So somebody reading this blog joined the Open Rights Group and sent me their confirmation code, even though I have already received enough notifications to be forced to write daily for this month. Sheesh. People, this is the Internet: have you not heard of free-riding?
So, anyway, to burn up any remaining goodwill, for the forseeable future, if you now join ORG at the tenner-a-month rate (or up your payment by a fiver), send me your confirmation code, and then tell me which of the following you’d like from me. Choose from:
- Another month of blogging (worth five ORG memberships) [no. of votes so far: 3]
- A special one-off issue of NTK (worth ten ORG memberships) [no. of votes so far: 1]
- A special podcast issue of NTK (ten ORG memberships)
- What I really think of Andrew Orlowski (five ORG memberships, even though I know I should probably price this one higher)
I envisage you’ll be able to move around your vote when it’s clear I won’t reach any of these, but I’ll do that only at certain points, like in Mike Reid’s Runaround, so think carefully.
As a show of goodwill on my part, here’s Flowers for Debian, a piece I wrote a few years ago for Linux User and Developer.
July 24th, 2008 at 12:56 am
If one of your American brethren renew their long-neglected EFF memberships, does that count? Not that I, um, have neglected to give to EFF of late or anything, ahem.
July 24th, 2008 at 1:00 am
Oh great, now I am really going to get sacked. Okay, JUST THIS ONCE. Put “danny said i could” in the box that asks you your reason for joining (the messages in those boxes are sent around the office ever quarter, and are one of the many great parts of the job).
July 24th, 2008 at 1:37 am
The FAQ doesn’t mention a confirmation code for upping one’s membership rate.
July 24th, 2008 at 5:20 am
Adam, just mail me anyway. It’s my pathetic attempt at preventing hoardes of botnets from claiming to be ORG members and forcing me to blog for the next sixty years.
July 24th, 2008 at 10:52 am
Aha! I have stumbled on a strategy for blogging:
1. Tell people that if they do X, you will blog for a month
2. People do X
3. Month long series of “If you do X again, I’ll blog for another month, or choose some other option” posts
4. ???
5. Profit
August 1st, 2008 at 7:53 am
‘Flowers’ is still awesome, Dan. But even though it’s still largely accurate – I’d probably advise noting the original pub date on it.
August 1st, 2008 at 10:24 am
Yeah; unfortunately I couldn’t find the date…
August 1st, 2008 at 3:52 pm
“Pussycat” was in issue 36 (around Dec 2003/Jan 2004); “Flowers” was in issue 36 (around Jan/Feb 2004).
August 2nd, 2008 at 8:49 am
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