Well, now that you've found this blog, you'll want to keep reading it (reading Adam's blogs are bound to be the highlight of your days), but how exactly is the best way to read a blog? The traditional way would be to use bookmarks (or "favo(u)rites" if your on Internet Explorer). This was how I used to do my own web browsing, back when I was doing the FvForces thing. I had a list of about 15 news sites that I would go to, reading up on all the latest in the computing world. This was, unfortunately, highly inefficient. I would end up spending my days just going through my bookmark list, checking to see if anything new had come up (kind of like those people who sit at work hitting F5 on the Slashdot page all day long). Then I found out about news aggregators. These are basically programs that take a page, check it at set intervals, and show all your favourite pages in one program all at the same time. This, combined with XML (rdf, rss, atom, etc), and there arrived some very powerful programs to do all your news aggregation for you. Just pop open one window, scan the list of "feeds" to see if there is anything new since you last checked, and you are back to work. I found myself saving a large amount of my time, because I would spend less time clicking bookmarks, and letting automation do the job for me. So, in the end, if I were to suggest any way to read this page, it would not be with a webbrowser, but with a news aggregator. If you are wondering about a good program, I can only point you towards Sourceforge.net. For Windows, I once used Feedreader, and found it to be a good program. If you are on Linux, may I suggest Liferea. Then you get the program pointed to this page, and your set! Alas, I must go, have some cake, and eat it too, as it is Ian Coons' birthday. Happy B-Day Ian!
