I'm not 'up' on the nuances of blog communities, I readily admit. I ran my weblog for two years or so on my own homebrew system and moved the back end to LJ partially for the comment system and a level of convenience my system didn't have (like friends pages)--but I still get the occasional odd email from someone who's obviously reading it on my homepage, which still looks just like it did before.
While I'm fairly sure (from poking around his web site a little) that I'm more on the left side of political life than Mr. Tiemann is, the 'ducking grenades' feeling came less from the conservatism than the Gratuitous Unrelated Political Rant in the middle of a (perhaps too) passionate ode to the Mac. It'd be like me talking about some great underrated cuisine I'd found and interjecting a diatribe against privatized medicine in the middle of it. Regardless of where they stood on the issue, readers would wonder just what I was on.
As for Porsches and Civics, one drives with--and computes with--what one needs, can afford and feels comfortable behind the wheel (or keyboard) of. For me, a PowerBook with OS X represents the best available tradeoff between things I really appreciate and things that really drive me nuts. Mac zealots drive me nuts, but so do Linux and Windows zealots.
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Re: Also!
Date: 2002-07-18 15:45 (UTC)While I'm fairly sure (from poking around his web site a little) that I'm more on the left side of political life than Mr. Tiemann is, the 'ducking grenades' feeling came less from the conservatism than the Gratuitous Unrelated Political Rant in the middle of a (perhaps too) passionate ode to the Mac. It'd be like me talking about some great underrated cuisine I'd found and interjecting a diatribe against privatized medicine in the middle of it. Regardless of where they stood on the issue, readers would wonder just what I was on.
As for Porsches and Civics, one drives with--and computes with--what one needs, can afford and feels comfortable behind the wheel (or keyboard) of. For me, a PowerBook with OS X represents the best available tradeoff between things I really appreciate and things that really drive me nuts. Mac zealots drive me nuts, but so do Linux and Windows zealots.