What I bought on Ebay

Thing 23 -- Yeaaahhhh ! I made it !!!

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This has been such a fun journey. Thanks very much, LCPL, for setting it up. There are certainly 'things' that I enjoyed more than others, such as blogging, web2.0 tool, flickr, librarything ... etc. A few are a little bit boring. But that's ok. In the end it was great to be able to do them all. This has been a wonderful learning experience!!

Thing 13 -- Del.icio.us more tagging!

For some reason I don't like Del.icio.us' layout very much. But I finally found my ways around after spending a little time. So here's my Del.icio.us bookmarks. Since I'm donig this from my home PC, I installed the buttons on my Firefox. They are all right. I just don't like the look of the bookmarks. Not sleek enough.
I find it interesting to see the hotlist and what others are tagging. The suggested tags function is very handy because when I bookmark things because I didn't have hand-type it. I don't find the bundle tag feature very useful. I can't seem to view bookmarks under the bundled tag together.

Thing 12 -- Rollyo

Okey dokey. I've created a Rollyo search roll for electronic gadgets on my blog. The results came back very slowly because it searches quite a few sites all at the same time. But they are pretty precise though, if you can provide a very precise search term. We are looking for another digital camera, so I entered "Nikon digital camera L12", and each entry in the result list pretty much took me right to the result page on the specific website. Not bad.
I don't like the Rollyo website itself, though. Find it hard to navigate, it took me a while to get to the places I needed.

Thing 10 -- Image Generator

No! No! This is not for me. This is for our little cute town Berwyn Heights which the Washington Post called the Jewel of P.G.!!!




And this one is for hubby!

Thing 22 -- Audiobooks

I created my NetLibrary account and downloaded an e-audiobook last November. I saved the book on my PC, never got to really listen to it. So today I launched the e-audiobook again, and logged into my NetLibrary account at the prompt, it was surprisingly easy. I "acquired" a new NetLibrary license in no time, and my e-audiobook started playing immediately.
It was the creating account part that was a little cumbersome. We had to go through the LCPL website, first use the library card to log in, then we had to create an account once we reached the NetLibrary site. I wish we didn't have to go through these many processes. However, once one has the account, then it's not too bad.

Thing 21 -- Podcasts

I tried out Podcast.net. Didn't find too many things library-related. I did find a few libraries have set up "Click a story" as podcasts, such as the one from "Thomas Ford Memorial Library Click-A-Story". I had heard about this at conferences. Maybe it's something our YS department could consider doing.
I also found something for my personal interest. We are going on our trip to France and Spain soon, and I found some great French learning podcasts. It's great!! I added it's RSS feed to my blogline account.

Thing 20 -- YouTube

Ok now that I'm on YouTube, does this mean that I'm famous?????? This was shot when we were in Mykonos, Greece, in May 2005.

Petros the Pelican

Thing 19 -- Web 2.0 Tools

I tried out Pageflakes (#1 in the category of Start Page). I think it is COOL! I have added the following "flakes" to my start page: CNN, TV Series schedule, World Clock, a To Do list, photos on Santorini that people have posted to Flickr, Potcast, Stock Portfolio, Weather Channel showing the weather in both College Park and Leesburg, a flake from my Gmail account to show my new emails, Events and maps in DC area based on the categories I specified, and an automatic search in Amazon on books about cooking (it just shows new titles on cooking randomly)
All of these!! on my start page!!!

Although right now the kind of flakes that you can add are limited, but I immediately think that this would be something that our patrons could use. Imagine, we can have flakes on book clubs, online book discussion live chat, story time events, automated search in HIP on the terms the users specified, online book discussion forum, everything about LCPL... Make them "flakes" that people can add to their start page.

Check out the hottest Flakes!! Right now people can only submit ideas on flakes and the developers are the ones who can create them. But maybe one day they'll make it easy enough that everyone can create their own flake (like a widget, I think essentially the widgets are what the flakes are).

Google announces free in-home wireless broadband service

Something definitely worth considering for the branches and even your home office! ;-) Google TiSP Beta

Installation and more!