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2010-09-08T17:36:00.001-07:00

My blog has moved to http://wpblog.cat509.com/wordpress/. Hope to see you there.

The Easter Beagle Came!

2010-04-04T21:05:00.000-07:00

I had a great Easter with my family.

I am learning a lot about ebook readers. I am using Ninite and filehippo a lot.

Now if I could just get to working on
http://ipl.ci.fsu.edu/community/wiki/index.php/IPL_15_Things
and http://az.webjunction.org/715

Hi there

2010-01-10T20:15:00.001-08:00

I installed windows 7 home premium on virtualbox and like it. I also installed Chrome OS on virtualbox but it is slow. I also have installed Boxee on my laptop and watch tv shows from it every once in awhile. I have worked on my desktops for my computers. I made them look better and easier to use. I have added some firefox extensions and google addins. Some good ideas http://lifehacker.com/5435523/you-dont-need-to-regularly-reinstall-windows-heres-why?skyline=true&s=x.

The holidays have come and gone. I got to spend them with my family.

My Mom, my brother and I went to the Fire Museum.

I went to birthday parties for my friend and my friend’s son.

I have also watched a few dvds and wend to see Blind Side and Alvin and the Chipmunks the squeekquel.

From http://www.munkyourself.com

Stuff

2009-10-18T17:42:00.000-07:00

I'm typing this in blogger on GOS. I'm waiting for Google Chrome to come out.

I made apple cider and pumpkin doughnuts yesterday. Yum!

Walmart has started to sell Hard Candy Cosmetics. Yea! I guess they started in the 1990s but I didn't hear of them until about 5 years ago.

I'm watching NCIS Los Angeles online as I type this. I've never done that before. Just on DVR or ON Demand. I want to start watching things on Hulu sometime.

Finally!

2009-10-04T17:15:00.001-07:00

I am posting this from blogo on my mac mini. Wow my last post was June?? Yikes!

I spent time on July 4th and Labor Day with my Mom. I upgraded my mac mini to Snow Leopard and My Ubuntu to Karma Koala. I also updated my virtualbox. I went to 1 new Public Library Branch and the County took over another library close by me and I have been to both of them. I liked them both. I went to Waffle House for the first time. Yum!

Hi there

2009-06-11T12:41:00.001-07:00

I'm posting this using scribefire in Ubuntu.

One of the things I've also been doing is learning more about second life. I took a class in world about how to man the reference desk at infoisland and use some of the resources. I also went to a tech talk meeting about it as well and learned some new things. I bought land in there last week.

The Tucson Citizen stopped printing their newspaper last month. I used to read it when I went to school and lived there. I also used to buy it when I visited. I'm not a fan of their other paper. The Rocky Mountain News stopped printing as well. I don't like where this is going. I like getting news from the internet but I like newspapers too. Just like I like e-books and e-book readers but I like having the physical book better.

Long time no post

2009-05-21T19:23:00.001-07:00

I can’t believe it’s been since January that I posted. But I have been busy. I went to a Suns game, went to spring training with Mom, celebrated Easter and Mother’s Day, and went to the Botanical Gardens.

With the idea from this article http://lifehacker.com/5204434/the-beginners-guide-to-creating-virtual-machines-with-virtualbox I installed Virtualbox on to my Vista desktop, then installed Windows 7, Ubuntu, and G Os. I also got wifi printing running, and bought a mac mini. Then I got all of those machines to talk to each other as well. I like all of those software and want to learn how to use them better. I’m even writing this post from windows live writer in windows 7. Also, with aol closing their webpage hosting, and geocities closing, I have been working on moving all of my webpages to a different host plus doing things that come with that. I bought 2 domains for the sites. Will keep this blog on blogspot though.

Old article but it talks about Librarians as one of the best careers of 2008. http://www.usnews.com/articles/business/best-careers/2008/12/11/best-careers-2009-librarian.html

Added lots of people on twitter.

This blog is not dead

2009-01-11T17:44:00.001-08:00

I have been busy with work, Dr.s appts, holidays, vacation etc. so I haven’t updated this blog in forever. Plus most of my pictures for my blog were lost so I had to try and recover them. It seems like I’m not the only one. I have been having some fun and doing new things though.

Hopefully I’ll get back to a regular schedule now.

More Stuff

2008-09-19T17:28:00.001-07:00

30 Info overload - good article on web 2.0 information overload
31 image generators - great tools. Already talked about this in my last post.
32 spam, splogs, phishing - good explanation of what they are.
34 friendfeed beta - Haven't tried this yet.
35 time management - tips on time management but don't want to try them just yet.

36 Keep things simple. Cool tools to update web 2.0 tools at once. Might try updateme eventually.

evernote have account use occasionally
allmyfavs.com cool site for site suggestions.

lookybook cool site but haven't used it yet.

Thing 64 one hit wonders CopyPasteCharacter useful for special characters that aren't easy to type. KuKu Klock not sure if I could use an online clock. Stormpulse looks useful. Pixadus interesting. Fakenamegenerator - very useful if you have a hard time trying to come up with login ids. PicApp looks useful for presentations. Regator - looks like a great way to get all of the news you need in one place.

Bakersdozen

Wikis - have one

Avatars, Identity and Privacy - cool image generators

Google and gmail - I didn't know they had a section on patents. Must look in to that.

Learn & Play @CML

Cool image generators

Read perspectives. I read an article about library 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0. Cool article on where the web and libraries are going in the future.

We can now download ebooks from overdrive on to ipods. Yea! I tried this last weekend.

The new kids site was revamped and I really like all the web 2.0 stuff they have on there.

My pirate name is:

Red Mary Bonney

Passion is a big part of your life, which makes sense for a pirate. You can be a little bit unpredictable, but a pirate's life is far from full of certainties, so that fits in pretty well. Arr!

Get your own pirate name from piratequiz.com.
part of the fidius.org network

The last time I posted was when?

2008-09-07T17:04:00.001-07:00

Tech Talk Fridays

Friendfeed. I suggested she do this one. I just joined not long before. It's fun.

Good Reads. I found this on another site as well so I joined. Its good for reviews supposedly but I haven't used it yet.

Feedsifter. Sounds useful but I haven't used it.

Vimeo. Do we need another video sharing service?

Flauntr. Looks useful and I will show this to patrons along with something else.

Retaggr. I joined. One place for all your social networking sites.

Screencast o matic. Looks useful but you can't add captions.

I also have played with some cool image generators. They are all on my flickr account (link in the left sidebar)

New Kids came out with their new cd this week and I love it. They've been on the tv a lot lately.

2008-07-27T18:53:00.001-07:00

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new things to learn

2008-07-27T14:10:00.001-07:00

Learned lots of good thing over the past few weeks.

From here

Thing 29 - Personalized Start Pages - Igoogle - have ; NetVibes - have ; My Yahoo - have but made changes since they made upgrades I didn't know about.

Thing 28 - Social Task Lists - Gubb - haven't tried it ; Clockit - just signed up but haven't used it yet ; Remember the Milk - have

Thing 27 - This One Next - Looks like a great readers advisory tool.

Thing 26 - Evernote - just signed up but haven't tried it yet.

Thing 25 (also tech talk Friday) - Friendfeed - just signed up. It's fun.

Thing 24 - Greasemonkey - Have it installed on Firefox but haven't really used it yet.

Thing 23 - Gnod - Looks like a great readers advisory tool.

Thing 22 - Web Office 2.0 - I use Google Docs and Zoho out of the list.

Thing 21 - Teacher Tube - Haven't really tried it but it looks useful for teachers.

Thing 20 - Evaluating the Net - Gives good sites for evaluating web sites.

Thing 19 - Flickr Revisited - I use picnik at work sometimes. Haven't used their groups or videos much.

Thing 18 - Claim your ID online - I just signed up for Claimid. It was hard to figure out how to set up but once I did I was fine.

Thing 17 - Creative Commons - Very useful free stuff.

Thing 16 - Are You LinkedIn? - Yes I am.

Thing 15 - LastFm - Have an account but don't use it often.

Thing 14 - Edit your photos without Photoshop - I hadn't used Pixenate or Resizr before but they are cool. I like Phixr as well. Haven't used Photoshop Express.

Thing 13 -lib.rario.us

Thing 12 - Google Maps - I've created my own map in google maps.

Thing 11 - Librarything Revisited - I knew about librarything local - very useful. but I didn't know that you can use it on your cellphone. Cool

Thing 10 - IM Safety - Links to excellent IM safety websites. Very important.

Thing 9 - Pandora - Have an account but don't use it often.

Thing 8 - Jott - I have an account but don't use it often.

Thing 7 (and tech talk Friday) - Goodreads - Just joined but haven't used it yet. Looks like a useful tool though.

Thing 6 - Ebooks and their readers - I have used netlibrary and overdrive. I like them. I want to try a Kindle or Sony Reader someday.

Thing 5 - Tumblr - Haven't tried it.

Thing 4 - Twitter- Have an account.

Thing 3 - Setting up your Facebook Profile - I have an account.

Thing 2 - Online Privacy - Links to excellent online safety websites. Very important.

Thing 1 - Accessing Electronic Books

Tech Talk Friday - xtimeline - great timeline making website.

Google Docs now has cool templates. I love them. They also introduced Lively. I downloaded it and set it up but haven't played with it yet. They also introduced Knol. Haven't used it yet.

Day in the life of a librarian has been fun to follow. Learn how fellow library workers spend their days at work. I've learned things from them too.

oldest living blogger dies. Wow, blogging at 108. I can't believe it. How cool.

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future date

2008-07-07T06:59:00.000-07:00

Trying out bloggers future date feature

Happy Birthday USA

2008-07-06T19:02:00.000-07:00

more cat pictures

I couldn't resist the above picture from lolcats.

Thing 63 Foxit Reader. I use this instead of acrobat reader sometimes. I like it better because it's not as much of a resource hog. I'm downloading the updates to it now. They have added more things to it since I first downloaded it.

I downloaded firefox 3 on download day. It crashes too much for my liking but I still like it better than IE.

I had a great 4th of July with my family.

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2008-06-27T16:29:00.000-07:00

I tried wordle. Saw it on a few blogs. It looks cool. I used my de.lic.ious account

Thing 62 is PDFEscape It's nice but leaves a watermark on the free version.
No tech talk until next week.

Went to a wnba game.

Spent Fathers Day with the family.

Dana Carvey's hbo special was good.

Samantha Brown's new show is good too.

Downloading music lateley

Went to sprinkles and krispy kreme. Yum!

Went to dinner with a friend last night.

Finally

2008-06-07T18:49:00.001-07:00

Finally a new post!

Had a great mothers day and memorial day with family.

Saw Sex and the City. Good movie.

Thing 60 is facebook. I have an account and have joined some things.
Thing 61 is library apps and facebook. I have a couple of apps but haven't used them yet.

Tech talk Fridays
Chat Maker Haven't tried it yet but it looks good for libraries
Mnisio Haven't tried it yet but it looks good for libraries
Zoho Have an account and use it. Very handy
Book Lamp Haven't tried it yet.
Other suggestions Need to try these 10. They look very useful

Wayne's World Party time excellent!
'Wayne's World' Returns: "'SNL' brethren Mike Myers and Dana Carvey bring back the classic skit by talking about Tila Tequila and giving their top 10 porno names based on this year's movies."

Summertime by NKOTB YEA!

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2008-05-03T22:09:00.001-07:00

I am posting this from scribefire.

Thing 58 : going green matters haven't looked at it yet
Thing 59 : Authors on the web haven't looked at it yet but it looks like another good resource for my book group.

Tech Talk
bitstrips haven't tried it yet but looks fun
picnik I love it but haven't used it lately.

Cool, Rachael Ray has a poster for ala read. Not my favorite book by that author but cool none the less. I also bought some small zucchini that she had on her show last Tuesday and mixed them with some yellow squash. They are good (yummo!).

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2008-04-22T17:15:00.001-07:00

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2008-04-21T17:15:00.001-07:00

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2008-04-20T21:00:00.001-07:00

I did some tweaking of my blog template.

Thing 56 Smile in a Box

Thing 57 Tastespotting

Haven't tried them yet. Not sure if I will.

Tech Talk Fridays

Glypho Haven't tried it yet

Bugmenot. I love it. They have new things since I last used them. Have to try them sometime.

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2008-04-20T17:17:00.001-07:00

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2008-04-11T17:19:00.001-07:00

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2008-04-06T17:16:00.001-07:00

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2008-04-06T00:00:00.001-07:00

Went to a spring training game with my Mom.

Spent Easter with my family

Tech Talk Friday subjects

Citizendium haven't tried this one yet

Twitter I like twitter but the poster no. I even have added new people to follow and found new addins with it.

Jott (utterz) I like jott and have an account. Don't use it as much as I should.

Doodle haven't tried it yet

Stumbleupon have it installed but don't use it.

animoto also was thing 39 finally made a video

Twiddla Haven't tried it yet but signed up

Things subjects

55 slideshare.net have an account. I use it for my classes at work. See one of my slide shows below.

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54 bookjetty Haven't tried it yet

53 Litlovers Haven't tried it yet but it looks good for suggestions for my book group.

52 Clipmarks Could be useful for work

clipped from explorediscoverplay.blogspot.com

Ever wished you could just stash away, in an organized and retrievable manner, various bits and pieces that you had been scanning or reading? Well, Clipmarks is the tool for you. It is my current favourite Web 2.0 tool ;>) and makes me feel more in control of all the stuff that comes onto my computer

With Furl and Bloglines, you can save the urls, but with Clipmarks you can save the actual article or the clips you want. Once you have signed up to Clipmarks, you install a button on your browser (IE or Firefox are enabled), and then simply clip any website or blog article. You can then send the clip to your blog, email it, or print it and save it into one of your ClipCasts (aka subject folders). You can save the clips for public or private viewing. You can also set up Clipmarks so that your Clipmarks are accessible through your Facebook profile, MySpace, Blogger and others. You can see mine here on Facebook.

51 There have been so many neat new things in web 2.0 since I started this!

50 Imcooked. I want to try the recipe below

I went to a regional forum

Yea NKOTB is back baby!

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2008-04-05T23:04:00.001-07:00

Monday's a bitch

1. Have you ever partaken in a dare? What did it entail? no
2. Do you live with anyone who has any particularly annoying living habits?(eg. leaves toilet seat up,forgets to give messages) no
3. Who's your favourite advertising mascot? (eg. Tony the Tiger,The Michelin Man)
4. If you were a high school stereotype,you'd be the...? loaner.

5. Do you like organic food? no really

Manic Monday

If you could have any music group or musician play at a party, who would you hire? Hanson
Name three things to be happy about today. NKOTB
How do you release frustration? Surf the internet or play the piano

Tuesday Tunes

What songs cheer you up when you're feeling down? MMMbop
What song comes to mind when you think of the word : Happy? Don't worry be happy
If you needed to cheer up a friend, what music would you play? not sure

Wednesday Mindhump

Name some things that make you happy . . .
A song MMMBop
A book
A memory
A food Mac and Cheese
A person parents
A place Charlotte

Thursday Threesome

Onesome: Anyone-- Has anyone made an impression on you lately? No, not on the national level, but at work or school or just 'around'. ...or even here on the web? no

Twosome: can Miss-- Speaking of webbish things (and of course we are <g>!), what types of things do you take a miss on at your place and chose not to post about? Just curious... personal stuff

Threesome: a Day-- On a similar note: do you post every day? ...or just whenever? ...or is every session at the computer a spur to work up a little something? Whenever

Friday Fiver

1. Are you a people watcher? yes
2. Who do you hang out with? don't hand much
3. Did you work hard this week? no
4. How do you show a date a good time?
5. What's your favorite rule to break? speed

Five on Friday

1. Other than the official start of spring on the calender, what really signifies the start of spring for you? weather
2. How severe is your spring cleaning bug this year? not
3. What one thing says "spring" to you more than any other? flowers
4. What are your springtime traditions?
5. When do you break out your spring and summer wardrobe? Do you follow the "no white before Easter" rule? depends. Don't wear white clothes until springtime

Saturday Special

~I Say....You Answer...
Using words that are constantly mentioned during the Easter season, answer with the first word that comes to mind....~

1. Peace..... you answer?: symbol

2. Passion..... you answer?: love

3. Forgive..... you answer?: forgiveness

4. Love..... you answer?: friends and family

Sunday Seven

Choose seven ingredients you’d use with vanilla ice cream to invent the next great ice cream flavor. chocolate chips, sprinkles

Booked by 3 for March

1. List up to 3 books you've read that start with each of the aforementioned letters. "The," "A," and "An" may be ignored for the purpose of this exercise.

2. List up to 3 authors you've read whose first or

3. List up to 3 books and/or authors for each letter that you want to read. none come to mind

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