What is fail? What does a person have to do to deserve this treatment? It has no formal definition, but loosely, a fail is some bit of negligence, misunderstanding, unwillingness to read documentation, or just plain unforgivable stupidity that leads to a problem. Fail is amplified by the magnitude of the problem and the ease with which the error could have been detected.”
John Paczkowski has been poking fun at the tech industry and the personalities that drive it since 1997. From 1999 to 2007, he wrote the award-winning tech news Web log Good Morning Silicon Valley for the San Jose Mercury News, Silicon Valley's daily newspaper.
Here is a statement of my ethics and coverage policies. It is more than most of you want to know, but, in the age of suspicion of the media, I am laying it all out.
