06 October 2007

Al Oerter Interview

At the risk of my blog becoming an obituary column Al Oerter has long been a hero of mine. So after entering a post on him it would be remiss of me not to do so again now with his recent passing.
4 golds in a row, one after taking off a neck brace!

07 September 2007

05 September 2007

#23 Is this really the end? Or just the beginning ...

Well, I came into this program from a different position to my fellow bloggers. As I said in a previous post I do not work on reference desks so a knowledge and understanding of 2.0 stuff to assist our valued clientele is not really something I need.
I have found the program enjoyable and informative. I knew relatively little of this world. For the most part it has been fun (not exercises 12-14) and interesting (especially not exercises 12-14) and while I perhaps did not explore as much as I could have, I feel I got my head around the concepts and quickly, perhaps too quickly decided if I found them worth further exploration.
So in brief-
• I liked Flickr and will go back.
• I use wikis and will do so again.
• If my patience holds out for the loading time I will continue to have fun with YouTube.
While Rollyo, Technorati and LibraryThing will never see daylight through this little black duck’s PC again.
Acknowledgments:
Thanks to gurus at Yarra Plenty.
Big thank you my sensei master, Blog-dancing.

#22 Audiobooks (or "The end is in sight ")


I had a look around World EBook fair and listened to Kipling's Gunga Din. As did other people around me because I plugged my earphones into the microphone plug instead of the earphones. (sigh) It was ok, useful for getting a good quote right.
Great movie, not a bad EBook.

#21 Podcasts, Smodcasts!



I had a play around with the suggested sites. Tried a search for RFIDs for library applications. while I didn't have much success I found the searching relatively simple.

30 August 2007

#20 You too can YouTube

Master of the Unusual, Michel Lauziere
This was so good I did it twice.
I saw this on Letterman one night and when knowing adding a clip from YouTube was a task I thought this would be appropriate. I did a search and found it straight away.