Week 6 : Fun Stuff

Playing with Stumbleupon - what fun. So many weird and wonderful sites. Could waste hours just seeing where it takes me. Bit like a game of chance,roll the dice or spin the wheel, and see where it takes you. Can't say I found anything really useful or lifechanging but it was fun.
Really loved Last.fm. Found it really useful - lots of biographical info, discography, as well as recommendations.
Seomoz.org/web2.0 was interesting. Interesting to see how sites are ranked and rated. I found it quite useful especially as a way of suggesting alternative sites to some I cuurently use.
Rolyo I'm still not sure about - I will have to play around a bit more. Tried doing a search for public domain e books on humour and found heaps of books. One of the sites it searches, Project Gutenberg, I'm already familiar with. Don't know if I'm likely to use Rolyo but I'll go back and check it out again.
Lolcat - well what can I say? Many of the pictures and captions aren't even funny. How many cute/funny cats can one take? The dogs just look like dogs, hard to make a funny caption there. And the celebreties just aren't funny. And some of the look alikes...

Week 5 : more photos continued...

Kuching, Sarawak. More holiday snaps of our Borneo adventure at http://www.flickr.com/photos/bookwoman2000/
You can see us washing baby elephants in the river.

Week 5: Flickr. Young women enjoying a day at the beach at Southport, 1940

Young women enjoying a day at the beach at Southport, 1940
Originally uploaded by State Library of Queensland, Australia

I really liked this photo. It reminded me of my mother. She would have been about their age. She got married in 1941 at seventeen years of age.

Week 4 : RSS feeds

Listened to the podcast. Unlike many colleagues I had no problems with it. Set up a Bloglines account. Found it a bit awkward to use but got there in the end. It appears I've been ussing RSS feeds already without really knowing it. Like others I have various news and other RSS feeds on my igoogle page. More convenient and handy for me. i'm sure bloglines is probably quite good if you have a lots of professioal reading to do or lots of blogs or whatever. One thing I have noticed doing all this learning is how time consuming it all is and how bad my memory is! I spent over half an hour the other day trying to login to bloglines. nothing worked. Tried different passwords etc. finally I realized I must have signed up with a different email address. Jeeezzz.