Five of Nine

Wikis

Wikipedia is one of the best first points of contact when researching. True it’s not the best thing to reference but it eases you into whatever topic has you thoroughly confused (as I often am). Other wikis do exist. I was a little wary although I did explore the various wiki links provided. It was interesting although everyone can edit everything so I think if someone puts up a post it is neither here nor there. Definitely is a great way of sharing information amongst libraries.

Yay visited PBwiki Learning 2.0. My blog is now a part of the favourite blogs. Have been blogging for a while now so my wit level not as high as when I started. A lot of people beat me to it. Can’t say I was surprised though. I did enjoy imposing my choices of favourite books, number and movies on other people. I do believe I mentioned something about a certain phobia to join websites or in this case wiki, so I predictably appear as manukau learning. I have to say that “Sandbox” is a great name to use for a playing website. Taking us right back to preschool. Onward to tagging.




Ratatouille. It's like a stew, right? Why do they call it that? If you're gonna name a food, you should give it a name that sounds delicious. Ratatouille doesn't sound delicious. It sounds like "rat" and "patootie." Rat-patootie, which does not sound delicious.

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Technology

I am utterly useless without technology in my daily life and I think that it is safe to say that I am not the only one. I like learning and trying out new things because if it is available use it. Technology has definitely made a lot of things more convenient. Advancements such as camera, mp4 players and Bluetooth on mobile phones have made things a breeze because you don’t have to remember a hundred things in the morning. Still for me personally despite all of these things I think that one of the best advancements is email. I have finally become a member of facebook but email is still my main method of communication. I tend to say things all wrong and I am awake at all the wrong times in the day so to be able to email allows me a chance to think....and to do things at my pace and at my time.

Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming, swimming, swimming. What do we do? We swim, swim.

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Flickr Fun

Flickr Color Pick was cool. The graphic were nice and simple and it was a really interesting way for searching for photos. Here are some really red pictures I found using the tool.

I also decided to go with the norm and make a trading card. I think that the librarian cards have been thoroughly done so instead I decided to do a trading I would actually like to have. Now if only the Escape card existed.

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Smiles from Sindh

I finally went on the Flickr website. I say finally of course because I was meant to have done this at least a week ago. I have a dislike of joining too many websites (Just a little phobia I have). Hence I decided not to join Flickr. Surprisingly that turned to be the only reason. Flickr was a very enjoyable website. I had fun browsing through all the photos especially the interesting 7. I did have a hard time deciding what to blog about....there were so many photos that looked interesting.

In the end I went with the photo that is at odds with my blog. It is a photo I found when I searched for smile and children. I loved this photo. I think that most of us are so busy we forget to smile. It actually prompted me to add my blog to the manukaulibraries training account and blog directly from Flickr. Unfortunately no matter how many times I tried this I couldn't get it to work so in the end just decided to save to my computer and upload it. Oh well at least i tried.

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Rollyo

I have found that 1 is relatively decisive when 1 is actually running out of time. I am very behind in my blogging and a task……ah goes to show procrastination never pays. Still at least it is very enjoyable right???

Creating your own search engine sounded like a brilliant concept to me mostly because I am very addicted to Google. I can honestly say that I never use the internet without Google…..and to think that I would have never discovered my addiction if it wasn’t for my blogging.

So the obvious question to be asked was what is the best search engine to have which would of course increase the level of convenience in my life and let’s face it enable my laziness. I was going to just create one from the topics given but I it occurred to me that mixing gossip with news would not have the desired effect. Instead I was struck with inspiration (yeah it does happen occasionally) and I decided to make a search engine for all the video streaming sites out there (ok well not all) but a lot from DailyMotion to YouTube. Wikipedia of course was my source of information for this.

The downside to this I realise is that it will be very difficult if not impossible to use it from any work computers. Unfortunately this particular part of the inspiration did bump into me until much later when the damage had been done. I trialed it and well it seemed to work....

Anyway here goes

Select...Words of MiseryVideo StreamingSearch The Web

Well, maybe, they aren't small — maybe we're big

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Library Thing

It’s true this website seriously dislikes me.......so what else could I do but return the favour. What other conclusion can you possibly draw...... I sat for maybe more than 15 minutes waiting for it to load..........waiting .......waiting and waiting some more (wasn’t even using the work computers)....and it finally loaded.

On the upside it was very easy to join and once the initial page loaded it didn’t take loads of time for further navigation. Also it was easy to find books.

On the downside I think it seriously needs more colour (all the brown). I also found it slightly annoying to add books as it wouldn’t let me go back to the list of books for an author after I had selected one. I think that I can honestly say that I am not very likely to use the site often. I much prefer Google for searching for books and aside from that I don’t have time to finish all my reading let alone add it to a website. I also hate logging on....

Having said that however I can see its usefulness as long as they got rid of the brown.......Here is a link to my very anaemic catalogue...Enjoy
http://www.librarything.com/catalog/MiserylovesCompany

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Image and Text Generators

Ahh how did I ever get along without knowing about image and text generators? Well 1 thing is for sure I certainly did not know the extent of my problems....staff I work with take note

"I'm a cynical cranky pants with a highly suspicious nature!"

Yep doesn’t that just explain everything. This was of course curtsey of the “Name Generator Generator” from http://generatorblog.blogspot.com/ which diagnoses your problem using your name. How more specific can you get?

Since I was making such good progress I thought why not let’s try the image generators. I mean how can you argue with the logic?? if my name had managed to reveal my problems my picture might actually solve the rest of the mystery. I have only waited years for this.


Ok fine I chickened out but I did find the next best thing....A smiley shock surprise

Curtsey of imagechef at http://23things-swinburne.blogspot.com/2007/08/23-things.html

I have to say that i really enjoyed playing around with the text and image generators. Much more fun when you find a good website. One thing to note is that most websites don't allow direct linking and the picture has to be saved before being posted.

In case anyone is interested here is something else I discovered. 23 things to learn on the web is actually a widespread idea with many universities and libraries launching it some right here in blogger.... Doesn’t it just make you feel better that not only are all the Manukau libraries staff suffering through it with you but some of the rest of the world as well. Misery loves company