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If I actually had any employees, they'd all quit if I assigned them the Comma Project.

And what is this Comma Project, you ask? Well, I've decided to change the way I punctuate, namely the comma after a list of items (also known as the serial comma). I've always put in a comma after the second-to-last item in a list (before "and" or "or"), but I've noticed that just about every publication and website follows the AP Stylebook rules, so I guess I need to get with the times.

Now, instead of crackers, daftness, and Bulova watches, it's going to be mitre saws, consternation and penny arcades. See what I'm saying?

I'm not going to go back here and change my old blog entries. I'm too lazy for that (although I plan on leaving off that comma going forward).

However, I am going to make that stylistic change in my newsletter business. So for the sake of consistency, I'm going to have to change every occurrence of a serial comma in every document, article, template, web page, invoice or what-have-you that any of my clients or potential clients may see. That means I'm going to have to comb through over 150 articles, 60 email templates, 225 web pages, 55 client proofs and a ton of other miscellaneous files and documents.

Do I have the time to do this? No, not really. Am I clearly insane? Obviously.