Like many other commenters, I started on del.icio.us â" and from there moved to Instapaper as that made the content searchable.

I looked at Pocket but didnâ(TM)t see anything that it provided that Instapaper didnâ(TM)t offer.

I at first thought that was true. See http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3839675&cid=43947687 (the first response to subject "For JDK6"). Latest JRE doesn't have the latest timezone data.

Son of a gun, Todd, you're right.

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/tzdata-versions-138805.html

Timezone Tzdata Version
Introduced in JRE Update Release
TZUpdater Version
Main Changes in this Timezone Data Release

tzdata2013c
1.3.56
Palestine observed DST starting March 29, 2013.
Changes in Paraguay's DST rules.

tzdata2013b
1.3.55
Haiti uses US daylight-saving rules this year, and presumably future years.
Paraguay will end DST on March 24 this year.
Morocco does not observe DST during Ramadan;try to predict Ramadan in Morocco as best we can.

tzdata2013a
1.3.54
Chile's 2013 rules, and we guess rules for 2014 and later, will be the same as 2012, namely Apr Sun>=23 03:00 UTC to Sep Sun>=2 04:00 UTC.
New Zones Asia/Khandyga, Asia/Ust-Nera, Europe/Busingen.

tzdata2012j
1.3.53
Libya moved to CET on Nov 10th weekend, but with DST planned next year.

tzdata2012i
  6u38
  7u10
1.3.52
DST changes in Cuba to first Sun of Nov.

I started out in IT after graduating with a Bachelor's of Business Administration in Information Systems. Sneaker-net / phone support / ripping apart computers / etc. I worked my way up to server admin (earning MCSE in the process) with a dabbling in network admin (earning CCNA in the process). Programming wasn't anywhere near a major part of my work other than shell scripting.

But I saw the writing on the wall: the systems were becoming more and more stable; it was easier and easier to defend against computer attacks; it took less IT people to support more and more users/servers. IT also is an expense -- and expenses are to be minimized in the business world.

Hence I went back to school, got a BS and then a MS in Information and Computer Science so I could become a revenue source -- and finally fix the bugs that I had been finding. The problem was, though, that my decade-long IT experience meant nothing in the programming industry, other than leadership experience because I had become a supervisor and then a manager while working in IT.

So I started out as a junior programmer; after 3 years of learning a heck of a lot that they DO NOT teach in school, I finally had enough programming experience to land a job as a lead contract engineer. After 7 months of that, I'm now a senior developer at my current position.

IT experience is almost completely different than CS experience; only at a small company will there be overlap. At medium to large companies, specialization is the key and often the IT folks and CS folks don't trust each other.

So be careful. If you do end up taking an IT job -- hey, you have to eat -- make sure to get some programming in on the side. Join an open source community and start contributing code -- it's valuable experience that will get you portfolio material for when you apply for a CS position.