Neat del.icio.us tip

I found a cool new way to use del.icio.us! I've had an account over at del.icio.us for probably a year and while I (somewhat) frequently tag things, I rarely use this service to get to web sites. I'm much more likely to use my google toolbar. However it occurred to me yesterday that 95% of the time, when I open a fresh browser window, there are maybe 5 places I'm likely to be headed. Traditionally, I've had my browser home page set to gmail.com and this choice is pretty arbitrary - although it is one of the 5 places I'm usually headed to when I hit my browser icon.

So here's the tip:
I created a special tag ("favorite" as it were) and tagged each of these special sometimes-homepages with this special tag. Then I set my browser homepage to http://del.icio.us/cgs1019/favorite. Now when I open my browser, I've got my hand-picked set of likely destinations.

If you don't have a del.icio.us account, you should! It's a great way to keep track of all the sites you're interested in without having a Bookmarks menu that goes down to the floor. Also, it's a great way to utilize this awesome tip which I went to so much trouble to share.
So check it out!

Hello World

This will be my obligatory, self-referential, initial meta-post here on GNU Guy. Those to come will be wrought with tales from the trenches of a little internet startup in Gainesville, and anything else I feel compelled to share. I am an otherwise utterly inexperienced and unqualified software engineer. My degree is in mathematics and my interest in software has always been recreational, however through a seemingly unlikely sequence of events, I can now be found quite thoroughly embedded in the zany world of open source software and web development. Sometimes I sound like I really know what I'm talking about (I do!) and sometimes I sound like I really have no idea what I'm talking about (I don't!). It's fun; I hope to recreate a little of it here.