I have had two complaints about the quality of some of the items on this Blog, especially some of the tips from Big Al. You may ask why I am concerned about only two complaints.

The answer is simple. In retail, there is a thing called, "The rule of 250." For every complaint the retailer receives there are 250 other people out there with the same complaint that will not voice their complaint. The two that do complain are important because they are indicative of others out there that you can do nothing about because you do not know who they are therefore you cannot fix things for them.

I suspect the rule of 250 does not totally apply here but it may. For that reason I am answering it.

ASCAP has the rights to 75 million songs. The second company in that business has almost that many and the third company also has many millions. The overwhelming majority of those songs are absolute garbage. In order to find the good ones you have to go through a lot of bad ones.

The numbers are not the same with books, movies, plays, poems, paintings, sculpture and other creative things but there are a lot of very poor things in all those categories.

I do not like some of Big Al tips however I would not say that any of them are bad. Some just do not appealed to me and I probably will not use them. So what? Does that invalidate the quality of the others? I don't think so.

I print them all because I have no idea which ones will appeal to whom. Besides, one you consider poor may stimulate you to think of something else.

I think it is a remarkably unthought out and totally petty complaint. Obviously, all of you are not going to like everything but I can not imagine most of you expressing, even to yourself, such a petty complaint. I believe most of you are above that.
Bob