April | 2010 | @abahgat's blog

Let’s start with two quick facts:

1. Google recently refurbished Google Bookmarks (after neglecting them for a couple of years), giving them more importance in search and allowing us to share them with friends more easily.

2. Meanwhile, a different team (I guess), implemented Bookmark Sync from Chrome, a new features that synchronizes bookmarks with a Google account (quite handy when you routinely use Chrome on many computers). Those bookmarks end up in a read-only directory in your Google Docs space.

I’m now wondering: why do we have two different sets of entities, called bookmarks, that

share some similarities,
are stored in different places,
serve (slightly) different purposes,
have the same name.

Isn’t that confusing?

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I’m sharing this story because it may be useful for someone else, as well.

This morning I found out that my monitor (a Packard Bell Maestro 220wdv) was not working anymore. After messing with the cables for a while, it turned out that I wasn’t able to connect anything using DVI, while the two VGA ports were perfectly functional.

I was ready to buy a new DVI cable (hoping that it was not the monitor’s fault) when I found out this forum thread, which stated:

Alright, I had a similar problem to this on a Viewsonic 20″ LCD with exactly the same symptoms you’re describing.

Try this if you haven’t already, UNPLUG THE MONITOR FROM THE WALL.
LEAVE UNPLUGGED FOR 5mins and PLUG IT BACK IN AT THE WALL.
Power up and I hope you have the same luck I had about a year ago.

To make a long story short, I unplugged the monitor’s power cable and plugged it back a few minutes later, and it started to work again.

Technology is like magic, sometimes…