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').