The following post is going to be a bit of a watershed for me on this blog, as it’s the first that isn’t about politics/philosophy/economics. But given that the loose formative theme behind this site is to outline a personal philosophy for evolving into the future (hence the blog’s name, FoundryForward), technology is a natural fit. (This is a more specific tech topic than I first imagined, but it’s in support of the broader topics of the .Net framework and, in turn, managed code and OOP.)

So for the very, very few readers who will come across this, be warned that the waters will soon be muddied with filthy bits of programming and that kind of thing, from time to time, which I’ll prefix with “Code:”  in the subject.

On a typical day, a perusal through the front-page dregs of Digg.com will yield an abundance of posts on highly predictable topics. I refer, of course, not to technology issues (you must be thinking of Slashdot the 2005 version of Digg), but the mandatory anti-Bush posts; a daily prescription of environmentalist bromides; a fair measure of paranoid anti-corporatism; and, inevitably, the minefield of anti-theistic sophistry and exercises in intellectual self-congratulation. Each of these deserves its own post, but the volley of arrogant comments from atheists gets the hat-tip today.

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