Delicious imports

Twice now, I've tried to import my bookmarks from firefox and been left with an "importing...." screen for hours and zilch bookmarks imported. I doubt its the amount of bookmarks - as I have at most a meagre 40. So that's very much determining my feelings towards the site. As Anonymous Librarian has pointed out, the site is clunky. So while I agree that the idea is good, I'm finding it's not very usable. Has anyone else had trouble importing their bookmarks? Surely we shouldn't have to import one by one?! Sigh...

More guided browsing alternatives

I mentioned the other day that I had stumbled upon something...a friend recommended a site called Stumbleupon as a ready supply for blog content. Some of you might already be familiar with this (and others might shy away because (a) theres going to be more password nonsense* and (b) there is a very real possibility that the internet is going to eat your free-time/allotted leisure time/life and leave no room for anything else.) Having said that it is kind of fun - basically you sign up (which is quick and relatively painless) and pick your interests and then start stumbling across a selection of the web - giving the thumbs up to sites you like.  It's like Delicious in the sense that other people (either friends through linking up with your Facebook/google contacts etc.) or just general stumblers are 'handpicking' good sites. There is still human some filtering required here but I've already come across some really interesting things like Bookmooch.
Pursue if you dare!

 *steam out of ears

Delicious (part 2) and my first bookmark

Hi there fellow bloggers,

Yesterday I tried to import my bookmarks from Delicious and the system crashed :( However being the tenacious library assistant that I am, I'm trying again this evening. Also being impatient , I decided to start adding bookmarks in the meantime. My very first bookmark I added was the recently-renamed site called 50watts.com. It used to be the blog of Will Schofield, a book illustration enthusiast/collector with a taste for weird Eastern-European (and beyond) book covers and art. I'm still getting used to the new format but it remains a great place to go for unusual desktop wallpapers as well as inspiring images so its a nice thing to share. The irony is not lost on me that I've bypassed Delicious to do the sharing on the blog, but anyway...for a taster see below.