I just realized that blogs are stupid. The straw that broke the camel's back was a story related to me about the head technical guy of a company who goes home after work and listens to podcasts of other technical nobodies who've just discovered or put into use some technique instead of reading a book. It's like reading (or listening) to amazon comments about cars and expecting to understand how to drive a car.

If that guy ever gets over the rat-race hump of keeping up with Constant Epiphany Guy's Blog of .NET Tricks Borrowed from Other Existing OO Systems he, himself, might warble into a bad microphone and podcast himself learning new technical abilities like marms passing around their favorite fruit-nut cake recipe. It's sad. It's also a hold over of the Big Bust - self-taught technurds trying their hardest to pretend relevance.

And, with that, I realized that there's really just no point to learning from the randomness. I thought that maybe, just maybe, nuggets of intelligence are to be gathered by sifting through the detritus and effluvia, but no, it's not to be. I actually don't want to hear someone else's path to technical nirvana or that some kid thinks they have the three-word-chant solution to peace in the middle east. That's the stuffing 'tween Pooh Bear's ears. To learn something, anything, there're books to read, courses to take, and (I can't believe I'm at this point) certificates to sit.

Sure, it's fun to look at a friends photoalbum or hear what they have to say, but Random Guy isn't going to be instructive at all for me. I might have some thoughts about politics, religion, or whatever, but it's just me making thinky into words for myself, ultimately, not for anyone's edification. I'm not a professional essayist or opiner of experiences beyond the average ken. Ok, maybe I have been to places that are uncommon and I have an interesting situation. Whatever, I'm, like, not good with explaining that. And, further, I'm no expert.

So, blogs, you're past being "on notice" (that's what all these absent days have been) and are now, officially "dead to me" ...

At least for getting information from. Unless, of course, it's meta-information and mockery about blogs themselves. And, yes, that means you, .NET "Informed" Comment and all you bleeding heart war profiteers.

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