Week 5, Thing 11

I put some random titles into Library Thing and played with it for a while. To be fair, I put in a small group of titles with little in common. Then, I tried the recommendation feature and got nothing useful. I'm going to add more titles later and see if it's more effective. I probably didn't give it a fair shot with what I put in.

I think that this would be something that could be useful for customers. It's a great way to find new authors/titles based on things you like. Someone here suggested that it would be a good way to keep track of and find titles for a book club. I remain somewhat unimpressed with it right now, though.

Week 5, Thing 10

Well, as you can see (I hope), I made a yahoo avatar. She's hanging out, waiting to have tea with the queen. (Maybe a little casual, but stylish as can be nonetheless.) This wasn't my first time making an avatar, but it was infinitely easier this time. Either I have improved or the program to make one was much easier. It was actually pretty fun.

Week 4, Thing 9

I used Syndic8 to find some additional RSS feeds. It was really easy. The link at the side to add it to Bloglines made it very easy. I found a lot of feeds that I added just to try, and several of them were interesting enough that I plan to keep them.

Week 4, Thing 8

I love the idea of RSS feeds. I spend a large part of my day trying to find out what book/movie titles have been featured on tv, are in the news, have been blogged about, or have appeared in book sections of any paper a customer may have seen. Obviously, this is harder now than ever before because customers have access to many more information sources than ever before. The idea that I can have so many of them waiting for me in one location just seems so much easier.

Several people in our department have been using RSS feeds for a while now to monitor things like the NYT or Washington Post book sections. I definitely plan to continue to use this.

Week 3, Thing 7

Something techology related...

Well, I think most things are technology related in our lives these days. I work at a computer all day long. At home, I'm an iPod, DVD, and DVR junkie. I think most of us have a cell phone on all the time. It would be hard to avoid technology at this point.

My current favorite toys are my iPods (which I'm using right now, btw). It's becoming a bit of a little kid's blankie kind of situation because I always have one on me. I'll most likely be deaf by the time I'm 30. I have two, and I have to admit that I'm interested in getting one of the new video Nano ones that they announced the other day too. I hate to fall into the trap, but it seems inevitable. They're so convenient, and I love having music on all the time. There's no way I could've dragged my entire CD collection around, but now I can do it with my cute little iPod.

Ok, enough of the love fest.

Week 3, Thing 6

I've used some of these before, but the one that was new to me was Colr Pickr. I loved it! Some of the pictures are really cool looking with the color scheme applied to them. I'm definitely going to show this one to my husband who is already photo crazy. I have a feeling I'll be seeing a lot more of it in the future. :)

Week 3, Thing 5

Sunshower
Originally uploaded by oncidium

I was looking for a photo of a beach scene to put here, and instead, I found this. It's a really cool shot.

The weather may not be great, but I think it's still better than the view in the North Point computer lab. This makes me want to go back to Jamaica.

Flickr is lots of fun, and I'm sure I could waste A LOT of time there looking at the pictures, but onward to the next thing!