It's just about ten years since I started going on line with blog posts. It started here with The IEEE Consultants Network of Long Island (LICN) to which was added about eight years ago, the trade journal EDN under the banner "Living Analog". Between the two of them, there are so far nine-hundred-sixty essays on line, many of them on technical topics and many others which are non-technical.
Much commentary from readers has ensued, often providing additional insights to the topics at hand. Sometimes however, malice arises. My work was once called "crap", misconceptions of circuit theory have been wrongly asserted and so forth.
I have long suspected that the hoped for reactions sought to be elicited from me would be along the following lines:
The above is only partly tongue-in-cheek. Quite a few years ago, I got banned from one LinkedIn group when I described the vulnerability of RFID to surreptitious interrogation. The last time I looked, that ban was still in effect, but today, credit cards are often recommended to be carried in foil pouches.
I am not perfect. I do now and then err and when that is discovered, I welcome polite correction.
Someone once informed me that I erred regarding the shape of a di-methyl-ether molecule. The underlying thesis of that essay on dielectrophoresis was still correct, but that detail was apparently off.
It has happened before and it will surely happen again. So be it.
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