I just did something I’ve never done here before and removed a post. I’m well aware that “the Internet is forever” and, search engines being what they are, no doubt you can still find the cached version – that’s one of the reasons I’m generally very careful in what I write.

But I’m gonna pull it regardless, because several people were clearly very upset by it, so I went back and read it just now, and with a few months’ hindsight, I didn’t like what I saw – I was shocked at how harsh it was. Sure, I’m pretty straight-up a lotta times here, but that one was very strong even by my standards.

Whether or not my concerns were valid really isn’t important right now – I’m not happy with the way I put them. And I don’t plan to make it a habit and start going through here and pulling stuff every time somebody doesn’t like something I say, but, in this case, I didn’t like what I said, so it’s gone.

I never intended to hurt anybody with my comments, but that doesn’t matter – I apologize to all of you, especially those that I hurt.

I’ll still speak my mind here, and I’m sure there will be other posts that people won’t like. But two years ago when I first started to write here, I said that I wasn’t gonna spend time on this particular subject, and I haven’t followed through on that. What I said way back then in this post is how I intend to proceed from now on.

Again, my apologies to all of you, and I will do better.

(Update 3/30/11: I did a review this morning of everything I’ve ever written here, and have actually pulled a few more posts. None as harsh as the one I mentioned above and removed last night, but I still wasn’t comfortable with what I’d written, and I removed them for the same reason.)