Thing #16 : Reflection

Don't you just love reflection?

I have generally enjoyed 23 Things. I like the cataloguing site Library Thing and  I like blogs more as I have enjoyed writing Books and Leopards. I like Letter James.   I even don't mind Google sites too much as I have now created some websites but am less keen on Google docs as I still  have problems uploading docs.  I don't like having so many Google accounts (3 so far) because Google Staff Apps didn't have the functionality to link to the blog and I keep forgetting the username and passwords. I could learn more about Technorati, Twitter, RSS feeds, Creative commons and Podcasts. Goodbye Books and Leopards, hope you win me an i-Pad.

Thing # 15

I've used Facebook and quite like it for catching up with what people are doing and for storing photographs.  I'm liking photography at the moment and have been snapping away as I have got a new camera recently.  My friend has just been to Austria so I found some pics on FB as I'm going there soon and was researching the terrain (see below).
Current recommended clothing for Austria  is: a raincoat, a lightish jacket and otherwise the kind of clothes you would be wearing here at the moment, including something with long sleeves.

 I think Social media is interesting and students tell me they use it to communicate rather than email so I guess we need to embrace it in some way. I think a lot of the content though is rather frivolous and badly spelt.

Slides from the ALISS conference on social media are at: 
http://www.alissnet.org.uk/Display.aspx?id=10737418262

Thing #14

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfLDHQgZfiA

See the You Tube video where you can meet me and have a brief intro.
Have done captions but am not sure how to add them so at the moment is uncaptioned.

Thing #13

https://sites.google.com/a/staff.westminster.ac.uk/translation/

I'm loving my new Google site for Translation. It's quite easy to do when you use a colleague's template. I think  I could have attachments for guides etc  at the bottom of some of the pages.

Thing #12

I've tried to upload a PPT to staff Google docs but have not been able to, it said that my file is too large. I may try again later.. 

Tried again to upload some minutes but it said  just froze and a message at the top said Your browser does not support all features of Google Docs. If you are having problems, try Google Chrome 

I'm not a great fan of Google Docs I have to say..

Word 2010

I'm loving Word 2010, it is so much slicker than 2007 and I have found  leopard pics on clip art! Can't wait  to get it on my PC.

Carpe diem

Normal service resumed... almost

I've had difficulties getting into Books and Leopards with Blogger and then it  kept taking me into my Languages blog. I have got round it using Firefox.

I'm feeling ill and light headed  with an upset stomach so may have caught the Regent virus... Still I may be adopting an amur leopard (there are only 35 left in the world). 

Morale

My morale is high as on LibraryThing, the English Faculty Library at Oxford  thinks my collection of books for Westminsterlanguages  is an interesting Library. Woohoo! I have made it. As a thwarted cataloguer,  I love LibraryThing.

Thing # 12 Google Apps

I'm afraid I'm no fan of Google Apps. I always have problems uploading documents to it, like today 2010 Diane Training.xlsx (The uploaded file could not be imported.)  There is no proper  training and support for it as it is a generic Google product and you're just supposed to use the Help screens or the forums.  I don't know why my files don't load so  I can't progress.  I also don't like the cluttery inbox full of unwanted  esotheric shared documents that I can't delete.  I also understand it has limitations on formatting  etc and so the collaborative aspect of it is not as good as it could be.

My LibraryThing

Thanks to Ellie, I have now managed to link the  LibraryThing widget  to my other blog http://westminsterlanguages.blogspot.com/ 

It's at the bottom of this site too.
I think I may be becoming a fan of blogs.....

New look for Books & Leopards

I've changed the look and feel of the  Books & leopards template and am liking so far. Maybe I will set up a taxonomy for it as well!
http://animalphotos.info/a/topics/animals/mammals/leopards/ 
This site looks good. I think I'm becoming addicted to Books & Leopards so I better stop now.

Technorati

Apparently, I'm the 999,999th visitor to Technorati so a blurry pop-up box tells me I have won a prize, wonder what it is?  I searched on leopards and found an Kenyan soccer blog (strange?)  and then  crime fiction and found some more blogs. It might be useful, if I ever  become a blog fan need to share them with others and it has  Facebook, Twitter, RSS buttons.

Delicious

Delicious - I'm all for sharing and there are some good pics of my favourite animals on here. I'll have to investigate having my own bookmarks and about folksonomies and taxonomies but it's to early on Monday morning to contemplate such things. Just setting up some estate agents booksmarks, how sad is that?

Rollyo

I searched for leopards on Rollyo and the first result was from Wikipedia . However, the second one was from National Geographic and I found an excellent pic of a sleeping leopard and a nice snow leopard blog http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?cat=17 so I'm liking it so far.

Kindles and Library Thing

I wonder with the advent of Kindles if there is less need for sites like Library Thing. I seem to have acquired approx 60 e-books (many of them free of course!). Therefore on the device, there is already a list of them and you can group them by category so perhaps there is less need to use a cataloguing site.

Letter James rocks

Loving Letter James now that I have found a Berlin street sign and have got my wish of being a detective. Life is sweet. Looking forward to the weekend.

Wordle - 23 Things

Let it snow

A picture from outside my window. I think snowscapes are quite beautiful really.

The Leopard

Woo hoo ! I'm excited as 2 of my favourite things are being rolled into one. The excellent  Scandanavian crime writer Jo Nesbo is publishing a new novel called  The Leopard  on 20 January. Thing is I'm not sure if it should be acquired in hardback or digital format.