GvdL, who the hell IS this Whiner guy? Is he in any way important, or just another asshole eating up bandwidth?

Mr. Winer is known for: 'I invented blogging, dammit!; "My web pages hold the most complete collection of outlining software from the 1980s, damnit"; "I recently decided to kill 3,000 weblogs without warning to those that made them, damnit!;" "I invented RSS, worship me of be damned,damnit!;" "Apache, used to be c'est moi, damnit!;" "This is my 4,52nd day of not smoking, damnit;" and "Le tout blogdom c'est moi, zoot!" He recently announced that he would move to a swing state so his vote mattered, but Massachusetts has not yet seen the last of him.

He may be found at http;//scriptingnews.com.

As you may have gathered he is one of my unhealthy obsessions and, except for taunting email from the evil one, I can quit anytime.

And yes he does consume more bandwidth than is healthy for the web.

Of course, that's just my opinion. I could be right.

Blog, blog! What is blog!? -- a misquote from a Star Trek Episode.

Short answer: bandwidth-eating asshole. As with the crazed Andrew Sullivan and Bill "Jackass" O'Reilly, I spurn him with my mouse. May his hit counter slow to zero.

You'v got that right. Rarely has an opportunity been squandered more consistently than by O Reilly.