'Gir' from
Zim: Come, GIR. Let us rain some doom down upon the heads of our doomed enemies.
Gir: I'm gonna sing the Doom Song now.
Gir: [singing] Doom doom doom...
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Monday, April 27, 2009
Week 6 Day 2
L2TD 4: Social Networking
Social networking is something that I am fairly good with as I have helped with training sessions before (I know MySpace and Face Book)
Face Book I found useful for finding out what people are up to, I found lots of school friends and got to see who was married, who was studying, who was traveling and how people had changed. I don't really use it to keep in contact with people, but it is useful for sharing your information (photos etc)
MySpace is quite similar, but aimed more at teenagers. I found it harder to use and eventually closed the account when I have finished helping with the training sessions.
I know plenty of people that use Face Book (and other social networking sites) to keep in contact with people overseas and to share events to a wide audience. Also I know several of people that are using it to help their business by promoting events, promotions, new products etc. (1 example being Pizza Capers)
I also recently began to follow my favorite TV show on Face Book, each week they put up a short video preview and sneak-peak photos of the next episode.
I think that social networking has an important role in our future as more and more information is organized digitally online.
PS
I took Penny to a Beach at Bribie on the weekend. She had a great time being off lead (I was worried she would run off but she didn't go more then 20m before running back).She only went a few inches into the water, but really enjoyed running on the sand (will post Photos later)
Social networking is something that I am fairly good with as I have helped with training sessions before (I know MySpace and Face Book)
Face Book I found useful for finding out what people are up to, I found lots of school friends and got to see who was married, who was studying, who was traveling and how people had changed. I don't really use it to keep in contact with people, but it is useful for sharing your information (photos etc)
MySpace is quite similar, but aimed more at teenagers. I found it harder to use and eventually closed the account when I have finished helping with the training sessions.
I know plenty of people that use Face Book (and other social networking sites) to keep in contact with people overseas and to share events to a wide audience. Also I know several of people that are using it to help their business by promoting events, promotions, new products etc. (1 example being Pizza Capers)
I also recently began to follow my favorite TV show on Face Book, each week they put up a short video preview and sneak-peak photos of the next episode.
I think that social networking has an important role in our future as more and more information is organized digitally online.
PS
I took Penny to a Beach at Bribie on the weekend. She had a great time being off lead (I was worried she would run off but she didn't go more then 20m before running back).She only went a few inches into the water, but really enjoyed running on the sand (will post Photos later)
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Week 5 Day 4
L2TD 3 : wikis
I knew about wikis like wikipedia and work-wikis, but I never considered using them for personal use. After watching the wiki video I was surprised to see how useful it could be for planning events with lots of people. I might try using it for the next big outing, and maybe (just maybe) might try it out at Christmas for organizing the big full-family lunch!
Something I have always been aware of was that websites like wikipedia are peer created and edited, but I never quite believed that would be so easy to add info. As suggested I looked up my local area and I simply clicked on edit, updated the name of the council (we are not part of the Moreton bay regional council).
EASY!
I was also amazed to find wikis on a mixture of subjects (like Wookieepedia - Star wars and ThePetWiki - a new pet-info wiki) I guess the more people interested in a subject the more input there is.
For now I am going to explore using wikis for personal use. Will report back with how that goes.
I knew about wikis like wikipedia and work-wikis, but I never considered using them for personal use. After watching the wiki video I was surprised to see how useful it could be for planning events with lots of people. I might try using it for the next big outing, and maybe (just maybe) might try it out at Christmas for organizing the big full-family lunch!
Something I have always been aware of was that websites like wikipedia are peer created and edited, but I never quite believed that would be so easy to add info. As suggested I looked up my local area and I simply clicked on edit, updated the name of the council (we are not part of the Moreton bay regional council).
EASY!
I was also amazed to find wikis on a mixture of subjects (like Wookieepedia - Star wars and ThePetWiki - a new pet-info wiki) I guess the more people interested in a subject the more input there is.
For now I am going to explore using wikis for personal use. Will report back with how that goes.
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Week 4 Day 4
Week 4 and I am still blogging... true I am not posting often, but I am still here.
Poodle and Co. are booked in too be clipped before it gets too cold. I always take them to 'Shear Designz' at Petrie. They are a little more expensive then other groomers in the area, but I think it is worth paying a little extra when they do such a good job ofclipping Penny the poodle. The groomers all own/show/breed poodles so they know how to clip a poode to make it look its best. They do an excelent job of other breeds as well, I think they are the groomers on the North Side...
Poodle and Co. are booked in too be clipped before it gets too cold. I always take them to 'Shear Designz' at Petrie. They are a little more expensive then other groomers in the area, but I think it is worth paying a little extra when they do such a good job ofclipping Penny the poodle. The groomers all own/show/breed poodles so they know how to clip a poode to make it look its best. They do an excelent job of other breeds as well, I think they are the groomers on the North Side...
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Week 3 Day 4
L2TD test #2
Flicker...
my mission was to find an image and to post it in my blog, easy! I did a little searching and found this creation... Now finding the Photo was easy, lets see how I go posting it using a URL link...
30 seconds later...
Okay, URL linking only appears works if it is a direct link to the image. I think I will have to save the image and then load it up again. Lets see if this works now....
Flicker...
my mission was to find an image and to post it in my blog, easy! I did a little searching and found this creation... Now finding the Photo was easy, lets see how I go posting it using a URL link...
30 seconds later...
Okay, URL linking only appears works if it is a direct link to the image. I think I will have to save the image and then load it up again. Lets see if this works now....
Well it looks like I need to save and upload images when they are from a website like flicker...
However, if I GoogleImage search
I can upload using a URL link...
*These images do not belong to me
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