Task #19

I got 100%. Who ray!

I thought this was helpful. It was a nice tour through the wiki to show everyone where things are located.

Task #18

The Flaming Lips recently released a new album. I had heard that it was similar to their older work, and I do rather adore the "Oh My Gawd!!!" album (among others), so I thought I would look up allmusic's review of the new one, "Embryonic," which can be found here:
http://tinyurl.com/yj9cfzq.

As for Zamzar, I think it has a very spiffy name and is also a very spiffy little tool that I will tell patrons about.

Task #17

The first link I clicked on was the 100 best links for librarians of the future. And what is at the top of this page? "Learn-gasm". I was intrigued. By the way, that reminds me of something else; votergasm:

http://www.votergasm.org/

I remember stumbling across that in high school during a government class assignment. It's important to keep things exciting I think.

Anyway, from the 100... area I found a link for bookslut and thought that I would keep up the running theme. It's some fool's blog so I wasn't very interested in it because I don't really dig on blogs, but I did like that they were anti-ebook. I could relate to that.

(Upon proof reading I realized that by saying both "fool" and "dig" I was sounding a bit Mr. T-esque. It was unintentional, but upon review, I like it and will keep it so.)

The next link I found, again from the 100... area was the Days and Nights of the Lipstick Librarian:

http://www.lipsticklibrarian.com/blog/

Another blog, and it starts out with a humorous view on the librarian fetish.

Since both of these were under areas titled as being blog related, I can't really blame anyone but myself for that, but I had to stick with the theme, you know.

I probably wouldn't visit any library related sites in the too distant future. For now I feel that webolution is giving me plenty of library knowledge.

Task # 16

So Open Office, I have an on again off again love affair with this program. Mostly because I'm shallow and think she's ugly, otherwise it would only be an "on" love affair.

I use Open Office in lieu of Microsoft Office because I do not have disposable income to put toward such wastes as computer software. I think its writing program works just as well as Microsoft Word, although I mostly just use it to view .doc files while I use Microsoft word processor to type papers.

I think that open use software is very much in the spirit of libraries. Free things that are good for everyone and convenient. Also, I hear that if we used open office instead of paying tons of money for Microsoft user codes we would save a ridiculous amount of money. I also heard once somewhere from some grapevine sitting little bird that there is open software that could replace millennium\OPAC. Now wouldn't that be nifty.

#15

So, I am apparently the first person to webolt on the lower info desk as I still had to install the clipmark application.

It works well for what it is made to do, but it seems kind of lack luster. What am I reading that I can't just finish it? I also don't see this as being any less work than copying and pasting into a word document.

On the clipmarks page there is an area where you can see what other people are clipping and some kind of inane babble back and forth type of thing. Next to this is something about a widget. I had only heard this word in reference to beer. It's what's in Guinness bottles, that noisy thing that rattle about when they're empty. So, I did a quick wikipedia search for widget and found that widget is used in a variety of contexts. This is one of them:

"In computer programming, a widget (or control) is an element of a graphical user interface(GUI) that displays an information arrangement changeable by the user, such as a window or a text box. "

That was taken directly from wikipedia. The only hard part about that was taking out all the html code so that it wasn't underlined and blue and bold and other obnoxious things in various areas. It was very easy. And, if I really needed to finish reading that article and it was of importance, I would remember "widgets" and be able to find it easily.

I'm sure this is useful for somebody, but I don't find myself likely to be using it in the future.

#14

1. I looked at the FAQs and checked out the software whilst covering a break for Betsy at the info desk yesterday.

2. I browsed about the catalogs of both but didn't download anything.