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Re: Do you think JB will ever move....? |
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John Brignell |
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Feb 22, 07 - 6:37 PM |
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jeb@numberwatch.co.uk |
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Here are some of my reasons.
1. It’s my party and I’ll cry if I want to.
2. I am old and set in my ways. The format is like the ancient red towelling bathrobe I wear when writing at night, a minor comfort.
3. I do not want to learn any more languages (I can still write programs in Pegasus machine code, which has not been used for half a century).
4. Things are not free if they carry adverts, especially ones that directly counter the content.
5. I like the Forum (and its people) the way it is. I do not see the point of threads two hundred entries long, and I cannot be bothered to read them.
6. You may call it a blog, but I call it a commentary. It predates blogging.
7. You may find it ugly, but it is my seven-year-old, and I love it.
8. The site is now funded by a few of its faithful readers, who tell me that they do not want it turned into a blog.
9. The present total of 60,000 visits a month is at least two orders of magnitude greater than I ever anticipated.
10. The site is widely used as a resource by various academic institutions, why upset their links?
11. Although I do not plan to have “I did it my way” sung at my funeral, I did.
12. I do not do any web site modelling or mess about with the look of the site (not for seven years anyway). I just write (and calculate).
13. I particularly like the clouds. They hark back to one of my catch phrases when lecturing on instrumentation – the cloud of unknowing.
14. I am unstinting in my admiration for Steve McIntyre, but I find many of the train spotters on his blog tedious. |
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