I use Google Reader ^[1] to follow various blogs and news sites, which has the advantage of collecting stories from around the ‘net in an easy and convenient way. However, it also means that my queue of unread items is constantly being replenished, as was made evident when I checked it this morning after my vacation and saw that I had over 800 unread entries. So I skimmed a few then clicked the “Mark All as Read” button.

I figure the world will continue to revolve even if I’m not completely up-to-date about it.