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On reading
Posted at 31st May 2008 13:10.

Since I happened to get Dekzar hooked on TDWTF, I thought I might go list up some of the sites/blogs I read regularily:

* The Daily WTF: An exercise in stupid companies.
* Not Always Right: Customers being utter idiots (as customers do).
* In The Pipeline: Chem/bio blog, I mostly read it for the funny explosions, or equivalent.
* The Old New Thing: Raymond Chen’s blog on windows and programming in general. No clue why I actually read it…
* Coding Horror: Programming and general drama. Also makes me laugh at various ridiculous fashions in the dev business (scrum, Ruby on Rails, etc)
* Dan’s Data: You just can’t ignore the guy. I also subscribe to the blog.
* Then there’s a dozen or so random, rarely-updated things (everything from BOFH to various electronics-related stuff), and 20-30 BitTorrent/AniDB/etc subscriptions. And Engadget & Kotaku, the latter of which I usually ignore.

As is fairly obvious, I do rather read somewhat offhand semi-tech-related funnies than bother with a typical “current events” (pick your typical news site) subscription. I don’t give a shit about what happens in the world, as long as the dollar keeps dropping.

Oh, and I couldn’t have done without Google Reader; now if only it didn’t require me to log in again five times a day, that’d be great.

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