.....AND SO DOES THE 23 THINGS!

Overall I enjoyed the experience of learning 2.0
I had good times & bad with it, I know it was like pulling teeth for some folk.
My weak points were the RSS feeds and the Wikis. I didn't get into del-ic-ious either, but I am willing to go back and revise, and keep plugging away.
I particularly enjoyed Flickr, I use that a lot. I had fun creating this blog and hope to become a more proficient and frequent blogger in future. The "Meez" was cute, and I liked Librarything. I'm sure new web learning tools are generated non stop so I will stay tuned for that. I hope people continue to use their blog, and I would enjoy receiving comments on my posts. Well (y'all) it's been REAL!

All Good Things Must Come To An End

It's true! He RETIRED

BOO HOO AGAIN!

tears!

awwwww I just went mushy again when I saw that. he's my fave player in the NHL and sadly I think he's about to retire. He hasn't signed with a team yet this season, and at 39 years old, it might be time to hang 'em up.
boo hoo

YouTube

I want to add one of my favourite videos from you tube, and once I get it right I will add a few more. I did it a while back with the David Beckham goal, by adding a page element. let's see if I can add Bondra's 500th goal here in this post.
Bondra's 500th goal!

Addicted!

Guess what I am on THING TWENTY, ta- rrraaaa!
OMG I am addicted to "Guess -The -Google" one of the games nominated for the web 2.0 awards. I limited myself to 2 rounds but I will play this at home with the kids and it should be a giggle. I also submited a story in one sentence. it wasn't profound or innovative in any way but I at least wanted to write one. Do you want to hear it? Okay I'll share: (ahem)
I was born on an April morn, grew up in an average
home and have lived an average life.
Now I thought about adding "so far" at the end and that would leave speculation for a sequel wide open, but hey, don't mess with perfection right? (smirk)
So now onto THING 20, one of my favourite wastes of time YOUTUBE!

name the Rivalry contest

 

Name The Rivalry

 

This is a contest put on by the L A Kings and Anaheim Ducks. You can come up with a catchy phrase or pun to represent their rivalry,then enter your suggestion on either of the teams' website.

The prize is tickets to 6 games at either venue. Well I live in Southern Maryland so unless they want to fork out plane fair and hotel costs it's really no use to me.

I couldn't resist entering a few suggestions though. They are;

The Crown Bill Derby

The Royal Quack

The Firm

The New Firm

 

Okay, not great I know, but bare with me. These two teams kicked off the regular season this year with back to back games in London (England) of all places, so I thought the Crown Bill thing had an English connotation. Crown=Queen (or King), Bill-is what they call the police headquarters or the court. Well the Royal Quack kinda speaks for itself, and not very well, but the other suggestion of the  "Firm"" or the "New Firm" is quite clever if you know anything at all about British sport,  namely soccer.

The fierce rivalry between two Scottish (football) teams; Glasgow Celtic and Glasgow Rangers has long been known as "The Old Firm" so how about a new firm in the New World? Cheeky eh? WellI like it. They wont get it and it wont win but I think it's pretty kewel!

Thing 13 I think...

5,223 blogs about Library learning 2.0 on TOPICS (Technorati)
On Friday there was over 10,000, so I guess it's per day.
There is a difference depending what way you search a subject, but I didn't see where to search one of he suggested ways. I did TOPICS & BLOGS. I like it, I will definately use it to stay in tune and in touch with the blogging community.

STALLED

I wont bore y'all with the details but this is my third attempt to BLOG this!
Sorry to say I am still working on week 6 and It has been 3 weeks since my last (confession?) attempt to press on with the THINGS, however I have explored del.ic.ious here we are at the end (almost) of week 9! I find del.ic.ious intriguing. It seems to be user friendly and helpful, however I have decided not to register any more accounts at present, this is what is causing me to STALL!
So my goal this week is to finish week 6, (we're on week 9!) and catch up "furreal" by end of next week ok? So I will explore technorati then complete the rest of the discovery exercise

Rollyo

Hummed and Hawed a bit with this one, then went for a sports thing to help me find news and reports on my fave athletes etc. (Michael Vick was not one of them!)
I "rolled" my own search engine (tool?) called allanasports (creative huh!) and added about 9 sites that I knew would render some appropriate info.
http://www.rollyo.com/dashboard.html

Back to the OTHER 23

ahem y'see Becks is #23 :) he he!
So I had fun with the Meez as you can see to the right, and I like Lirarything.
I started a catalog of books I read years back and tagged it childhood favourites.
I also added HELPFUL LINKS AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS PAGE. CHECK IT OUT!

GOOOOOAAAAAL!

Can't HELP IT- I'M BESIDE MYSELF-SO TICKLED THAT I WAS WATCHING THE GAME LAST NIGHT BETWEEN DC UNITED AND LA GALAXY when Beckham scores his first Galaxy goal from his bread & butter free kick---beautiful!
I'm glad the family weren't in bed yet cos I was yelling and cheering. I love Becks!
N E way I tried to upload the video from youtube to post with this-but I think it shows on the right side of my previous post. For fellow FOOTBALL fans- enjoy!

workin on the THINGS!

Hey here..well let's see, playing KETCHUP here a little bit-it's half way thru week 4 and I've just completed week 3 phew...it was like pulling teeth- MY OWN.
Like the fact I can have news feeds sent to me regularly on subjects and topics I follow. Didn't like the fact that i had to create another page to have this, though how else would it work right?
So now I have Yahoo/google username, a Blogger account now a bloglines account and noticed there's a place to sign into Merlin. Well I didn't do that..yet. I used Feedster to find a web site I look at often and subscribed to it. I subscribed to a couple others and had already selected a few from the choices at the start. It's okay, I'm not flipping over it. I usually know what I want to waste, I mean er spend time doing on the web and where to surf.
Anyhoo, I didn't look at Merlin extensively but I will check it regularly, (it's one of my feeds.)
Hope I've added those links properly.
Catcha later if anyone is reading this. NEXT... Chocolate????

Neon Bloom

Neon Bloom
Originally uploaded by http://www.flickr.com/people/ranlevi/

I cheated!
I looked at my "go to" Gal's entries and followed her links. I found this image on Flickr color selector.
What I wanted to do was take one of my photos and manipulate it using these effects.
Can you do that?

This is a cool pic tho huh?

how do you do it?

I'm referring to adding a photo to your profile.. I wanted to add something cute and funny (not a pic of ME) so I chose a pic from FLICKR (tried) to copy the URL no luck. Then I saved as picture on my desktop and tried to copy & Paste-still nuthin?

Can anyone guide me here? I've got my Go TO GAL here tomorrow, maybe she can give me the little shove I need.

I had a body like ths...once

tangerinebandit
Originally uploaded by zellozigglers

I prefer this to any of my pictures, so I will adopt her as my alter ego.

This is the pic I tried to put on my profile. Got stuck on the part of HELP that said "switch the photo to a HTML post if it isn't already" Don't see where to do that. I'm not a happy blogger right now!

B B L & H steps to Edin Castle

B B L & H steps to Edin Castle
Originally uploaded by izzyscot

watched the movie "Greyfriar's Bobby" (disney version) and saw these steps as part of the 1858 setting.
The story of Greyfriar's Bobby is a true account of a little Skye Terrier who was loyal to the end, and who changed the old town of Edinburgh for the better.
Here is a link to learn more about "Bobby"
http://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/Scotland-History/GreyfriarsBob.htm

this is supposed to be a link hope it works!

All the best to Mary-Lee

Just want to wish our branch manager well as she recovers from recent surgery Get well soon!

something technology!

For my birthday this year (40 sumthin;), I received an ipod nano. LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT! I have downloaded songs that I enjoyed as a teenager, songs from the BIG HAIR 80s, cool stuff from the 90s that I used to like on the old WHFS station, and newer songs. I simply LOVE IT! (this is about as technical as I get) I have no idea how it works, but it's a marvel to me, and it is also very useful for learning songs and creating set lists for our band. Hubby jacked it to our PA and wow-it sounded awesome. I tell ya- the Bay City Rollers never sounded so good! LOL!-did I mention I LOVE IT?! "shang-a-lang" baby.


OK here is the end of week 3-where's the darn cadbury's chocolate!

Colin & Ace with his plaster on

Colin & Ace with plaster on
Originally uploaded by izzyscot

Poor Ace with his boo boo!
This was before they knew anything was broken. The vet initially said "torn ligaments."
It looks like my brother in law is wearing the bandage, but it's the dog.

oops!

I accidentaly posted the same thing twice. I am such a novice at this...but I'm trying! any helpful comments hints n tips would be appreciated!

Anne Allana & Brooke with Ace

Anne Allana & Brooke with Ace
Originally uploaded by izzyscot

Moments before Ace hurt his leg

steps in Pittencreiff Park

steps in Pittencreiff Park
Originally uploaded by izzyscot

This is MY picture of the same steps in Pittencreiff park, taken in April '07.

Stairs In Pittencreiff park

Stairs
Originally uploaded by SafetyMannie™ ©

I just visited this park in April while I was staying with my sister in Rosyth, Scotland. We were walking her dog Ace. her husband and my two girls were with us. A little further along, Ace tried to jump down from a wall, and broke some bones in his right front leg.
He is still recovering from surgery. I have pics of Ace in MY PHOTOS (Flickr account)
under the DOGS tag.

23 things-7 1/2 habits

OK let's see, out of the habits the hardest one for me is to view problems as challenges, Probably because of a slight "I think I can " mentality. I have no problem setting the goals, I have several of those, but come up short of applying time, energy and focus on the ways & means to get there. I'm at "that age" you know....probably another excuse, but most of my efforts are concentrated on my teenage girls, who, if you can relate, run you ragged!
So, here it is, for what it's worth, my first blog, not exciting, but I hope to learn and grow with experience.