In my last post I claimed that my expertise could be summarized by a number. That number was the number of books in my library having a title containing either the word “SQL” or the word “Data” in whole or as a part of another word. This does not however address the question of to what extent the meandering mentioned has impacted the relative breadth of the library of expertise to which I am claiming an absolute number summarizes. So to that effect I propose another phrase be typed into a certain program. This phrase will include the former as its numerator but will have a denominator such as to give us a ratio of those books I claim contribute to my expertise to books in general (specifically books narrowly defined as ISBN numbers as opposed to leaves of paper with writing on them bound together and presumably following some grammatical style apropos to the topic to which the title should presumably allude). But, alas, I digress. The phrase I think might aid in the rationalization of the aforementioned expertise which I am ascribing to myself might look something like this:

In my last post I alluded to being an expert with an opinion. That allusion was suggestive that I what I might be an expert in was my opinion. Of course that is not the only thing I bill myself as an expert in, else who would really care about my opinion, expert or not. My expertise has come from years of diligent study interspersed with work and punctuated by an occasionally unhealthy obsession. Along with this study has come degrees and even some honors much the way this work has been accompanied by titles and even some pay. Over the years my expertise has meandered between a number of things related to that which has come to be my primary expertise and that which I am intending with this blog to not be bothered to opine on.

In that time I have amassed a small but respectable library of titles. Should we judge these books by their covers, or at least their titles, we might get some sort of indication as to what precisely it is that I am claiming expertise in. Of course this library being small does not make the reading and judging of their covers any less laborious. Fortunately, in the course of amassing such a library and developing this alleged expertise I have discovered that by typing into certain programs certain phrases I can get a number that summarizes what I have been alluding to all this while.

That phrase might go something like this:

I have seen the WordPress logo around the web for years now and have never bothered to keep a blog here. I suppose this is largely due to the fact that I have not bothered to keep a blog anywhere. I have started blogs here and there but never bothered to keep any one of them, save perhaps in the sense that they are, at least in my non-expert opinion, mine in terms of being my intellectual property. This blog is mine in that sense, and with any luck not a bother. More to the point this blog is mine in the way that my expert opinion is going to be blogged on here. I say my expert opinion because I think I am entitled to call it that, being an expert in the area of my opinions.