have done my best to keep them. Hopefully I will continue to do so. And if I don't, let me know so I can better follow my own rules.
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* High school Latin scars you for life. I know many write "forums" and no one bats an eye, but I just can't do it. The plural of "forum" is "fora", I just can't write it any other way. (I have endless arguments with other software developers, as I just cannot believe that we threw away the perfectly good word "indices" for the abomination "indexes". And the fact that "modern" dictionaries and Microsoft spell-check hate "indices" and love "indexes" does not convince me otherwise. Even now as I write this Firefox is drawing a little red squiggle under the real word and doing nothing to the horrible neologism. Unbelievable.)
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UPDATED 02/22/2008
If this, or any other article, mysteriously disappears, blame my three year old son. He is a bit too fascinated by consumer electronics and has a habit of clicking on any links he sees on my computer. He just flagged this article as offensive (the second of my articles he has so flagged), and I am certain at some point he will manage to accidentally delete one of my essays.
I know I have said I hate disclosing personal details, but I just wanted to make clear that there is a possibility articles may simply vanish form time to time, and explain that it is nothing intentional on my part, just one of the many random events brought about by living with a child just turned three.