Day 1216
...and social bookmaking sites? Spellchecker strikes again. Willy's experience. . . when email replying apologies to patrons he always misspell the word "inconvenience." The ever helpful spellchecker always turns his words into "sorry for the incontinence. . ."
When Willy started his foray into Del.icio.us., he found out that FireFox has an extension that allows for uploading existing bookmarks into Del.icio.us. Great he thought, he doesn't have to do any work--he'll just import his bookmarks and have a fully developed Del.icio.us site.
Forty-five minutes and three thousand bookmarks later, he realized there were things in there that perhaps should not be exposed to the world. He knows that they were set as private but he did not want to take a chance. Smart boy, this is not a website designed for private bookmarks. And, no--there was nothing salacious--you dirty old (wo)man. It turns out the only practical way to delete all of the bookmarks from Del.icio.us is to delete the account and start over--drastic but it works.
Willy also realized that most of his FireFox bookmarks are really detritus from years past. So he is starting over. He'll keep his FireFox bookmarks as backup but will form new ones in Del.icio.us as needed. He also realized that he is not that dependent on bookmarks anyway. He finds it faster to Google the name of the needed website. So his bookmarks will probably be much fewer and for more arcane things leaving Google as the primary way to get to a site.
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