Yahoo pipes is a good way to manage rss feeds and organized and forward. Pipes is a powerful composition tool to aggregate, manipulate, and mashup content from around the web.

Of course I found some bugs:

But unfortunately I wasn’t been able to use Yahoo pipes successfully and parse the data properly. In large feed number apparently doesn’t work so good so I use Google Reader.

An African proverb says:

“Do not try to fight a lion if you are not one yourself.”

But I am asking what are you doing in the jungle or near a lion anyway?

I found this hilarious and had to quote it from http://extremetestingsphere.com/.

It is also imported apparently from Michael Russell’s blog but wasn´t able to locate that easy enough.

So here is the list:

10. Your love letters get returned to you marked up with
red ink, highlighting your grammar and spelling mistakes.
9. When you complain about him spending too much time with
you, he replies that he's in the middle of a soak test.
8. He keeps asking for a "spec" so he'll know how his
"harness" should "interface" with you.
7. He'll always do something wrong twice so he can provide
accurate repro steps.
6. When you tell him that you won't change something,
he'll offer to allow you two other flaws in exchange for
changing this one.
5. When you ask him how you look in an outfit, he'll
actually tell you.
4. When you give him the "It's not you, it's me" breakup
line, he'll agree with you and give specifics.
3. He won't help change a burned out lightbulb because his
job is simply to report that it's burned out.
2. He'll keep bringing up old problems that you've since
worked out just to make sure that they're still gone.

...and the number one way to tell you're dating a
tester...

1. In the bedroom, he keeps "probing" the incorrect
"input."

I was thinking of doing a comparison on certifications like ISTQB and Mafia following some points:

1)Both are based on fear. Testing certifications base on the fear of the tester to get a proper job or raise.

2)There is a clan hierarchy in both organization. Board of directors, testing centers, accredited training centers etc are part of the usual certification institute.

3)Protection tax. After paying for exam, you need to pay new fees at some fixed periods. Some certifications expire after 2 years for example.

4) The “certificators” are getting people in their teams similar to Mafia. There is not too many job vacancies for this, but they select people in a secret way and based on their internal recommendations.

5)Secrecy is part of certification, not allowed to share the information, questions to exam etc. Although in both certification and Mafia there are leaks. This is opposite to open source and sharing the information.

6)Certification has deep roots in industry where company freely or not so freely ask for people with certain papers like ISTQB. Also the “certificators” finance PR for themselves and different statistics to show how many people they have corrupted.

7)There is a ritual to certification: register, apply, training(or not because there is a lot of leaked resources, but they make sure training is needed), exam, evaluation,reevaluation, the certification itself. This is opposite with continuos learning and improvement.

8)Usually people certified tent to hire other certified persons instead more experienced ones.

9)They take your personal details also

10)Both seek continuous expansion in numbers or areas

I added new links to my blog, social networks that I should populate soon, rss feed…

I also saw a nice top list of most popular testing blog, of course the criteria is not 100 % reliable but looks pretty good. The list is located here http://www.testingminded.com/2010/04/top-100-software-testing-blogs.html.

The initial rank looked like this:

This gives some though on where to start reading other blogs.

As Santhosh Tuppad suggested to me I am adding the author credits to Steven Machtelinckx, the owner of the blog post containing the list.