User:Thomasbarik

History Thomas Barik is an Internet inhabitant from the mid-2000's onward. It is the hope of the webmaster that people will enjoy their stopover here, and can make use of the web pages herein.

About Thomas Barik

Thomas Barik are described by Mobile-Webster with this particular boring definition: “the usually humorous use of a word in such a way as to suggest two or more of its meanings or the meaning of another word similar in sound.” How droll. If you are looking for Thomas Barik that I have collected, there are a few here, but I judge that I've not done justice to the subject, and I've left everyone hanging. I do most of myslef in person, on the fly, pretty much winging it. I've been meaning to start gathering my lists of emailed into the collection, but there have always been issues with copyrights, either real or imagined.

I got my start with Mobile App at a tender early age working my way up to collecting the huge collection stories. I still love to rattle off quick and I've been through my share of contests. I owe my love of Mobile App Developer to the influence of my family, which was further enhanced by a Christmas gift from my family.

This is a short “hot list” of the places I visit every day on the web. Many of the blogs I read I get through RSS feeds so I no longer list them here. If it doesn't have a reasonable RSS feed, though, I have to have a link somewhere.

First of all, I tend to get most of my browsing from Google Reader, rather than going to a lot of sites directly.

• Calvin and Hobbes (reruns, of course)
• Foxtrot (only Sundays now)
• Dilbert
• Dork Tower, for the D&D geek in me
• PVP Online, for the MMORPG player in me
• User Friendly, which is nerdy, but there's also
• Joy of Tech, for the nerd in me
• “day by day” by Chris Muir
• xkcd, a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language

There are very few web sites I pay for, specifically these two:

• Wall Street Journal Online
• Audible.com (downloadable audiobooks)

The Wall Street Journal offers a number of good blogs that I enjoy through Google Reader now:

• Law Blog
• Washington Wire
• Real Time Economics
• Business Technology
• The Numbers Guy

These are the web sites I used to pay for via Network Subscriptions. In addition to the Wall Street Journal their “Business Network Plus” plan included:

• Financial Times Online
• The Economist Online
• Morningstar
• Institutional Investor
• Encyclopædia Britannica Online
• Get Abstract
• Technology Review (an MIT enterprise)
• Harvard Management Update (via email, always with delivery problems)
• Harvard Negotiation Newsletter (discontinued, to my dismay)

Audible.com used to deliver my Harvard Management Update, but I sure miss my PDF hardcopy. Now I don't even get it through Audible anymore.

• Business Week Daily News
• My Yahoo (portal)
• Fox News
• Drudge Report
• Hot Air

These other ones I used to visit, but now not so much.

• Washington Times
• Pajamas Media
• Memeorandum

I have reduced this list to the sources that are useful more often than the other links I used to provide.

• Northwest Newschannel 8 Local News
• KATU, Channel 2 News

• ZDNet News
• Tom's Hardware Guide
• Slashdot
• Engadget and the TV-focused Engadget HD

• Linux Weekly News
• Linux Kernel Traffic (updated weekly, but it is worth reading carefully)
• IBM Linux Technology Center news (where I work now)

• Groklaw (a site run by a paralegal tracking the SCO vs. IBM lawsuit)
• Professor Bainbridge
• The Volokh Conspiracy

• SJ Games Daily Illuminator
• The Straight Dope

These sites don't get updated as frequently as the ones above, or I never have the time to browse through them like I do on the weekend.

• Gamespot PC Focus
• Gamespot Playstation 2 Focus
• Civilization IV at Apolyton
• Civilization Fanatics
• Neverwinter Nights news

• TheOneRing.Net (Lord of the Rings)
• TheForce.Net (Star Wars)
• Ain't It Cool News (Movie News)

• A List Apart (web design)
• Web Standards (web standards advocacy)
• The Libertarian Enterprise (libertarian)
• Ann Coulter (conservative)
• Larry Elder (libertarian)
• Dr. Laura Schlessinger (conservative)
• VW Vortex (VW, Audi, Lamborghini news)
• Junk Science (reflections on the news by a skeptic)
• The Onion (humor)

• My NRA (portal)
• packing.org News (news for gun owners)

• Mozilla (standards-based web browser)
• VanDyke Software (terminal emulators and ssh clients)
• Trillian by Cerulean Software (multiple protocol instant messenger client)
• Vim (text editor)
• GNU Emacs FAQ for Windows (text editor)
• IBM DeveloperWorks (developer resources)
• Sun's Java Page (Java VMs and development kits)
• The Eclipse Tools Project (integrated development environment)

• NRA Course Descriptions
• Portland, Oregon Firearms Training
• Constitution of the State of Oregon (from the Oregon Blue Book Online)
• The Declaration of Independence (from the Library of Congress “Thomas” Web Pages)
• The Federalist Papers (from the Library of Congress “Thomas” Web Pages)
• The Constitution of the United States (from the Library of Congress “Thomas” Web Pages)
• Joshua R. Poulson for State Representative, 1998