Just because it’s easy and free doesn’t mean that everyone should blog.  Some people should just keep their thoughts to themselves and save themselves the embarrassment.  Unfortunately, I am one of those people.   Not only have I been mediocre in all my English classes, I have specifically chosen a career path (computer programmer) where my writing is the least to be judged.  I’m a nice guy so this is a warning for you to stop reading!!!  Still here?  Must be bored, eh?  Well then, lets discuss a quote.

If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

As a programmer, this rings a large bell.  *take a deep breath* Time after time I see clients thinking that they are saving money by hiring their friends or some person off of Craigslist who charges cheaply and then having to pay even more to fix the code than if they were to go with an established programmer.  Phew, still alive?  I really can’t blame them though, because programming is mysterious to most people.  The end result is what everyone sees, but not everyone knows that there are hundreds of ways to achieve that result.  It’s hard to put a price on a good piece of code versus a bunch of hacked-together code that essentially does the same thing.  The difference becomes apparently only when bugs start to appear or when upgrading or modifying the code becomes tedious and expensive.  In most cases, and especially in the programming world, you really do get what you pay for.