Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Cleaning desks
I can see most of my desk top. This much hasn't shown in years. I got rid of weekend schedules from 2007 that BK had sent out. The paper clutter is unbelievable. I've been trying to clean out the clutter and take home personal stuff. What I have left can be loaded into a box now I think quite easily.
More things on a stick still has not posted thing 44 & 45. I wish they would hurry up and post them so I can finish it up.
More things on a stick still has not posted thing 44 & 45. I wish they would hurry up and post them so I can finish it up.
Monday, February 9, 2009
Thing 46. WebJunction Minnesota
Ok, I registered with Webjunction.
I tried searching for friends on it. One of my coworkers was signed up for it and sent the friend request. Others may be out there, but with 14 pages of results for St Paul MN and a very slow connection, I gave up trying this feature.
I checked out the Calendar.
I browsed the course description and looked closer at the Reader's Advisory one. I did not sign up for it. The connection to this website can be very slow and it eats bandwidth. I also don't really have the time right now and do want to deprive someone who really wants a course from taking it.
I'm not interested in joing into a discussion at this time again due to website's length in loading anything.
If I had the time and a faster connection some of the courses looked interesting. I'm not sure if I'll be back here in the near future or not. Sorry, I don't have any great ideas at this time of what I'd like to see.
Now if they could get thing 44 and thing 45 up, I could get this batch finished....
I tried searching for friends on it. One of my coworkers was signed up for it and sent the friend request. Others may be out there, but with 14 pages of results for St Paul MN and a very slow connection, I gave up trying this feature.
I checked out the Calendar.
I browsed the course description and looked closer at the Reader's Advisory one. I did not sign up for it. The connection to this website can be very slow and it eats bandwidth. I also don't really have the time right now and do want to deprive someone who really wants a course from taking it.
I'm not interested in joing into a discussion at this time again due to website's length in loading anything.
If I had the time and a faster connection some of the courses looked interesting. I'm not sure if I'll be back here in the near future or not. Sorry, I don't have any great ideas at this time of what I'd like to see.
Now if they could get thing 44 and thing 45 up, I could get this batch finished....
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Thing 43 Online TV and Video
Ok, Joost tends to freeze my computer. I looked at it and Hulu. I decided to try tv shows I like to watch. Hmm. No joy. I tried searching a couple shows. They were not on there. I tried searching some present shows and few were on there in full. To be honest a video recorder or a dvd set works a whole lot better for me than this.
On my home system, I have dsl not cable ( I can't afford cable). My sound is crap and the speakers are turned off. The amount of bandwidth video eats is incrediable. Our library does not have unlimited band width either.
At this point with the costs involved with this I do not see it in my near future, so it will not change my viewing habits at this time. I dropped cable after figuring out that I was spending over $500 a year to watch a couple sci-fi shows and the rest was free regular channels. I buy the dvd sets or get them of the library of the few shows I like that I can't get on broadcast tv. Will online tv and video, impact broadcasting? Yes. Sooner or later, they will figure out how to make a buck on it somehow I'm sure. Just think, while tv is free - they get you with commercials, pbs free- pledge week will drive you nuts, cable - you pay through the nose for it.
At this time it will not impact my family. My son is 2. His idea of high excitement is "Wheel of Fortune". He tends to watch for a maximum of 30 minutes maybe. He'd rather be playing which is fine with me.
On my home system, I have dsl not cable ( I can't afford cable). My sound is crap and the speakers are turned off. The amount of bandwidth video eats is incrediable. Our library does not have unlimited band width either.
At this point with the costs involved with this I do not see it in my near future, so it will not change my viewing habits at this time. I dropped cable after figuring out that I was spending over $500 a year to watch a couple sci-fi shows and the rest was free regular channels. I buy the dvd sets or get them of the library of the few shows I like that I can't get on broadcast tv. Will online tv and video, impact broadcasting? Yes. Sooner or later, they will figure out how to make a buck on it somehow I'm sure. Just think, while tv is free - they get you with commercials, pbs free- pledge week will drive you nuts, cable - you pay through the nose for it.
At this time it will not impact my family. My son is 2. His idea of high excitement is "Wheel of Fortune". He tends to watch for a maximum of 30 minutes maybe. He'd rather be playing which is fine with me.
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Thing 42 Music 2 0
Ok, I started using Pandora last year. I like older country music. The local stations seem to play only what is the current hit list. I prefer some Statlers, Tennessee Ernie Ford, & Sons of the Pioneers mixed in to name a few. I have not been back in awhile due to my new computer I bought last July. The sound system stinks so bad I turned off the audio.
Alot of the sites don't work with our computers at work. I know this from trying to help patrons get to radio stations they want to listen to.
So this thing is pretty futile for me at the moment.
Alot of the sites don't work with our computers at work. I know this from trying to help patrons get to radio stations they want to listen to.
So this thing is pretty futile for me at the moment.
Thing 41 Mashup Your Life
Ok, I looked at the various sites. I liked the idea of Digby but it required a download. Then I thought ok I'll try fuser - our computers are too out of date to use for this.
ARGH. I finally went with friendfeed since it did not require a download and would accept our older software. The trouble is I really don't care for what it covers. The first two were much more useful to me. I have 4 email accounts I think. It would have been extremely useful to be able to access them all. I'm not as into the social networking. What I want to keep up with I do and the rest can go by the wayside.
ARGH. I finally went with friendfeed since it did not require a download and would accept our older software. The trouble is I really don't care for what it covers. The first two were much more useful to me. I have 4 email accounts I think. It would have been extremely useful to be able to access them all. I'm not as into the social networking. What I want to keep up with I do and the rest can go by the wayside.
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