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I think this is a sign that I've been programming too much, but Scroble forgot to close his brace in paragraph 3.


I imagine a good blog compiler would have caught that :)


You might also be a grammar geek. That bugged me too.


Actually... I don't think the English language technically allows for nested parens. That's more of an invention by hackers for the internet, I think.


I've seen it done before (once, actually, I used it for the visual effect (you wouldn't think it, but a set of nested parentheses look odd when it's in literature (rather than coding, for instance (though I think it's possible that I borrowed the idea from a computer science class)))).




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