No condescension intended at all mgoode.
If you knew me, you would know that I meant it in the humblest of ways. The mantle of "expert" sits very uncomfortably with me as the more I learn, the more I'm aware of how much I don't know. I try to help where possible, but I try to deal in terms of hard information, not subjective opinion.
I guess that I just didn't know how to answer your question in a way that satisfied what you were looking from me, and in terms of what I am comfortable dealing with. Ask me anything to do with information about how something works, or technical details, and I'll happily answer, but don't ask me what I subjectively think of something, that's ultimately your decision and I'll make no attempt to pass judgement. Nobody should need me to tell them what I think of something, and I mean that in a self-empowerment sense. Years of being on the internet has taught me to be as an impassioned robot in my replies, as it neither feeds trolls, nor offends, or at least did not offend up until now.
Don't know. Maybe I try too hard to educate my own children to think for themselves, and thought that this may translate on-line. It's not condescension, it's empowerment.
