I recently noticed a reasonable spike in traffic around here a few days ago; turns out an entry of mine got linked to by a Wiki article (no, I didn't make the link from Wiki myself ;-)). The point of this entry isn't to garner kudos or pat myself on the back (of course the ego points do make me feel all warm and fuzzy inside). The point is that the article that was linked to mentions in passing the point: A breaking change in the .Net framework from 1.x to 2.0. If you were to go strictly by the title of my post, you wouldn't even know it was .Net related, much less even tech in nature...plus the article is framed around a reference to a regression in Community Server introduced by the breaking change. Hardly a professional explanation of the issue at hand.
I definitely don't consider myself even close to a professional blogger, not even an amateur most of the time. It's times like these where I wish I could go back and rewrite some of my old "casual" stuff to make it more tidy around the edges in the rare chance it gets a glancing 15 seconds. Ok do I really care? Not really...but it's damn tough to make writing that's both A) interesting and captivating as well as B) professional and polished. Atwood does a fantastic job...virtually all of his posts are knock outs in most areas, i.e. I find them interesting, and so does my girlfriend (who can spell IT and that's about it)...he captivates a variety of audiences.
That all being said, I do love the open-endedness of the internet. And I need to remind me not to take myself too seriously.
Posted
Feb 08 2007, 12:01 AM
by
Jayson Knight