10.06, Friday 25 Feb 2000

Punctuation is a mark of lazy writing. I've got this kind of gut feeling that using italics, bold, ellipsis, exclamation marks in your writing is lazy. It's kind of like screaming obscenities in an argument because you can't articulate yourself. Also like marking up documents in MS Word, or something similar. If you want to make it look good, use Quark - if not then your document should be just as good in plain ASCII (or should that be Unicode?). It's like: if you can't get across what you're trying to say using only plain ASCII then you're not saying it right. I'm as guilty as the next person, but I wish I wasn't.