Tuesday, 8 November, 2005

Sunday, 6 November, 2005

Saturday, 5 November, 2005

Rick’s Blog

Rick Green is blogging again after a brief hiatus, and it’s well worth heading over there. He doesn’t just focus on one issue, but a whole range of them – almost all of which are new to me. It’s a real eye opener.

Like this one: he’s reading the whole of the 1960 edition of the Encyclopedia Brittanica – only the ‘F’ volume is missing. Great stuff!

Anyway, he’s in the process of making some changes to the layout of his site, trying to make it more personal. Why not head over there and let him know what you make of it all?

‘Good Stuff’

I have started a new category, called Good Stuff.

It’s basically just a tag I can apply to longer posts that I take a bit longer over than normal. I’m going to try and do one a week from now on.

The problem with MyPimp, Bookmarking update

Have started to use MyPimp as I need a calendar and it makes sense to have one online. The contacts bit might be useful too.

However, there is a big problem with it at the moment and that is that it only supports american date formats, i.e. today on MyPimp is 11/5/05, wheras my brain thinks it is 5/11/05. I didn’t think this would be that much of an issue, but it genuinely is very annoying and I can’t see myself using it until that is sorted.

On the bookmarking front, there’s just no way I can do it. I know I only set myself the challenge to record my site visits for one weekend, but I am already bored. It just ain’t for me…

Friday, 4 November, 2005

Bookmarking

On the recent discussion about browsers on Palimpsest, talk turned eventually to bookmarks, as one member had recently had a problem with Firefox deleting them all. Not sure how that happened, but it is a useful reminder that in Firefox you can back up your bookmarks by saving them to a HTML file. This is doubly useful, for not only can you load them back in in the event of a disaster, but you can also lob them online and be able to access them if you use a different computer.

That, of course, is if you use bookmarks at all. Which I don’t. I think I might have done when I first started using the web in 1997, when they were part of the fun of using Netscape for the first time. But now? Never. It came as a real surprise to me that anyone still uses them, but apparently they do.

So what do I do? I rely on the keyboard – either by using my own browser’s history to autocomplete URLs for me, or by using Google. It’s just quicker, as far as I am concerned. I don’t even bother with the links on the left hand side of this site. When I set up my Google portal, I put in a few links, but never click on them. I do click on the links for the sites with RSS feeds, though, so maybe that says something.

I have tried some of the various bookmarking sites, like del.icio.us and My Furl page is linked to from this site, but everytime I start to use it, I just get bored. Sites I want to share with people I link to from here. Filling in countless fields for every site I find interesting just isn’t something I want to do! And is there an option on Furl to display a simple list of all the sites I have bookmarked? That might be interesting. But the main view is just too damn complicated for my liking. If there was an option to click a toolbar button and the site was recorded, with no other interaction required, then that might be useful too, it would become second nature to Furl sites and maybe have a look through once a week to see if there are any gems there. But it’s all just too time consuming at the moment.

Update: Having said all this, though, I am going to experiment for the next couple of days of using both Furl and del.icio.us to log the things I look at. Links are over in the sidebar, under ‘Me’. Let’s see which is best and whether I can actually be bothered with either.