Sometimes a title isn’t enough
admin | May 29th, 2007 | uselessSo the title of my blog is “What do I know : My unintelligible thoughts on stuff”. I was hoping that most reading this title would take what I have to say with a “grain of salt” or realize I’m a sarcastic bastard. To be honest this blog is mainly written for myself and my co-workers. In fact, the only reason this blog exists is due to inadequacies on my part of being one of the last ones in the office to get a blog. Honestly, I thrive off of self deprecating humor and the attention it brings, I can’t make it any clearer.
Recently, Matt Woodward and Brian Rinaldi left posts on my blog after Luis Majano linked to me on his blog. Let me start out by saying, I have a huge respect for the work these guys do in the ColdFusion community as well as all of the other community participants out there. You can tell a lot of work goes into CFWeekly and Remote Synthesis from Matt and Brian respectively. I couldn’t imagine juggling the amount of work they do in addition to their careers.
That being said, I don’t always agree with what people say or write, and I blog about it. Matt’s comment was done very well; I could tell he wasn’t too happy with what I wrote, but can you blame him? A lot of work goes into those presentations, so I applaud him for replying to my post and empowering me to do something in the community. Brian’s comment on the other hand, which was a comment on my entire blog, was awesome. I still respect the amount of work you put into your blog and round-up Brian, but come on, get over yourself. If you’re gonna leave another comment, at least pick a different word than “haughty”, I gotta look those words up. 
To everyone who reads the blog (meaning the 5 visits I get per week), continue to read on if you want, if not … then continue to at least post comments, I’ve gotta get my content somehow.
Tags: awesome, coldfusion
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May 30th, 2007 at 12:54 pm
Brian, I think it only fair to point out that you’re sounding like an @$$ again… (I don’t think that’ll ever get old).
June 1st, 2007 at 1:50 pm
Brian, their is a difference between disagreeing respectfully and not. Your posts generally come off on the not side. They do not come off as sarcastic, but as with an air of superiority. I read through at least 3 or 4 posts before really deciding to generally ignore your blog. Where do you get off telling me to get over myself? My blog and the work I do exists to help others as opposed to a means of looking down on the ColdFusion community from some self-appointed point of superiority - which in case you don’t get it, that is how you come off with your “points” and endless criticism.
Perhaps you haven’t been doing this long enough to realize sarcasm doesn’t come across well in writing - if so, then maybe its time you did. Oh, and if you want to criticize me, you could do something better than pick on the fact that I use a word you don’t know the definition of, really…but that, to me, is emblematic of the content on this blog. You have apparently already upset Matt and I. How many more people to you plan on alienating?
June 1st, 2007 at 4:37 pm
Hi Brian,
Wow, thanks for coming back. I’m really surprised at how much your blowing this entire thing out of proportion. I have no doubt in my mind you don’t care for my blog, but I’m shocked that you’ve chosen to return. If you don’t like what’s on television don’t you just turn the channel? And when did you start ignoring my blog; after the first or second comment you’ve left here?
In all seriousness, you need to just let it go. You don’t like my point of view and I’m willing to accept that. My goal is not to alienate anyone, but just give my perspective. I appreciate the work you do for the community and hope you continue to put in the hard work you do now, many benefit from it. That being said , if you don’t care for my opinions on the current state of the ColdFusion community, stop reading them.
If you do decide to return, you should check out the post that Max put up on his site regarding your comment. You’ll probably disagree with him as well, but I thought you might enjoy the read:
http://maximporges.blogspot.com/2007/05/when-good-blog-posts-go-bad.html
Always a pleasure.
June 1st, 2007 at 9:27 pm
If anyone is interested, this conversation has ballooned to Peter Farrell’s blog under the topic of blogging etiquette:
http://blog.maestropublishing.com/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=E9CA3B82-1372-3F66-704C50EE3638933C
I’ve posted a comment to see what they say about how they think things should be done in blogging. I’m interested to see what I can do to empower them to help me :S
July 8th, 2007 at 3:48 pm
I just wanted to comment here, since I recently had an anonymous flamer, er troll, on my blog clearly referencing this post, that as far as I am concerned whatever dispute you and I had has long since been resolved (I hope you agree). I think that is clear on the other posts at Peter’s and Maxim’s blogs but not here.
- Brian
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