Updates to the rethinking bit

_posts/2010-08-01-rethinking.md

@@ -13,33 +13,31 @@ The other day I followed a link to a blog post on Mint. I was presented with thi
 
 <div class="figure"><img src="http://assets.warpspire.com/images/rethinking/mint_screen.jpg" alt="Screenshot of Mint blog post" /></div>
 
-It just set off a trigger in my brain about how much I hate what most designers have done to the web. You'd think people would be taking queues from things like [Readability][r] and Safari Reader, but they're not. People are throwing more and more crap onto each page and making things harder and harder to read.
+I hate what most designers have done to the web. You'd think people would be taking queues from things like [Readability][r] and Safari Reader, but they're not. People are throwing more and more crap onto each page and making things harder and harder to read.
 
-Anyways, it got me to thinking about sites that I continued to enjoy reading in the browser. One site that immediately came to mind is [Daring Fireball][df]. The format and presentation has lasted for years without feeling tired or hard to read. So it should come as no suprise that this new layout mirrors DF in a great number of ways.
+Anyways, it got me to thinking about sites that I continue to enjoy reading in the browser. One site that immediately came to mind is [Daring Fireball][df]. The format and presentation has lasted for years without feeling tired or hard to read. So it should come as no suprise that this new layout mirrors DF in a great number of ways. (Alas, my logo features the same unicode character as DF — something which has now turned from a funny coincidence to a long boring story. I hate logos.)
 
 <div class="figure"><img src="http://assets.warpspire.com/images/rethinking/warpspire_screen.jpg" alt="Screenshot of Warpspire" /></div>
 
 This new layout is the simplist layout I've ever had on one of my sites. The goal was to create a focused place for my ideas.
 
 ## Abandoning old baggage
 
-There was a lot of crap on Warpspire. Wordpress tells me the first post was published August 15, 2004. **That's six years ago.**  To say that the web is a different place now is an understatement. I remember debugging that initial site on IE5 *for Mac*.  Six years ago, I was in my 2nd year of studying Civil Engineering at Cal Poly. I had no concept of the value of the web or how important it would be come.  I was also twenty years old, angsty and wrong about many things.
+There was a lot of crap on Warpspire. WordPress tells me the first post was published August 15, 2004. **That's six years ago.**  To say that the web is a different place now is an understatement. I remember debugging that initial site on IE5 *for Mac*.  Six years ago, I was in my 2nd year of studying Civil Engineering at Cal Poly. I had no concept of the value of the web or how important it would be come.  I was also twenty years old, angsty and wrong about many things.
 
-So I deleted most of my posts.
+***So I deleted most of my posts.***
 
 What's left? The most popular posts (traffic wise) along with a couple of ones that I particularly enjoyed and still felt relevant.  I've also edited them all, and rewritten some.
 
-LIST GOEZ HEAR
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 Almost certainly a bad idea for my traffic, but probably a good idea for my readership. And I'll value readers over pageviews any day.
 
 ## On the subject of comments
 
 The thing about comments is that commentors tend to be a bunch of crazies wandering the internet like it's a zombie apocolypse. It's a striking contrast to the rational human beings whom I have sensible arguments with here in the meatspace.
 
-But, I know there's still a lot of intelligent folks who I'd probably like to converse with. So I'm trying out an experiment on Warpspire. Let's call it a return to letters to the editor.  Here's the deal: you send me email, and I send you one back.  If I think others might be interested in what you have to say, I'll post it here on Warpspire.
+The thing is, I've met some of the smartest people on the planet through my site and I don't want to lose that. So here's the deal: you send me email, and I send you one back.  If I think others might be interested in what you have to say, I'll post it here on Warpspire.
 
-A comment should mean something to you and it should mean something to me. Typical blog comments just stopped meaning anything to me a long time ago and that sucks. So I'm hoping this is a step in the right direction.
+A comment should mean something to you and it should mean something to me. Typical blog comments just stopped meaning anything to me a long time ago and that sucks. So I'm hoping this is a move toward fixing that.
 
 [df]: http://daringfireball.net
 [jekyll]: http://github.com/mojombo/jekyll