Synchronised work and home bookmarks

Synchronised work and home bookmarks ✓

This should be really easy, but I've procrastinated over it for ages. For some reason I had trouble getting firefox sync to work, so I decided to try Opera.

Having several major browsers sharing market share seems to be really helpful for interoperability, switching was really easy, and everything works much the same, but slightly snappier.

There's little things that bug me though -- you can't middle click to open a menu item from the bookmarks toolbar, or drag it onto a text box, or delete it?

I know sync should be a small thing, but I think it's actually really helpful, because if I'm obsessive about putting "to read later" things onto a bookmark menu, it's LESS work because then I don't carry them around in my head.

I've not actually tried it from the other computer yet. So far it seems to merge the bookmarks reasonably sensibly, coping with deletions as well as additions, and syncing promptly without losing a bunch of changes each time, but I'll see if it lasts.

Tintin

The new Tintin film was fairly good.

The animation was amazing. The characters are animated but very human. I feel we're overdue for a scifi or fantasy film that really takes advantage of the possibility for human and alien characters to be created realistically but on equal footing.

The tone is about right: exciting and dangerous, without being dark or grim.

The plot is feel a bit wandering though: there were some good moments, exciting and funny, but the rest of the film didn't feel quite equal to them, though if you're not too critical, it's pretty enjoyable.

It unashamedly adopts a non-ironic classic "pirates and hidden treasure maps" story straight from the books, which I quite like. But the details don't actually make any sense: if the complicated clues lead back to his own house, why wouldn't someone looking for the treasure just search his house for something heavy that goes "clank" when you shake it, rather than solving the clues?

It unsurprisingly bombs out of the Bechdel test: I think there was female character, who was only on screen briefly and didn't really speak to anyone. But to be fair, you couldn't really pass the Bechdel test without making at least two of Tintin, Haddock, the villain or the thugs female, and I think that would have been quite cool, but it would also have been controversial.

Shaved head

Shaved head ✓

I keep resolving to keep it shaved, but keep not making the time to keep it short. I am getting slowly better at it, although the concave spot at the back of my head is still hard to get right.