Thing #10 Addendum

Make your own at ProfilePitstop.com

Monday, July 23, 2007

Rolling Thing #12

I didn't find much use for Rollyo. Although I think it would make a good name for a cereal. My Rollyo search roll is at the bottom of the right column. Learn everything you want about the Curta Calculator, the most boring, manual calculating machine ever invented. I think the inventor is probably more interesting than the machine he came up with. Curt Herzstark designed it while he was a prisoner in Buchenwald concentration camp during World War II.

Wednesday, July 18, 2007

Thing #11

Library Thing was kind of interesting. Here's my book shelf link:

My Book Shelf

Although my book shelf is displayed to your right if you scroll down.

Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Thing # 10

The generators were fun. I really wanted to export my Simpson's avatar but couldn't find a way to do it. If anybody has a solution to that problem I'd appreciate hearing about it! I ended up using Flashpix Generator. They seem to imply you can only save what you create to a MySpace account but I had no problem exporting it to my blog. Cheers~!

Thursday, July 12, 2007

Thing #9

Feedster seemed to be the easiest site to use. Topix didn't have any real "my town" news to display. Syndic8 was very busy looking. Technorati I didn't find very user friendly. I did have fun looking at the Meez link offered on the Merlin site. Created my own funky avatar for my profile.

Wednesday, July 11, 2007

#8 RSS

I don't have much use for RSS. I don't spend that much time on the computer. I'm a Big Mac kind of news consumer. I get my news on the run. Google News to go. With a side of fries. The exercise was interesting, though.

Here's my URL for extra credit:

http://www.bloglines.com/public/CraBas

Thing #7 - Flash Drives

Convenient but fragile, flash drives (thumb drives, etc.)promise much. Transportable, easy to install, can contain a lot of bytes. But buyer beware. I have had five flash drives turn to toast on me because I plugged them into USB ports that belonged to older computers. This has made me reluctant to keep anything of value on a flash drive without having backed the information up elsewhere. And now, when I want to use my drive on a foreign computer, I always hold my breath that my Corsair won't crash and burn yet once more.

My Trading Card



Flickr certainly has a lot to offer. However, I found the Flickr site very busy and not very user friendly. Also, the FAQ answers contained incomplete information. BTW, having to create accounts, link accounts, account accounts, etc. is getting old fast.

The Kiss


The Kiss, originally uploaded by creativity+.

My first Flickr post. Random picture selection. I hope it is not too erotic for the library.

Friday, July 6, 2007

7 1/2 Habits

I was not impressed with the 7 1/2 Habits as covered in Thing #2. Everything seemed fairly intuitive. The Learning Contract strikes me as yet another one of those ways to narrowly formalize something that everybody does naturally in their own way. It seems redundant. If you're working in a library you better already know how to set goals and achieve them. In fact, if you're older than 21 years of age you should know how to follow the steps you need in whatever endeavor you're pursuing.

Managed to Create My Blog

I guess I jumped over activity 1 and 2 and went straight to activity 3, but that's what comes from not reading all the instructions first. So far so good.