Thing 18

This was the best '23 Things' exercise in a long time - finally something I can see using on an ongoing basis. The ability for a group of people, who are rarely together in the same room, to be able to edit a document and see what these changes are is great - go Zoho!

Thing 17

The PBwiki thing was fun - sometimes (when there's time to kill) it's amusing to see what other people take the time to post. How about 'Favorite Ways To Spend A Summer Day"?

I'd start my list with going to the beach on a sunny day, weeding early in the morning and hearing the ping of weeds and rocks being tossed into the bucket, a glass of cold lemonade, no traffic in town 'cause school is out, two cold showers a day, fireflies, ice cream sandwiches on the front porch, being the only house in the development with the windows open, FANS.

Thing 16

It was very interesting to see the wide variety of subjects that other libraries cover in their wikis and blogs. Maybe LCPL should have a blog on our website, open to the entire community, all about the renovation and expansion of Rust. How useful it might be to see this project through the eyes of our patrons!

Thing 15

This entire '23 Things' has been a great introduction and source of information on Web 2.0. In his article Into a New World of Librianship, Michael Stephens says that librarian 2.o 'allows staff time to play and learn'. The '23 Things' is certainly doing that.

Thing 14

I will admit to being a closet American Idol watcher. So searching Technorati for blogs on American Idol was interesting to say the least - fun for about five minutes and then way too much information/opinion. You could follow tags forever and end up very far awy from where you started.

Thing 13

Del.icio.us, while an interesting concept, is not for me - I am just not interested in tagging away my life. I am even less interested in reading other people's tags as they wind their way to who knows where.

Generator Fun!

Thing 12

Another fun exercise. If this ice ever melts and all my poor crocus survive and the daffs bloom I'll start thinking of new and different plants for the garden this year. I've got a good deal - my husband digs new beds and I get to plant and weed and play in the dirt all summer.
Finding the sites was easy; I used websites I've gotten info from in the past. Moving the whole search roll to my blog was only accomplished with tremendous amounts of help from Oona - thanks Oona!!!

Thing 11

http://www.librarything.com/catalog.php?view=bquin&shelf=list

This is an interesting concept - catalog all the books in my house. Books in bookcases, in piles next to the bed, in the car, in the kitchen cabinet (a dictionary from 1968 that we use so much that even the kids' friends know where it is and a bird guide), books that have never been unpacked since we moved six years ago, and on and on.
I'd really like to find a tool that would catalog and organize all the photographs in my house - pictures in envelopes in piles on the bottom shelf of bookcases, pictures in a box next to the bed, none in the car!!, pictures in piles on the desk under the kitchen cabinet that has the dictionary, pictures still in boxes that we moved six years ago, and on and on.
I really am more organized than all this appears :-)

Thing 10

fun with generators - check these out!

http://www.beerintheevening.com/crawls/show_crawl.shtml?399963

http://www.beerintheevening.com/crawls/show_crawl.shtml?399966
I feel so much better now that I can get reviews! of pubs! in Norwich, England for my daughter who will be studying there next year.

http://www.crustydemons.co.uk/UK/tattoo_parlour/viewer.php?clip=w2&id=4&msg=AZTEC%20FOREVER
Interesting........

Thing 9

I must say that thing 9 wasn't of particular interest to me. Thing 8 - the RSS feeds and putting them all together on blogline - was more fun than I thought and will actually be a timesaver. The key, however, is that these are either websites I know, visit more often than not, and are on subjects that I am interested in.
I did check out the search tools for thing 9. I guess I'm just not interested in reading lots of blogs, some of them on particularly inane subjects. I will stick with magazines and newspapers that I can read while eating breakfast, taking a bath , or falling asleep.

Thing 8 - Bloglines

my feeds

Thing 7 - technology

There are so many levels of technology. When we bought our current house seven years ago (our previous houses had been 120, 80, and 75 years old respectively), it was the first new house with new appliances we had ever lived in. We thought we had hit the jackpot because the refrigerator had an ice maker! All of our much younger neighbors had upgraded to get refrigerators with water in the door, ice in the door, lights in the door. Our technology triumph was, actually, rather sad.
So now my ice maker is not working! For a few days no ice cubes popped out; then magically, ice cubes started reappearing making my husband happy once again. Next the arm on the ice maker stuck halfway between up and down - once again, no ice cubes. So now we've given up on 'new' technology and reverted to the blue, plastic ice cube trays that you fill up at the kitchen sink and gingerly carry over to the freezer (how much water spilled this time?). However, these beat the really old fashioned metal ice cube trays with the handle you had to jerk and pry out of all that frozen water.
The motto? Technology is great when it works.

Thing 6

By following the road from thing 6 to the article in Wikipedia on mashups you can browse all sorts of interesting examples of mashups. I like statistics so I decided to check out the Chicago police department's crime map - http://www.chicagocrime.org/map/. Now you too can get all sorts of info on crimes at ATMs, appliance stores, cemeteries. I particularly like the maps and the little flag locaters - a good use of this whole mashup thing.

Where did the pictures go? Any ideas?

OK!!!

I did this!

I was married in this church in Cutchogue, NY - this is actually a rather idealized view of the real thing. I can't decide if all these photographs on Flickr are neat (finding places from your past) or rather creepy (I found a lot of cute kids and weddings when searching 'Cutchogue').