# My At-Work Web-Surfing Routine **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 21, 2003, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-at-work-web-surfing-routine/176672 "2003-05-21T23:25:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![YellowTail](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/b5ac83/32.png) [@YellowTail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YellowTail)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2003, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-at-work-web-surfing-routine/176672/1 "2003-05-21T23:25:14Z")
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](http://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!!! ---
**Author:** ![Eman\_Bruin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Eman\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eman_Bruin)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2003, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-at-work-web-surfing-routine/176672/2 "2003-05-21T23:48:25Z")
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](http://ESPN.com) Page 2 6. SDMB 7. Baby Blues/Fox Trot/Luann comics online. In THAT order. 8. [Amazon.com](http://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. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![dwc1970](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2003, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-at-work-web-surfing-routine/176672/3 "2003-05-22T06:11:15Z")
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](http://Space.com) Fark Techtales > **[National and Local Weather Radar, Daily Forecast, Hurricane and information...](https://weather.com/)** > > The Weather Channel and weather.com provide a national and local weather forecast for cities, as well as weather radar, report and hurricane coverage Dilbert Jump the Shark ---
**Author:** ![Tommyturtle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8491ac/32.png) [@Tommyturtle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tommyturtle)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2003, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-at-work-web-surfing-routine/176672/4 "2003-05-22T06:56:44Z")
I work online so I have alot of windows open at any given time…these mostly: Google News > **[CNN - Breaking News, Latest News and Videos](https://www.cnn.com/)** > > View the latest news and breaking news today for U.S., world, weather, entertainment, politics and health at CNN.com. [Gamespark.com](http://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](http://alibris.com)(pricing books) [comicspriceguide.com](http://comicspriceguide.com)(pricing comics) and once a day I play Hearts at MSN MANY other places I check weekly not daily