I've been trying to keep up on a number of technologies. That, and work a normal schedule and be a good Dad and clean the house and do some other stuff, too. But I just saw the latest from K. Scott Allen, Life with XAML. No, this is not a reference to death row inmates that use WPF, but rather it is a XAML implementation of John Horton Conway's The Game of Life. Read the article. Get the code. Nice.
. . . the top 62 Tech Blogs OF ALL TIME, according to technology guru The Reducer. After recent health problems, Teh Reducer has decided to cut back on activities related to stress and trim back the old blogroll.
Knowing that he is on the road to recovery and relaxation, I checked the list (zip file an opml file) and found teh usaul suspektz: the lower cased one, DoubleI, Scott Allen, Jason Haley and .NET Monkey (wait a sec, these guys reduce stress?). Funny, I know that this group has something else in common. Did somebody say Let's Play a Round of Steganography (I'll provide the hidden text in plain sight, you try to find it, ummmmhmmmmm, 'k; I'll try to keep it down to one misspelling per post (in the stegotext, not the plaintext))?
Additionally, I noticed that in ordering in the opml file (which like totally matters as to who is important), I'm number 51. Man, if only I could have made the top 50. There are a few below me that obviously matter less than me. I won't bother to link the upper 50 because they already get enough juice. I also won't list any Non-Tech and Sites in that opml, so that the suspense will be so overwhelming that you'll have to look (don't look, it's ok, there's nothing in there; don't give it another thought).
((of course, The Armed Geometer, forgetfoo.com, Haacked and Smart Software (formerly .NET Undocumented) made the list, too.))