I gotta admit that recently one of the quietest people on Charles forum has been, er... Charles himself!

Wherefor art thou, Charles?

A blog without comments defeats the purpose of a blog I think. The advantages of a blog is that it encourages immediate discussions and opinions through comments.

Wherefore am I? I'm trying to earn a living. In my case, blogging fails as a marketing tool, because I haven't got that much to sell.

So I'm writing my column, writing some other articles, and as of the past couple of weeks, actually starting to write a novel (which no doubt will prove to be even less financially successful than writing a blog, but what can I do, I seem to be addicted to writing!

I continue the blog desultorily. The forum continues. But it's all really a contribution to the community.

The introverts amongst us, I think, continually undersell ourselves. Whilst we may think that we do not have a tangible product to market, an extrovert would immediately discern that we do - ourselves. I am continually reminded in this phase of my life, that people who carry themselves well and actually present to the world, that they are a great and valuable asset, actually sell themselves. And in doing so, achieve much more than the bare bones of their attributes.

Take heart, Charles, regird your loins, strike a blow for all of us.

I have been interested in debate over spelling in our schools!! I am surprised to find that I might be a died in the wool supporter, instead of a dyed in the wool supporter.
Journalists do not have the luxury of a spell checker!or what?
Kind regards

died-in-wool-bricks-and-mortar corporates don't understand

It's a bit tricky, I know, Maurie, because I write most of the stuff. But you need to remember that I'm not the only contributor, and if you look at the signature on the article, you'll notice that the piece wasn't written by a dyed-in-the-wool journalist. And none of us is immune from the occasional mistake.

Gosh Maurie, I didn't even notice it until you pointed it out. And thanks Charles for being so balanced in discussing it. It is indeed interesting this medium of ours that is the Web. Some of our tools don't have spell checking - for example, my current Firefox config does not have a spell checker when I type into this box. Yes, certainly one can try some add-ons that will help. Or type into a word processor, proof it and then paste it into whatever authoring tool we use for blogging. It depends on how meticulous one wants to be.

On the other hand, I doubt a standard spell checker will differentiate between dyeing and dieing because both are correctly spelled - it's the usage context that was incorrect (and hilariously so).
Ananda