YouTube

Good - something which is quick and easy to do, and I can tick off on my list. I am catching up! But still one week behind as I have no more time this week.

Podcasts

Once I had found out how to untick "mute" on my computer, I could listen to the items I picked up yesterday. Good news. Shame my headphone lead is too short - but perhaps it's better as I won't be tempted to listen when I shouldn't!

Social bookmarking and tagging

I've managed to do this one fairly quickly. I'm not sure how much use I will make of Delicious, but I do need to know how to work with it as we use it here in the Library. However, my work does not often bring me in direct contact with it, so I hope I'll remember what I've learnt.

Delicious

I'm interested to read that I'm not the only one having problems signing in to my account. I've resorted to asking it to stay signed in. Possibly it's because we've created so many new accounts that we are getting them muddled....

I'm really not on top of this at the moment because I had a very busy week starting 15th, only got one of my "things" done and didn't get it written up, then was away all last week. I'm on catch-up now, and everything is consequently getting a bit muddled in my senile brain, but I'm going to try and concentrate NOW.....

A changing paradise

I've discovered how to do all sorts of things that I often wondered about! I just played with the image I'd called "A smoker's paradise". First of all I add a frame, brightened some areas and sharpened others. This didn't make a huge difference. I don't think the frame is really appropriate but it served for the exercise. I then tried a different frame, pencil sketch effect and stickers - just for a bit of fun! Hmm... corny Christmas card??!

And then I published my blog... with my pictures in it.... except that they weren't. An hour later, despite help from a very competent colleague, I was still totally frustrated. I could upload photos from file; I could upload other web images; I changed my licensing on said photos to none; I told Flickr to grant access to my blog….. I even managed to blog the photo using “blog this” in Flickr, but it then wouldn’t let me edit it to add more photos – indeed seemingly not much at all. I didn’t know what else to do. After emailing for help, I have had to resort to the way I had already sussed, i.e. download pictures from Flickr and then put them in the blog. And even now I haven't managed to make them small enough to sit side by side. It's so frustrating. Oh well.... Onwards and upwards....

And now my fonts are all over the place and I can't find what my default is, and am even more frustrated. I've got to leave now, so it will have to wait until I have time to sort it out. Grr... It started so well!

PS Thanks for helpful comments. I think I might have finally got it sorted - I hope!

Fun!

This "thing" was quite good fun. I'm not a great photographer but do enjoy keeping memories of people, events and places, and this seems a good way to manage pictures. Probably being able to geotag pictures is one of the most useful features. We have loads of photos that we think we will remember exactly where they were taken - except that we don't!
Flickr is relatively easy to navigate around once you get used to the layout.

Getting there!

Hmm... interesting! The first bit of this week's tasks was easy, but I got somewhat stuck when trying to add my extra feeds and had to be rescued by Michelle, our resident guru. What would I do without her? It was good that we had to add lots of feeds because I gradually got it sorted out and began to speed up. I think I got a bit carried away in the end! I was quite surprised at some of the sites that I would have expected to have RSS that didn't have.

.... better get back to "proper" library stuff. This business can start to get a bit addictive, especially once you begin to feel more at home in it.