yum yum

Just got done looking a delicious, I can really find a use for this one. Our computer at home is getting overloaded with favorites and now I can access my favorites from work at home. Very useful tool. I like the fact that once you add a url, you find out lots of trivia facts about the url. This is one tool I am going to keep using.

A friend sent this to me, so I thought if anyone loses a tukey on Thanksgiving, maybe this will help you look for it.

twitter

I can't see myself using twitter, since I am the only person at work. I can see other people using it, but there are so many other options out there. I think instant messaging is better as any questions you ask are answered right away. I have been watching tv this morning and channel six keeps advertising that on the news tonight they will be talking about twitter, texting and other things. At least because of this class I have an idea of what they are talking about.

library thing

It is starting to feel like this class is overloading my brain. I keep taking notes but my notebook is getting pretty full. This latest thing, library thing is pretty neat. I can see other poeple using it, but I have a lot of books at home I wouldn't even want to try cataloging, it would take way too much time. I can see for some people it would be a way to keep track of the books they have read. Then when they went to the library they could check to see if a book they found was on a list. I am amazed at how much you can now do on line on a computer, but are we going to become the age of printed books something you only see in a on line museum?
I remember on the old Star Trek the time when Captain Kirk has to hire a lawyer and the lawyer has actual books he uses. I hope we never get to the point where computers is all you need, and the pleasure of carrying a book and reading wherever you can becomes obsolete.

Halloween is my favorite time of year. I always dress up and hand out special treats. I even visit the senior center and business and hand out my treats. The first year I am sure the people must of wondered who this new librarian was. Now I get asked weeks ahead of time what I am going to be this year. I never tell, just say wait.

wow this is fun

Wow this is really neat. I can see all kinds of uses for this in summer reading programs. Never knew something like this existed. I have it saved to a disk for further references.

I thought a Happy Thanksgiving picture would be appropriate for the time of year this is. This is a really cool thing that you can do on a blog page. Thanks 2.0 for the learning.

technology

Suppose to blog about technology. What can I say. I haven't taken any formal classes except intro to computers, which was a history of computers that I could have taught. And some lab work but it was all DOS. Remember DOS?
So most of what I know I have picked up on my own or through classes at the NLC. I don't consider them formal as we don't get graded, have a lot of fun and its ok to get lost and ask questions.
And with windows I don't have post it notes on the moniters telling me what to type in. My kids always knew when I was trying to learn something new or on the computer. Now I just keep a notebook next to the computer and write everything down. That way no one knows if it is just notes or if it really is what I can't remember. I am getting better, I have come a long way but I will never be as fast or a good as my kids.