Now that I stare at my blank subscription list at Bloglines —I, or something else, managed to empty it, don't know how— I'm wondering whether I should resubscribe to all the feeds that I had acquired. (I probably will continue reading weblogs, but let me continue with this thread of thought.) I don't want to sound too dramatic, but reading weblogs is one time-consuming and attention-craving hobby, and I might as well quit it alltogether. It's as good hobby as anything, but somehow it manages to drain too much energy at times. It has to do with my personality, of course, but I don't seem to be able to get into balance with this.

Either I have too much to read or I have too little to read, never quite just the amount I need. It's too difficult to read weblogs in a fixed time-slice, say some half an hour a day, and to not read them whenever I feel bored. And I really mean it when I say it's difficult. I've tried some personal arrangements which do work for a while, but such arrangements tend not to make my life better. I feel like I'm on some diet or something.

There might well be a technical solution to this, but the problem is not only about reading weblogs, but WWW as whole. It's nearly always available to me and there's seemingly infinite amounts of interesting stuff to read. Whenever you're bored, just fire up the browser and sink into the web.

The nasty extra catch is that I'm hooked to eduntainment, stuff that's mostly just for my entertainment but has some indirect educational value to me too. Weblogs of programmers provide information that I can adapt for my hobby and work projects.

Hmm. It seems that my subscriptions are back now. Forget all I said, I'm back to reading weblogs.