The only constantly updating site I read regularly is Google News, because it’s right there on my home page. Sometimes I go by Slashdot or MacMinute. I used to read New Scientist news; the last time I went by there, it was no longer friendly to non-subscribers. Every once in a while I go and try to read the Internet-at-large. By which I mean, read some news or commentary on a personal blog. Blogs are a vast conversation. I am not, by nature, a conversationalist, so most blogs annoy me and feel like a waste of time. I just don’t find other people’s opinions interesting. Quite the opposite. They are tedious, often egregiously uninformed, and make me surly. Blogs make me feel like punching someone.

I don’t go near facebook anymore, let alone those other social networking sites. They just aggravate my contempt for the self-absorption of society. There are so many problems in need of solutions, so many questions in need of answers, so much of value being left in neglect, and yet what concerns most people is the most superficial crap. I suppose that’s my contribution to the cesspool of worthless opinion.

These days I spend my time working (programming), playing (computer games), or doing real life things (keeping house, mostly). When I use the Internet, it’s for looking up documentation, contributing to my open source project, exploring virtual Middle Earth, or downloading stuff (only legally distributed things, of course!).

What does amaze me about people is that the more insignificant and trivial the fact they are concerned with, the more passionate they get about it. Also, the less creative people are, the more fixated they are on things other people are doing which might negatively impact them as a result of their inability to adapt to the realities of whatever situation they are in. If you have time to complain, it means you suck. Go do something useful.