Eighteen

TinyURL was easy--here's a link to the library catalog for one of my favorite books--http://tinyurl.com/yf9ankm. Then I Zamzar-ed a Cary Grant YouTube video and put it on the desktop in the call center. That may not be the intended or optimal use for Zamzar, but I'm an unsophisticated wretch and that's the best I could do.

Seventeen

Library professional sites-more interesting than it sounds. It would almost have to be. I liked the library job openings on the internet, but not too many jobs for lowlifes like me. Too bad-I'll have to postpone my dream of moving to Poughkeepsie, NY. So anyway, Infopeople.org also looked good, but I didn't have time to watch any of the webcasts. The 100 Best Blogs had a lot of information that I'd like to peek at someday as well.

Sixteen

The open source assignment was interesting-ish. It's nice in theory, for sure, and if I used it consistently I might get used to it and like it better than Microsoft Word, etc. But it took me forty-leven years to be as partly proficient as I am, and I don't have that much more spare time on my hands, people. Busy woman and so forth.

Fifteen

The video for this task was glib and irritating and I still didn't know how to do it, even though I tried for, like, two minutes before giving up. It didn't thrill me enough to make me persevere. Maybe that's my whole trouble-I won't try unless I'm thrilled, and let's face it, how often am I thrilled? Feh, too much self-analysis makes me crabby.

Second thoughts on NetLibrary

I was way too mean to poor old NetLibrary...it turns out that it's groovy. With the help of my super-smart sonny, I downloaded a bunch of stuff to my ipod and am now happily listening. However, without s-s-s, I maybe wouldn't have figured it out, so maybe all the credit goes to s-s-s and not to NL. So never mind.

Fourteen

I have visited these sites in the past and downloaded stuff, but I really don't have the time to listen to much of it. I liked the NetLibrary One Touch Media Center, and the transfer-to-a-portable-device feature seemed very handy. But every time I've done it, it downloads only part of the book. That's annoying, my friends. So, I just give up, I guess.