You see, this marvelous pMachine weblog software that I use to run the EuroSavant weblog enables me - among other things - to attach a date to a given entry which is not necessarily today's. It could be a previous date; it could even be a future date, in which case the system knows to not publish that entry on my site until the date in question actually comes around. It also gives me the power to go back and change any weblog entry that has already been published, no matter how long ago that might have been.
I confess that I do make full and frequent use of these capabilities. First of all, I will go back and correct something in an already-published entry - a typographical error, say, or even a way of putting things that sounds awkward when I read it again, or certainly an error of fact. I trust that this is OK with you. But it is also true that the entry for a given day may not actually be published to the EuroSavant website until after the day whose date it carries. Furthermore, I also reserve the right to revise an already-published entry - not just the minor corrections mentioned above, but also to change it so that it differs from the weblog entry you thought you had already read.
In that latter case, I expect that the changes will mainly involve adding more material to the entry in question - most particularly, adding new references and commentary from the particular nation's press that I am reviewing that day - rather than really changing what had already been put there. Both when I delay publishing an entry beyond the date on which it is "supposed" to appear, and when I do publish it when "supposed" to but then add substantially to it afterwards, the motivation is to try to ensure that it has enough material and references in it to ultimately stand on its own, to be sufficient and interesting.
The thing is, then, to be aware of this possiblity for change. In particular, if you read a day's entry and it seems to you to be rather shallow and incomplete, you could consider checking back on that entry again later, as it's likely that I will have returned to it and added other things to it. I realize that it would be a more secure and stable world for you, the dear and dedicated EuroSavant reader, if, having once published something on the site, I would just leave it alone. But I'm not going to do that - not only because I won't let errors of style and fact remain on the website once I have detected them, but also, ultimately, because of the mismatch that often arises between the time I have available during a given day to devote to EuroSavant and that which is required to produce a definitive entry, doing it right the first time. Let me politely remind you that this is one of my many current commitments, and that it is unpaid.
There, I've said it. But I'm not going to say "It's unpaid!" often, since I am rather of the school according to which, if you're going to do something, then do it right and do it with quality, or don't do it at all. But I just thought the time had come to level with my faithful readers on some things - on some, shall we say, time-and-content incongruities - that you might have noticed and been wondering about.