Recycling

If you are very observant, you may have noticed something new in the left hand column here (obviously you don't see that if you are reading only through RSS). Sprinkled in with those awful ads are links to older articles - they are just random picks, so who knows what's going to be there.. anyway, I did that for a few reasons: it fills in some of what would otherwise be useless white space, it gives you a reason to look over there and that helps combat the "ad blindness" all publishers hate, but it also dredges up old posts that might deserve another look in light of whatever has transpired since they were written.

I am always on the lookout for things like that, and often update old posts either directly or through comments. Of course there's plenty that should get updated that I never get to, or that I look at and groan - a lot of the old SCO stuff has me clutching my ears and rocking slowly while muttering "no, no, make it go.. away.."

I also just like reading old stuff now and then. Recently I did a bunch of cleanup work in the Book reviews section, and in the process had to call up each page in a browser. Deja vu all over again; it was a lot of fun to be reminded of books I haven't touched in a long time, and more than once the old review prompted me to go dig the physical book out for a fresh reading.

And of course you should feel free to comment on anything you trip over that needs freshening, or has become untrue, or never was true, or has somehow acquired more relevance with the passage of time. Remember, recycled electrons are every bit as good as new ones.

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