Think back to the old days when you have restricted bandwidth, restricted online time, super slow speeds… Sure, the material on the net isn’t as cool and dynamic as they are now. But didn’t you spend a great deal of time READING, rather than watching pointless videos, looking at pointless pictures, skipping whatever text that comes with it? Hell, you would even download the TEXT because you won’t want to spend the time online. You know that if you do that, you will slowly deplete your monthly online time limit.

Look at what unlimited bandwidth and online time has done to us. I’ll tell you what its done to me. I took everything for granted. When ‘mighty’ Starhub got complacent and started doing maintenance (which means downtime for the users) in the middle of the day, I found myself to be completely useless without the net. I can’t look for resources, tutorials, inspiration, all that. I realise that there seem to be very little I can do, offline.

When I scour the net, I didn’t really READ the content. I know they’re good content, which is why I bookmarked them. It’s become a habit. I have this folder tab on my Firefox bookmark toolbar, which I call Articles. Anything useful, interesting or beneficial I found on the net, (mostly through my RSS feeds), I drag and drop the tab into that folder, thinking that I’ll read them later.

In the case of resources and tutorials, I thought I’ll store them first so I can come back, download and then try them out. But no… the list piles up. It kept getting bigger and bigger. I see an interesting article,I bookmark it, and then I forget it.

See the scrollbar. This is only the list I’ve compiled since I bought this laptop. I exported the list I had on my computer before I formatted. That list still remained unvisited.

I think I should stop reading in the new feeds and learn from whatever sites I’ve already bookmarked. If I can just put in one good practice per day… Imagine how great it’d be after say, 30 days. And I definitely have more than 30 tips/resources pages.

I bookmark pages, or websites that are related to webdesign, graphic design, video, filming, freelance, client management, page rankings. Anything that I plan to incorporate into Suadref Studios. Hmmm… Damn my procrastinating brain.

Tags: firefox, rants