Disclaimer of opinion
“A disclaimer of opinion is issued when the auditor is unable to form an opinion as to whether the financial statements are fairly presented or the auditor is not independent.”
Opinions are tricky things, especially when viewed on a popular blog.
Most blogs are run by one person. Therefore, in as far as you can judge personality via a blog, what you see is what you get. You can form an opinion about the personality of the photographer or model both by the mood and feel of the images portrayed, and also by the writing style and content.
One of the side-effects of running a joint blog is that people either forget there are two people posting, or even if they do remember, they often assume (quite naturally) that my opinions and Rich’s opinions are the same.
This is simply not true.
Quite often we have completely opposite opinions about something, as well as utterly different tastes in photography. Often we discuss some aspect of photography which may inspire a post, and we may agree, beg to differ, or call each other total idiots and argue wildly for hours on end (much to the annoyance of the kids). Because Art is by its nature subjective, neither of us can be objective or truly independent. But we do both do try to be fair.
Since freedom of speech still reigns supreme in this household (albeit not in this country any more), either of us can publish and be damned. And often we are. Judging by some posts on other blogs, some of my writing in the past has caused a few ripples here and there. This is excellent news for me, because part of the reason I post is to stimulate opinion. Unfortunately this also leads to folks assuming this is Rich’s opinion too, attributing motives to his work which don’t actually exist.
For example, Rich and I have very different opinions on the recent plagiarism arguments, which have been doing the rounds on many of the blogs. I tend to have a more inflexible view on plagiarism because I have a lot of experience in intellectual property law, and I am responsible for protecting and pursuing the trademarks in our (day-job) company. So I tend to get a bit snotty about it, although I do try to be fair (I don’t always succeed though!). Rich has a much more balanced view, which I believe he will be posting shortly.
So, to summarise, what you read is not the consensus opinion of Fluffytek.
Rich and I may be partners, but we are very different.
Luckily, we can tolerate and respect each other’s thoughts and opinions, even if we are on the same blog.
The amazingly beautiful and flexible Roswell Ivory.
If I tried this pose at my age, I’d end up in hospital. Ah youth, wherefore art thou?
Opinions are tricky things, especially when viewed on a popular blog.
Most blogs are run by one person. Therefore, in as far as you can judge personality via a blog, what you see is what you get. You can form an opinion about the personality of the photographer or model both by the mood and feel of the images portrayed, and also by the writing style and content.
One of the side-effects of running a joint blog is that people either forget there are two people posting, or even if they do remember, they often assume (quite naturally) that my opinions and Rich’s opinions are the same.
This is simply not true.
Quite often we have completely opposite opinions about something, as well as utterly different tastes in photography. Often we discuss some aspect of photography which may inspire a post, and we may agree, beg to differ, or call each other total idiots and argue wildly for hours on end (much to the annoyance of the kids). Because Art is by its nature subjective, neither of us can be objective or truly independent. But we do both do try to be fair.
Since freedom of speech still reigns supreme in this household (albeit not in this country any more), either of us can publish and be damned. And often we are. Judging by some posts on other blogs, some of my writing in the past has caused a few ripples here and there. This is excellent news for me, because part of the reason I post is to stimulate opinion. Unfortunately this also leads to folks assuming this is Rich’s opinion too, attributing motives to his work which don’t actually exist.
For example, Rich and I have very different opinions on the recent plagiarism arguments, which have been doing the rounds on many of the blogs. I tend to have a more inflexible view on plagiarism because I have a lot of experience in intellectual property law, and I am responsible for protecting and pursuing the trademarks in our (day-job) company. So I tend to get a bit snotty about it, although I do try to be fair (I don’t always succeed though!). Rich has a much more balanced view, which I believe he will be posting shortly.
So, to summarise, what you read is not the consensus opinion of Fluffytek.
Rich and I may be partners, but we are very different.
Luckily, we can tolerate and respect each other’s thoughts and opinions, even if we are on the same blog.
The amazingly beautiful and flexible Roswell Ivory.
If I tried this pose at my age, I’d end up in hospital. Ah youth, wherefore art thou?
posted by Lin at 12:50 PM
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