Thursday, August 27, 2009

Cleaning up!

I've decided that I like Google Reader better than Bloglines so I just went through and opened up all my Bloglines feeds and decided what to move over to my Reader account and what to just delete. Do I really need Dilbert? No, I didn't think so. I don't need LOL Cats either as cute as it is.
I also read Disabled Kitty's post about Delicious. I have been really bad about putting my bookmarks into Delicious. I have many, many bookmarks on my work computer, and I very rarely take the time to put them into Delicious. The day will come when I will be out with my laptop and I will be cursing myself for this.
My newest goal is to try to figure out how to read things offline, and compose responses and blog posts offline too. I don't think this is going to be easy, but it's a goal. I don't sleep well at night, so maybe I could do a little reading at 2am. That could be nice. A netbook is still on my xmas list as well. :-)

Another thing I did this week was start filtering my Facebook settings so I don't get all the Mafia Wars stuff that my friends post, and other applications too. I enjoy playing games on my lunch break, but I can do without the notifications and status updates from my friends and the applications.

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Just did a little test

I currently have 3 blogs floating about on blogger under various accounts. I just went into Google and searched for them. I only found one of them, and that was because I knew a very specific keyword to use to find it. Searching by my name is useless. There are just too many people out there who I share a name with, a great way to stay anonymous, but a lousy way to do a search.

Friday, August 21, 2009

Just musing on what everyone else is doing..

I just took a peek at some of the blogs and noticed that some folks are up to #16 and others are still back on #3 or #4. I think it's a good thing about this class how everyone can just work on this when it's convenient and be at different places. I am surprised at how many people are not going to complete it, some have just given up. I thought it was fun, and I thought everyone else would think so too. Shows you what I know!

Farewell to Lucinda. From reading her blog I can guess that she is not sad to be leaving. Today is her last day I believe. I hope she enjoys that garden and feels better soon.

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

NELINET Classes for the fall!

I've been following NELINET on Twitter. I don't check it all the time, but today I noticed that there are some classes announced for the fall. I know some people have said they might not finish the "23 Things", and a few others said they might be interested in exploring some of these things in more detail. So I thought this might be of interest to you.

http://www3.nelinet.net/services/education

Thu 09/10 Facebook Privacy Settings: Take Control of Your Profile (online)
Mon 09/14 Learning 2.0: The 23 Things (online)

Wed 09/23 Social Media Monitoring (online)
Thu 09/24 Technical Services Efficiency: Beyond one-by-one OCLC Online Cataloging (online)
Fri 09/25 Twitter Basics (online)

Monday, August 10, 2009

More exploring

So yeah, I'm officially done, but as I promised I am still doing some exploring. I spent some time this weekend exploring Picassa 3 on my laptop at home. I managed to work on a slide show, and edit some pictures. Now I'm thinking about making some home movies with some of my older pictures. I think it might be within my reach, although getting some good music might be a little challenge for me, but challenge is what it's all about, right?

I also took a good look at my husband's netbook. My opinion for the most part has been that they are too small, but he left it in the living room yesterday, and I took a poke at it, and found a whole collection of games! Within seconds I was playing a game of Yahtzee, well a Linux version of it anyway. I was actually able to deal with the small size of the keyboard and mouse relatively easily, much to my surprise. So now I'm thinking maybe I'd like to get one after all. The laptop is just so big and heavy, and the netbooks are so much more portable. I don't think it would replace my laptop, but it would be good for weekends or other times when I just want something portable for checking email at the library or coffee shop or something.