Thing 9 Merlin

I've just been viewing Merlin and checking out the links - it's fascinating! I had no idea about all of those things it listed. The Web Awards were interesting - it was fun looking at the top three sites for different categories. I didn't know there were so many social networking sites. I went on Myspace for YALSA and Ask Us Now - that was the first time I had been on it. I was interested in the books link but just was able to click on the Amazon link to the books, not any actual posts about the books - maybe I had to be a member to see more. I saw that there were authors on the Teen Lit link - that was pretty cool but I didn't see how to view the posts on that either. (I think authors' websites are very intriguing, too.) It was easier searching for feeds from the bloglines website. I noticed that the Washington Post book link hadn't had new posts for a long time - that was a disappointment.

Thing 8 Bloglines

I set up a bloglines account and added 11 feeds to it. I was more interested by the "news" ones than the library-related ones. It's all very well to have updates like this in one account, but I don't see myself using this too much. I don't have a lot of extra time for staring at computers. I tried to get the url to include my account in this post, but I didn't do something right so it didn't work out. (Also, my username includes my last name, and I didn't want that on here for all the "non-library" viewers.) I will check later to see if I can add any feed links to my blog.

Thing 7 - The Internet

I've been thinking about which technology I should write about, and I chose the internet. It is just amazing what we can do - and the fact that it wasn't around earlier. I am able to buy things, have bank accounts and credit card accounts online, order pizzas online, etc. You can job hunt or house hunt online, look up cars - and do the "side by side compare" so you know if you're making the right choice. Also, you can find people, phone numbers, buy airplane tickets, find out news and weather.

the sky

the sky
Originally uploaded by firedd

I was trying to put this post on the right of my blog because it had empty space but it didn't work out like that. Anyway, I think it's beautiful!

Thing Six

Greetings! I looked at several of the "mashups" - I liked the color wheel matching photos - I would've added some to my blog if they had a "blog this" tag. I would've made a trading card if I had a photo of my own - and if I wanted for sure to be less "anonymous." I was very disappointed to see that I had to have my own photos on flickr to make a calendar. I was hoping I could use photos already there. The mappr thing was pretty neat - I tried a few tags and the pictures uploaded so slowly I gave up on them. It's a neat idea, though.

Thing 5

Finding a picture took a while. I don't have a digital camera and don't have digital photos saved to a computer so I had to use flickr to get a photo. Sometimes I found a good picture but it didn't have a "blog this" link so I had to check further. I also had to set up accounts for yahoo and flickr - and just what I need are more online accounts! Especially not more email accounts!

Ft. Myers Beach

Ft. Myers Beach
Originally uploaded by chelsealeigh

My family and I spent several Christmases at Fort Myers Beach, FL when I was growing up. We had great times each occasion. I wanted to include a sunset because of my blog name also.

Week 2 Things 3 & 4 take 2

The first time I tried writing this post, it wouldn't let me type in the text box. (I'm using Mozilla this time and it's working okay - yea!) I registered my blog already and printed out the permalink sheet. So, on to thing 5!