I have adapted a quite unique set of conventions when writing for this blog, not all of them obvious to the casual reader, and not all of them in line with “proper” AP style.
I usually refer to the people I side with by first name, and those who are either neutral to my view or who I am siding against by last name. This started with my posts about the “justice system” and so is particularly true when I am writing a post about a case where legal action has been taken that I feel is unjust. However, I now adopt this convention across most of my posts.
I don’t use WordPress’s category system on this blog, primarily for historical reasons. I only use tags. Many of the older posts were ranked by how stupid I thought something was, and were tagged “blockheaded”, “galactically-stupid”, or even “box-of-rocks-dumb” depending on just how dumb I thought it was. (There were others, and I’ll probably revise this later.)
This blog started out as a personal blog. Originally I just blogged about anything and everything. As time went on, I began writing more about specific topics: police/court system, computing freedom and related tech topics, and sports. I try to mix it up a bit; there wouldn’t be a point to renaming this blog Rant Roulette if there wasn’t a degree of randomness in regards to the topic.
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