Friday, November 21, 2008

Lesson 7

I had some trouble getting this done. The e-mail account I had set up for this challenge did not have any addresses in the address book, so I tried using my personal e-mail account so I could add friends. But that didn't work since it was not one of the ones that were linked to this my space thing. So I ended up finding a way to type in the addresses and I did put 3 of them in. How will these people know I invited them to my site and what will they find there? I'm at a loss as to how this is of any benefit? and I'm not sure what them people I invited will see there except my name. I'm confused on this one.

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

pod?

Lesson 6

Boy, I liked lesson 6. I do the weekly newspaper column in our local paper with information about the library and things going on there. What I have been doing is working on it either at home or at the library and then saving it to one or the other computers and e-mailing it to myself so I could work on it at the other location. Then I also have to e-mail it to our librarian so she can review it before I send it off to the paper.

This will save a bunch of e-mailing. I can work on it anywhere and she will be able to review it and make corrections or changes if she wants. I can even submit it to the paper this way!
Wonderful!
Well, I had a great time looking at all the pod casts out there...wow! And I did find one I wanted to get on a regular basis, but I was not successful in getting it to download to my blog. The best I was able to do was to have it listed as a favorite on this computer, which I only use when I'm at work.

Is everyone having trouble with this or is it just me?

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Lesson 4b

I don't even know where to start...should I make a calendar with my son's pictures, or a deck of cards with their baby pictures on and give them for Christmas? But the one "toys" that attracted my attention right away was the Bead Art. I've always loved beading, and I like needle work too, like counted cross stitch. With the bead art application, I can take the picture of the sun set (or any other) and turn it into a beautiful beaded wall handing or cross stitch framed picture. I could probably stretch the idea and use it to make stained glass panels of my favorite photo's.

But the sad truth is I'm a Readaholic, and I probably won't do any of those things any time soon, because there are so many books, and so little time.

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Koh Lanta Surprises!

Here is the photo I picked out. I can almost feel myself sitting on the hill top (after reading a good book all day) and enjoying this sunset.

I was totally surprised by the flickr web site. I didn't even know there were sites like this and the number and range of photos was ...wow!(I'm from the days when we only got TV on one station from 5 p.m. to 9p.m. otherwise it was a test pattern. ) It would be tempting to spend all day looking at the photos and where they all came from. But I'm just a worker bee, so I need to get back to that.

Thanks for doing this challenge; I would not have explored the internet like this without it.

Bee

Friday, October 24, 2008

Lesson 3

Right now my head feels like it is too full. Way more information than I could process at one time sitting here in the library. This is one that I'm going to have to do over, slowly, at home to let it sink in.

Rss-ing seems like the perfect way to get to all the points you want to check back on, but I have always just used "my favorites" buttons. This will be easier, but right now I feel overwhelmed. Tomorrow it will sound a little more familiar, and I'll go from there.

I hope I'm not the only one feeling this way. After I get all the RSS's set up, I'll be interested in reading the other blogs I'm linked to.