I doubt many will be interested in this post, but it is worth recording what I do these days. It differs a lot from how I worked 10 years ago.

My daily routine: read blogs (using subscriptions through Google Reader), check chess news at Chesscafe), check open access news at Open Access Tracking Project and math publishing discussions at Math 2.0. Check and process email (trying to keep to the philosophy of Inbox Zero, and use OmniFocus to see what I have to do, so I can Get Things Done.

Of course I use LaTeX for writing papers, but I have given up bibtex in favour of the biblatex package. I use the beamer package for producing slides for talks. I looked at some papers from 15 years ago and found they no longer compile, and I seem to have lost some macro files. I intend to (sometime) upgrade all of them to my new “house style”, which uses the fourier font package, hyperref, and other packages.

The blogs by mathematical/CS people that I currently read consistently are those by Tim Gowers (Gowers’ Weblog), Scott Aaronson (Shtetl-Optimized), Gasarch/Fortnow (Computational Complexity), Michael Mitzenmacher (My Biased Coin), Noam Nisan et al. (Algorithmic Game Theory), Daniel Lemire, Peter Cameron. I also follow the UoA statistics (Stats Chat) and computer science departmental blogs, and a few other low-traffic ones. It is probably time to revisit this list. I find that commenting on blogs is annoying – the comments come at too fast a pace, people stop reading the discussion within a few days, and the comments are scattered all over the internet.