Thing #21 Podcasts

Ask a Ninja was less than helpful, with his whales and apple pies.  Wow.

Of the directories, only the Podcastalley.com one worked.  (Server not found, yada, yada)  I don't think it's because I'm at home on my Mac and using Safari.  In poking around in the alley, I didn't find any that grabbed me enough to listen to it and I did not want to sign up anyway.  

Through Merlin I checked out how libraries are using it and then tried to subscribe to the Denver Public Library's Stories for Kids RSS feed.  (Which, by the way, seems to be the natural evolution from the dial-a-story services of some years back.  Oh OK, you're not that young that you can't remember those ... are you?)

Not only could Bloglines not find that, but then, when I decided to try again to subscribe to the Merlin RSS feed, it couldn't find that one either.  And no, I don't want to install the "easy subscribe button"!

Gr-rumph.

Thing #20 Do you tube too?

I could definitely waste a lot of time on YouTube.  I decided to look for video clips of Borzois in action and found "about" 667.  And watched all of them.   Not.  I settled on the one from Animal Planet, Breed All About It - Borzois.  I'm going to try to embed it but may have to settle for a link.

Borzois  

Of course, as I look again at the YouTube page for my chosen video, I see that embedding has been disabled by request.  Alas, you'll have to click the link.

Spaces between sentences

Today I learned that I am archaic, an anachronism, a dinosaur, a throw back (and redundant too).

Apparently, my use of two spaces between sentences is now wrong, wrong, wrong.  And bad mommy, I've taught my children to do the same.

A site that explains this quite clearly and firmly is Typography for Lawyers:  www.typographyforlawyers.com/?p=12

I, however, remain defiant and will continue to use two spaces until the spaces police come for me.  Buh wa ha ha!

Thing #19 the Web 2.0 Award goes tooo ....

nobody.  Well, maybe somebody.

I checked out most of the first place winners for 2008 from the short list.  I find it noteworthy that Del.icio.us won in two categories, since it was one of the of the "things" that I liked the most so far in this 23 things trek.  I looked at Craigslist first since I'd heard so much about it for so long now, but if you're not in a major market (which Hagerstown is not) then it isn't terribly useful.  Unless you want to buy something and are willing to go fetch or ship.  I suppose if you are wanting to relocate it would be good for finding an apartment and maybe even a job.

The music one, Last (www.last.fm/) was pretty cool; I could see using it to find music to give as gifts, like a reader's advisory for music.

Backpack would be very useful for those who do not have helpful computer dudes or dudettes to build intranets for them.

Color me blue: ColorBlender never did load.  Zimdesk is unavailable because they're building V.2; why V.1 is down in the meantime?  The rationale is a cosmic mystery.

Mostly, I yawned.  My attention strayed.  I didn't care.  Perhaps if I had a specific task I needed one of these tools for ... but then I didn't find the fun stuff much fun either.

Sorry.

The Sandbox, revisited.

I decided to give the "add a page" thing another try - and it worked! I have to give some credit to Liz, who, btw, dislikes PBwiki.

My page is titled Favorite Way to Re-center; here's the link:

Thing #18 Online productivity tools

But there's no equivalent to Publisher (or for Mac Appleworks users, Drawing) !!  Which I use alot! Because I like to!  Because I'm visual!

!!

So, okay, I did type a sentence in Google.docs and it were goot.  Easy to use because of its familiarity, but lacking soo many features.  I can only hope for Microsoft's Office suite to become an open source (is that the correct term?) online productivity tool.  And that's only because that's what the majority of people use.  I would love to be able to work on my documents from library to home and visa versa.  Without installing Office on my Mac.  Which we own and have on the boys' computers but haven't on ours because ... because...

Thing #17 The Sandbox

I figured out how to add my blog's URL and poked around a bit, trying to find other pages in the wiki - favorite books, favorite way to escape, anything at all.  I found a couple, but it was a chore.  I never did find out how to create a page to write, "whutevvvr!" on ...

Playing in the sand has made me hot and sticky and covered in grit.  (figuratively? virtually?)