Re: It's working now!

Not so minor, actually.

Mr Weiss self-described as a "journalist" in this very forum. So he's positioning himself as a writer who should be judged by journalistic standards.

Heck, I spent 10 years as a contributing editor at a national circulation video magazine and I don't presume to apply that professional title to myself.

And sorry, but going public with assertions that a critical new feature fails to work, then admitting that you didn't even take the most rudimentary steps to confirm that before posting it is not confidence building.

In his defense, he was quick to correct the public record as soon as he realized that his experiences weren't backed up by others public experiences - but that's precisely the kind of thing that working in professional publishing teaches you to be wary of. I know my editors always challenged me to be sure that anything I wrote purporting to be fact as opposed to personal opinion had to have a solid factual basis before the work was published.

In the blog era, vetting for accuracy is largely a thing of the past.

Think it, post it - is the rule of the day as if these were private conversations between friends rather than public forum posts read by a world wide audience.

No wonder so much of what passes by on the web proves to be ill conceived....

Got to go now, II have to mail some money to the Ethopians so that they can send me my lottery winnings...

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