I've decided to clean up my blogroll, removing all the tech-only related stuff. I'm spending so much time reading about the technews here and there that I can never put in practice anything. Furthermore, I had the foolish idea that this knowledge could serve me at my job in the IT Services... unfortunately this world is cursed by sales and marketing peoples, which sells software like they would sell soap, a brilliant package which (dis)solves all the problems. As soon as IBM, BEA or Microsoft says: "This is the right way", then a thousand of angels come down from the sky to spread the new gospel (for the 34th time in the year). There is no place for craft industry in this system, so I don't need special information, I don't need special training. BEA promises you to develop a full-featured J2EE app without knowing Java, so I don't even need to know Java, shall I start to forget it?

Here is what I remove from my blogroll (no particular order), I keep them here in case the fever catch up with me:

OSNews

I had problems with Gnus reading the nntp//rss feed, was it fate?

Slashdot

Not the first time I decide to not look back here...

Aaron Swartz

Some interesting bits.

Ugo Cei

Even if he just started talking about diets (and I should diet)

Patrick Logan

I don't know what he's doing recently, but the last posts (07/15) looks like junk to me :-) (update: he's done some cleaning)

Joseph Ottinger

Always nice to read something from someone who feels full of wisdom.

Dave Winer

Not purely technical, but so much bile that it's sometimes painful to read.

Werner Ramaekers

Very on topic posts, no digression, the "no fluff" spirit.

ajeru

Good, lenghty post, not often enough though :-)

Cédric Beust

He has a flame inside him.

Fabian Cravus

"How to explain software engineering to idiots...ahm...clients...", "idiots" is too strong, but "the 'give me the ROI I do not care about anything else' type of guy" is too long.

Howard M. Lewis Ship

If his book is as good as his posts, it's going to be truely enjoyable.

Hugo José Pinto

I was hoping a lot for CASE tools reviews and follow-ups, but may be it's still too soon for CASE?

Jonas Bonér

I think I'm not AOP ready ^^;

kdub

I wish Roller had a 'not' selector for the category in the URL when you fetch the feed. That way I could get rid of the ColdFusion stuff.

Erik C. Thauvin

The biggest culprit above all. The best aggregator at your doorstep. There seems to be too much links everyday, and somedays there is just a handful, maybe this IA thinks we're going to mix it up with a human? :-)

Café au lait

No more in the mood.

Mike Cannon-Brookes

JIRA, JIRA pas (jeu de mot minable, il est 2 heures du mat').

Bob Lee

Those frames...

Dave Johnson

Roller could go on rolling without my reading.

Fred Grott

I like small devices, I like small apps. In 2000 I gave a go to Waba, and after that to Superwaba, and now even reading about MIDP and J2ME everyday... no, I don't have the desire to start coding for that. I'd better give up.

It's quite a slaughter... Some (lucky?) survivors in the tech-oriented:

Carlos E. Perez

I know I know, I'm weak, it's not good for a coding monkey to read that.

Hani

It's not about technology, it's about freedom, as in bile.

Rickard Öberg

Between The Matrix and WMD in Irak, there are myths to explore :-)

Matt Raible

When he goes back to the cabin...

Tim Bray

Strings are important, especially for a captive monkey.

Joel Spolsky

Too precious, and he doesn't post often.

Maciej Ceglowski

This reminds me my student life... but this era is still too near for me to afford such a paint.

Andrew C. Oliver

I don't deserve to read the King Of Blogging, furthermore I keep Hani in my blogroll (the one on the right is going to be updated when I take a moment to do so) :-)

Russell Beattie

I like when Alex bangs his head everywhere, too sad this time is over :-) (sadistic smile)

Sidenote: freeroller.net is painfully slow this days... Sidenote 2: will I be able to sleep longer with that cleaning?