In honor of Blog Day, I have chosen these five blogs as my Blog Day links.

My selection criteria are as follows:

1. I didn't pick anyone I know personally. I felt that I should be pointing my friends to blogs that they might not have seen before and would not be familiar to them.
2. I tried to stay away from "Tech Blogs". I'm sure everyone gets enough of that here already.
3. I tried to pick blogs from people "not like me". I'm still not exactly sure what that means, but like I said, I tried.

And so, in no particular order:

• Paul Graham: Okay, not technically a blog, but his essays are always interesting and he's able to express life as a geek way better than most geeks. Especially good are; Why Nerds are Unpopular, Hackers and Painters, What You Can't Say, and, an essay all high school kids should read, What You'll Wish You'd Known. Classic pieces all around.
• Ripples: post-corporate adventures: A great blog by a man who really knows how to enjoy life. His advice on surviving outside of the rat race is both helpful and accurate; he knows what he's talking about because he's actually doing it. If you have a chance to pick up his career guide, Danger: Quicksand, I highly recommend reading it. He also self published a paperback version with more material that you can buy from his site. It's the career guide on how to get rid of your career, and get a real life. I hope to follow his advice soon.
• (24)slash7: Yes, I know, it's a tech blog and I said I wouldn't do it, but it's a good tech blog, damn it, and I'm posting it! Her Ruby on Rails tutorial was big in helping me wrap my brain around the technology. A lot of her Ajax posts are also helping me get more into that technology and helping to blaze a trail for future Ajax developers. And another web designer who's focused on usability couldn't be all bad.
• Tobias S. Buckell Online: A science fiction writer and all around interesting guy. I read his blog all the time, but, I'm embarrassed to say, I haven't actually read any of his writing yet. I plan to rectify that when his first book, Crystal Rain, hits the shelves. Many of his posts are on the writing profession, most notably the Science Fiction/Fantasy Writer Advance Survey, but he is also an interesting guy when he comments on his everyday adventures and observations. He also has CC licensed fiction on his site, something I'll have to dig into soon.
• DrBacchus’ Journal: Rich Bowen is a programmer and writer, most famous for his work on the Apache webserver. While this might seem like another tech blog entry, it's not. Most of his posts have to do with the act and art of writing technical books and running around on the conference circuit, while still being a husband and father and attempting not to go crazy. Some of my favorite posts include, British History, Memorial Day, and … and your neighbor as yourself. You can see now why I say this isn't just a techies' blog. There are many more posts that are just as insightful and enlightening, and I'm sure there will be many more to come.

  As a side note, Rich was also at the Ohio LinuxFest last year and will be speaking at this year's as well. I can't wait to hear his latest talk. If his other talks were any indication, it will be very informative.

Well, that's my blog day round up. I encourage you to read the posts highlighted here and if you like them, to add them to your RSS readers and follow along.

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