#13 De.icio.us

Signed up in del.icio.us (and I so empathise with Jill getting sick of typing it). Reminds me of Furl from a few years ago. I liked the idea but as I was only using once computer it wasn’t worth it. I now can be using multiple computers and I hve found occasions when not having bookmarks transferred was quite frustrating so this sounds good.
Of course things never run smoothly. I could join no probs apart formthe fact that i'm trying to minimise my passwords and some other bugger already has them), but can’t add to my toolbar as council don’t allow it. Ok I’ll add to my home one if I ever get internet access. Keep going. Imported my bookmarks, again no problems. I didn't realise just how many i had.
It doesn’t look how I thought. Needs a bit of playing to get the hang of it but I don’t have time now.
It is just me or is it weird that the page orders go in reverse order?
I will come back to it.

#10 Image generator

I did some others which i've loaded to my Flickr account

This is my little ray of sunshine, Squiffy

The Karma of Literature

I released another book into the wild on the weekend. Lots of decisions around selecting ‘the chosen one’. Will someone enjoy this? Where is the best place to release? Which booktag will I use, general, genre, vacation etc?
Read and release. I would love to catch one one day but I think to do that I need to check the recently released lists more frequently. Parliament Station, platform 3, about an hour ago, 5 books - maybe one will still be there. A lot of people seem to favour cafes or in trees in parks (suitably protected). Bookcrossings.

#14 Technorati

Technorati is more attractive to look at than Feedster. The same search terms seemed to come up with less sites selling things but not any more interesting/relevant (to me at least). Once you’re more familiar with the sites it may be better but I’m not convinced enough to spend the time.
Topix looks interesting but our council intranet has as ABC News top story live feed which is easy and convenient to use. I would probably go straight to the websites of CNN or BBC etc. I also added one of the newsfeeds to my bloglines and to be honest I think the forums are a waste of time.
I did find one blog with a ‘makeuseofblog’ feed which was quick and simple and worked easily unlike some to the others I tried although I gather now (after swearing and giving up) that at least some of the problems were to do with our version of IE readers Netscape??

#7 Using technology

I did do these in order but didn't post them. I liked the http://www.blyberg.net/card-generator/ which one of my colleagues put on her blog. I am forwarding it to my sister-in-law who would use it in her crafting.
http://generatorblog.blogspot.com/ is great! I've watead a lot of time here. I already knew the Dilbert ones but it has tons of interesting ones which I will have to try at some stage like Celtic cross-stitch generator, the EMO Haiku generator was a kak, my brother is certainly getting some of those.
And it's a bit old hat but yes- I really do like e-cards and use them, although it’s disappointing when the recipients don’t have sound cards or are otherwise blocked form receiving the full benefit. Tip” they’re great for doing ahead and setting delivery times so it doesn’t matter if you forget. I know it’s fairly low-tech but I like it.

#11 LibraryThing

I have looked at LibraryThing before and thought I couldn’t be bothered putting all my books on. What I own is not a true indicator of what I read anyway. I do like the ability to have covers but then a lot of what I have doesn’t have covers. It would be good for collections or if I was contacting other collectors. It can be interesting looking at the libraries of others who have the same books but there are also other places to see that.

#9 finding feeds & Library related Blogs

Do I have time to search for the gold amongst the dross? In FeedsterI seem to keep finding the majority of sites are trying to sell things and most of the rest boring, often out of date or rubbish, I’d rather be in Second Life and I don’t have time for that. I already subscibe to unshelved and librarybytes. I might look at adding feeds from some more in that mythical 'when i get time'.

#8 RSS feeds and Bloglines

I already have some, what I now know as RSS feed alerts, set up from sites such as Bowkers Books in Print and Library journal and find having them go straight into a folder in my outlook is probably more convenient than logging into Bloglines. I’ve set up 14 feeds and the interesting part will be how often I actually check them. Blogs feeds might be useful though to save me going to check the very few that I am actually interested in.
Again it makes it harder that I am not in an office with colleagues to ask (although I do share an office with one I end up doing this after hours).
Library is a difficult search term though as everyone has their photo library, their book library, their document library etc and narrowing the terms down seems to be a bit hit and miss depending on how people have tagged them.

Thewatcher

Thewatcher
Originally uploaded by myrtepeert

Amazing

My latest creation

#6 Flickr

My latest creation
Originally uploaded by originalsquiffy

I found mashups a more frustrating exercise. I think I need to be doing it with someone else & help share ideas. I've also decided I need to build up a bigger photo base too, you're going to get sick of my nephews and cat.

Jamie 22.9.2007

Jamie Linton 22.9.2007
Originally uploaded by originalsquiffy

This is part of my Learning 2.0 #5 flickr
Jamie at his great-grandmothers 97th birthday. It is amazing hard to get a good picture of him. He's willing enough but it never snaps the 'best' moment.

Oh no! I forgot Talk like a Pirate Day! The shame!

This weeks wise words

This week's wise words are from Max Factor

Guinea Pigs proliferate

at a most alarming rate;

So you'd better heed my warning

Have you counted them this morning?

Flickr

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

A friend and I went to see the movie "Black Sheep" last night. Described as 'a story of genetically mutated sheep who turn the beautiful green pastures of the New Zealand countryside into a blood bath'. Humans who were bitten and weren't ripped apart then mutated into a kind of weresheep!
Think of 'Shaun of the Dead' but much more gory. A lot of offal went into the making of this movie. Plenty of one-line farmer and sheep jokes, this movie is destined to be a New Zealand splatter cult classic. I enjoyed it (although i did avert my eyes a couple of times). In short very funny and very gory, and in the words of my friend , bizarre.