Calling him an "Apple fanboy journalist" isn't an ad hominem attack unless you use that characterization to dismiss something he said. It's just an attack, and

Calling him an "Apple fanboy journalist" isn't an ad hominem attack unless you use that characterization to dismiss something he said. It's just an attack, and a pretty accurate one at that, if you follow his blog. But this is totally unrelated to the immature behavior that he's showing about this whole Markdown drama.