They all look so neat when I first run across them and, of course, you have to get a password to check them out. Most of them are interesting, but who has the time to visit them all. I'm sure some of the passwords are invalid just because I haven't used them in a couple years and some of the sites are probably gone, but I've got that password just in case.

The bookmarks are even more difficult as it's hard to have the time to check them out. I know there are bookmark checkers but I haven't been thrilled with their accuracy. there are just too many times when they show that a site is no longer there when it's just that it was very slow or even down for a short time.

I look through them and see my online life for the last couple years. It's like when I go to the library and check out a stack of books that look so interesting but I only have time to read a few. It reminds me of that stanza in Robert Frost's poem "The Road Not Taken".

   Oh, I kept the first for another day!
   Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
   I doubted if I should ever come back.

I'll never come back to most of these bookmarks either, but I keep saving them for another day, just in case. I need to archive most of them just to get them out of the way. Oh but they are all so enticing and everytime I try to thin them out I have hope for each one.

What is interesting is to see how some of my ideas have changed. Some bookmarks are for sites that I remember thinking were so great, but now I realize that I've moved on and they've lost their interest or I don't agree with them anymore.