I like the new Digital versions of Linux Journal. I constantly forget things so, it's nice to be able to read it anywhere on whichever device I remembered to bring, and not have to worry about carting around dead trees.

I know a lot of people aren't on the digital reading bandwagon, but I've been reading books on digital devices since I got my second PDA (a Handspring Visor Deluxe (the first was an old used Apple Newton M110)), and the sheer usefulness of being able to search and pull it up on any device outways the feel and smell of paper for me. I'll always have paper books (our current library has over 800 books), but I've also made sure I have digital versions, too. Which reminds me that I need to get back to that book scanning project.

I haven't noticed any decrease in quality of the articles or amount of content. I look forward to reading it for many years to come. Especially since I'm paid up for a few years.

Speaking of Linux Journal. I always find Ruven Learner's articles to be useful and interesting. His articles are always about new technologies that I've heard about but haven't had the time to dig into yet. They're a great introduction to the topic.

His latest article is about wikipedia message queues. It got me thinking about how many different things there are on the back end that don't require holding up the client browser and that can really slow things down at scale. I'll start playing around with it and post anything interesting or what I end up doing.