Macworld on Docks

So I was reading Philip Michael's "What's up Dock?" article over at Macworld and it got me to thinking. As things go, my dock is pretty clean and the reason it's as clean as it is is because the only things I stick into the dock are things that need drag and drop acce . I have a half-dozen folders and maybe another half-dozen permanent a licatio , and they're all chosen because at times I need to drop items onto those folders or a . Everything else I acce via Quickeys, my keyboard macro program of choice. Email? I've aliased it to Command-Shift-E. Safari? Command-Shift-L, and so forth. I almost never launch an actual a lication from the Dock. So how common or uncommon is my a roach? Do you use the Dock to launch your a ? Or do you use the A lication folder? What about macros? And where do you pin your dock? Me? I'm totally a pin-to-the-right-of-my-main-screen person.