#8 RSS

I love my Bloglines! It is so much easier to browse though all my favorite news and blog sites. Rather then doing it the old fashion way of going to each individual website.

One of the 'required' feeds that I subscribed to was "Unshelved" the library comic strip. Its so cute! I highly recommend it to everyone.

I'm not sure of the potential of RSS feeds for library's in the future. Maybe if each branch had one and then patrons could subscribe to it and it would keep them updated on all the up coming activities and programs at the library.

I hope this link works for my blogline. If not, I'll fix it later.
http://rpc.bloglines.com/blogroll?html=1&id=VigintiTres

2. Discover a few pointers from lifelong learners

After watching the "7 & 1/2 Habits of Highly Effective Learners" I know that I find viewing problems as challenges hard and using technology to my advantage easy.

When faced with a problem I usually have a twinge of panic and anxiety over the situation. I tend to worry much more then what I should and there more just get more stressed over whatever it is that I have to deal with.

Using technology to my advantage comes easy to me. I love the web and the ability to find just about anything I could ever need on it. It is one of the best ways to help alleviate my stress from facing a problem like I stated above because 99% of the time you can find a book, a web page, directions that will help you out.

I think all the habits are worthwhile to learn and incorporate into daily life to become a better, more effective life long learner.

I definitely have the 7 & 1/2 habit down pat, I love to Play!!

#7 Post About Anything Technology-Related

• I love my digital camera for the simple fact that I can share my photos over the web so much easier then with film prints. (I still refuse to give up my Nikon manual though!)
• AIM is one of the best things ever invented because it is the only way I can talk to many of my friends who have moved away. Plus I can chat to more than one person at a time, multi-tasking!
• The new cell phones that can take pictures (with a flash mind you), record video, surf the web, check e-mail, play songs/tv shows, etc is crazy and a bit hard for me to wrap my head around how they can get all that into a little rectangle thing no bigger then a stack of cards. I love that they can do it, just don't ask me to explain it!

#6 Flickr Mash-ups & Third Party Sites

So I played with one of Flickr's 'mashups' and found fd's Flickr Toys. I looked at a few of them, but has the most fun with the mosaic maker (You can see my hard work above :-P ). All of the images I used where randomly picked for my by Flikr when I told it I wanted pictures with the tag "dog".

Flikr Color Pickr was also fun, yet I have no idea how that would be useful unless you are creating a desktop wallpaper that you want to be all in the same color field.

Bailey (# 5)

Ok, I cheated. No, my dog is not at the library (though it would be cool if I could bring him to work! ;-) )

I had this pictured uploaded with my e-mail account so I figured I would try moving it over to my blog, I hope its going to work.

I did create a Flickr account too, so if this does not work, I'll send my photo over there and do it that way.

Anyways, this is a picture of my dog, Bailey. (he's also my icon on the far left.) He's asleep on my bed here with one of his favorite toys. He is a cross between a Golden Retriever and a Gorden setter. I got him when he was 8 weeks old and weighted a little less then 15lbs and how at 4 years old he is 80lbs of solid muscle, which he puts to great use lounging around the house for most of the day. :-P

1st Post - Yay!

So after fighting with my computer for a little over half-an-hour I finally got this thing set up. Maybe I should have used livejournal.com for my blog, I can work that. But the whole point of this is to learn something new, right?

So after I get my homework done for my college class I'll work on that other post I need to do. :-)