>Zed Shaw, whilst his approach to certain issues may be questionable, is not "a writer rather than an engineer". He didn't say Zed wasn't an engineer. He just

>Zed Shaw, whilst his approach to certain issues may be questionable, is not "a writer rather than an engineer". He didn't say Zed wasn't an engineer. He just said that he isn't a writer so the article will be written in an engineering voice. People do the same things with presentations. "Sorry, I'm not a public speaker, so this might suck."