I found this interesting website http://www.armeniatravelblog.com/
Armenia would be a fascinating place to visit. Land of lovely long legged women.
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Blog exercise - Library industry blog.
I recently discovered this wonderful blog http://awfullibrarybooks.wordpress.com/.
The famous Proverb says "to the making of many books there is no end and much devotion to them is wearisome to the flesh" and as librarians we all know this is very true!
In the library there are many books that were once considered essential but have been forgotten about. This blog endeavours to bring them to our attention.
I must say that my lifelong love on 70's British Glam Rock can be attributed to a book in Sefton High School's library called "Pop Today." It hadn't been borrowed since 1975 but was still on our libraries shelves when I was an impressionable young lad in the early 90's.
The famous Proverb says "to the making of many books there is no end and much devotion to them is wearisome to the flesh" and as librarians we all know this is very true!
In the library there are many books that were once considered essential but have been forgotten about. This blog endeavours to bring them to our attention.
I must say that my lifelong love on 70's British Glam Rock can be attributed to a book in Sefton High School's library called "Pop Today." It hadn't been borrowed since 1975 but was still on our libraries shelves when I was an impressionable young lad in the early 90's.
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Wikis
Its been a while since I last posted on my blog but now the IT department are working on Voyager and its too early to go home I have decided to use the time wisely.
Of course I missed the proper lesson on Wiki's put Paul Howse very kindly bought me up to speed on Wiki's and let me loose - see Perry Lee's page LOL!
Of course I searched the internet for Wiki's - other than the ubiquitous Wikipedia and found one that is right up my alley - Sammywiki. If like me you are very excited about Samsungs new bubble washing machine, this is the site to look at.
http://www.sammywiki.com/search.php?do=getdaily&contenttype=vBForum_Post
Of course I missed the proper lesson on Wiki's put Paul Howse very kindly bought me up to speed on Wiki's and let me loose - see Perry Lee's page LOL!
Of course I searched the internet for Wiki's - other than the ubiquitous Wikipedia and found one that is right up my alley - Sammywiki. If like me you are very excited about Samsungs new bubble washing machine, this is the site to look at.
http://www.sammywiki.com/search.php?do=getdaily&contenttype=vBForum_Post
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Instant messager!
Today we have been learning about Instant messager and acroynms used for abbrievation. I have to say as a child of the 80's I was taught to touch type and can generally type quicker than I can work out the right acronym!
Monday, July 26, 2010
So stressed out - no one around to strangle!
Thats right I have been so busy at work with things like orders for reserve and being ill, that I need to catch up with my blogging.
So with the theme of being ill and being winter and all, what do you do to make yourself feel better when you have been unwell?
So with the theme of being ill and being winter and all, what do you do to make yourself feel better when you have been unwell?
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
RSS Feeds
Today we had a smashing session learning about RSS feeds and as the acronym suggests - it was REALLY SIMPLE, stupid! :)
I have subscribed to websites that cover my many esoteric and interesting interests. What did we do to find out information and share things before the internet was invented. For example I love electrical appliances and grew up thinking I was the only one - but there are thousands of people like me who love electrical appliances on the internet. For those who want to check out the lastest and greatest whitegoods check out (like I did)
http://www.appliancist.com/
Of course sometimes I like to get out of the laundry and explore the great world around me. One country that has always intrigued me and which I would love to visit is Estonia. Estonia is on the Baltic sea between Finland and Russia. It is only a small country but apparently there are many Estonians living in Australia and if you are interested what they are getting up to you can find out on http://www.eesti.org.au/
And speaking of obscure European countries once a year they get to play with the big boys and often win in the annual spectacular Eurovision Song Contest. For 55 years the nations of Europe have united to sing an original song and then vote for their favourite. Of course this years contested has finished but on http://www.eurovision.tv/page/home you can read all about the aftermath and also look forward to next years contest in Germany.
Of course if you are like me and looking for something to go ARRRGGGHHH!!! about, http://notalwaysright.com/ shows you all the dumb things customers say to service people. There are some LOL moments there so maybe discretion needs to be shown when you are at work ;)
What an interesting lesson we had today. Now that I have subscribed to these websites I shall never be short of news on all the things that interest me. Hopefully I will still get some time to spend the libraries budget on new books. Perhaps I should next subscribe to a page on how to effectively manage my time. However we learned how to adjust the settings on Google reader to make sure that the things that interest me are delivered in a timely manner and useless distractions are kept to a minimum. This means I can learn about all the marvellous things that one can do on the interent and still get back to the basics of my job, which is spending the libraries budget on new books, serials and electronic resources.
I have subscribed to websites that cover my many esoteric and interesting interests. What did we do to find out information and share things before the internet was invented. For example I love electrical appliances and grew up thinking I was the only one - but there are thousands of people like me who love electrical appliances on the internet. For those who want to check out the lastest and greatest whitegoods check out (like I did)
http://www.appliancist.com/
Of course sometimes I like to get out of the laundry and explore the great world around me. One country that has always intrigued me and which I would love to visit is Estonia. Estonia is on the Baltic sea between Finland and Russia. It is only a small country but apparently there are many Estonians living in Australia and if you are interested what they are getting up to you can find out on http://www.eesti.org.au/
And speaking of obscure European countries once a year they get to play with the big boys and often win in the annual spectacular Eurovision Song Contest. For 55 years the nations of Europe have united to sing an original song and then vote for their favourite. Of course this years contested has finished but on http://www.eurovision.tv/page/home you can read all about the aftermath and also look forward to next years contest in Germany.
Of course if you are like me and looking for something to go ARRRGGGHHH!!! about, http://notalwaysright.com/ shows you all the dumb things customers say to service people. There are some LOL moments there so maybe discretion needs to be shown when you are at work ;)
What an interesting lesson we had today. Now that I have subscribed to these websites I shall never be short of news on all the things that interest me. Hopefully I will still get some time to spend the libraries budget on new books. Perhaps I should next subscribe to a page on how to effectively manage my time. However we learned how to adjust the settings on Google reader to make sure that the things that interest me are delivered in a timely manner and useless distractions are kept to a minimum. This means I can learn about all the marvellous things that one can do on the interent and still get back to the basics of my job, which is spending the libraries budget on new books, serials and electronic resources.
Monday, June 28, 2010
We are here today because of what came before.
Recently the Telstra commercial has been making me go arrrggghhh!!!
You know the one, some small internet connected contraption and the head of Alexander Graham Bell talking to us from inside some glass dome. Someone at the advertising agency has been taking something because not only is it freaky and frightening to small children, you have no idea who the talking head is supposed to be until he starts discussing how he invented the telephone.
And this gets to the part that irritates me. The talking head of Alexander raves about Telstra's smart phone and how it can do a myriad of amazing things and that the phone he invented was only good as a paperweight.
This irritates me because todays telephones may be able to do amazing things, but we would not have them at all if it was not for the determination, imagination, hard work and research by people such as Alexander Graham Bell for inventing such things as the telephone in the first place. It is all to easy to dismiss stereo systems, televisions, mobile phones from previous generations and nothing more that bizarre curios but not only were they amazing technological revolutions at the time, they were often much better constructed and cost more as a percentage of the weekly income than todays consumer products.
So as we learn about the amazing things we do in this web 2.0 course, lets remember the hard work of people who developed telecommunications and computers to the point that we have the technology at our hands today.
You know the one, some small internet connected contraption and the head of Alexander Graham Bell talking to us from inside some glass dome. Someone at the advertising agency has been taking something because not only is it freaky and frightening to small children, you have no idea who the talking head is supposed to be until he starts discussing how he invented the telephone.
And this gets to the part that irritates me. The talking head of Alexander raves about Telstra's smart phone and how it can do a myriad of amazing things and that the phone he invented was only good as a paperweight.
This irritates me because todays telephones may be able to do amazing things, but we would not have them at all if it was not for the determination, imagination, hard work and research by people such as Alexander Graham Bell for inventing such things as the telephone in the first place. It is all to easy to dismiss stereo systems, televisions, mobile phones from previous generations and nothing more that bizarre curios but not only were they amazing technological revolutions at the time, they were often much better constructed and cost more as a percentage of the weekly income than todays consumer products.
So as we learn about the amazing things we do in this web 2.0 course, lets remember the hard work of people who developed telecommunications and computers to the point that we have the technology at our hands today.
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