Love your blog too, by the way. I'm a novice programmer and I have changed my mentality from "Oh crap look at all these geniuses better at this than me" to "Always get better" partially through perusing blogs such as yours. They're great resources from a philosophical and practical standpoint.

I read maybe 10 of your blog posts and found them interesting before I realized you were the creator of StackOverflow. I found that interesting. I keep finding new StackExchanges that fit my needs. Oh how you were right about forums being horrible places for information. I used them and even ran some in high school for years, but for the past few years any time I wanted detailed information and forum results came up on Google I groaned. Thank you for StackExchange. I started with StackOverflow, then connected to Gaming, now just signed up for Unix and perused the list of other sites in the network. Some of them are just begging for me to join. Social network for the antisocial indeed.