{"id":2126,"date":"2013-11-08T13:35:59","date_gmt":"2013-11-08T01:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/?p=2126"},"modified":"2013-11-08T15:50:06","modified_gmt":"2013-11-08T03:50:06","slug":"setting-the-record-straight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/posts\/2126\/","title":{"rendered":"Setting The Record Straight"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">[Estimated Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes]<\/span><\/span><p>Commenter Alexander <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/posts\/2104\/comment-page-1#comment-15576\">complained that my blog had become &#8220;really, but REALLY boring&#8221;<\/a> recently.  I was surprised because I thought I had been posting a <strong>lot<\/strong> of interesting, technical material lately and I wondered why Alexander seemed to think I was spending most &#8211; if not all &#8211; of my time on opinion pieces.  So I went back and looked at my recent posting history.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In the last month (30 days, more or less).  I have published a total of <strong>22<\/strong> articles of which:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>16 were broadly technical in nature<\/li>\n<li>4 were op-ed pieces about Embarcadero\/FireMonkey<\/li>\n<li>1 was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/posts\/1989\"><strong>very<\/strong> general coding humour<\/a><\/li>\n<li>1 which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/posts\/1919\">may have been sarcastic<\/a> but hardly &#8220;critical&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Given that this is a <strong>personal<\/strong> blog, reflecting my <strong>personal<\/strong> interests and concerns, I hardly think that <strong>18%<\/strong> of output being <em>opinion pieces<\/em> is an excessively dominant proportion.<\/p>\n<p>And I might add that the 18% figure is reached using a <em>very<\/em> crude count simply of the number of articles.  If you measure the output by the number of <em>words<\/em> or the <em>time<\/em> spent producing it, the percentage would plummet well into the <em>very<\/em> low single figures.  <\/p>\n<p>Even that figure of 22 articles also does not include the 2 pages for ADB WINLOG (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/adb-winlog\">info\/download<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/adb-winlog-user-guide\">user guide<\/a>) for example.  Not to mention the development of the application itself.  Or the coding that lies behind the posts on Smoketest.<\/p>\n<p>I could go on.<\/p>\n<p>The point being that heartwarming as they are, concerns that I am unduly and obsessively focussed on some sort of vendetta against Embarcadero are <em>ridiculously<\/em> misplaced.<\/p>\n<p>But whatever the proportion involved, the fact that the opinions I am moved to share revolve around Delphi and Embarcadero&#8217;s handling of it reflects only that I actually <em>give a damn<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>There is plenty else I could write about concerning my other interests such as my <a href=\"http:\/\/500px.com\/deltics\">photography<\/a> and musical interests (I recently joined a newly formed rock covers band &#8211; as lead vocalist &#8211; following a 2 year break after leaving <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TrQM9FB7v7w\">a previous band<\/a>).  Musically I also dabble on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=k1x7q2VQx4w\">bass, keyboards and recording<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Contrary to popular opinion I <em>do<\/em> have a life.  \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>This blog is just one part of that and is very specifically a <strong>Pascal blog<\/strong>.  And Delphi is still my primary Pascal environment (though Oxygene is rapidly overtaking it).  <\/p>\n<p>But I can start posting my photos and other things if it will reassure people that I am not feverishly scouring the internet desperately hunting out every little thing about which to criticise Embarcadero.  \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2532\/3737640205_56079cc700.jpg?w=640\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">[Estimated Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes]<\/span><\/span>Commenter Alexander complained that my blog had become &#8220;really, but REALLY boring&#8221; recently. I was surprised because I thought I had been posting a lot of interesting, technical material lately and I wondered why Alexander seemed to think I was spending most &#8211; if not all &#8211; of my time on opinion pieces. So I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-delphi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1TKYv-yi","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2126"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2136,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2126\/revisions\/2136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}