Asked Questions

Obviously, I'd like to call this page 'Frequently Asked Questions', but I'd be lying if I did, since no-one has in fact asked me anything at all about Swallow apart from the URL, and then only rarely.

In fact, the last person I gave the URL to didn't get around to looking at Swallow at all, to my knowledge, but instead went straight to my cv. Like most people who see it, he fell straight to sleep and woke refreshed and strengthened by the sure knowledge that there was in fact such a thing as someone worse off than himself. But I digress.

Despite the obvious and widespread lack of interest generated by Swallow, there are nevertheless a number of things I would like to preempt, in the extremely unlikely event that anyone did want to know the answers to them.

(Readers should be aware that this is in fact version 2.0 of the AQ. Updates to the answers that have changed since last month are marked with a *.)

1 - What is the point of Swallow?

If you don't know I can't tell you.

2 - Why isn't Swallow very good?

You haven't told me why you don't like it.

3 - Can I contribute?

Yes. Anything. If I don't like it I'll tell you.

4 - Subjective liking of things seems to play an important role here, doesn't it?

Quite so.

5 - Has anyone ever called you a sad bastard?

See the Frequently Received Insults page (forthcoming) for answers to this and all similiar questions.

* Don't hold your breath, btw.