{"id":1388,"date":"2009-03-16T11:29:28","date_gmt":"2009-03-16T11:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/03\/sometimes-i-really-do-wonder-why-i-bother.htm"},"modified":"2009-03-16T11:29:28","modified_gmt":"2009-03-16T11:29:28","slug":"sometimes-i-really-do-wonder-why-i-bother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/03\/sometimes-i-really-do-wonder-why-i-bother.htm","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes I really do wonder why I bother&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a new day and the sun is shining, I spent some time playing with my kids before starting work &#8211; I should be in a good mood.<\/p>\n<p>Except I&#8217;m not&#8230; I&#8217;m actually feeling quite insecure &#8211; and one of the reasons is the comments I get about this blog.<\/p>\n<p>Last week I wrote a piece about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/03\/getting-vodafone-mobile-connect-and-mac-os-x-to-play-nicely-together.htm\">getting Vodafone Mobile Connect working on a Mac<\/a>.  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I have installed VCM [sic] on about 100 Mac Laptops now and have never, ever had to use the method you describe.<\/p>\n<p>The standard installation works fine and is a hassle free process.<\/p>\n<p>I get the feeling you are making a simple installation process complicated by looking for problems where there are none.<\/p>\n<p>Your advice is incorrect and you really should not attempt to act as a source of knowledge on subjects you know nothing about.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, great, 15 years in IT (not including the time spent in education before that), over 1300 posts on this blog, some of which have apparently been useful to others, and now the insults start to arrive.  I responded, then stewed about it for a while, before deciding that I have better things to worry about and to  ignore the comments&#8230; until I heard that my efforts aren&#8217;t necessarily appreciated by technology companies either&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;a few weeks back, I was sent some information from a (very large) technology company in which the e-mail said  &#8220;please cascade as appropriate&#8221;.  I thought that the information would be of interest to people reading the blog (even though there&#8217;s a lot of stuff I chose not to write about) but it seems that some people in the company thought I had breached an NDA (I did not and would not &#8211; indeed I have many blog posts stored up that I can&#8217;t publish yet because of such agreements) and that small blogs (written by real people) shouldn&#8217;t be reporting things that company blogs (written by marketing departments) should be spinning.  I double-checked my source &#8211; it definitely said cascade as appropriate, which meant I was in the clear &#8211; phew!  (Furthermore, thankfully, there are people inside that technology company who have been prepared to defend my position).<\/p>\n<p>Right now it seems that I have a blog which is neither small enough to just take a few hours a week, nor large enough to pay the bills.  If I write about real world experiences with technology, I get flamed by fanboys who tell me I don&#8217;t know what I&#8217;m talking about; meanwhile if I write about technology subjects that are less &#8220;hands on&#8221;, then the companies those posts relate to get jumpy.  It seems I can&#8217;t win.<\/p>\n<p>I spend a huge about of time writing on this blog and if I work out how much it pays me then it&#8217;s well below the minimum wage so it&#8217;s certainly not worth it from a financial perspective.  I used to find the writing therapeutic but now it&#8217;s just something else that I don&#8217;t have time for in my day.  I need a break&#8230; especially if all I&#8217;m doing is creating Internet noise.  It would be a shame to undo 5 years&#8217; work and to pack it in, but sometimes really do I wonder why I bother&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a new day and the sun is shining, I spent some time playing with my kids before starting work &#8211; I should be in a good mood. Except I&#8217;m not&#8230; I&#8217;m actually feeling quite insecure &#8211; and one of the reasons is the comments I get about this blog. 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