My At-Work Web-Surfing Routine

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Here’s mine. What’s yours?

  1. Yahoo! Op/Ed to read any new William F. Buckley or Ann Coulter columns
  2. Local television news site to scan headlines and check the weather forecast
  3. Fox News for headlines and 411
  4. New York Times for anything interesting
  5. News.com for IT news.
  6. Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day
  7. Dilbert
  8. CNN-SI Football for Broncos news
  9. The Straight Dope column of the day
  10. My Way for the TV schedule
  11. SciTech Daily Review for anything interesting
  12. Arts & Letters Daily for anything interesting
  13. Wired News
  14. Everything2
  15. FARK
  16. SDMB

It’s a wonder I get anything done! Gawd, I hope my boss isn’t monitoring this!!!

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  1. Yahoo Mail
  2. Bruin Report Online (for my UCLA Sports fix)
  3. E! Online news
  4. Yahoo Fantasy Baseball/Basketball/Football
  5. ESPN.com Page 2
  6. SDMB
  7. Baby Blues/Fox Trot/Luann comics online. In THAT order.
  8. Amazon.com to browse the books.
  9. Gamestop (for video games)
  10. Home Theater Forum (for my DVD fix)
  11. Citysearch (for restaurants)
  12. Yahoo news

And yet I think I’m pretty productive. :slight_smile:

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Each day I do the following from work:

  1. Check personal email via my ISP’s webmail, delete the ones I don’t want to download and read once I get home

  2. SDMB

  3. CNN

  4. Local news web site

Some sites I visit regularly from work, but not necessarily daily:

Something Awful
The Onion
IDMB
Rotten Tomatoes
Space.com
Fark
Techtales

Dilbert
Jump the Shark

4

I work online so I have alot of windows open at any given time…these mostly:

Google News

Gamespark.com(I’m a fiend for 4 in a row and have lots of people who try to challenge the “champ”)
SDMB
Ebay(see what’s selling currently and for what prices)
Yahoo auctions(same reaon as Ebay)
Yahoo groups(I have advertisements there)…72 groups right now but that changes weekly
alibris.com(pricing books)
comicspriceguide.com(pricing comics)

and once a day I play Hearts at MSN

MANY other places I check weekly not daily