I want to be very clear about a few things.

For the Neopoleon readers who're WTFing at their monitors right now, I got a couple links yesterday from Fake Steve Jobs - a senior editor at Forbes who has a parody site where he's taken the identity of a blogging Steve Jobs. It sent some extra traffic over this way, several of the usual angry geeks, links from other posts on other sites in which geeks I'll never meet are either praising or not praising me, and so on. I used to do this all the time, but lost my taste for it.

For the people who just got here...

I saw some comments and received some emails in which some of you said you'd be sticking around to read whatever other stuff I write. I think that's cool, and I'm happy to have you here, but you might not be happy to be here after a while.

The Apple/Windows post isn't representative of what I usually do around here. I felt at the time like writing a post about some this and that techno-whatevery I had observed recently. If you take a look at the other posts on the front page, you'll see that this site is about something far greater - more interesting - more entertaining - better smelling - better looking - than tech.

This site is about me.

The average post around here involves an offensively stupid premise expounded through what you might think is the perspective of an awkward sixth grader who's experiencing a shitstorm of hormonal imbalance in an adult world.

I draw stupid cartoons, sometimes record my posts for a podcast thing, and indulge myself right and left in ways that have probably lost me more readers than gained.

What to expect around here isn't a regular lineup of tech stuff. My day job is tech. I'm into tech. I'm a nerd.

But at the end of the day, I want to enjoy myself. No more petty arguments about .NET vs. Java or whatever. I have my own preferences, but I don't have any desire to push them off onto others, nor do I have the motivation. I just don't care. Use what you want to.

I'm writing this because I'm very happy with where my site is right now. There are good, intelligent, fun people commenting. We get each other. Lately, they've been making me laugh more than I think I affect them with my posts. That's nice. Somewhat ironically, the comments in the Apple/Windows post are among my favorites (the first twenty or so). I thought the post itself was dull, but its existence became worthwhile when I saw what others were writing in response. Comments from  Tim, Mark, and Patrick - interesting, funny stuff, but without the need to charge into pointless flamewarring battle.

I'm keeping this low pressure. Not looking for any great increase in readership. I just want to keep being an idiot in public. I'm very good at it.

So, if well-written idiocy sounds good to you, then stick around. Otherwise, I'd suggest you move on. Not because I'm opposed to having you here, but because if I were you, I'd be irritated watching the RSS feed and never seeing tech posts. A hundred stories about me scaring the UPS guy in my towel will pass before another tech post does.

That's about it and stuff.

Tah,

- Rory

- Emperor of the Internet

- Ruler of nineteen galaxies

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