Delicious for Bookmarking

With a tip of the hat to TechRepublic, let me suggest Delicious to you for bookmarking.

Why not just use browser bookmarks?  The root cause, for me, is gas prices.  Huh?  What do gas prices have to do with it?  I’m glad you asked.

You see, I’ve had to get smarter on my travel distances in order to keep from having to raise my prices too much due to higher gas prices.  That means working smarter, and sometimes stopping at wireless hotspots to work on my laptop.  It’s a savings in time as well as in gas.  Too bad I didn’t think of it earlier.

I often bookmark something in order to blog about it, or to have it available when I need it in the field (troubleshooting tips, for example).  In the good old days, long long ago, you couldn’t really work that way because the odds of getting a connection were small.  At this point, all my clients have high speed internet, and there are convenient hot spots almost everywhere I go.  So I need the bookmarks on my laptop.

But I’m terribly forgetful, and I also like to work on my office machine, so too often bookmarks wind up on the office desktop, but not on the laptop where I will need them.

Enter Delicious.  Now I simply bookmark there, and I can access it wherever I go.  That means I can bat out a quick blog post while waiting.  I can even access them on my trusty Palm Centro if I need to.

I haven’t tested the organization too much yet, but it looks hopeful.

It’s interesting how much of my life now involves being connected!