In my Hello World blog post I came up with the abbreviation ZOO for important statements that I was going to make, so that I could later refer to those statements without the need to repeat them again and again. Each ZOO entry gets associated with a unique index of my liking. Numbering is arbitrary, but unless necessary I will stick to sequential.

A good friend of mine, George Adamopoulos, seemed to like the idea and he proposed the term ZOOism, which I liked a lot too so I adopted it.

This page contains my current list of ZOOisms. You can consider it as a grand summary of my blog-personality profile. If you like my ZOOisms, then you will probably like my blog(s). If you don't like the ZOOisms, then move to the next blog in your list :-)

Clicking on a ZOO entry takes you to the article where that ZOOism first appeared.

Here's the complete list:

ZOO(0): The "Brute" in BruteForce means simple, plain, straight forward, not brutal. The "Force" in BruteForce initially meant "Team". A team of programmers that like Brute Force algorithms. I don't like the use of force, be it brute or intelligent. I am a "Brute Force" thinker.

ZOO(1): Never forget that I am human, and this means that I too am imperfect. The opinions I state in my blog or personal site are definitely subjective, affected by personal bias and/or prejudice, and on the bottom line arbitrary. I am trying really hard to recognize my own biases and prejudice, and be as objective as possible, but there's so much a man can do on his own.

ZOO(2): It is impossible for me to know everything that is going on in the blogsphere and the web, so if I say something inaccurate or outright mistaken or ignorant please show some compassion. I am only human. I will make the best effort possible to write the posts in a way that they are accurate and don't provoke or offend anyone but once again I am only human; thus imperfect.

ZOO(3): Also keep in mind that people of different cultures might find different things to be offensive. I am from Greece so something that might seem funny to me might be offensive to you or vice versa. Please correct me when I'm wrong and I will do my best not to repeat the same mistake twice.

ZOO(4): You might have noticed that I have enabled TypePad's tip jar. If you enjoy what you read in this blog a small tip is always welcome. I don't like big tips for the same reason I don't like big donations. I will explain the reasons in another post.
However I hereby promise that 50% of the money I make out of this blog (or any other related blog that I start) will be spent on donations (open source projects initially, other things later). This will be done on a monthly basis. I can only give you a promise; an oath is too much and a contract is for business deals.
If things go well and I have more than 500$ to donate each month then I will setup a separate web page listing all my donations.
If ever the tips explode and say exceed 10.000$ a month, then I will make a public listing of the donations I receive. Of course for privacy reasons you might not want your name to appear. However the tip amount will be listed.

ZOO(42): 42 = "For Two"