Somehow this seems a little…contrived. It’s a ZDNet article about programmer’s block which is actually based on a Slashdot thread. I suppose I shouldn’t be critical; it’s an interesting topic and Slashdot is as good a source as any for news stories. The whole Web thing is based on links and sharing information anyway. But I guess I wish more news sites would come up with their own creative story ideas. In this case, though, the mainstream readers don’t read Slashdot, so I suppose it is a way to introduce their readers to something interesting in the programmer world. Wired News thought the ZDNet article was interesting enough to link to in their “Elsewhere Today” section. Ah well, I’m just another jaded programmer :-). Programmer’s block doesn’t fascinate me, it is just a fact of life and I keep my life balanced to avoid it.