Kewney: Bookmark 451

Guy Kewney is updating his favourites list...

It seemed like a good idea at the time. Tabbed browsing is tempting but you often have to reboot and Firefox does not always restore all 27 tabs on restart. So, a quick addition to the Favourites list? Why not?

I found the solution to an easy clear-up in a five-year- old New Year resolutions list of my colleague, David Neal. It is so simple: just have a one-year ban on people launching web sites. “Alternatively,” he noted, “companies who doubt they will last out the year should inform us, so we can stop wasting our time getting to know the vagaries of their layouts.”

I wonder what he makes of Icann’s plans for this year? By 2009, we won’t just have nudebuffy.com and .net and .org, or nudebuffy.euro and .asia and all the other .sex and .moneyspinner TLDs. We will have dot bloody everything.

Fancy starting www.wibble.kewney? Or www.complete.piffle? Demonstrate technical competence, pay the appropriate licence fee, and Icann will authorise you as the domain manager.

No doubt it is wonderful for the people who run these sites, but as David said, what about the rest of us? Stop all this innovating. Recycle old sites. Trust me, it is the future. And as for all those bookmarks, you were never going to look at them again, anyway. Delete them.