my employer for the time being likes to push all its internet through the company’s head office in boston where they feel the need to block ssh and other useful protocols, not to mention filter web traffic and block links over msn.

as far as usb keys go: i had one of those once… its gone now. i forget *everything*, so unless i put it on a zip line attached to my person i’d definitely loose it on some shared computer somewhere. maybe i’ll give it a shot… i hear those things can be useful. i randomly walked into a lan centre on my way home a few weeks ago because i remembered that i needed one for my xbox softmodding. i asked the guy if he had any really small/cheap ones, like 32mb (oh xbox, you’re starting to show your age!). he points to one and says “this one’s ten bucks… its a gig”

you’re right, the app wouldn’t be that hard to make, but like yourself: my time is precious and the effort/reward for is nowhere near enticing enough. i like to just throw ideas out there and see what people like yourself think.

Programming a shared session manager would be interesting. I’d think it would have to be a client/server system, where one instance is designated as the server which would post to some common location, the easiest location I can think of would be a webserver, and the clients would populates their tabs based on what’s read from the webserver. Conceptually it’s fairly straight forward. Actually, the plugin should be pretty straight forward as well. Creating a plugin to enumerate the tabs and post that information to a server side script in the event that it’s running on the server, and having the plugin parse URLs from a server-side script and populate tabs based on that in the event that it’s the client really shouldn’t be too difficult. I suppose a check would have to be done to ensure that only one server existed at a time. Anyways, I won’t even pretend I have the time to devote to something like this…

Nice website, this is Jenn’s friend Mark by the way.