The joys of subscribing to RSS feeds

I'm beginning to wish that I was still on holidays! I'm trying really hard to get my head around RSS feeds. To start with I tried making a Bloglines account, using my work email address and was told that my address was in use. Have I secretly been subscribing to things in my sleep??

Anyway, I used one of my many other accounts and set up an account and have (hopefully) subscribed to 6 news feeds, including Mary's OPAL training, John Oxley Library blog, BBC News, Bloglines news and New York Times book reviews. I have also subscribed to an interesting site about urban legends because they fascinate me.

Time will tell how useful I find them - must sign off now because I am needed elsewhere.

Visiting my own personal library

Hi all,

Well I'm back from my holidays and raring to go. I'll just share one holiday photo with you - the library of my dreams! Seriously, it is the public library in Katherine in the Northern Territory.

I did try to read a few blogs while I was away, but it was a holiday from technology as well - I left such things to the young(er) members of my group.

Now, time to read about RSS feeds.

Bye

social networking and more about my holidays

Social networking - once upon a time (in 2008 in fact) I was told that I would love having a Facebook page. In some ways this is true, I do enjoy catching up with friends and relatives who I don't see much, but in other ways it is another thing to feel guilty about not updating it...
I like the way that I can put one comment or photo up & everyone can read it at once - compared with individual emails. I like the casualness of it all, the lack of formality. I also enjoy the groups and quizzes - yes, I have become a fan of Fairy Bread.
Now for the holiday update - my road trip from Broome to Darwin begins this Sunday. 2 1/2 weeks driving, sticking to the highway, but visiting national parks and famous stuff on the way. I'll manage at least 1 post to this blog - but the holiday is really about getting away from it all.
We have Scrabble to play for when the conversation lapses, hopefully it won't cause too many arguments!

more on wikis

I've been checking out a few wikis - some are definitely more interesting than others. I enjoyed the postcards on the Wisconsin Heritage wiki. My knowledge of the Milwaukee area was entirely from 1970s American television programs. I'm still not sure why anyone would send a postcard showing a factory with lots of smoke pouring from the chimneys, but I should try not to judge by modern standards.
I enjoyed some of the issues discussed on the LIS wiki - particularly ones about managing mobile (cell) phones in libraries - as this has been an issue of relevance to me.
Possible next generation catalogs was also interesting - seeing how other libraries are developing. Good to see the State Library of Tasmania represented.

wikis and holidays

I've just been reading up on wikis and realised that I could have used one to organise the road trip that I am going on next month. I shall just have to organise another holiday, using a wiki to organise myself and my friends.
In case you are wondering (and I know you are all really curious) I am flying to Broome, then driving to Darwin. I am going with some relatives and some friends. If I am really organised, I may even take some photos and upload them to my blog. But I could just ignore the joys on modern communication and send a few postcards instead...

photos

hi there,
here i am again, so i hope that you are all ready for this. i have a few more photos for you to see and have also loaded them on flickr. i have signed up for yet another email account, to operate flickr. i now have 2 x hotmail addresses (1 for 11 years), 1 x optus address at home, 1 x work email address, 1 x gmail and 1 x yahoo. then there is the home phone, answering machine, mobile phone and work phone. i also have a presence on facebook, this blog and now flickr! sometimes i just like to ignore the lot of them, close the front door and read a book :)

as you can see from my photos - i need to buy a vase to replace my wine cooler when i have flowers and i went to st kilda in melbourne recently.

Hi to all my lovely followers, You will have seen that I am following my own blog - I did this in error (I did say that I am a beginner with this!) My blog is very humble when compared with some of the others, I shall have to learn how to add things to it, to make it all shiny and exciting.