del.icio.us
by Jason
While I generally consider myself to be "in the know" when it comes to Internet trends, I must admit that this one was new to me. However, as soon as I understood it, I was hooked.
It all started with some sudden case of insomnia last night. You know the feeling, when your mind is just racing and you can't shut it off. Not even threats (such as Homer's "shut up brain or I'll stab you with a Q-tip") seem to work. At about midnight, I was fed up with being wide-eyed in bed and got up in an attempt to exercise my brain a little (usually just a little is enough to make it tired). You may notice that the posts on our page now contain "Category" links; this was my adventure last night.
Using this page, I was able to set up the link in our blog to contain categories. I chose method 3: using Firefox with Greasemonkey. If you are considering trying it out for yourself, stick with it. It is fairly confusing at first (if you are new to the del.icio.us idea), but in the end it is well worth it. The other methods will work well also if you do not have or want Firefox (but I strongly recommend it). Phew...
2:30 a.m. Erica wakes up and comes to find out what I'm doing. I'm tired enough that I actually try to explain all this stuff, that I hardly understand at this point, to her while she is trying to adjust her eyes to the light of my monitor. She's incredible to put up with this stuff (and for many other reasons). "I'll be in bed soon," I tell her.
3:30 a.m. I still cant' sleep, so I decide to learn more. del.icio.us is awesome. You can store all your bookmarks there with keyword tags, so I do. I have created an account seperate from the blog to keep things nice 'n clean. Now I can acecss my bookmarks from anywhere on the planet in any web browser, and I can share my information with others who might be looking for sites tagged the same as mine.
4:00 a.m. I learn about Foxylicious. This is just getting better and better. Now my bookmarks from del.icio.us are automatically downloaded into my Firefox bookmarks. I've also learned how to subscribe to my own bookmarks as an RSS feed (Firefox has "Live Bookmarks" that read RSS atoms). I'm such a nerd. But I'm a nerd who has nice categories on my blogs and synchronized access to my bookmarks -- no more bookmarks managed locally on my machine, just my del.icio.us feeds.
Now it's really time to try to sleep. I think I was out around 5:00 a.m. Just two hours until the pleasant, soothing beep of my alarm clock (worst sound ever) rips me from the sleep that I've tried so desperately to reach the entire night. Well (pausing as I scan back over this post), maybe I wasn't really trying very hard to stay in bed.
It all started with some sudden case of insomnia last night. You know the feeling, when your mind is just racing and you can't shut it off. Not even threats (such as Homer's "shut up brain or I'll stab you with a Q-tip") seem to work. At about midnight, I was fed up with being wide-eyed in bed and got up in an attempt to exercise my brain a little (usually just a little is enough to make it tired). You may notice that the posts on our page now contain "Category" links; this was my adventure last night.
Using this page, I was able to set up the link in our blog to contain categories. I chose method 3: using Firefox with Greasemonkey. If you are considering trying it out for yourself, stick with it. It is fairly confusing at first (if you are new to the del.icio.us idea), but in the end it is well worth it. The other methods will work well also if you do not have or want Firefox (but I strongly recommend it). Phew...
2:30 a.m. Erica wakes up and comes to find out what I'm doing. I'm tired enough that I actually try to explain all this stuff, that I hardly understand at this point, to her while she is trying to adjust her eyes to the light of my monitor. She's incredible to put up with this stuff (and for many other reasons). "I'll be in bed soon," I tell her.
3:30 a.m. I still cant' sleep, so I decide to learn more. del.icio.us is awesome. You can store all your bookmarks there with keyword tags, so I do. I have created an account seperate from the blog to keep things nice 'n clean. Now I can acecss my bookmarks from anywhere on the planet in any web browser, and I can share my information with others who might be looking for sites tagged the same as mine.
4:00 a.m. I learn about Foxylicious. This is just getting better and better. Now my bookmarks from del.icio.us are automatically downloaded into my Firefox bookmarks. I've also learned how to subscribe to my own bookmarks as an RSS feed (Firefox has "Live Bookmarks" that read RSS atoms). I'm such a nerd. But I'm a nerd who has nice categories on my blogs and synchronized access to my bookmarks -- no more bookmarks managed locally on my machine, just my del.icio.us feeds.
Now it's really time to try to sleep. I think I was out around 5:00 a.m. Just two hours until the pleasant, soothing beep of my alarm clock (worst sound ever) rips me from the sleep that I've tried so desperately to reach the entire night. Well (pausing as I scan back over this post), maybe I wasn't really trying very hard to stay in bed.
posted by Jason @ 13:11
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2 Comments:
Son... take your medication...
you need help!
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