{"id":37,"date":"2014-05-22T10:14:03","date_gmt":"2014-05-22T14:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ninecrows.com\/blog\/?page_id=37"},"modified":"2014-07-11T09:48:47","modified_gmt":"2014-07-11T13:48:47","slug":"sites-i-visit-regularly","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/blog\/sites-i-visit-regularly\/","title":{"rendered":"Sites I Visit Regularly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Of course this <a href=\"http:\/\/ninecrows.com\/blogv\">blog<\/a> and my technical\/career <a href=\"http:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\">blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m looking at this a both a repository of links when I&#8217;m away from my home systems and a way to share interesting places with others.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/dn308572.aspx\">Microsoft MSDN<\/a> Is the place to get information and tools for developing software using Microsoft systems<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/\">Facebook<\/a> is the way that I keep in touch with distant family and friends. I keep my blog around so I can have a more public presence.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/email16.secureserver.net\">webmail<\/a> This one really is for my convenience. This is the link to my web hosting&#8217;s web-mail front door.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/?reload=true\">Slate Magazine<\/a> is one of the places I drop into to get updates on things going on in the world and on the web.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/\">Wired<\/a> is another.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.antipope.org\/charlie\/blog-static\/\">Charles Stross<\/a> Is an author whose work I enjoy who also runs a blog that I find interesting.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/whatever.scalzi.com\/\">John Scalzi<\/a> is another author in that category. Interesting fiction, thought provoking blog. John&#8217;s blog also has the advantage of regularly pointing out interesting authors and works, many of which I&#8217;ve wound up buying, reading and enjoying. <em>Given the decline of bricks and mortar book stores I&#8217;m still looking for a way to replace the browsing experience they provided.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.schneier.com\/\">Schneier on Security <\/a>Since I read <strong>Applied Cryptography<\/strong> Bruce has been one of the experts whose opinion I respect in the area of encryption. His blog covers a wide range of security related topics and I find it quite useful.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/\">Ars Technica <\/a>A more &#8216;tech&#8217; blog that helps me keep up with what is going on day to day out there.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/\">IO9 <\/a>I read a lot of fantasy and science fiction in my spare time. IO9 covers print, movies and television and keeps me aware of new releases.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/\">TPM<\/a> seems to be a relatively centrist news and opinion site. I listen to NPR in the car and then drop in to TPM now and again to get updates and more details.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/\">Slashdot<\/a> is old and well respected. I keep it on my list, but these days don&#8217;t find myself reading all that many items. If anything it serves as a pointer to site with more detail on an issue that slashdot kicks off a discussion of.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/\">The Register<\/a> is a UK tech site that I&#8217;ve found interesting. I&#8217;m not sure how I ran across the UK tech sites, but they&#8217;ve stayed on my list for years.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theinquirer.net\/\">The Inquirer is a<\/a>nother UK tech site (no relation to the checkout line rag).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomshardware.com\/#redir\">Tom&#8217;s Hardware<\/a> is my place to go when I need reviews of PC hardware.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/playersring.org\/\">The Players&#8217; Ring<\/a> is a little theater in Portsmouth, NH that my sister Erika has been involved with. I keep an eye on what they&#8217;re offering but haven&#8217;t made it to one of their shows in some time.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/startswithabang\/\">Starts with a Bang is <\/a>Ethan Siegel&#8217;s science (mostly physics) blog. He&#8217;s moved on to bigger things, but still keeps summaries and pointers to the full articles here. I still have this link in my list and use his site to keep abreast of new things.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/\">TED<\/a> Talks. Interesting, sometimes odd, sometimes very cool. I don&#8217;t watch every one, but some of them can be extremely thought provoking.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pipeline.corante.com\/\">In the Pipeline. <\/a>Derek Lowe is a chemist who works in drug discovery. His blog ranges across many chemistry related area. I first came here to read some of his &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/pipeline.corante.com\/archives\/things_i_wont_work_with\/\">things I won&#8217;t work with<\/a>&#8216; columns about some amazingly nasty chemical species. These days I read the blog to keep up with goings on in the chemistry side of tech.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/\">Amazon s<\/a>eems to be becoming &#8216;where I get stuff&#8217;. Still heavy on the books side (eBook and regular) but electronics figure heavily as well (sorry newegg).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.erfworld.com\/\">ErfWorld <\/a>is a\u00a0 web comic in the RPG vein that I&#8217;ve been following since it started. Currently seems to be on text hiatus (story but no pictures) but still presenting a quirky and interesting world.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/\">XKCD <\/a>How the world really works&#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebonebreakers.com\/\">Commissioned<\/a> is a relatively new web comic. Interesting world and an artist who had done interesting but free standing panels who is now trying his hand at more extended narrative.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.giantitp.com\/\">OOTS<\/a> is a very long standing RPG-ish web comic with a very simple artistic style and heavy focus on long arcs. Currently in a bit of a holding pattern after its previous arc finished up.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/profmattstrassler.com\/\">Of Particular Significance is <\/a>Matt Strassler&#8217;s physics blog. A bit deeper in content than Ethan Siegel&#8217;s work and tends to dive into more of the mathematics involved (which keeps things interesting). I continue to have an interest in particle physics at a superficial level (I no longer have the math to follow for real) and this blog keeps me informed.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/\">BoingBoing <\/a>I came here for some of the Disney items but keep it in my list for the occasional other items of interest. I can&#8217;t say I read BoinbBoing every day, but there are interesting things often enough that I drop in now and again.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/\">Salon<\/a> is a\u00a0 pretty heavily left leaning opinion site. I don&#8217;t agree with everything they have to say, but I&#8217;m closer to them than I am to Fox. Source of things to think about and a more distinctly slanted take on news than NPR or TPM.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/\">GoodReads <\/a>I was hoping that this site could help to address the imminent death of the bricks and mortar bookstore as a way to find new fiction. So far it hasn&#8217;t been all that useful but I&#8217;m still holding out hope.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/nhome\/\">LinkedIn<\/a> is the Career oriented equivalent of Facebook. I don&#8217;t check in here all that often unless I&#8217;m looking for a job. Currently I&#8217;m in the market and so I should be on more often.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.photomeets.com\/index.cfm?ErrFields=500\">PhotoMeets <\/a>I&#8217;ve been attending meetings of the Seacoast Photographer&#8217;s group in Exeter and this is the site that hosts their site for coordinating meetings and posting sample images.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cplusplus.com\/\">CPlusPlus <\/a>The name says it all. Useful when I need something in particular. Not a daily visit though.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of course this blog and my technical\/career blog. I&#8217;m looking at this a both a repository of links when I&#8217;m away from my home systems and a way to share interesting places with others. 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