Hmm. This certainly hits home. My browser window has about 15 tabs open right now, most of which are articles that are a bit heavy. Not long ago flagamuffin and I were bitching about how long our reading lists are and this article frames my situation nicely. That said, I do think that I've gotten better about procrastination than when I was in college. One of the things I've noticed is that the more I think about doing something, the less likely it is I am to do it. The solution that seems to work best, falls in line with what this article is saying. Setting deadlines for things helps, but what I find really helps me, is setting a deadline and then not thinking about it anymore and just doing it. I've been procrastinating a bit lately on writing, but a few weeks ago I set up a typewriter across from my desk, so that when I'm writing on it I'm facing away from the computer. Also, this means that when I'm writing and searching for a word, it's a bit less convenient to search for it, so I can either think of another way to say what I mean, or take the time to try to remember the word I'm groping for. The only thing now is, I have piles and piles of drafts which need to be scanned into my computer. I should set a deadline for that.
I have 605 tabs open right now, so you might say that I have a long reading list... but that's mostly because I don't use bookmarks at all and prefer to leave tabs open in the off-chance that I feel like going back to it. Not surprisingly, my browser crashes a lot.
Actually no, just sometimes (once a week), my browser will disappear, and I'll get the Firefox error message. It crashes a lot less than Chromium did for me (which crashed daily), where I normally had just eighty tabs open, but that was the limit because the tabs shrunk. I have a plugin called "vertical tabs" that allows me to stack the tabs infinitely, which may or may not be a good thing, considering that I have 600 of them open.