Bloglines is down today which made me realize what a large chunk of time I spend there. I thought it would be interesting to describe how dull my internet surfing behavior is. This list is in the order of places I go.

• My Yahoo - this is my homepage and the first thing I see every day. I look at the Headlines from Reuters (Top Stories, Business, US Markets). I also look at Headlines from the New York Times, Washington Post, and BBC. I also check email at Yahoo which isn’t much since everyone now writes to me at:
• Gmail - I have a personal email account for friends and family (which gets no spam) and a maoxian email account for acquaintances and spammers (Google catches almost all of the spam, thank god).
• Google Adsense - I next look at my Adsense revenue to see if I broke the 50 cent mark for the day.
• Sitemeter - I go here to see where my 12 daily visitors are coming from.
• Bloglines - I review quite a few Headlines, Summaries, and Full Text posts from the various blogs that I follow. I only read a couple dozen blogs closely, but scanning their feeds can still take a lot of time, and if I find anything that looks interesting I post it to:
• del.icio.us - A great online bookmark site; if I don’t have time to read something in full, or if I find something very cool, I’ll bookmark it here.
  I never ever bookmark anything to my browser anymore. (Yahoo! recently bought del.icio.us, which was a brilliant move.)
• Anonymouse - If there are any things I have to read at sites that are blocked in China (which includes all typepad and blogspot sites), I use Anonymouse.
• Wall Street Journal ($ - no link) - I scan the Headlines (”Today’s Print Edition”) and usually end up reading two or three articles in full (usually China-related). I also look at the Asian edition for small reports that didn’t make the US edition.

That’s it. Pretty boring, eh? Oh, and I never see any online ads because I use Firefox with the precious Adblock extension. When I’m forced to use Microsoft’s
Internet Explorer (in the coffeeshop for instance), I have to stop surfing after about three minutes because I’m being assaulted by ads that I can’t block — how revolting! If you haven’t switched to Firefox, you must be living on the moon.