Nekkid Ninjas

I use del.icio.us (A social bookmarks manager, so it calls itself) with Firefox to help me with my bookmarks. I like the idea of adding notes and keywords to my bookmarks... let's face it, I admit it, I'm hopeless at remembering what I put where and what it was called.

Until very recently I didn't realise how much I had adapted to using it in preference to my normal bookmarks... until.. until it stopped working.

Nothing, nada, no bookmarks. I couldn't even browse to the del.icio.us site. Traceroute from here bogged down in Amsterdam, the rest of the guys on Team Ninja could browse to the web site, no problem. I was starting to believe my own paranoiac thinking that it was being filtered, that del.icio.us was being blocked. Nothing explained it.

Then, in sheer frustration, and as I was browsing my FF menu bar I selected "Logout"... pointless menu bar item anyway, I was going to be deleting it soon anyhoo.

But it logged me out.

No, it didn't give me the white screen of death and a timeout message, it logged me out and returned page content. Plus I could also navigate to the main site, all was well with the world and I could book mark once more.

So, if y'all are having a weird problem with not being able to reach deli.icio.us via your web browser and your del.icio.us bookmarks appear broken then try logging out and logging back in to the service.

Tags: del.icio.us, browse, bookmarks, unreachable, blocked, filtered