And now the end is here ...

... so this must be the final curtain??

So what to say about this Web 2.0 learning? Good in principle, but the selection of resources was disappointing. Some had little or no Web 2.0 relevance/content and others didn't really fit with anything I would find useful in a library environment.

That said, Go Animate was fun, and I might use it in future for personal stuff - not at work - far too slow for the amount of time we have available for this sort of thing.

Which is a pity, because I like Web 2.0 tools in general. There are some really good ones out there that could be very useful to us ...

Bigbooksearch allows to browse books by cover - fantastic for those patrons that ask for that "orange book with a yacht on the cover". Eduslide allows you to create your own e-learning or share others. Resolio is a cute online resume builder (and aren't we going to need those if we believe the financial pundits!)

Would I have done this if there was not some incentive - probably not. That said, it was a good opportunity to exercise certain brain cells that don't get much use in my average working day - which is always a good thing.

Ciao

If I had a toolbar ....

... for every cool web tool, then I would need a much much larger screen! I had a look at Reddit & stuff, and have already tried stumble, but I have to agree with the Mad Hamster (I've got to stop doing that!) that they just take up time/room/brain space. While they might be interesting for a 'bit of a play', they're more for surfers, not searchers, and I've always been the latter (and that before I saw Jaws). Give me a decent search engine and a bit of training in search strategy and I'll find things my own way. OK, I do still surf (a little), but it's more like boogie boarding at Piha rather a malibu board at Warnambool - and that tends to be from links on a page I've searched for and liked.

Stumble and stuff have thrown up the odd hit in the past - but they are all sooooo American based (like so much of the Internet) so bear little relevance to stuff I might like or be interested in reading, viewing, perusing, wasting time on. And as for Newsvine?? The blurb said "Newsvine is an instant reflection of what the world is talking about at any given moment.a social news where people can intelligently discuss news stories from mainstream USA sources" How can it be a reflection of what the world is talking about if it only really sources from USA sources? Unless you really want to find out what a hairdresser from Alberqueque thought about Angelina Jolie's dress at the Oscars ...

So call me a Web 2.0 Luddite - but I'll stumble around on Google as normal, having reddit for long enough that I know my way around and really digg it.

Delicious (from the previous web 2.0) will last and endure as a good adjunct to Google - mainly due to the ability to 'cloud' your favourites.

The post about the stuff

So now to write about Animoto and GoAnimate and such things.

Animoto claims to herald the end of slideshows - yeh, right. If web 2.0 is meant to put the user in the drivers' seat where it comes to interaction and creation of web material - then Animoto is a step back towards the olden days of Uncle Jim's slide projector and slideshows of his and Muriel's trip to Surfers - complete with fondue for afters. Apart from selecting your photos and putting them in some semblance of order, it was 'sit back and watch the grass grow' - not my favourite occupation:) And it .... was ..... so ..... slow ....

So onto GoAnimate - well, I did enjoy this - but was horrified at how much time it ate up doing the smallest thing ... sort of like how much time you can waste on Playstation if you've got nothing better to do:) It was not the easiest programme to use, nor the most intuitive - but I might recommend it if I had a patron asking for a way to create a Star Trek/Doctor Who mashup animation for a wedding video. Otherwise, no.

So, all in all, these activities left me feeling less than animated, which I do not think was supposed to be the object of the exercise:) Oh well, c'est la moutard.

Go Animate Go! Gone, Animate, Gone!

GoAnimate.com: Reference Interview


My take on an animated reference interview training ... well, I needed some excuse to have to spend so much time on this thing:)

If a picture paints a thousand words ...

... how many does a widget paint? If a widget can paint that is.

Have dutifully embedded the Bookjetty widget as per instructions from the Power(s) That Be (which, incidentally, is an excellent sci-fi series by Anne McCaffrey - not as good as the Pern series, but not much is)

So that's the end of Week 3 ... and I'm all booked up. Or booked out?

Always look on the bright side of life ...

I am trying to find good things about Bookjetty - really .... it's just not working all that well.

So instead, a small segue ... did you know that Monty Python's Always look on the bright side of life was voted #5 in the list of favourite funeral songs? There, that made you smile didn't it?

Ok , so back to Bookjetty ... umm, positive things to say about Bookjetty ...

Did you know that elephants are the only animals with four knees?

Right, enough of that ... Bookjetty ... well it has a nice font.

Apart from that, not much I can find to like about this site.

• Yes, you can link to Amazon and buy the book - but Amazon is so ubitquitous, you can probably access it from the Foodtown website.


• Yes, you can link to a library catalogue - just not the catalogue for any libraries I belong to.


• Yes, you can "catalogue" your book - but only as read or unread - most other "shelf" sites allow you to categorise by a particular genre/author and add your own shelves.


• I found it hard to search for book by title (i.e. without the ISBN) - until I realised that you could do this using the (unlabelled) search box at the top of the page.

Maybe the final word should go to the Bookjetty website itself - I know how it feels.

Author! Author!

Had a look at Authors on the web and the Author Yellow Pages. I wasn't overly impressed by either site. Authors on the web is a commercial web design service rather than a site that might be useful in any way for readers' advisory. And if there is a search function on the Yellow Pages site, I couldn't find it. And when I want to search, I want to search - NOT browse.

Plus neither sites had listings for the first five authors I browsed for - ok, they were all British authors, but there are some very good books published on the eastern side of the Atlantic ... honest.

There are better options out there to recommend to patrons - here's two

Fantastic Fiction - great range of authors available, searchable, browsable, new books, coming soon, series lists, inks to authors websites, author recommendations, series reading order, soon to be published books, reader recommendations, and so on and so on ...

Overbooked - recommended lists, genre lists, new books, award lists, author sites (includes free webspace for authors)

Book Reporter was slightly better - coverage an issue here also though - the authors I looked for are not obscure - but BR seems to follow very mainstream American lines.

So I'm embedding my favourite book site and one I have recommended to many patrons over the years and will continue to recommend to all and sundry (not that we refer to our patrons as sundry ... honest)

You may say that I'm a dreamer ... but I'm not the only one?

Week 3 - yeah right (back to that parallel universe again!)

I don't think I'm a book club person - and I'm not sure whether I'd ever want to be ... This rash assertion is totally based on trawling through the Litlovers website.

I should have known, I should have read the warnings signs. After all, in the cyberworld of the Carolingian minuscule , they spell Lit with a capital L. Yeah yeah, I know it's abbreviated, gotta be slightly hip after all, but you can't go past that capital L.

It's a massive red flag waving from your monitor, an air raid siren blasting out of the your computer speakers, hands ready to reach out and grasp you around the neck and yell "This site is for Readers (note: capital R), for people who read real books, for people who worry about the subtext in Jane Eyre (I always thought that subtext was pencil notes people had written under the lines in a book), for people that read Literature" (and who probably went to more than the first lecture of English Literature 101)

It might as well also shriek "Anyone who can name more than one Janet Evanovich book does not belong here."

I found this website didn't so much tell me what books I might want to read (possibly based on some rash rationale around what books I have enjoyed in the past) - rather what books I should be reading if I knew what was good for me - in between dropping Tarquin at Rudolf Steiner and volunteering at the Oxfam/Trade Aid shop.

I searched for various books I was remotely interested in reading that I thought might be good to discuss in a book group - and soon realised that either

a) I have very strange taste in books (probably true)
b) People that join book groups have an even stranger taste in books (see note above)
c) I should never join a book group (see above)

Want an example? Under Bridget Jones' Diary - which I defy anyone to categorise as anything other than chick-lit (despite preponderance of P&P references/plot stealing) - are the following suggested "questions/discussion points" from LitLovers

1. How does the media influence women's self-images?
2. Why do women collaborate so energetically in the process?

Arghhhhhh! What about just enjoying the story? What about the jokes? What about the sheer delirium of losing yourself in a book?

So apologies dear autonomous anonymous blog auditors ... but I couldn't really find any appropriate resources for my book group's reading of Bridget Jones Diary on the venerable LitLover website ... here's my suggested list anyway

1. Copy of book (or copy of movie DVD for those that can't be buggered reading the book) - extra points for the odd coffee stain, chocolate biscuit smudge (unless it's a library copy then double points off)
2. Various nibbles, canapes, hors d'ouerves etc (triple points off for anything with Weightwatchers branding)
3. Bottles of cheap wine from supermarket (triple points for under $10 price tag from Foodtown)
4. Many and various forms of chocolate - timtams, Reeses peanut butter cups and Cadbury Tiramisu preferred
5. Never ending supply of coffee (fair trade OK - as long as it's full-leaded)
6. At least two friends who have been dumped by boyfriend that they worked with
7. At least one friend who found boyfriend/lover/husband in bed with (former) best friend

Discussion points

1. Should Bridget have decked Daniel when she found he was cheating on her?
2. Why didn't Daniel & Mark's fight end up on Youtube?
3. Why is it that book heroines who have no job skills always end up in journalism or marketing? (and where can we get a job like that?)
4. Are there more calories in a packet of Timtams or a bottle of house red?

So maybe I'm just a book lover not a LitLover ....

Dead relly digging

Yeah, yeah, I know it's not week 2 already (apart from in some parallel universe where Shakespeare runs the local dairy and Daniel Vettori is prime minister), but I couldn't resist ploughing on with the next task.

You see, I will have to confess - I am a dead relly digger, a granny hunter, an ardent genealogist. I like wandering around cemeteries. I know how to use every microfilm reader between here and Waipukurau. When my doctor asks if there is a history of heart disease/madness/diabetes/etc in my family, I can tell him what my great-great-great-great-grandfather died from (and by the way ... it was none of the above)

So I was really keen to see what new Web 2.0 stuff is out there for family historians and genealogists. I recently printed off a family tree of just three generations which took over 20 A4 pages and thought there must be an easier way. Unfortunately web2.0 ain't it.

Hmmm ... can't say I was overly impressed with either myheritage or geni. Fine for doing a basic tree with cute photos to send to your rellies. But majorly lacking in many features that are standard in other genealogy programs. Neither program had places to add sources which are vital in family history/genealogy research. If you can't locate where you got the information, it becomes a bit useless. Hard to find (and had to trawl through too many windows) places to stick additional information like christening, burial, occupation. Also very little space for notes or other longer information such as cemetery transcriptions, immigration records, education information etc etc.

I added "my tree" (pretending to be Henry VIII - figured if it could cope with 6 wives, it could cope with anything) - and stuck in a couple of photos and embedded in my blog. That all worked fine - it wasn't easy to find out how to sort the wives into the proper order. It was also tricky getting the thing into some viewable format where you could be more than two people at a time. All up, neither was particularly user friendly unless you were somewhat of a cyber-geek to start with and were not afraid of breaking the internet by trawling around through multitudinous windows and pop-ups.

I eventually found the two (or three or four) places needed to enter basic information about a person - but couldn't find a place to add random comments (likes tennis, wrote Greensleeves, had strange taste in codpieces) and notes. Maybe it is there somewhere but I left my speleology equipment behind.

I don't think I'd recommend these sites to customers - they're both pretty 'genealogy lite'. Plus I don't think many people would get far with being only able to add 500 people without paying - mind you my family are Catholic and we can easily get up to 500 in one generation! There are free programs out there like PAF and Legacy which offer far more features. There are also many sites where you can share your tree on the net for free - Rootsweb, World Connect, FTM World Tree, Ancestry, Lost Cousins etc.

These established sites also adhere more strongly to standard genealogy protocol of not including information about living people on internet trees. Even though, these programs are invite only, I would be loath to stick too much personal information about living relatives on an internet based tree.

Maybe sites like these will give people a taste of that mad, bad and dangerous to begin pastime of dead relly hunting.

A funny thing happened on the way to the blog

Another year, another Web 2.0 playtime. So it's back to the blog.





Alas, poor blog, abandoned in the cyber-sphere - left to adrift unattended. Ashamed to show its face at blog parties due to its lack of posts. Apparently size does matter - particularly when it comes to the length of your blogroll.

But now this thing of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy is revived. Ready to shine its bloggish light once more across the realms of web 2.0 land.

Best blog found ...

• Batgirl was a librarian - notably for the Library Cats Map - which includes our own St Helier's Xena who has her own blog.

But seriously folks - now for the real stuff

Your post should contain comments on what you liked.....

I will have to come clean and admit ... I do like blogs. The random ramblings on subjects as diverse as knitting patterns from sweaters seen in movies to my brother's actual ramblings up and down various mountains/hills/bumps across the United Kingdom.

disliked......

For every interesting or mildly amusing blog out there, there is a lot of dross and drivel. Mind you, you could say that about the fiction section of your average library ... So finding the good stuff and forwarding it to your friends and/or adding it to your RSS feed is essential. Otherwise you'll never read the second post about how to knit Cameron Diaz's jacket from The Holiday.

found easy or hard to do.......

Easy to do - find my blog again in my favourites. Hard to do - remember the password I thought up for it last year.

whether you would recommend this to customers....

Probably - have shown customers the library blogs - and have also shown a customer how to set up a blog to record their travel diary.

and how you think you could use these tools in your role.

It is always useful to know where to find a knitting pattern for a Stargate Atlantis insignia

There is a word for it ...

Just when you thought the English language could not get any stranger (meh is being considered for inclusion in the latest Collins dictionary), you realise that there is indeed a word for everything.

Like acnestis - that spot on your back just below your shoulder blades that you just can't reach to scratch. Now you just knew there had to be a word for that didn't you???

What does a girl do ....

when she has three (count 'em 3!!!) weeks holiday and she manages to get the flu by day 4?

Ended up downloading Treasure Island from Librivox and dozed in bed listening to Jim Hawkins get up to all sorts of bother.

The thing is with the "classics" - you 'know' the story, have seen the tv programme/mini-series/movie(s) and may have even flipped through the Classic Comic version or (horror of horror!) read the Readers Digest Condensed Book while staying at your aunties. (What is it about those condensed books - you only ever find them at your auntie's house?) And then you read (OK, listen) to them for the first time and realise you had it all wrong ...

And then you start adding to the list of others you must get around to ... so here's my "classics I really should have read when I was supposed to have read them at school but couldn't be buggered so I'm just going to have to read them now" list (needs a bit of work that title, a tad on the longish side).

Kidnapped
David Copperfield (although my bro says that it "does go on a bit")
Oliver Twist
The Wizard of Oz
Gulliver's Travels
Robinson Crusoe
Peter Pan (aka Peter & Wendy)
Wuthering Heights
The Three Musketeers

Now don't get me wrong, I am a serious bibliophile. I love the touch, the look, the smell, the sheer beauty of a physical book ... but audio books rock in the fact that you can do something else at the same time ... for instance

• drive to work (or anywhere else for that matter)
• knit
• iron (OK - so I don't do that ... not that you couldn't, it's just that I don't iron)
• garden
• wash dishes (and dry them too)
• supermarket shopping (hint: comedies not recommended unless you want funny looks when you start giggling by the brussel sprouts. Nobody should giggle next to brussel sprouts)

So I'll let you know how ole Jimbo gets on ... at the moment Squie Trelawny is really excited because he's got this really cool one-legged guy called John Silver to come on their expedition as ship's cook ... uh oh.

Feed your head

I've decided that the publication schedule of this blog will have to revert to "occasional" - i.e. posts at random, sporadic and varied intervals when I remember what my password is and have something I feel like raving about.

Today's topic - my reversion to childhood - or rather my current plan of re-reading all those childhood classics - but in a Web 2.0-ey kinda way. Which means fantastic sites like Librivox - free public domain audio books.

These are all read by volunteers so be prepared for varied sound quality (I swear I could hear someone doing the dishes in the background of Chapter 1 of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland) and a cornucopia of American accents (it's OK - only one reader so far sounded like George W. Bush).

But it's just soooooo cool to be able to sit and listen to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - knowing that I have Treasure Island and Little Women waiting in the wings (and yes, Hamster I can listen to Lewis Carroll and Radio Sport at the same time!)

Hints for the Audiobook download newbie

• leave Dickens until you can find version with British narrators - David Copperfield should not sound like he's just left an Iowan cornfield.


• If you have dial-up - don't fall off your chair with shock/disgust/laughter when your computer tells you that Great Expectations will take one week, four days, 5 hours and 53 minutes to download.


• Don't start casting nasturtiums about Mr Carroll's use of hallucenogenic substances while penning his tome before you check that you have loaded the chapters onto your mp3 player in the correct order.

And if you need explanation of the title of this post ...

I want to be a mad scientist!

Yes, I am one of those people who browse the weird and wonderful stuff around us in newspapers, magazines and the web. And everything now and again, I find a gem.

Check out this article from the Inhabit website - apparently kangaroo farts do not contain methane (nasty greenhouse gassy stuff) and they're trying to find out whether this handy little piece of Antipodean physiology could be transferred to cows?

Perhaps I enjoy stuff like this from a hidden dream to be a mad scientist? And this from someone who ditched science in fourth form (Year 9 for those of you who had the misfortune to be born anytime after Bohemian Rhapsody was released). The most likely reason is that at that age I wasn't particularly interested in my future scholastic endeavours - I chose the subjects that had the a) highest pass rates, b) least psychotic teachers and c) no classes after lunch (my attention span in those days being similar to a mayfly).

Why else would I drop something potentially useful (such as biology or chemistry) for the archaic wonder that was School C Latin? I mean we got to learn all about Caesar conquering Britain - even though he didn't stick around and actually complete the exercise as I later found out, had to wait for Claudius for that (did you know I always thought Claudius' first name was I? Blame Robert Graves)

Instead we translated ancient Latin cookbooks and realised where English food came from (blame Caesar and Claudius? You bet!). I mean, there weren't any recipes for chicken tikka marsala back then - but this 'Roman' food bore a marked resemblance to something Jamie Oliver would harass a school dinner lady about rather than anything Nigella Lawson would toss her hair over.

Anywho - back to Skippy and his (her?) mates. Perhaps we've got it all wrong - ditch the cows and farm kangaroos? Me Mum's an Aussie and says that Skippy can be quite tasty. Mind you there was a war on at the time ... and the kids were told it was smoked mutton. Milking sheds would need to be re-designed somewhat and the standard taranaki gate would be slightly redundant in keeping the buggers contained. Gosh maybe we could plant trees around paddocks to corrall Kanga and Roo?

But this all leads to one extremely vexing question ... how did they find out what exactly is contained in the average kangaroo's fart?

Remembrance of Christmas Past

and Present ...

With apologies to Marcel Proust and Charles Dickens (not necessarily in that order).


My 'fondest' Christmas memories as a child

• my favourite dolls mysteriously going missing just before Christmas and then magically reappearing under the Christmas tree with the new clothes my Mum had spent that last month(s) sewing & knitting
• the Christmas my brother got a new two wheeler bike (complete with banana seat, ape hangers and sissy bar) which meant that I got his old metallic gold Raleigh 20.
• leaving the bucket of water out for Santa's reindeer and then marvelling at the heavy dewfall on the garden on Christmas morning
• realising that being 'allowed' to stay up and go to midnight mass was not becuase I had been a good girl - but was a cunning ploy on the part of our parents to tire us out enough so we didn't wake up at 5am on Christmas morning.
• those wonderful 'auntie' presents you got as a small girl - nice soap, lace-covered coathangers, stationery sets and scented drawer liners.

... and as an adult

• a small child running into the library and breaking the sound barrier by screaming at the top of his voice "MUM, THERE'S A CHRISTMAS TREE IN THE LIBRARY!!!!!!"
• having the sort of job where the wearing of reindeer antlers at work is considered de rigeur
• still getting those wonderful 'auntie' presents - nice soap, lace-covered coathangers, stationery sets and scented drawer liners.

Can I still be cool ...

• if my MP3 player has black headphones instead of white ones?


• if my idea of a Big Day Out is having coffee with friends and seeing a movie on the same day?


• if I have more friends on my Goodreads page than my Facebook page?


• if I prefer books with words instead of pictures - unless they're cookbooks, then it should be the other way around?


• if I don't (and hope to never have to) speak bebo?


• if I prefer Unshelved to manga?

Just when you thought you'd heard everything ...

... the interweb surprises you yet again.

I mean, I'm a serious person. I read books with long words in them (and no pictures even!) I've watched An Inconvenient Truth. And I'm desperately looking for someone to give a goat to this Christmas (my sister-in-law's getting three ducks ... a real bargain at $15 I reckon).

So why am I so tickled to find this podcast?

And why am I not surprised at this website .... or this one?



Maybe it's the lighter things in life that make it possible to do all of the above?

Enough philosophy for now - after all, it's only Monday!

Yo ho ho ho ho ho!

And now for what you've all been waiting for (drum roll please) ...

The Great Mt Roskill Christmas Techtraining Quiz of 2007

And what's more, it's gone all Web 2.0 on us:) Here's the link

Once you submit your completed quiz, it will wing its way through cyberspace and end up on Zoho where I can 'mark' it and send you your completion certificate (no MP3 players sorry!)

The layout is a little strange - so remember to scroll right to see the second column of questions.

You can use whatever method you prefer to find the answers - google, fitch, wikipedia, library resources or leaning over library colleagues' shoulder(s). Collaboration is encouraged.

If you would prefer to do the quiz in a non-cyber format, printed copies are available on request.

The judge's decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into - although bribes are accepted.

Is there life after blobs ... sorry, blogs

I should hope so ... imagine if all this hard work and fun disappears into the ethos once this is over. Facebook profiles decaying on the roadside, rollyo search engines gathering moss, librarything accounts withering away.

All these web2.0 tricks and treats will go the way of that pasta machine and waffle maker you bought eons ago. You know, those must have appliances currently gathering dust in the dim dark recesses of your cupboards. (Apologies for the tautology - who ever heard of a light bright recess?) I blame the Briscoes ads myself - for the pasta maker that is, not the tautology.

Perhaps the proof of the web2.0 pudding will be in the longevity of its toys (whups, sorry ... tools). But I have a nasty suspicion it will have more to do with the attention span of its audience - scary thought that that is:)

Ease of use could ensure that some last longer than others - they could even transmogrify into standard usage. I'm sure that pasta machine would see the light of day far more often if you didn't have to take a day off work just to whip up a round of tortellini.

Mind you, some of those forgotten appliances could be a good way to minimise the old carbon footprint (why is it that I always think of a large dinosaur with dirty feet then I hear that phrase?) No trip to the supermarket, no plastic packaging - and fresh pasta takes a little lest time to cook so down goes the electricity bill!

Web 2.0 can stick its oar into the climate change debate too. What is it about computer stuff that needs more packaging than a 5th century chinese vase? By using web-supported tools, you don't have to buy that new version of software flown in from Seattle with its polystyrene packaging, plastic wrap, installation CDs and 500 page manual in 15 languages. That must be worth at least a small pine tree

So ... web 2.0 - being clean, green and geeky

And now the end is near ...

... can't find any curtains so it'll just have to be a blog post. I guess this is where I look back and wax philosophical about what I've learnt and how this is going to improve my life, and mind. and soul, and general wellbeing ... or not.

Perhaps best way of working this, is to think about which of these delightful and occasionally mind numbing little exercises I might revisit in the future ...

1. Read introduction - probably won't do this again:)


2. Set up own blog - done burger


3. See above


4. Social networking ... highly unlikely to keep this up - I prefer the non-flat screen version of people (you know - real life?)


5. Flickr - I love Flickr - currently doing major family photo project - will revisit far too often:)


6. Mashups - can be hired for mashups on demand for staff leaving pressies, etc


7. See #2


8. Have found bloglines great for keeping up with other ACL bloggers - and Unshelved. Whether I manage to keep this up is in the "still to be determined" category.


9. See #2 again:)


10. Hmmmm ... as previously posted, I prefer the creativity aspect of mashups - but at least I know where to find a Klingon sign generator the next time I need one


11. A rather large no on this one I'm afraid. Thanks to the Mad Hamster I'm a Goodreads convert - maybe it's my Scottish heritage (och aye) but I like that it's free


12. Set up Rollyo, complained about Rollyo, used Rollyo and then forgot about it ... I think that answers that one sufficiently?


13. Still sitting on the fence about del.icio.us (until they hire a web designer that knows what the word font means and get a web address with a little less punctuation)


14. My feelings about technorati are somewhat similar to my feelings about brussel sprouts. Does that answer your question?


15. Will probably try and keep tabs on how various libraries are using web2.0 and stuff - or not


16. The weird wide world of wikis - love the principle, may have a play now and again


17. See # 2 once more


18. Put this into the "will use again and recommend to others" category


19. Nope, nein, non, I don't think so - I have enough weirdness in my life already


20. Keep this one for the days when the sky is cloudy and the patrons are being patronising and you just need something to make you realise that this world we live in is a strange, strange place (oh, and bookmark this video for when you need to smile)


21. Maybe, possibly, potentially ... but probably not


22. Seeing as I love reading in bed or curled up on the couch - it's just takes too much effort to lug my computer around the house and lying in bed with your old 15" monitor on your knees just doesn't cut it I'm afraid. Still will use for locating Aristophanes The Frogs


23. If you're already reading this, then I probably won't have to do this one again. That said who knows what actually happens to all these bizarre ramblings once they are fired out of my computer and into the distant realm of cyberspace.

I would like to thank my parents, the Academy and all those unseen, unthanked (and most probably underpaid) ACL Learning 2.0 blogreaders who have waded through my dross week after week, leaving their witty little comments behind (sort of like modern day tooth fairies ... awww).

I have wandered the wonderul world of web2.0 and be enlightened, enfuriated, entertained, enamoured, enchanted, engaged, enraged, enriched, and enthused. What more could a geeky, cat-loving, knit-happy, computer-addicted librarian want?

And the final word goes to ...