In an ongoing effort to increase my day to day productivity and reduce the amount of time it takes to backup my files when I pave my laptop I decided to start using the delete key in Outlook.
Around the same time I read this post by Rory Blyth in a response to an earlier post he made directed at John Dvorak's recent piece on podcasting (sorry, I don't have a link to John's piece because I deleted Rory's original post, I don't have access to the Internet sitting on this bench at the bus terminal and I couldn't be stuffed waiting for LookOut to index the 70,000 items that I migrated to my Deleted Items folder).
To use Rory's own analogy (if I understand it correctly), his post directed at John was a virtual kick in the nuts (I hope it hurt). Unfortunately the tone of the post didn't resonate very well with some people and they left criticism in the comments - and even called apparently.
Apparently it got so bad that Rory was compelled to use another colourful post to explain is approach (I'm with you Rory, sounds like a great way to go - have you shared your fantasy with your new lass?).
Do I have a point? Ummm, yeah, sure - but men sitting outside in Canberra in the evening should be allowed to type a bit longer just to allow the heat coming from the CPU and hard disk to warm them up.
OK - the point. My point is that Rory shouldn't have even had to make the second post, John Dvorak is a guy who spends his whole life giving other people his opinion - every now and then he needs to be able to accept some highly concentrated nut crunching criticism back.
And for all of you that followed up on the first post with shock, I urge you to learn how to use the Delete key and let opinion posts slide. Just imagine - if you employed my practice then you wouldn't even be reading this message (assuming your are using NewsGator).
If you are having trouble letting posts in your RSS reader slide I am running "E-mail Horders Anonymous" and "Learning how to let it slide" workshops upon request. Travel and accomidation for me (or you) is at your expense and my rate is $2000.00 a day. Dress code is slovenly casual and wearing of groin guards is encouraged.