Links to non-obvious, real blogs, taken from my referrer lists this week: http://blogs.sun.com/andreas http://blogs.sun.com/bmc http://blogs.sun.com/bubbva http://blogs.sun.com/davelevy http://blogs.sun.com/martin http://blogs.sun.com/raja http://blogs.sun.com/sommerfeld http://quark.humbug.org.au/blog/index.cgi/geek/apple/ http://www.csamuel.org/ http://www.emergentchaos.com/ http://www.geoffarnold.com/ http://www.linux.org.uk/~telsa/links-g.html – including this thoughtful gem from Chandan, which puts flesh on an old joke.

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I am contemplating on about 100 lines of perl script that I just wrote and now running every day in a cronjob. This script is to replace most of the work done by half a dozen or so people.

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That work was routine and partly non-technical. This is what I sympathise. Human beings are not machines. If there is work that computer programs can do, then humans shouldn’t be doing that work. People should focus on quality work, and not ticking check boxes, or manually searching through hundreds of email messages or trying to find the differences between two lists…

Hear, hear… – I suspect this feeds into the reason why highly effective geeks typically possess (as Danny O’Brien explains) huge archives of old scripts.