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I know I've complained on various occasions about using Safari and Firefox, and one of the problems in switching between them (and now between them and the reclaimed Thinkpad running IE and Firefox in the living room) is keeping bookmarks up to date. There are things I'd like to look up in the living room (the Thinkpad is more mobile because it has 7+ hours of battery life and its lack of DVI output means I don't use it tethered to any of the external LCDs), but not disrupt lapsitting cats to go look on the Mac. If I haven't put it in del.icio.us, I'll google, and then do without. Sure, it's not the greatest of tragedies, but it's annoying.

In my last week of unemployment, (oh yeah, I took a job, but you know I very rarely speak of these things directly in the public blog) I thought it would be a good idea to take my "unfiled" toolbar bookmark folder and filter out the still-useful bits, and post them onto del.icio.us for access from multiple machines. Mind you, this is 2+ years of junk I've stumbled over, saved for later, and never reviewed. According to most "clutter management" strictures, I should have just deleted the folder entirely unexamined. I'm a hoarder, though, and it's one of the reasons I know more than you.

First of all, if you have a few hundred of these, do NOT click "open in tabs", unless you like waiting. Had I known that Safari and Firefox each would take an hour to open each page, run them through Greasemonkey and PithHelmet (failing to turn these off was a major error), and be ready to respond to events, I would either have elected not to continue with the exercise, or I would have started the process and gone to bed.

God, what a waste of time.

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