RSS feeds

Thought I would record my thoughts after completing this section. I thought I had finished this a while ago, as I had a page opened and added a number of - what I thought interesting - sites to follow. At the same time as I started adding these sites to keep me updated with interesting information, I felt as though my life was slipping away into cyberspace, and I would have to be spending all my life sitting in front of a computer just to follow these sites. But of course, in reality, I won't be doing that. I'll probably view them once in a while, by which time the news will be as stale as.....

Amazed-)

Well this journey continues to amaze me, as well as confound me! I added about 7 RSS feeds the other day to what I thought was my Blog page. However, I cannot get back to where that page is. Tonight, I discovered I had a Google page, and when I opened my "account" - there were my particulars - though I still can't find where I added those RSS feeds. I'm feeling very vulnerable at this point, as all these different user names and passwords for Flickr, Picasa etc are worrying! Just how is my privacy being invaded?? It's a little unnerving. I feel like a learner driver in charge of a high powered vehicle with very little understanding or knowledge of the dangers and difficulties I could get myself into!

video upload - butterfly

I can't believe this. Third time lucky. Not sure what happened before. It just disappeared.

Bears

So now I've embedded a video in my blog. My computer keeps doing a "crash/dump" and I lose everything I'm working on!! I'm sure it's Vista that's the culprit. As a result, this is the second time I've tried to upload a video. Not really sure how this sort of knowledge could be used in my job in the library. These things are more for personal use I think.

Flickr

I can't believe I'm creating so many new accounts! I've just created another with Flickr!

My thoughts on the photos of BSQ:

BSQ is an amazing structure and is well represented through these pictures. I'd hazard a guess that nowhere else in the world would there be such an inspiring structure for a library :-)


I'm looking forward to sharing some of my travel photos in the future. I find there are an infinite number of fantastic places to visit right here in our own country. I've been overseas and spent almost 2 years living and working there, and still believe Australia has vistas to match most other countries.

getting started again

Well I couldn't work out why I had done all these things and my course results continued to show "not attempted". I thought I had successfully negotiated my way through all the things I had to do. I've decided to go through methodically now, and I'm now hoping I'll get some recognition for what I've done! (in the eyes of the "course master" that is!)

The blogging is all very well, but I just feel it's making us all slaves to the computer world, as to keep up with blogs, and RSS feeds, etc etc, we'd be spending inordinate amounts of time in front of a screen. I'd much rather be fishing!!

Taylor

This is the first time I have uploaded photos to the internet. Usually I transfer photos from my digital camera to my computer and save either on the hard drive, or back up on dvd or cd. When I want to send photos to family or friends, I attach them to an email. I don't think I'll become a frequent user of this service. I preferred to upload this photo of my pet cat (who incidentally is rather cute:-) ) through "blogger". To use Flickr it involved creating another web address, and that's just another complication I do not need. I have so many user names and passwords at the moment that I have to keep a logbook otherwise I would never be able to access most of them as I'd forget these details.

getting started

Well having negotiated my path through the maze of URLs, account addresses, blog names, blog address........... I'm now just befuddled about what to write. I feel I've actually achieved a minor victory by reaching this stage, but not really sure how I'm going to fill empty spaces with intelligent thoughts daily! I know the youth of today spend an inordinate amount of time blogging their way through their daily lives, but I don't believe that I have anything much - at this stage - to report on. The internet has become an inanimate friend, sharing all kinds of thoughts and feelings. A bit reminiscent of an old dog, ever faithful.