Brett Parker iDunno@sommitrealweird.co.uk wrote:
[...] Certainly, he used to make some well informed, concise, posts...
Brett disagreeing with something doesn't make it less informed or concise.
[...] I'd rather see experiences with companies limited to the minimum possible on this list, asking fine, presenting the information to the social list, as fact, without being asked for $opinions, less so... that's what blogs and planet are for.
Should one present fact as fiction? I've tried that before.
I did ask for some opinions (does BT do anything right? and should I chase the privacy failure further?), but Brett's work colleague replied with hostility before anyone answered. Not grave, though.
For planet alug see: http://www.otherwayup.org.uk/planets/alug/ Which is some evil hacked up system that Mark wrote. Certainly it used to have some 'issues' as soon as a post did anything in the slightest 'wrong', I tend to read less and less of it now as I read some other sources that have a lot of the same posts on.
Evil? Issues? The script used (schycyroll) reads xml/rdf/rss/xhtml and uses set theory to construct a new web page, with a couple of nice twists missing from the python planet. It works fine, as far as it goes. A possible improvement is to add html and atom parsers, but I've not gotten around to that yet.