Library Thing (11)

This is fun and easy to work with. Great suggestion for patrons who want to know if we have a record of that book that they read and can't remember the name of. They can start making their own list! This would be good for book clubs too. I often have friends from other clubs who want me to share the books we've read in our group.

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Thing 10 Image Generator

As you can see, I've made a new headline with the "wizard text generator" I found on the Generator Blog: http://www.fodey.com/generators/animated/wizard.asp. That was fun!

Thing 9 Adding blogs and newsfeeds

I've added Merlin and some other feeds. I think the search tools were the easiest way to find feeds initially. Now that I know what feeds are about, I'll look for them on websites that I visit. I thought Feedster was confusing initially but once I figured out that you had to clink on the feed link before you could add it to your bloglines, it worked fine. I found a link to an Entertainment weekly feed on the TV show "Lost" which, of couse, I added (big fan that I am). I was able to tell my husband when I got home that the character "Michael" would be back next season!

Thing 8 RSS Feeds

It wasn't hard to set up the Bloglines account and I understand what RSS feeds are but I'm still kind of confused about how it works in practice. Do they get deleted after you mark them read? I guess I'll figure it out after using it a while. I feel like I'm spending way too much time on this week's activities and am feeling kind of bleary-eyed from staring at the computer for so long. Give me a cup of tea and the newspaper and I'm good. Or, I can always ask my mother-in-law what's happening--she seems to watch a lot of CNN and is always quizzing my husband and I about the latest headlines! I can see how the feeds might be useful on the job, though.

Thing 6 Flickr Mash-ups

The whole concept of mash-ups is new to me. Several looked fun to me, but I particularly liked Montagr. My son used to have a Star Wars poster of little mosaics that put together formed Yoda that was like this. I've been looking for a site that takes one photo and divides it into tiles to make a wall-sized poster. I saw this on an HGTV show. If anybody knows where I can find this, let me know!

Week 3, thing 7 Technology talk

My favorite fairly new technology is the DVR. I love being able to record my shows and fast forward through the commercials. HDTV is part of that. The picture is great. We had to go out and get a plasma HDTV of course. It's been great being able to watch "Lost" from the beginning when I get home from work while it is still recording. You can catch up to real time by skipping the commercials. Ever notice how you can still recognize the brands even thought you are fast forwarding? I thing advertisers have caught on to how to do this.

Week 3, more things

Ok. I downloaded this picture from Flickr. I was interested because my husband recently contracted Lyme disease. He has a high fever with chills and shakes for 5 days before the rash became evident. He went to the doctor and is still on an antibiotic, but is basically back to normal. Although he never saw the tick, I think he got it while mowing the lawn. We live in a wooded area and the deer basically camp out behind our house! Make sure you check yourself over if you are in the great outdoors!

Week 3

I uploaded this picture using the Blogger tools from a CD of pictures I took recently at my nephew's wedding. His new wife works at the Clearwater Marine Aquarium and did a dolphin show for all of us prior to the rehearsal dinner at a nearby restaurant. They are working with a company to design a prosthetic tail for Winter the dolphin. I found it really interesting an hope you will too. You can check on Winter at their website: www.cmaquarium.org