I finally got around to getting my hands dirty and looking at the source code for this blog software to make some changes that I've been wanting to do since I started.

Each entry will now be attributed with keywords, on some blogs also known as tags, which list several themes that the entry talks about.  So now if you're reading an article I wrote and are interested in seeing other articles in which I mentioned the same topic, just click on the appropriate keyword and the software will generate a list of articles that match.

I'm going to try and develop a list of all the keywords used, and I'll place that somewhere easy to access.

I like to sometimes read over old blog entries to make sure that I've got all my facts straight, and that I've explained everything as well as I should.  I was looking over the ShamWow Entry and wondered to myself whether I might have missed something.  Maybe there was somebody else analyzing this product as critically as I did that I wasn't able to find.  I decided to try another Google search, and plugged  "critical analysis shamwow", and guess what I found:

My principal activity is to tease those who take themselves and the quality of their knowledge too seriously.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb, "Fooled by Randomness"

Well, it's a new year.  Seems like a good time for me to embark on a new project.

I've been contemplating writing a critical thinking blog for some time now.  It's taken me a little bit to figure out how I want to organize it, and the kinds of things I want to say.  But I've gotten to the point now where I feel comfortable enough to start writing.

Introductions are in order.  I'm your host, Dumbass, and this is The Dumbasses Guide To Knowledge.  You may snicker at my alias, in fact, I encourage it.  I chose this alias for a very specific reason: it reminds me not to take myself too seriously.