Are you one of the internet junkie that goes seriously clueless when internet connection is down. I’m not really sure about the stability of internet connection elsewhere, but from where I come from – downtime of my ADSL is something too frequent. My ISP have to seriously work something out.

This is something I stumbled on and I thought would help kill some boredom, something to help you get less dependent on The Internet.

Clean your bookmarks
Clean out and categorize your bookmarks. I don’t know about you, but I tend to just click ‘bookmark this page’ and call it good. Yesterday, when I hit the little ‘down arrow’ on Firefox to let the bookmark list scroll down I counted. Not sites, but seconds. 11 seconds worth of scrolling bookmarks is way too many. If you haven’t visited a site in a month it’s not important.

Create categories and organize the list of bookmarks after you’ve eliminated all those links you don’t need. Do not create a miscellaneous category. Catch-all categories do exactly that and soon become difficult to use.

Uninstall unused programs
Delete programs you don’t use. Why delete them when you have plenty of space on the drive? Because it makes things like Scandisk and Defrag run faster. It might not make your PC run any smoother, but you’ll feel good knowing you aren’t wasting space.

Clean your CPU
Unplug your PC, take the cover off and clean out the dust. Invest in some canned air. Heat is a PC’s enemy and even in a clean environment, cooling fans suck dust through every opening and it builds up fast. If you have pets, do it once a month. I cleaned out enough dust to build a rabbit hutch to keep all the dust bunnies in.

Write your next blog post
Write your next blog post. If you use a blog client like BlogDesk just write and save. If not, write to a text file and format it after your connection is live. Not being connected may force you to write about something different, like say, five things to do when you have no Internet connection.

*May I ask if you also have this written when your internet connection is down?
Run system maintenance
Run any maintenance programs you don’t have auto-scheduled. Reclaim your drive space and allow your PC to run smoother.

The author quickly add the 6th one, just in case your downtime is really that bad and you’ve finish all 5 above. Heh!

Record down all your logins/passwords
Write down your logins and passwords for all your sites, blogs, email accounts, Adsense, affiliate programs, where you purchased your domain names, etc. All that information is the key to your business. If something should happen to you your spouse or significant other will need that information.

This is definitely an interesting thought-about. I’ll think for a while here and there and let you know what I”ll usually do when your internet connection is down. What will you do? If you are witting an entry, be sure to give me a trackback ya :)