I make every attempt to be accurate on my blog - but they're written quickly, so you'll find typos in them (and the more passionate I get, the more typos jump in!). Usually, it's obvious what I mean and there's no significant change to the message I have - although it may be diluted by my confused wording, but on a few occasions a mistake can be significant. I'm always careful to get my "no
w" and my "no
t" right - that's a known trap - but there are others.
Code examples are cut and pasted from live working code, so are not subject to the same degree of error - however, on rare occasions the encoding of < and & characters for web publication can lead to errors.
Spelling mistakes and errors of hard fact can easily be fixed ... but it's less easy when it comes to posts which don't offer a full story (perhaps because I knew only a half of the story at publication time), where facts are challenged, or where we're looking at a point of view that I'm expressing ("In my opinion" / "As far as I know" type stuff).
What is my / or policy on corrections in the blog? Please
tell me if you spot something that's in error and I'll check, usually agree, and add in a correction - if appropriate with an apology for the error and any confusion it may have caused. I say that I'll "usually" agree - I'm unlikely to agree (as in one recent case) that my report of a meeting I attended two years ago, written within hours of the meeting concluding, is incorrect and should be removed or replaced by an alternative provided by someone who wasn't even involved at the time, let alone at the meeting.
What about different opinions / other sides to a story? Please
let me know with specific comments you would like adding, and I'll almost certainly add them in; I've had to turn off "Blog comments" simply because of the spam levels, but if it's on topic, and legal to post, it'll be posted.
Recent articles which have given rise to comment / requests for amendment include
Perl Regular Expressions,
Learning to program and a whole series relating to what was happening at the FSB two years ago -
1,
2,
3,
4,
5, and
6.
P.S. I can also re-open the "Save the Train" blog archive if I need to in order to add comments; a recent such request was made for
this item to be amended.
P.P.S - where - say 'tell me' - by email to
graham@wellho.net, or through our web page
here. Phoning me isn't very effective, as I'm usually in front of a class and if you do get through, I'll probably need time to go back and look the article up anyway.
(written 2009-11-29, updated 2009-12-09)
Associated topics are indexed as below, or enter http://melksh.am/nnnn for individual articles
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[1097] Train and business balls all in the air! - (2007-03-02)
[1133] B-2-B Networking, 20th April. Useful for YOUR business? - (2007-04-03)
[1157] Speed Networking - a great evening and how we arranged it - (2007-04-21)
[1246] An oddball day. Strange experiences! - (2007-06-27)
[1249] Is this how to run a business for businesses? - (2007-06-27)
[1278] West Wilts Show - (2007-07-26)
[1284] An update on the West Wilts show ... - (2007-07-30)
[1286] A wasted evening? - (2007-08-01)
[1350] FSB (Federation of Small Businesses) Western Region - (2007-09-13)
[1479] FSB leaves its members feeling like mushrooms - (2007-12-20)
[1512] Summer Ball at Bowood - Saturday 12th July 2008 - (2008-01-19)
[1515] Keeping staff up to date on hotel room status - (2008-01-22)
[1544] FSB, EGM, AGM. - (2008-02-18)
[1654] The old sayings are the best (FSB) - (2008-05-26)
[1823] FSB - an update. - (2008-10-07)
[1855] Volunteer v Employee - a skewed balance? (FSB) - (2008-10-25)
[1880] Melksham Chamber of Commerce, or the FSB - (2008-11-12)
[1937] Getting hold of the wrong end of the stick - (2008-12-12)
[2524] An update on legal changes from the FSB? - (2009-12-03)
[3032] Coincidence, or Conspiracy - a wrong email address - (2010-11-06)
[3214] Melksham Campus - any last minute inputs from Melksham businesses? - (2011-03-26)
[3522] Networking - North and West Wilts FSB Style - (2011-11-15)
G905 - Well House Consultants - Blogging and Blog Administration [1] First Jottings - (2004-08-05)
[6] Blog v Forum - (2004-08-07)
[18] Wanted: More hours in the day - (2004-08-18)
[141] Too technical? - (2004-12-05)
[145] A comment on comments - (2004-12-09)
[177] Blogs come of age - (2005-01-14)
[185] Who am I? - (2005-01-21)
[204] The confidence to allow public comments - (2005-02-06)
[231] Feedback as lifeblood - (2005-02-28)
[245] I'm not blogging it - (2005-03-14)
[359] Chicken soup without the religion - (2005-06-26)
[390] Moderating wiki, blog, and forum contributions - (2005-07-26)
[405] Horse's Mouth is a year old - (2005-08-07)
[410] Reading a news or blog feed (RSS) in your PHP page - (2005-08-12)
[425] Caching an XML feed - (2005-08-26)
[508] Comment, please! - (2005-11-28)
[671] Both ends of the animal - (2006-04-05)
[876] Making pages clearer - easy Disability Discrimination Act Compliance - (2006-09-23)
[1000] One Thousand Posts and still going strong - (2006-12-18)
[1077] In answer to 'am I glad I started a blog' ... - (2007-02-12)
[1203] A Fresh horse - (2007-05-24)
[1978] From spam to mod_alias - finding resources - (2009-01-05)
[2000] 2000th article - Remember the background and basics - (2009-01-18)
[2192] Copy writing - allowing for the cut - (2009-05-21)
[2449] Four aspects - Chamber, Transport, Courses and Hotel - (2009-10-11)
[2564] Microblogging services - Plurk, Twitter, Jaiku and more - (2010-01-05)
[2751] Going off at a tangent, for a ramble - (2010-05-04)
[2823] Where have all the bloggers gone? - (2010-06-24)
[3016] The legal considerations of your web presence - revisited - (2010-10-26)
[3163] Twitter - the special use of @ # and http: in tweets - (2011-02-09)
[3186] How to add a customised twitter feed to your site - (2011-02-27)
[3208] Links for social media, microblogs and business networking - (2011-03-20)
[3514] Microblogging - what I should have tweeted in the last 48 hours - (2011-11-10)
[3759] The five oldest blogs and the horses mouth - (2012-06-09)
[4000] 9 years, and 4000 articles on - (2013-02-09)
[4121] Has your Twitter feed stopped working? Switching to their new API - (2013-06-23)
[4292] The Horse is back! - (2014-09-15)
[4568] Moderation - and the tendency to over-moderate - (2015-11-02)
[4714] The technical article feed continues - personal updates more proactive on Facebook now! - (2016-10-30)
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