3:54 PM

What better way to spend a day you’re feeling lousy than by updating your bookmarks?

(Don’t actually answer that. Taking naps would be a better way.)

Have I mentioned how the Firefox Bookmarks Synchronizer has changed the way I use my bookmarks? Keeping a copy of your bookmarks on a server so you can download them onto whichever computer you’re using is nothing new — I’ve had mine online, somewhere, since my very first homepage in 1996 (at http://owlnet.rice.edu/~cutter/) — but it was always so manual, it required volition. FTP works, and can work well, but setting it up differently on each UNIX, Linux and Windows box got old fast.

(It was actually easier back in the dark ages of the internet; wherever I went on the Rice campus, I could log in and access everything from whatever client I was on. Ah, those heady days of using SPARC stations and DEC Alphas.)

Anyhow, the Bookmarks Synchronizer makes it easy — it downloads on startup, uploads on exit, merges changes automatically. It makes it easy to move from computer to computer, which, which when you regularly bounce between 3 different laptops running Linux and Windows, is no small thing.

Add it to the list.