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I’ve just found foxylicious and AbstractMouse.com. Jippie! now let me tell you why I’m so happy about that!

I use computers at home and at work. For a long time I kept on sending mails from work to my private email address with non-work-related links to check out at home. It also happened that I sent similar mails in the other directions with work-related links I stumbled across when at home. I’m currently using Epilicious to make it easier to share bookmarks between home and work. However, I’m forced to use Windows (as well as Linux) at work, and Epiphany doesn’t run on Windows. Using foxylicious I can now get those bookmarks into FireFox as well

Lately I’ve started using several computers at work (well, really only two computers and a set of VirtualPC/VMWare images) and I want to share some pure-work bookmarks between them, here I’m talking about internal pages that are inaccessable from home–I don’t want them cluttering my bookmarks at home! This is where I’ve put AbstractMouse.com to work, using it I can share work-only bookmarks between all the machines/images

But all isn’t well. When on a Linux box, where Epiphany does run, I’m forced to use FireFox to get to the work-only bookmarks. I have two options for solving that:

1. Get both foxylicious and Epilicious to work with multiple delicious accounts, or
2. Make Epilicious work with the AbstractMouse.com server.

The former requires some lobbying of the foxylicious author (I’ve already posted a comment on his blog ). The latter would only involve getting some information from Eric of AbstractMouse (he’s interested in adding plugins for more browsers), then the rest is up to me. The problem there though is how to map between Epiphany’s topics and FireFox’s hierarchies… I prefer the former!

It’s a sad, sad day. My very cute Motorola V70 is now retired. I simply grew tired of having to pry off the cover in order to use the “OK” button. I am now using a Nokia phone for the first time ever.

The phone needed some unlocking so I went to http://www.cellular-unlocking.co.uk/. I’ve been trying to avoid this for as long as possible, but in the end it turned out to be painless. As every other premium number service they try to keep you on for as long as possible. A few tips:

• The information is entered in the following order: IMEI, Phone number, Model, Network.
• Every piece of information is read back to you, “1″ is the confirmation key. I think it’s possible to confirm before everything is read back.
• You dont need ot enter your own phone number, but if you don’t you have to listen to another number which you then have to enter.
• Orange is network number 8.
• When the unlocking code is read to you it’s possible to have it repeated by pressing “2″.
• You can choose to receive two unlock codes, in case the first one doesn’t work.
• I found it a little difficult to hear the 4th character in the code but apparently all codes start with “#pw+”.

You have a limited number of times to enter the unlocking code, and it seems speed does matter. However, an attempt that fails because you don’t enter the characters fast enough doesn’t seem to count.

My call lasted 5:35 minutes.