caught up

It seems strange to be caught up on all the Learning 2.0 things after being behind for so long. Some of these internet toys are really fun!

Fun with Flickr!

I'm so entertained.

I tried to do this before but for some reason it didn't work then and now it did

Yay it worked!

Not just tasteful, but tast-y

Oops, way to read the whole post. Here is the Cappucino customizer.


Sure to be popular at the Ashburn Library, where coffee rules over all.

I am quite fond of these generators. Endless fun. Anyone want to join my 'League of the Damned and Destitue Warmongers'? Oh, and you may address me as Most Noble and Honourable the Dulcet of Giggleswick on the Nazeas.



I definitely like Thing 9!

RSS Take Two

About feed finders . . . I like the Technorati page - with the top videos and music and whatever being linked to by bloggers or whatever, but I'm not necessarily all that interested in finding other people's blogs and it wasn't exactly clear to me how to do so just looking at the page. I do like Topix.net, that seemed like a good place to go to subscribe to the sorts of news stories you'd be interested in. And Syndic8 seemed silly, listing them all alphabetically. Unless you're looking for something specific (which I rarely am) how is that helpful? It would be neat to use this to keep up with my friends over at livejournal, but I highly doubt any of them are syndicated and they'd have to be for this feed thing to work, right? Which makes sense on some level becasue how can they keep them private for just friends otherwise. There you go. Thing 9.

RSS

So, I've signed up for bloglines. At first, I was confused. Then I understood what it was, but not how it was helpful. But then I realized the problem wasn't bloglines, it was me. I don't 'hang out' online as much as I did, say, in college. Then it would definitely have streamlined things - just going to one page instead of fifteen. But now that I understand why I didn't really like it, I actually like it better. It's growing on me. I've had a couple of days now to add things to it (and take away things I added when I first signed up and didn't quite understand and would never have looked at, so they were just cluttering it up) and I think I kind of like it. I believe this is my public Bloglines URL, though getting to it was absolutely nothing like the instructions on learningatlcpl, so maybe it isn't:
KittyWhite

Technology or Thing 7

I am in favor of technology, mostly. I haven't had any major problems with computers in a while. Especially not since I got a Mac for graduation. And I certainly love my ipod. Although when I was creating this blog, it seemed odd to me that it wouldn't let me use my gmail account to creat the 'Google Account.' And now, even if I changed my e-mail address, I'd still be signing in with my county e-mail address. This seems a bit odd to me. But I was going to talk about things I like, namely ipods. And video games. I really like video games. I'll go long stretches of time without playing a game and then someone goes off to college and leaves me their Zelda Minish Cap Gameboy Advance game and I want to play it all the time. To be fair, I have a soft spot for Zelda to begin with . . . but still. It's kind of funny. I'd really like to play a wii. Well. I'd really like to buy one, but that's not really the kind of money I would throw around for something I've never played and might not like. I think that's unlikely, but I would still really like to try one out. I could meander on longer about various technologies that I do and do not like or can or cannot use - I do love to ramble, after all. But I think this is enough for any poor Loudoun County (or other random people - why would you be reading this?) library people who might decide to read this.

Flickr continued . . .

Why is there no e? I miss the e. I try to insert it. Sigh. Oh, internet, what have you done to us? I have to admit, the first time I read the LCPL blog, I thought it said LEARNING 200. I was confused. Then I continued @ LCPL. And I understood. Anyway, Spell with Flickr is my favorite. I spelled my name, but I haven't signed up for Flickr, so you cannot see it here. Too bad for you. I think I like this one best because of the ones I was looking at, it seemed like the one I would be most likely to actually use somewhere. Even if only in my online journals. It's neat being able to find pictures with a certain color in them, but I can't imagine needing to use that ever. For anything.

Thing 5

i am not going to create a flickr account today, though i might eventually. many of my friends have some kind of photo account or another, so i've been thinking about getting one. they really are pretty neat. as i was poking around the site, clicking on the links in our learningatlcpl blog, i came across the following picture: http://www.flickr.com/photos/newportpubliclibrary/265298856/in/set-72057594124551311/
aren't banned books fascinating? when is banned books week anyway? and isn't there a book about banned books? i feel like i've seen one. maybe that details why each book has been banned? but maybe i'm making that up, i do that sometimes. i mean, for example: why is 'in the night kitchen' a banned book? because he's naked? (that's why it might not be a great idea to read it to a group of 3 year olds, but i'm not saying it should be banned! it's just hard to get them past that part.) and 'the lorax'? it makes me wonder how many of the books i've read are on that list.

Thing 4!

at last, the holiday madness has ended and i have completed task 4. this past weekend was crazy, but thankfully not quite as crazy as i'd expected it to be. i hope everyone enjoyed their four day weekend!