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Well, this has to be the quickest I’ve ever gone from idea to publishable (albeit limited functionality) website.

Deletious is my new site for simultaneously viewing a page bookmarked in Delicious and deciding whether to keep or delete the bookmark. I’ve had quite a lot of fun using it the last few days, rediscovering all sorts of articles, games, tools and other long forgotten sites. As well as wasting a lot of time reacquainting myself with all these I’ve also managed to de-clutter my Delicious account; all the CSS articles from 2-3 years ago giving an introduction to topics I now know inside out are gone from my bookmarks, as are all those gimmicky websites I can’t believe i found funny at one time.

Disappointingly, I’m having problems uploading the logo to the website’s folder, but it’ll be sorted sometime soon I hope.

So please do give it a go and let me know what you think.

EDIT – There’s a bug that pops up every now and then (something to do with caching) which leads Deletious to show zero bookmarks for your account. I’ll fix the bug when I get time, but waiting a few hours seems to clear the cache (at least, it works for my account) and then you can access your bookmarks again.

I’ve been planning a short busking holiday with Mike – to Provence to wow crowds with our Irish-Folk fusion sound, but travel on the cheap is not as easy as it might seem.

Ryanair, advertising flights for £10 each eventually wanted to charge us £80 in total, with at least 3 layers of hidden extras. Remarkably, everything apart from taking yourself and one item of handluggage is a billable extra!

The main poin of this post though is to lambast the design of the eurolines website. Tobook a coach you have to go to the country you’re departing from’s subsite, and to do this you have to click on an image map of a map of europe. This map lacks:

1. Country borders
2. Hover over effects

It took me a few goes to select The Netherlands successfully. I’m just grateful I’m not leaving from Luxembourg or I’d still be desperately nudging the mouse around the damn thing!

My advice is to use ecolines whenever feasible. They have this very cool graphical feature, a map with hover over effects that show which cities you can travel to from which cities, which very quickly confirmed they don’t travel a route that’s useful to us, but should I ever head to Eastern Europe..