: Re: Quality of my blog writing I came here from Jeff Atwood's blog where he mentions that writing a blog can clear your own internal thought processes and that you should take feedback about your

Looks fine. A few problems with style (too many qualifiers, tone down the chatty way of expressing yourself), but nothing dreadful a decent copy editor couldn't fix.

Examples of chatty style:

"but its pretty darn useless if you ask me. Don't get me wrong, there are"

Ditch one of them for example. Here's some repetition:

"Pretty nice isn't it?

Features of the control:

* *Nice* and smooth sliding action
* Its lightweight and simple
* Renders in all browsers "

Being your own copy editor is a pain in the bum. One way I deal with this is to get the screenreader software included in my OS to read back wht I've written to me - it stops me from skimming, which is a bad habit I have, especially with my own writing.

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