http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ericgu/archive/2005/05/12/416946.aspxJim wrote a post entitled Are People Inherently Pessimests? I think the answer is no, most of the people I know I would label as "realists". But it's clear that the view we get is fairly pessimistic. I was initially going to say that it was becauseen-USTelligent Evolution Platform Developer Build (Build: 5.6.50428.7875)http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ericgu/archive/2005/05/12/416946.aspx#418172Tue, 17 May 2005 01:50:53 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:418172Scot BoydFunny, I always said that a &quot;realist&quot; was how a pessimest identified themselves. :)<div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=418172" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ericgu/archive/2005/05/12/416946.aspx#417166Fri, 13 May 2005 14:44:36 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:417166johnAgree with the comment on blogging, but, can you measure the amount of information? Each measurement must itself be informative. Information is impossible to judge? <br> <br>Before information there was the formative ideal (bildung). Somehow we went from formation to information. I wonder what makes the difference. Can it be the simple two letter word 'in'? Are we led by two letter words? Strange .......<div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=417166" width="1" height="1">