When I went through my spyware/malware stage, I ran 4 different programs daily to see what evils lurked in my computer. Even my techie friends thought I might have gone overboard. Now I'm down to running them once a week, which seems a little more sane.

As for the writing zines, one of my goals for February was to submit my work to a variety of publications. In order to decide which ones they would be, I wanted to read all of them, their submission policies etc. so I found the best match. As for the how-to sites, I've already discovered that at least half of the info repeats weekly.

Knowledge is so important to me, and by extension, research. I'm like that in all areas of my life.