I've been doing a lot of OS installations recently (Solaris, various kinds of Linux, even WinXP), and I'm gradually coming to realize that the shift from "preparing a system" to "using a system" comes after I've populated the Bookmarks toolbar of the browser (Safari or Firefox) with my favourite links. While there are usually a couple of system-specific things, the basic pattern is constant:
- Basics: My Yahoo, Gmail, my ISP webmail, Amazon, Sun's internal portal
- News: BBC, Salon, National Weather Service, and the Register and Inquirer
- Blogging: my blog, its admin page, and Planet Sun
- Fun: User Friendly, Doonesbury, Dilbert
- Academic: the Tufts Blackboard portal
Obviously that lot won't fit without some data compression; each link is just a favicon plus a couple of characters: "Y!", "UF", and so forth.
Posted by geoff2 at February 15, 2005 11:47 PMo resize - java script to resize browser window to set sized
o morning - auto tab group that includes all of the sites I hit in the morning including comics, new, bloglines, weather
o photos - auto tab group that hits the photo blogs that I watch daily
o theta tau - group links to the fraternity that I belong to
o comp - group links to computer releated site I hit frequently
o wikipedia
o accessline
o blog - group of links to my blogs(s) and planet sun
o isp login for site admin
o my bank login page
o and last but not least a link to tinyurl