David's Blague

My new year's resolution for 2010 is to share my best ideas.  I noticed a while back that some of my best ideas were inadvertently becoming stuck in my head, which turned out not to be a great place for them to develop.  As such, my first idea: anyone may take anything I do at davidbrunton.com and use it for any purpose, with no promises exchanged.

This means, I make no promises to do anything useful or helpful, you make no promise to give me credit or share what you d,o or even use what you take.  We may also, of course, decide not to keep these un-promises.

Any code, images, text, audio, etc. of mine may be used as if it were in the public domain.  Anything belonging to someone else, is subject to their terms.  Many of the images, for instance, are from the Wikimedia Commons, and subject to their licensing terms.

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While others are refusing to say anything, I am shouting as loudly as I can into a broken microphone, courtesy of my hosting provider, who turns out to kind of suck. Nonetheless, I feel compelled to respond to aboyko, who listed all the wrong reasons for writing in an online journal. My reasons are as follows:

1. I write in this journal so that I can be wrong publicly. Being wrong all alone is a good way to keep being wrong. Being wrong publicly is a good way to be mocked and cajoled into refining one's positions.
2. I write in this journal to practice saying things, such that I may eventually achieve a higher degree of skill in said activity, regardless of the medium.
3. I write in this journal to communicate in high latency. People can read and digest at leisure, theoretically even years from now.
4. I write in this journal to impress girls.

Beyond that, I'm really just waiting for somewhere else to write that pays better than davidbrunton.com, who turns out to pay approximately $0.00 per word.

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