What my blog is (and what it’s not)
It’s sad but I feel the need to clarify what this website is: a personal blog. I use it to provide technical guides and reviews that are pertinent to my line of work, and that I think will be helpful to others. It’s also an opportunity to vent my spleen (which I do regularly) as it is an excellent form of stress relief - try it sometime.
My views are my own. It’s always interesting to hear other viewpoints, and reactions to my posts, so I leave the comments field available for others to contribute. This is largely successful, and Wordpress does a reasonable job of killing all the spam, but some comments go straight through, and some I have to moderate.
I was stunned this morning to find some guy had hijacked my well-ranked post about connecting iPhone to SBS2003 and posted a blatant advertisement for his website and services. This is not acceptable. Why would anyone think that it’s acceptable to piggy back on my search engine success and rob my bandwidth for commercial gain?
There are a few discreet adverts on my website, and I get paid for them. Companies that I think are exceptional get links, and I would never consider accepting money for them. People and companies I don’t know that post blatant adverts and links in my comments box are likely to receive the sharp end of my tongue.
Others feel strongly against my views on various issues and write rude and abusive comments. None of these will be published. It’s fine to disagree, because everyone is entitled to their opinion and free speech is one of the principal foundation stones of the Internet, but it is not fine to be rude and abusive to me on my website (you can write whatever you like on your own website).
I write what I think - some will agree, some won’t. I don’t force anybody to read anything.
My various technical articles are very successful, and I love to receive comments of thanks. It’s nice to know you helped someone out or saved them some time.
So, that’s what my blog is about, and providing you don’t post adverts or spam to it, we’ll all get along just fine.