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Confessions of a Recovering NetBSD Zealot (O'ReillyNet)
Confessions of a Recovering NetBSD Zealot (O'ReillyNet)
Posted Sep 16, 2006 21:51 UTC (Sat) by xtifr (subscriber, #143)In reply to: Confessions of a Recovering NetBSD Zealot (O'ReillyNet) by deepfire
Parent article: Confessions of a Recovering NetBSD Zealot (O'ReillyNet)
I seriously doubt it. "Confessions of a Recovering X" is a very common title template (Google turns up 139,000 hits). Whatever the inspiration (assuming it was something specific), it's much more likely that it had the word "Recovering" in the title.
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Confessions of a Recovering NetBSD Zealot (O'ReillyNet)
Posted Sep 17, 2006 20:50 UTC (Sun) by bk (guest, #25617) [Link]
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater was first published in 1821. It is indeed a very common and long-established template.
Confessions of a Recovering NetBSD Zealot (O'ReillyNet)
Posted Sep 19, 2006 2:01 UTC (Tue) by xtifr (subscriber, #143) [Link]
We're getting drastically off-topic here, but that title ALSO lacks the word "Recovering" in the title, so it's not the template I was referring to!
Confessions of an English Opium Eater/of St. Augustine are examples of a broader template, but not examples of the template from which this title was _clearly_ derived. And are therefore, pretty much guaranteed not to be the actual, direct inspiration for the title!
Of course, if anyone really cares, I suspect they could just email the author. :)