From my experience, using the traditional way of bookmarking in multiple browsers ends in a complete mess. I've spent countless hours in getting my bookmarks in sync between my computers at home, at work and elsewhere and all the different browsers I use. The more my list of bookmarks grew, the more tedious the process of synchronization got.

But, as for most issues, there are several ways to solve it.

First, you may use one of the countless online services or social bookmarking sites such as delicious.com or diigo.com to get your bookmarks organized. While some of them have great features and functions to share bookmarks (if this is your intention), I never trusted them. It's far to easy to create a nice profile of you and your interests, just by analyzing your bookmarks and how often you click them. Now, call me paranoid, but I bet that's what most of these free services are doing in order to sell data to market research companies and the like. Anyways, if you don't care about this, I'd recommend having a look at delicious.com or Google Bookmarks.

Another way to get your bookmark stuff organized and synchronized between browsers is the use of tools, made for this specific task. In an quite old article "25+ Ways To Synchronize Your Bookmarks" over at mashable.com you'll find many of them listed and explained. And lately the maker of browser have begun to integrate synchronization support directly into their browsers, for example Firefox Sync or Google's sync functionality in Chrome, which is great if you're using the same browser everywhere.

Personally I have chosen another tool to organize my bookmarks. Since I am running my own website with database support, I am in the fortunate position to host my own online bookmarking services. In my case I'm using the not so well known tool Online-Bookmarks by Stefan Frech, which is quite excellent for this task.

Unfortunately development of “Online-Bookmarks” has been put on ice a while ago. Nevertheless, all the functionality you expect from such a tool (except for tagging) is available and works flawlessly. And if you, like me, are used to work with an hierarchical organization of your bookmarks (i.e. keeping them in folders and subfolders) rather than tagging them, there's nothing you'll be missing.

So, if you have the necessary prerequisites and want to keep your bookmarks private, yet not giving up the advantages of an online bookmark service, you should check it out. And if you like it, drop the author an email to let him know. Maybe it encourages him to continue development on this nice project.

And just in case you wonder: I've currently 2228 bookmarks in my database :-)

Have you ever wondered who the people behind all those programming languages are? Wonder no longer. Here is an extensive gallery of the inventors of various programming languages. Nice page, compiled by Chris Rathman.

When it comes to internet connectivity, the area I live in is way behind today's standard. Although I have a reliable DSL connection, the connection speed is located at the lower end of the scale. Due to the weak infrastructure in my area this will, unfortunately, not get better in the near future. However, I'm not complaining since the line is sufficient for my current needs.

But how do you find out what your connection speed really is? For this purpose there are numerous speed tests available. A speed test is performed by a piece of software which measures the line performance between your end and a server on the internet. Apart from dedicated testing software, which needs to be installed on your computer, there are also online services available, that spare you the need to install such software.

One of the best online tests I found is speedtest.net which is not only easy to use, but also comes up with pretty reliable results. Basically all you have to do is to select a server next to your own location and start the test. Bear in mind, that the shortest physical connection is not always the fastest one on the internet. So you may need to try different servers and stick to the one which deliveres the best results.

Just in case you are interested in my results, here they are: