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What blogs do you read (IT related & not)?


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LiterateGeek
Chipotle
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LiterateGeek

I was going to suggest Terry Pratchetts discworld novels but you said blog.

Hmmm.

I used to read Mark Russinovich's blog, he's the creator of PSTools/process explorer etc.

 

http://blogs.technet.com/b/markrussinovich

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Hubba Bubba
Habanero
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Hubba Bubba

http://www.lemondrizzle.com/

 

http://amelieshouse.blogspot.com/

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Kris (Spiceworks)
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Kris (Spiceworks)

My daily reading consists of:

- reddit ,specifically r/sysadmin, r/linux, and r/programming

- StandAloneSysadmin (http://www.standalone-sysadmin.com/blog)

- CatonMat (http://www.catonmat.net)

- Google and Facebook engineering blogs

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Skillet
Datil
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Skillet

http://thedailywtf.com/

http://www.howtogeek.com/

http://arstechnica.com/

http://www.geeksaresexy.net/

http://tinyhacker.com/

Just to name a few.

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Jaguar
Habanero
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Jaguar

Technical:

http://www.engadget.com

http://news.hitb.org (cauz o' sideones IRC bot)

http://www.arstechnica.com/

http://techcrunch.com

reddit

 

Nontech:

www.questionablecontent.net

www.xkcd.com

www.explosm.net

http://www.reddit.com/r/fffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu

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Dave7803
Cayenne
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Dave7803

Other than the obviously titled ones, can everyone label any that are NSFW?

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Jaguar
Habanero
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Jaguar

Dave7803 wrote:

Other than the obviously titled ones, can everyone label any that are NSFW?

Just so you know, questionablecontent is pretty worksafe, its a web comic.

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Katie (Unitrends)
Habanero
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Katie (Unitrends)

Brand Representative for Unitrends

 

LiterateGeek wrote:

I was going to suggest Terry Pratchetts discworld novels but you said blog.

Hmmm.

I used to read Mark Russinovich's blog, he's the creator of PSTools/process explorer etc.

 

http://blogs.technet.com/b/markrussinovich

I need some new book suggestions too - what else do you recommend?

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Jaguar
Habanero
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Jaguar

Enders Game by Orson Scott Card

My most favorite book ever :]

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Jamie8398
Serrano
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Jamie8398

http://thedailywtf.com

http://www.infoworld.com/d/data-center/blogs (Paul Venezia)

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog

http://www.askamanager.org (non-tech but a gold mine of managerial/workplace advice.  She's smart, but also funny and snarky which I like).

This isn't a blog - just one of my favorite articles that I like to revisit when having a bad day:  http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9137708/Opinion_The_unspoken_truth_about_managing_geeks

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Kris (Spiceworks)
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Kris (Spiceworks)

Katie (Unitrends) wrote:

 

LiterateGeek wrote:

I was going to suggest Terry Pratchetts discworld novels but you said blog.

Hmmm.

I used to read Mark Russinovich's blog, he's the creator of PSTools/process explorer etc.

 

http://blogs.technet.com/b/markrussinovich

I need some new book suggestions too - what else do you recommend?

I recommend the book Fatal System Error for anyone interested in the dark side of the internet as far as organized crime goes.  http://www.amazon.com/Fatal-System-Error-Bringing-Internet/dp/1586487485

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Paul_Maxim
Thai Pepper
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Paul_Maxim

Sample of Dr. Grumpy

 

Dr. Grumpy: "This is Dr. Grumpy, returning a page."

Mrs. Franklin: "Hi, you see me for nerve damage in my foot, and I'm on Neurontin."

Dr. Grumpy: "Yes. What's up?"

Mrs. Franklin: "Well, lightning struck my apartment complex an hour ago, and started a small fire in the laundry room. The fire department put it out, and everything is okay now."

Dr. Grumpy: "Are you okay? Was your medication lost?"

Mrs. Franklin: "Oh, everything is fine."

Dr. Grumpy: "Why are you calling?"

Mrs. Franklin: "I just figured this is the sort of thing my doctors should know."

 

Sample of Not Always Right

 

Now You Know How We Feel
RETAIL | NEW YORK, USA |

(It’s Sunday and I’m dressed up because I just came from church. I’m shopping at the local bed and bath store.)

Customer: “Excuse me? Where are the curtain rods?”

Me: “I’m sorry, ma’am, but I don’t work here.”

Customer: “Excuse me?!”

Me: “I don’t work here, ma’am, so I don’t know where the curtain rods are. I can help you find someone who does, though.”

Customer: “This is unacceptable. Show me where the curtain rods are.”

Me: “I hate to break this to you, but I really don’t work here. I think there is a help desk over there, though.”

Customer: *calls husband over* “Can you set her straight? I’m trying to find curtain rods and she refuses to help me!”

Husband: “Look, you are getting paid far to much money to be screwing around! Now, my wife asked you something very simple. She cannot seem to find the curtain rods. Show us where they are, or we will call your manager.”

Me: “Sir, I am sorry, but I don’t work here. I don’t know where they are.”

Husband: “I can tell a worker when I see one. No one but workers wears suits.”

Me: “I wear them for church, sir.”

Customer: “What?”

Me: “Yes, I’m wearing a suit because I just came from church with my family. I’m sorry I can’t help you.”

Customer: “I hate this store.”

Husband: “I know, honey, I know. Let’s just go. We can get curtain rods online!”

(I feel so sorry for the people who actually work here.)

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MattS
Cayenne
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MattS

Come to think of it, I don't read any blogs at all. And from the looks of it, not many of you are linking to what I would consider a "blog".

After work hours, I'm usually out taking photos or reading a book. I'm currently on the third of John Buchan's books about the adventures of Richard Hannay, a fictional English military spy. The first two were pretty good, but this third one is somewhat of a let-down. Alfred Hitchcock made a movie version of the first book, The Thirty-Nine Steps back in the 1930s. The books were written between 1914 and 1919. I got them from http://www.feedbooks.com/publicdomain in epub format so I could read them on my Nook.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thirty-Nine_Steps

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenmantle

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr_Standfast

Of course, most of Orson Scott Card's books are awesome if you're into SciFi.

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AzraelXIII
Tabasco
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AzraelXIII

I can throw some book suggestions at you

The Game of Thrones series

The House of Leaves (which I still need to get back from my ex...)

Infinite Jest

The Nothing that Is: A Natural History of Zero

The Life of Pi

The Thief of Always (kind of a kids book, but still a fantastic read)

 

I'll update the list if I can think of any more.

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John White
Mace
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John White

Well, if you want books too...

Guns, Germs, and Steel - Diamond

The Botany of Desire - Pollan

The Omnivore's Dilemma - Pollan

Four Fish - Greenberg

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AzraelXIII
Tabasco
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AzraelXIII

 

John White wrote:

Well, if you want books too...

Guns, Germs, and Steel - Diamond

The Botany of Desire - Pollan

The Omnivore's Dilemma - Pollan

Four Fish - Greenberg

Very awesome picks, can't believe the first three escaped me.

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LiterateGeek
Chipotle
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LiterateGeek

Katie (Unitrends) wrote:

 

LiterateGeek wrote:

I was going to suggest Terry Pratchetts discworld novels but you said blog.

Hmmm.

I used to read Mark Russinovich's blog, he's the creator of PSTools/process explorer etc.

 

http://blogs.technet.com/b/markrussinovich

I need some new book suggestions too - what else do you recommend?

Terry Pratchet: it's humor set to a fantasy world. Think Douglas Adams meets dungeons and dragons.

There are different series in the larger series:

The Watch: Follows the Ankh-Morpork city watch and often plays out like a detective novel set to a bit of a loopy fantasy universe. The later parts of this series feature a fair bit of dark humor. This is my favorite bits of the overall series. Initially Terry was setting up Carrot Ironfounderson to be the main character (A human dwarf, his mother had him by adoption) but the much more interesting Commander Vimes has since eclipsed him as the series main hero.

 

The Witches: Follows a witches coven in the arse end of nowhere. The witches tend to be heavy on folk wisdom and the like. This is my girlfriends favorite set of books.

The Wizards: Follows Rincewind of Ankh-Morpork the disc's worst wizard, and most craven coward as he saves the world dozens of time even though he's attempting to run in the opposite direction of whatever troubles it at the moment. Also features Cohen the barbarian: a 90 year old barbarian hero who stays alive through every situation because staying alive is a skill, and at his age he's very good at it y'see?

There's a bunch of other non connected novels within the universe and one other series that belies any title save "Moist Von Lipvig is the main star". I'll probably start referring to it as the "Con Man series"

Anywho I'm terrible at writeups, go here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discworld

And note: Terry Pratchet is actually.... SIR Terry Pratchet. He was knighted for his works, to me that speaks for something :)

EDIT: oh and he's the UK's second best selling author after JK Rowling (And considering Terry writes for adults not children, the fact that he's doing that well speaks for quite a bit).

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Roy DeSimone
Serrano
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Roy DeSimone

Katie (Unitrends) wrote:

I need some new book suggestions too - what else do you recommend?

The Cuckoo's Egg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cuckoo%27s_Egg_%28book%29

-Roy

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Paul_Maxim
Thai Pepper
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Paul_Maxim

Free legal SF ebooks from Baen

 

Now many of these are parts of series so you will want to buy the later volumes.

 

All kinds of formats and no DRM!

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Hubba Bubba
Habanero
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Hubba Bubba

I can highly reccomend

The name of the Wind

and

The Wise mans Fear

both by Patrick Rothfuss

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GwendolynRose
Cayenne
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GwendolynRose

As far as blogs go, I love Hyperbole and a half. Allie Brosh is awesomely funny (and maybe just a little insane, but in a good way) :P

As for books, if you can find them I always loved Mercedes Lackey's Valdemar series. Great fantasy series, and her other stuff is pretty good too.

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