Posts Tagged ‘opinion

Synthetic Opinion #0

18, Apr 2008

A few weeks ago, I wrote 700 words for the Guardian. It was a glorious exercise in public self-castration, in which I exposed myself as the ill-informed prickwit that I quite frankly am. Since then, I’ve written a piece about how much I love progress bars, which I hope cemented my reputation as the [...]

Whenever I have an opinion, I tend to find it pretty embarrassing. Being wrong’s humiliating enough, but when you’re wrong about something you were dumb enough to frankly care about, it’s like pressing a heart-shaped cookie-cutter against your chest and making a noisy display of ripping yourself slightly open.
I’ve done it a couple of times [...]


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