Thing 13

Del.icio.us has the potential to suck me into a vortex of ever expanding links until I can't remember where I started... I enjoyed it to play with, but if you are trying to research somethin how do people keep on track and not wander off just to see what you get if you click on that tag? And then that one? I got from libraryblogs to alcohol in four clicks and now I can't remember what I was trying to do with libraryblogs... also, the sites that were really popular had a lot of, um... not terribly helpful comments. Although this might have been a result of the subject matter - perhaps 'the online guide to drinking' is never going to get a range of thoughtful and considered comments.

Thing 12

I can see Rollyo coming in quite handy. I've set up a search across various booksellers that I use regularly so that I can look for books for my collection more easily. This may of course prove to be a more efficient way of spending too much money. I had to take Amazon out of it again though because searches that work well on the other sites get too many hits on Amazon - they just aren't compatible for cross-site searching. Anyway there is a wee search box on this page now for you to use if you like.

Thing 11

Welcome to my LibraryThing account. This is another one I had already played with before. I tried using it to make a record of my collection of NZ science fiction and fantasy. However I have only done the first 11 books in my collection as I found the process quite time consuming. Not many of them had been catalogued before and of those that were, I generally wasn't happy with the standard of cataloguing and did it again. Which seems far too much like being at work, so I lost interest. But here is the link anyway:
http://www.librarything.com/catalog.php?view=Wilberforce

Thing 10

OK, these generators are just plain silly. But strangely compelling...

My random German name is : Tatjana Sahm.

My homespun analogy for the day is : He's as jumpy as a holy bumble-bee in the cow shed.

And I still don't really enjoy image generators but here is a custom road sign just to prove I am paying attention to the lessons:

Thing 9

These are my current favorite work related feeds: Slashdot, Shifted Librarian, USA Today book news. Between the three of them I feel much more up to date. I also love The Onion, but struggle to connect it to work (perhaps keeping morale up?) And I enjoy following some of my colleagues' blogs - but Nancy Pearl seems to have fallen silent!

Thing 8

I would love to post a link to my Bloglines account, but I can't work it out. As far as I know my username is my email address, however when I create the following link http://www.bloglines.com/public/keziah.singleton@aucklandcity.govt.nz , it doesn't work - I get the message 'incorrect username'. I don't know what my username is and I can't work out how to find out. So someone will have to tell me? I notice that the link given in the training blog has the same construction as my attempt ie. http://www.bloglines.com/public/acl.elgar@gmail.com, and that doesn't work either!

Update: have battled my way to a username so here is the link as requested:

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

Thing 7 (Wot I like about Technology)

I like:

MP3 files, in the specific form of my ipod. Oh I do love my ipod. 768 songs awaiting my listening pleasure. Or the same song over and over again. Playlists of stuff the kids will like. Playlists of stuff I like. Little pictures of album cover art. Itunes for every piece of music I have thought of wanting so far (and I do not doubt there will be more). And I can play it through the radio in the car.

Email. I know it has been around for a while but every so often it still blows my mind. We can contact anyone, anywhere just like that. It has made the world so much smaller.

Mobile phones. How did we survive?

Thing 6

I neglected to mention third party applications in my previous Flickr post... probably because I didn't really like any I tried. I made a Warhol print with a picture of my son - but Warhol did it before me and frankly, did it better. I made a mosaic thingy - the first one didn't have enough pictures and just looked like a bunch of tiles, the second one had too many and I couldn't focus on it. Then I tried retrievr, in which you draw a sketch and it searches flickr for similar images. I drew an amulet, and got lots of pictures of kids. I drew a mouse, and got lots of pictures of kids. I drew a cat's ears, and got lots of pictures of kids. At which point I decided that manipulating images just isn't my thing and the results don't justify the bother. But one third party app which I do like is the uploading tool, as mentioned before.