the post with no name

well, here i am on the first day of my christmas vacation, trying to do stuff that i didn't have time to do while i was still working...

like blog posts about the distinction between static and dynamic heuristics for martin mckeay (even though that distinction was incidental to the issue i was bringing up)...

since the holiday season is upon us, i thought maybe it might be nice to clarify to martin (and rich mogull before him, and others to whom this will apply equally well) that i wasn't trying to be critical of him personally or attack him... i try not to attack people just for doing/saying something that is technically wrong (ethically/morally wrong, sure, but not technically wrong), everyone makes technical errors... on the other hand, although i don't use people who make technical errors as targets, you folks do make wonderful examples - and examples are an important part of the learning process that (frankly) a lot of people could benefit from...

so, gentle readers who may at some point find themselves the subject of one of my posts, try not to take the fact that i don't usually sugar-coat things too personally - it's just my way...