Delicious and Google Chrome

Most of you have heard by now that I figured out why my computer was acting squirrelly recently. Part of my hard drive (the part you don't want to mess with) went bad last week. The part that went bad was essentially the table of contents--that part of the disk that tells the interface where everything is located. I flipped out for a while because I thought I had lost a bunch of pictures and videos (irreplaceable family camping trips) that I hadn't backed up yet. Thanks to my husband's unceasing ingenuity, we were able to find an old recovery program that located the shadow copy and got all my personal files. We formatted the drive and things have been good since.

Following the loss of all of my cookies and internet history, I've finally started using Delicious. What an amazing difference this has made in my life, even just over the last 48 hours. Delicious is basically an online bookmarking service--you can make your bookmarks public or private, and you take them everywhere with you (even if your computer crashes, even if you are using a machine you haven't before) because it's all online and you just have to log in. Why didn't anyone think of this sooner?

Also, I'm now giving Google Chrome a whirl. I typically don't jump right on the bandwagon when new technologies come out, because there's usually a string of real world errors and problems that need correcting (think new game consoles, most Microsoft software, and the Volkswagen and Audi Flash of Death ). I let everyone else find these and correct them before I spend my hard-earned money. However, my husband loves Chrome and put it on my machine when we did the system restore, so now I'm using it and generally liking it. It's different. The biggest differences are the way bookmarking and favorites work, and the downloads bar that pops up at the bottom of the screen.