I`ve been thinking that the key to writing better is reading better. For the last few months my reading has consisted of:

webcomics

web news sites

textbooks (though not as much as I would like to pretend)

manga

I was shocked and appalled to find out that three of my good gaijin friends here had not read A Modest Proposal by Swift. A piece that I maintain is the the first, great piece of satire in Modern English literature. My reasons for standing behind this point are twofold:

I`m right

I hope that in an effort to correct me people will teach me about other, likly free, pieces of satire

I`m realizing that more and more, I hold opinions or make stances in hopes not of convincing, but of being corrected. Even if you don`t convince me I had things all wrong, the discussion itself is valuable to me.

That being said, I don`t care if your Java piglets process virtual machines faster or slower than other some acronym. All I want is for the Internet to work and for the trains to run on time. That being said watching you fight about it on my comment tree can be amusing without me infesting an opinion, feel free to do it anytime (~-^)

Shade