ADDing Up

This is a personal weblog, which means:

• All thoughts, opinions, and plans expressed here are solely mine, and not of my University, family, relatives, friends, neighbors, doctors, bankers, home mortgage owners, investment brokers, or fellow bus/subway riders.
• I am not a doctor, psychiatrist, or a professional or expert of any kind. My thoughts and opinions are entirely personal, which I share with you freely with no intention of doing harm. Your use of any material presented on this site is entirely your responsibility.
• This is a blog with an evolving content. As my knowledge improves with time, my thoughts, opinions and words will change, and what you read here today may no longer be accurate or valid later.
• External sources pointed to by all outgoing and incoming links also change with time, on which I have no control, and so, take no responsibility.
• The content of this blog is not intended to malign any religion, ethnic group, club, organization, company, individual, government or other laws from your country of origin.
• Image use policy: Other than those I design myself, images used here are originally obtained from public domain (mostly from Stock.XCHNG and sometimes with Google Image), which are then substantially modified (by me) before being shown. Whenever a downloaded image is used unaltered (which is rare), the original artist’s name, if available, will show when the mouse hovers on the image, and the image will also be linked to its source website. If you are such an artist, and not satisfied with my attribution, please let me know with the details of whether or how you like to be mentioned, and I will edit or remove the image accordingly.

Commenting Policy

I learn a lot from intelligent conversations, and welcome all comments – supportive, critical or otherwise – without any pre-moderation (unless this is your very first comment) or pre-registration. But I will censor or delete any comment that I find abusive, off-topic, inflammatory, or generally unsuitable.

In this regard I am with Alexander Meiklejohn that our right of free speech does not guarantee “unregulated talkativeness” or that “everyone shall speak”, but “everything worth saying shall be said”.

To help maintain a positive atmosphere, please keep these in mind:

• Use a personal or non-commercial URL for your website that tells us who you are, and not what you sell (see below for a rare exception).
• Use your real name or nickname, and not a commercial keyword just to get some SEO juice (such as “auto loan” or “cialis”).
• I have zero tolerance on foul language. This is a family-friendly place (think of “PG13″ rating), and abusive comments will be heavily censored or deleted.
• Do not post any spam comment, or spam/phishing link. Repeat offense will get you banned.
• Constructive comments that add value to the discussion are much welcome. So, while “Nice post” or “I do not agree” does not violate any rule, please say why you agree or disagree. (I may even go easy on your commercial link, but not your name, if you consistently post insightful comments.)
• You alone are responsible, legally or otherwise, for your words with all of their direct and indirect implications. But, by posting them here, you are granting me the right, in perpetuity, to use and display them any way I see fit.

All comments pass through (automated) spam filters before showing up. On rare occasions, these filters flag well-meaning comments that did not violate any rule. If you think your comment is among these, do let me know.