Thing9 - Library blog

I've signed up for a few book review feeds that seem interesting. I'll continue searching for feeds that deal mainly with children's lit to aid in my job as youth parapro, but found the reviews very interesting for the adult selections too.
Of course the Bloglines search tool was easiest for me, but I did like Syndic8 for it's format. I found it more useful than Topix and more user friendly. Feedster was interesting and I tried to create a widget, but apparently was not successful. Maybe I will try to host it here at Blogger instead of my Bloglines.

Thing8 - RSS feeds

Hey, well, that wasn't so bad. After reading some of the comments, I thought this might be pretty difficult, but I kind of liked this exercise. I actually find RSS much more useful to know about than image generators. I definitely like the idea of using the feeds to keep track of all the things I'd like to know about. As you may have noticed, my time and frustration level are very limited. I think the feeds will help me keep up with things I should know, but don't always remember to check up on. The uses at the Library are unlimited - books to recommend, news updates, just basic all around help in being the "know-it-all's" our patrons expect us to be!
Here's the link to my feeds - http://www.bloglines.com/blog/CountyBumpkin2007
I sure hope I've done all that was expected. Seeing as I found it easy, I get the feeling maybe I didn't do it right after all . . .

Thing7 - image generators

Gee, image generators are interesting. My husband often uses a certain phrase to describe new employees who at first looked like promising additions to the crew, but prove to be anything but. He calls them "Toab's" - as in "as useful as Tits on a Boar." And I'm sorry if it reflects a bad attitude on my part, but as my image might suggest, the majority of generators I "attempted" to use have proven to be "Toabs." Not all of us are lucky enough to have access to broadband, or anything close to it. And seeing as I barely have time to read my e-mail at work I do most of my 23 things at home - on my pathetically slow, out of date computer. So most of my experience with image generators has consisted of watching a small bar sssslllloooowwwwllly advance across an empty box - only to stall halfway through, or appear "Done, with errors on page."

This morning I attempted to make a virtual person; after answering a series of totally asinine questions, I played 4 games of Solitaire, 3 games of Minesweeper (expert level!), drank 2 cups of coffee, gave my dog a bath 'cuz he's rolled in something very dead, and finally came back and cancelled out of my quest because the little bar was stalled out halfway through the box.

Therefore, the result of my image experiments (from http://www.imagechef.com/) has a slightly negative tone.

Wonderful to know there are so many advanced methods of wasting time though! (Funny - I just used to read books when I wanted to do that before . . .)

Thing6 - Mashups

Librarian Trading Card
Originally uploaded by Country Bumpkin2007

Lots of fun things at FD's Flickr Toys. I loved the poster ideas from Motivatr and Movie Postrs. Lots of fun things to do for those creative souls with lots of time on their hands. Can't wait till I have free time . . . only 13 more years till all my kids leave the house :)

Thing5 - Flickr

The Library Dragon
Originally uploaded by Country Bumpkin2007
Ok, phweeewwww, I made it . . . finally. Altogether, this little post right here took 5 days and 3 computers worth of effort. My home computer is slower than slow and took forever to try to set up my Flickr account. So I signed up and created my account at my folks house. Unfortunately, I then had no pictures of the library to post for the assignment. KP has no digital camera, so I brought my own and snapped a few shots early Saturday morning as we prepared for the book/plant sale. Then I thought I would download them real quick using a public PC and my memory card. Not gonna happen! KDL computers won't read my camera's memory card for some reason, and it's too far to drive back to my folks to do it. So after an hour and 15 minutes of slow-going, bogged-down computer time, I have successfully posted my library pictures and blogged. Only 18 MORE THINGS TO GO! At this rate I may not get through every thing till Oct 2008!