MN Birth Certificate here

Yippee! Michael now has an official MN birth certificate with his new name Michael Paulson Frey. I was beginning to wonder if it would ever come. Guess, where I'll be on Christmas Eve? Over at the local SSA office getting him a SS # and card. Then I can finally open a bank account in his name. After that, I can work on savings bonds. I'll also be prepared come tax season. Anybody know a good tax preparer? Between the adoption, the stock market and daycare deductions, I may throw in the towel on doing my own.

Temp Location & budget passed

Yahoo! We get to have a temp location. No trying to answer phones while jackhammer's hammer away. Been there, done that and don't mind not repeating the experience.

Why?

Why does Proquest ask me to take a survey? I tried to fill it in 4 times. It didn't work. It told me not to respond to the email, but gave me no information on how to contact them that their survey was broken. Why?

Websites/Databases etc.

Why is it that I never notice how a database or website is so handy except when it's not working right? Ipage is finally working better again. It was up and down for awhile and driving me nuts. Titlesource acting up is even more devastating on my work flow. Since I order quite a bit it feels like I live on this websites/databases.

Lately work's email has been a challenge. Something got infected or something and the spam has gotten out of hand. I deleted over 100 messages on Monday. Today I only had around 4o, so that is some improvement. The email and IM have been going up and down like a yoyo while they've been fixing it. Hopefully it too will stabilize soon at least for awhile.

It's a short week and I've actually had time off the desk. Now if I could just get all that snow shovelled, life would be good.

Holiday question to ponder

Why does it only take about 12 minutes to return the empty holiday boxes to the basement, when it took over 30 minutes to get them from the basement into my office during Michael's nap? I can't believe that not putting the tree back in the absement took that muych more time.

Oh well, the tree is up. My front door is officially blocked until the tree comes down. Nobody better ring the broken doorbell. Most of the decorations are up. The cards are pretty much written, addressed and stamped. I just need to verify they have enough postage to mail. I know the European ones do not. I think the only thing left to do, is dig out the holiday music, bake the goodies and wrap the presents. Yes, the presents have been purchased.

I started early this year since everything takes a bit longer when you only have acouple hours when you know who is sleeping/napping to get things done without help. I'm not sure if I'll keep the baby-gate up in front of the alcove where the tree is. It kind of ruins the effect and Michael does wander downstairs when it's not at the top of the stairs. I tend to like to have him on the smae floor as me. We'll see.

In Service Day & 23 Things

Well, More Things on a Stick are coming supposedly in January of 09. Yikes, I do not remember all those passwords and accounts. A few I kept using using, so I changed the passwords etc. to things I'd remember better. Some I haven't gone back and looked at since I signed up for the account. Hopefully they purged me after I did not come back so I can sign up for new accounts if I need to. I won an address book to put all those passwords into. Oh joy. Now if I could just remember them to begin with.

Online photo site for Michael's pictures

Well, I finally put an online album up. I had played around with Adobe's site, but was not comfortable with the fact it creates an url that someone could stumble accross and get access to my pictures. I used Flickr for 23 things and it was ok, but I wasn't impressed with the albums. I glanced at Picasa, but really didn't another prgram on my computer.

I went with Canon. I had purchased my camera from them and they offered me a trial. I can put photos up for an album. I can chose whether or not to password protect it, I also can chose whether others can easily print/download the photos. etc. It's easier to use and access than Adobe, with less chance of someone stumbling across it due to the password possibility.

So if you are interested in seeing photos of my son Michael, send me an email with your name and how I know you and I'll consider sending you the url and password. I figure most of the people looking at it will be relatives...

Still Catching up

Hopefully, today I will be able to work on the bestseller standing order list. BT was nice enough to add some of the authors I suggested. I need to update my Access db with all the information on what was ordered since June or July. Between the 6 weeks off and the 8 weeks part-time I have fallen behind on my paperwork. The ordering got done, but anything beyond that, yikes I have quiet the mess to clean up before I can update the new authors, # of titles and drops.

I really want to get this at least started if not finished. Life at work has been a crazy game of trying to catch up.

Back to work

It's been an interesting week so far. Michael is not happy that I am not staying home any longer. This is week one of our normal schedule. He's been at his new daycare 2 days so far this week. It's generally noon before they can pry his coat off him. He figures if he has his coat, he is ready to go with Ma...

He likes Lola's (the dog) name. He likes her better when they are outside and she's not close to him.

I'm hoping tomorrow will be less stressful than this morning was. Michael decided he didn't want to get dressed. He had a couple of meltdowns in the morning before heading over to Grandma's.

I expected worse though, so I can't be to upset. Poor kid, he just got used to a routine and I changed it again...

Rainy Saturday at Work

Well it's gray out there and misty if not raining. Michael is at his grandparents. I'm going to try and catch up with some patron requests assuming we are not over-run with patrons. We are up to 5 again at Reference.

Cleaning out old lists

Back to ordering, I spent some time with my old lists deleting titles and ordering some. I got the August tools finished for genre. Yipee!

Back at work

Well this is the first week I've come back to work part-time. It's weird. I keep looking for Michael and thinking he's too quiet what has he gotten into.

It's been nice to see and talk to adults though. Now I just need to remember all the passwords again to get into various programs and accounts.

Son Michael walking with Grandma

Home in the USA

We are home. Arrived Thursday. Have been home sick with cold and eye infection. Michael/Son is full of energy, too bad I'm not.

It's official

I'm now a mom. We will be flying back to the USA tomorrow night aroun 11:30.

Grandma & Michael/Son is sleeping

It's Wednesday evening here in Dong Thap. It's not quiet 9 pm and the kids are asleep. Mom went down first.

I was happily suprised to find out Michael/Son was coming back to the hotel with us from the orphanage. We spent the day at the orphanage again. I got a few more photos from the nannies with Son's first birthday. The older girls were kept home so they could spend Son's last day with him. It was the first time we had seen them.

We had another feast at the orphanage. We also tried more wonderful fruit. The grapefruit was much milder than the US versions I've had. The little fruits lychee and rambutans were wonderful.

Around 2 pm Michael/Son was changed into new clothes that the nannies bought him to remember Viet Nam & them by. He was not happy to go into the van away from the nannies. He settled down after about 5 minutes. He liked watching the traffic.

Mom & I took him to our room. We had lovely flowers ther from LSS & Eureka. We got him into the room before the meltdown. After his drinks and snack, he had an accident with the meltdown. Cleaning him up was fun, because he did not want to go into the bathroom and I needed to clean him up and remove his wet pants.

Maggie (sorry I'm not up to spelling her lovely french name, so I'm using the one she we could call her) and Lihn (sp?) were back form there meeting. We all went out to dinner with some others from the Catalyst foundation. It was a lovely meal with lots of courses.

Yes I tried mouse. It actually wasn't bad. So those mice at work better watch out of I'll get a recipe. There were many other courses so if you don't like mice, don't despair.

Quynh let me borrow her computer again. So after getting Son/Michael to sleep, I figured I 'd try and update the blog. The blog works better than email at this location. I do one thing on email and then it shuts down. It happens on both AOL & Yahoo, so I think it is the connection.

Well, I better get to bed, tommorow will come too soon.

Off Until August

Bye have a great July.

UP & Running

YIPPEE! I have access from home again! It only took 3 tech lines and 2 installation cds to get this sucker working. I don't know it it's Vista, Dell or even me that was causing all the headaches, but it works!

I also tried loading my Quicken 2003. It works! I thought it was a long shot, but worth a try since I have 4+ years of data stored on it. Hmm maybe I'll try my old print shop program also, but later I think.

2 more work days to go. Today is the doctor's and my folks for packing experiment 1. Then work. Tomorrow nothing scheduled yet, but it's early yet. Friday we pick up visas and print out tickets. Saturday we fly away.

Connected again & Hotels booked

Well it took 2 cd installation disks and 3 different technial help lines to get me up at home, but I'm finally connected again. The speakers are acting weird but I can live with weird or no sound until I have the time and energy to trouble-shoot that. I think it's just cheap speakers.

I tried loading my old financial software onto the new computer and it worked. Yippee! I didn't want to learn another program if I didn't have to.

Onto the exciting stuff. Our reservations for hotel/apartments have been made. We get to pay the lovely bill today. We will be staying in the Cao Lanh Guest House while in Dong Thap. It's very reasonable, think YH (youth hostel) prices. In HCMC (Saigon for the older crowd) we will be at the Somerset Chancellor Court. And in Hanoi we will be at the Sommerset Grand. I googled them, they look lovely. As the family joke goes - definately Rotary Style. They are apartments with washers & dryers, full kitchens, the works.

Our visas, my mom's & I will be ready sometime late Thursday. We will be picking them up on Friday. I have the day off. Today I get to go to my doctor and try and get a prescription for scabies, etc. Mom & I are playing with luggage this morning also to see what fits.

Two more days of work and then I'm not due back to work until late August. The last time I was away from a job that long was when I quit my job in my late twenties to go back to library school. I took a 4+ week trip camping, hostelling and visiting relatives trip before school started. Wow time does fly. Italy in 2001, came close with 4 weeks off, that was lovely also.

77 Days the wait is over

Now I just need to survive the dash to get ready.

Photos Blooming Plant

This bush is in bloom right now. I think it's a Wilson Pearlbush, but then again who knows. It came with the house.

Too many awards

Currently I am working on consolidating lists of Mystery Awards. I found 25 different awards listed on a mystery website. I have 7 award lists left to put on my spreadsheet. It's interesting to see which books won multiple awards. Some of these awards I never heard of before. I also like checking who won the 1rst title award and see if they won awards after that or if they disappeared from sight. (I know it's such a librarian geek thing, but it is fun.)

I'm trying to gather the information for a special ordering project for WB, but I may try and use it elswhere, since it's much more time consuming than I originally planned on it being...

Cybrarian still driving staff up the wall at RV

Cybrarian is still hanging up our public internet terminals. A.S. is working on a fix, but who knows if and when it will work. So, we reset numberous computers each day and get yelled at by patrons who are upset that the computer is hung up or not logging off.

Computers, can't live with them or without

Well B&T's Titlesource has been working, knock on wood and throw salt over the shoulder. Now our internet computers for the public are driving me insane.

A.S. did an update on some part of Cybrarian, our filter/print software. The update or upgrade is going to do me in. Now it takes anywhere from one minute to ten minutes to log in. Logging out is a nightmare. The computers freeze if you look at them wrong.

When the computer asks you if want to log off and you say no, it logs you off immediately; while if you say yes, it takes anywhere from a minute to 15 to log you off. ???? Explain this logic to me, please.

Last night I spent 4 hours rebooting computers and telling people to hit the "NO" button. I wanted to runaway and hide by the end of the night. This problem has been going on since the upgrade with no fix in sight. If you see a librarian on the news who went postal....

Titlesource

I've been hearing through the grapvine that BT's Titlesource is starting to drive everyone crazy. Oh joy. It's supposed to be BT's fault, so who knows if if it will ever get fixed. The speed here at RV has been an issue also with our terminals, especially the public ones. The login times and off are so slow and people get impatient, so you spend alot of time rebooting computers.

B&T Titlesource

I may be going crazy, but at least our computer services knows that there truely is a problem with this database. I sent out an email and asked other selectors to send problems to Nicole and Chuck. B&T say they will work on it. We'll see.

Baker & Taylor is driving me nuts

Baker and Taylor's ordering website(Titlesource) is driving me nuts. It likes to lock up my computer. Then I have to retype in my last order assuming I can get re-logged into it. It did this yesterday and is doing it again today. ARGH! It's been over 20 minutes and it still has not let me back on.

More fun with the Converter Box

I just learned how to tell my converter box not to go to sleep. It's great that it has an energy feature that turns off the machine after a certain amount of time, unless of course you are trying to do a timed recording. I couldn't figure out why my program didn't tape until I found out about the "Sleep" feature and turned it off. The joys of technology.

DTV Converter Boxes and VCRs

My tv's are old. I decided rather than buying a new tv, I'd go for the converter box. I sent awqy for my coupons in Feb, so they wouldn't run out before I got mine. I actually go the coupons earlier in the month.

I finally had time to go find the boxes at my local retailers. The directions to set it up, appeared to be easy to follow. The first one I got set up right away. The second one, I had to play with cords and then finally got it set up.

That's when I came across the problem with my vcr. My vcrs are analog also. It turns out in order to do timed programming, you must have the box on and set to the channel you want. The vcr is set to channel 3, sort of like scrambled cable signals and boxes. Oh joy. It only took me an hour or so of playing with it and checking the net to discover this.

The government and broadcasters may want you to watch tv, but I don't think they want you to record it easily. Oh well, until the sets die, I'll live. I'll just say goodbye to programming multiple shows on different channels at the same time, unless of course I'm are using multiple vcrs. Good thing, I've cut down on the numbers of shows I watch. Of course now I have access to 5 versions of channel 17.

Trip Advisor -addictive & fun

• Create your own travel map or travel blog


• Visit TripAdvisor.com

Ning, Facebook, Rss Feeds - trying to keep up

Well, I actually went back and looked at Ning again today. I hadn't been there in awhile. A few more RCL members had joined a group I started.

I added the trip advisor to my Facebook account. That thing is addictive. I also added a count up clock to my account. Pandora is neat too. I can blame 1 More Mile JD for Pandora & Trip Advisor.

The rss feed has been very handy to keep up with others' blogs.

Catching up

Well, I'm finally almost caught up to where I think I should be, at least until the next journal heads my way. PLA put me behind. I had also taken some time off previously - voluntarily (visiting with my nephew and sister) and not so voluntarily(medical).

I've been having fun reading other's blogs and keeping up with my rss feeds. I'm easily amused.

Life after 23 Things...

I haven't written in this blog for awhile. Thanks to this exercise I was able to create an Adoption Blog for my personal life. It is linked under Blog Friends. I also was able to find a photo on Flickr from the area my son lives in to headline my new blog. The photographer was nice enough to let me use it for giving him credit.

My reader lets me keep up on co-worker's blogs and progress.

Life has been crazy due to PLA being in Town. I did enjoy my day at PLA. Today I will pay for everyone else's day. I'm hoping things will go back to normal, or at least less hectic next week.

Ning Group

Ok for fun, I created a Ning Group for RCL Librarians working on the 23 things on a stick. Hopefully some will join when they get to Ning.

Life after 23 Things

Ok, I'm still checking my RSS feeds. I enjoy reading other's journey on the 23 things. I also like the comics I bookmarked.

Someone who was doing the 23 things on a stick contacted me on Facebook. It's the first person who wasn't related to me or a coworker.

I did add the results of a silly quiz on the bottom of my blog. There is a link where you, too can discover who your tv boyfriend is. My tv boyfriend appears to be Peter from Heroes. I saw part of the first season of this on DVD. I thought he died at the end. Does that mean I'm involved with a ghost?

While I miss new things to try, I don't miss opening account after account. So there is life after 23 Things on a Stick. Until the next time.

Thing 23 Final Thoughts - sounds ominous

I think that some of the ideas about Library 2.0 are good and some are not very useful. I'm not sure how many of the emerging ideas we will see implemented or how fast. Sometimes things change very fast and other times they never really arrive.

My favorite things I actually mentioned in my last post - LibraryThing, Blogging itself, and photo manipulation.

Quite a few of our staff are doing the 23 things on a stick. It has been generating alot of conversations. We talk about what works, what doesn't and some of our frustrations.

Unexpected outcomes -I learned about file conversion sites. I had never heard of those. They could be very handy since our software is often older than what people are using elsewhere. I learned that my Western relatives like to play poker on Facebook, also.

My biggest peeve was having to open account after account. In some ways it would almost be better if we could have some joint accounts that people could go in and edit, rather than having to open another account.

I would be interested in participating in similar programs if they are held again. I like that you can go at your own pace and work on it when you have time.

23 Things on a Stick is an interesting and educational path to exploring different ways of using the web for professional and personal interests. Try it, you may not like all of it, but you'll probably learn something new.

Thing 22 What Did I Learn Today?

I looked at the links mentioned on this thing. I added Web 2.0 Directory to my my links. I also added the blog Information Wants to Be Free to my RSS Feed- I enjoyed reading her blog.

I plan on continuing to check my RSS Feed, which has many of my coworker's journey through 23 things on a stick. I plan on using some of the accounts I signed up for. Some I probably will not visit again, due to the fact I don't think they are too useful to me. These activities will be worked on, maybe not as often as I'd like, but I have found most to be interesting and educational, even when I got tired of opening another account.

The most useful to me in my personal life will be the ability to open and write a blog, using the photo sites for picture sharing and manipulation, and LibraryThing for organizing/cataloging a special collection I own at home.

Thing 21: Ning & Social Networking

Ok, I joined another social network called Ning. It appears to be more adult orientated than Facebook which reminds me of kindergarten asking for "friends".

I added the badge to this blog. I uploaded my standard Cinque Terra photo for me. I'm hoping against hope that this is the last "social network" I need to join. I'm not a social butterfly. I prefer bbs or websites I can be anonymous on and do not have to "join".

While this may be useful, I feel old and antisocial after having to open way too many accounts, most of which I don't see myself using past this educational opportunity. A few are interesting, but I prefer lurking to particapating usually.

I did enjoy the articles on PW & Webjunction. They were my favorite part of this exercise. "My Guide to Social Networks" was fun also.

Thing 20 Facebook , Social Networking cont'd

Ok, I've been checking the Facebook account. I now have 3 friends, 2 cousins and a co-worker.

It's been interesting reading the blogs and articles highlighted on Facebook. I did look at HCL's and Denver's "My Space" sites. Denver's is certainly noisey. I found out that HCL is single and a Capricorn.

I can see the appeal, but I really don't have the time or the interest to do this regularly.

Thing 20 Facebook continuing

I became a fan of Hostelling International today. They mentioned in an email newsletter that they were on Facebook. I posted to their wall.

I made my first friend, a cousin I found listed on another's cousin's friend list. We emailed back and forth a short bit. I like her whale photo.

Thing 20 Facebook

Facebook would not acknowledge my High School. It closed in 1982 and keeps telling me I went to Armstrong or Cooper. This was my first peeve. I finally got it in, but either I'm the first person in the history of Facebook to go to Robbinsdale, or something is messed up.

I found another coworker who had an account so I could add a Friend. It turns out one of my younger cousins also has an account. She probably going to wonder what that old lady cousin of her's is doing asking to be a friend. The things we do for work. Most of the contacts the "friend finder" found from my looking at emails were relatives. My 70+ something uncle has a Facebook account.

I posted to the wall of Librarians and Facebook's Wall and joined that group. I'm too old for this. I think or just don't care much so far for the format, maybe I'm too anti-social. I uploaded my pictures from Italy again. They are getting alot of exposure from 23thingsonastick.

Thing 19 Podcasts

Ok I've been listening to Heroes of Science Fiction & Fantasy podcast. I found it from the Podcast.com directory. There are certainly alot of podcasts out there on the web.

I looked at a bunch of the directories. None seemed that hard to navigate. I don't plan on regularly kooking for podcasts or adding one to my RSS feed. I have better things to do with my time in my opinion.

Depending on what you want out of the podcasts there are lots of possibilites. I have other things I prefer to do myself.

"Conan the Librarian"

Thing 18 reposted from YouTube.

Thing 18 YouTube/Videos

Ok, I added the Conan the Librarian to my blog. The instructions were ok, once I opened a couple windows and opened yet another account.

I have seen some of the videos before (links from various websites when on my own and playing at home). Quiet a few of my co-workers came over to see what the devil I was doing. The music on some of these is quiet loud. I'm glad I was not in a public areas.

I chose this video because it was wasy to find. It was more interesting than playing around in Ebsco or ELM, but probably not quiet as useful in day to day interactions.

UHF Conan The Librarian Thing 18

Thing 18 posting utube to blog

Thing 17 Elm

I've been using ELM databases for years. No big suprises. I have done custom searches and had updated articles sent to me before from CNN and databases.

The page composer was sort of interesting but not really for me. Some of the examples on Ebsco could be useful in an educational enviroment.

Thing 16 Assignment Calculator & Research Calculator

Back to the 23things after a week off due to illness at our branch and no time to think. The Assignment Calculator & Research Calculator are interesting tools. I can see where they would be handy for students.

I liked that the A.C. has areas that introduce students to new data sources. Libraries of any type, that have databases could use this to promote their databases and give patrons a better idea of what the database is capable of doing for them.

For disorganized people the email reminders would be nice. I guess I come from a different world/century. My K-12 emphasized writing, so many of the tools and reminders seem redundant or silly to me. However, these days, I do see too many students who don't seem to have a clue where to start or what is expected of them; these tools could be a fantastic start for them.

Thing 15 Gaming

Ok, I tried some of this on the CD version of Sims a friend had a couple years back. I looked over the 2 games. I enjoyed reading about it more than doing it. I know it's very popular, but personally I prefer a good game of solitaire or hearts. If I really want to zone, Cubis does it much better for me. If I want to think more, I prefer a good book.

I can see the appeal and a library on Second life or the ilk, might gain a new audience with teens and other gamers.

Thing 14 LibraryThing

LibraryThing, I like. It would be a much easier process to catalog my personal special collections using this than the Access database I created a couple years ago. It's visual and easy to use. I was able to add 5 titles I own easily. I like the public or private feature. Sorry, my titles are under private not public.

I like the idea of using it to promote new titles or special collections. I love the isbn feature. It's so much easier for me to ten key versus type.

Thing 13 Online Productivity Pages

Online Productivity Pages. I played around with igoogle and myyahoo. I looked at Pageflakes. I did not save any of the pages. I prefer using a generic sign search place to start so I don't miss something that might not show up on a "special version".

Calendars - I already use this on aol. I don't need another online calendar. I've tried others also, including the one at work and yahoo's. I prefer the aol or yahoo one.

As to lists, paper and pencil is alot faster.

Backpacker and the ilk don't hold much interest to me personally or professionally at this time. Maybe it will be useful in the future if I get a busier life, but now paper and pencil is less time consuming.

Thing 12 Social Media Sites

Ok, I went and looked at the "popularity news sites". Depressing. Only popular news gets posted? You can get your news tailor-made so you only have to see your viewpoint or only items that might interest you. Personally I prefer to sample from various places, to get differing viewpoints and find stories I might not normally read.

I saw where you could link a story from a major newsite to one of these designer sites. I'm tired of signing up for accounts, so I didn't do that part. Since I don't plan on going back to them personally and kind of doubt I would for work either.

Thing 11 Tagging

Tagging, ok I tagged all my previous posts and this one.

I've seen sites before that keep your bookmarks. Downloading toolbars is frowned upon in our library system by our Computer staff. So I just explored the examples. This could be handy assuming it's your computer and you are allowed to download toolbars.

Tagging is nice to find all posts on a topic, especially when you get pas the first page on a blog or other site.

Thing 10 Wikis

Ok, I posted on the Sandbox site. I'm the one who had no idea what they were doing, but was told I couldn't mess it up, per 23thingsonastick instructions. I use wikis like Wikpedia, but have little interest in creating one, or editing it.

It seems kind of a fad to me, since so many are started and worked on for awhile, until the new "in thing" comes along, or the creator loses interest and they languish out in cyberspace.

I don't think schools/educators should ban wiki information, but I do think that students should use more than one source, preferably both electronic and print format.

Reader's Avisory could be done with wikis I guess. The applications are only as limited as your imagination. If I had to use it more, I'd probably feel more comfortable with it, but somedays it feels like there are too many new formats to learn.

Thing 9 Collaborative Tools

Ok I tried both Google & Zoho tools with word processing. I preferred the Google one, though I'm not sure why. I didn't have any problem in using either. Maybe their features change when you are doing more sophisticated documents than I did.

As to what Founding Fathers would think, I think this century would astound and confound them.

Thing 8 Picture Trail & Big Lab

I liked Picture Trail & found it easy to use once I got past the advertising blitz on registering. I tend to see using these items more for personal use than professional. Maybe if I worked more with promotions, I might use it at the library.

I'd recommend Picture Trail as long as you don't mind being hit with ads to begin with. I liked Big Lab also.

Thing 8 part a Hexagon - rotating

Check out the Hexagon at the bottom.

Thing 7 Communication Tools

The library has had email for years. We have "Ask a Librarian". Sometimes it works well and other times you end up calling the patron anyway. Email works well when you have part-time or even full-time staff that don't work the same hours, so it can help in communication efforts. It also can be real time waster.

Online reference has both positive and negative features. The email part works ok. Many of the other applications are costly and outdated soon.

I use im at work. I don't have a cell phone so I don't do text messaging.

I have attended various Webinars over the last couple years. Again with mixed results. Some are very well done and others don't work due to technology or really don't have much useful content.

I tried "Twitter" previously. It drove me nuts. I do not care for it all.

Thing 6 Online Image Generator

Ok Here are my trading cards. This could be fun to do for special occasions.

I could see it used in a library assuming you had permission to use the graphics/photos for displays. You could get some neat display ideas this way.

Thing 5 part 2 Slide Show

I created a slide show. It's under helpful links if you would like to see it. I enjoy playing with photos. I'm not sure if thing 4 or 5 has been more fun.

Thing 5 More Fun with Flickr

More playing with Flickr, how fun. I played for awhile in the maps, putting photos on a map. I'm not positive if I get the exact location right due to missing pieces in my memories.

I also created this puzzle from an old photo. That was fun.

Thing 4 Completed Photo Sharing

Ok, this was my favorite lesson, so far. I can see using this personally. The photos I uploaded are generic tourist shots, so I'm not worried about having them as as public.

If I'm using pictures with people I know, they would most likely go in the private not public area.

Thing 4 part 2 Flickr

Ok this is too much fun. I like working with the photos and trying to understand Flickr. The photo is the path from hell along the Italian Coast that I hiked/climbed in 2001 while visiting my sister.

Hawaii 2 - Thing 4 Photosharing

Hawaii 2
Originally uploaded by carolnb821

This is part of the "23 things on a stick "Thing 4. I'm attempting to load this onto my blog from flickr. Wish me luck.

Thing 3 RSS Feeds is completed

I did manage to finish thing 3. Yippee. I could see where the RSS feeds would be nice if you are trying to keep up with something. I'm not sure how much I'll use it in reality, but it could be a time saver for some.

Thing 3 RSS Feeds

The RSS thing is interesting. Linking it to the blog???? I finally put the link under my helpful sites for the moment. I'm going around in circles so I'll come back to it later and try again. I'm sure I'm missing some easy little thing.

Thing 2 Library 2.0

I'm trying the 23 Things on a Stick, because it seems that most of our reference staff is doing this. I figured I'd see what the fuss was about. I'm looking forward to learning new things about Library 2.0 and the internet.

It should be an interesting ride.

Thing 1 Setting Up Blog w/Avatar

The blog is up.