24th thing

I was trying desperately to do the last thing required, and I saw most of the OS video, until I was cut off from an automatic update which refused to give me the option of waiting later, even though it came up as an option.
So here are my impressions: I saw about one hour, so I did not get the newest of it all.
From Bill Gates letter in 1976 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Letter_to_Hobbyists, via Richard Stallman and the password requirement at MIT to Unix 1984 WITH ITS CLIENT SERVER AGREEMENT and 5 years to develop GNU to Linus Thorwalds program to divide programs into smaller segments Linux with the Apache and Red Hat with more than 200.000 users in 1995 and jump to 1997 800.000 users.
All about Netscape and Jim Barksdale imposing decision for communicating until Mozilla, and Open office!at our local library!
What an evolvement in so short a time.
Was it boring? Nope, because it gave me an historial background for what we are dealing with right now, and if we do not know our history we are doomed to repeat it.

"Kindle" mass early

http://www.newsweek.com/id/70983
When I was writing about Kindle the Newsweek was writing an article about it.
It is not an endorsement, but a curious brain trying to understand evolution as it happens.
On some of the entries on Newsweek's blog I have seen a professor emeritus complain about how art books could not be shown on "kindle" and then a teacher applauding the gadget which will one day be revolutionizing the world. All we really need is combine Kindle and I phone, and the all connected Internet, WoW.
The professor needs to remember that people now watch movies on little screens and the teacher is certainly more correct.
The only thing again that worries me is all the electronic wibes we get.

Wikis and know-how

My husband who works in the industry is contemplating of having
to set up a inter-company wiki to collect all the company's know-how.
Apparently it is being done all ovrer the world in the big companies.

Words can kill?

Fascinated with words I will draw your attention to
Urban Dictionary. My entry 2 days ago from the Washington Post in memento
the words we speak today are not the words we used in my childhood.
My love for slang and new words have actually made me realize how old fashioned
I have become, so I have even put a new feed on this blog today!

Urban Dictionary

is not tame
or lame.
A blame
is for shame
and will maim
the old dame.
So she must claim
to be insane
and is in flame
for the urbane....

Retro??

24 things to do with an index card

Amazing what you come across when your are looking for 24 things, which will be the new goal for everyone.

Pen and paper? What a novel idea!!

News from the Washington Post

What I see is what I get. Search engines galore.
Well, I could live my second life on the net or web or
illustrious info highway, but I am beginning to wonder
even more deeply, for what, for information, for life.
How apt I chose the blog name, I just did not realize
how much it pertains to my feelings of this evolvement.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/27/AR2007112702321.html
But at least I am trying hard to keep up my end of
life time learning, or should it be called life time earning,
or life time yearning.
Ambivalentia is me.

Life-time learning on as Monday morning

http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=2175271

This is why it is urgent to learn http markup language!!!!

The Rollyo and search engines personalized are very good, if you have time to kill, but
I do not right now.

Brave New World

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000FI73MA/ref=amb_link_5892762_2?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-1&pf_rd_r=1GQHS559MXJASJN20DRZ&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=333267901&pf_rd_i=507846

This is the product that is going to revolutionize the world or similar ones.

I will take everything I said about my adherence to the book back, and the libraries will have to change completely the way we operate.

This is going to be the savior of our trees etc.
Whether all the electromagnetic fields will be good for human kind is another matter.

But if I were a full-time librarian, I would be at least on the alert. Wait till you combine project Gutenberg with KINDLE.
WOW

Pods are us!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRDxievglj0

Mudslinging, is that like podcasting
or is podcasting like mudslinging?
The former is throwing bad water
filled with dirt after somebody -
the latter is throwing whatever
out there filled with whatever.
Podcasting, however, is a powerful
medium and could well be the new
"newsreel" or the cinematographic ads
of yesteryears. Self-promotion has become
easier.

So this podcast is without mudslinging
but throwing out a lot of notes into the ether.

No ambivalence about ??

This is where it gets hairy. A comment on the library website was are you now getting addicted to blogging? Well, yes and no.
I like my other blog better, but because of the requirement I am going to continue on rare occasions.

Political blog?
....Maybe!
Family blog? No.

Inquisitive blog,
Inquisition blog? ...
Funny how these words are related.
If you are curious it is good, but not under an inquisition!

Water boarding - that is not a torture measure?
Water boarding could be "surf boarding", but in this case
the directions in the torture manual does call for
measures that cannot really be detected.

I thought the Geneva conventions were still the norm
to which all civilized nations subscribed, I guess not.
The US is as civilized as I thought. Alas.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torture
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/edcut?pid=248437
http://www.populistamerica.com/the_waterboarding_of_the_constitution

Flicr. Thanks to the person who took the picture.

What a wonderful world

The powers want a reaction to the 23 things and here it goes:
I have done this blog only on the little library time I have as an hourly circulation person, and only this long svada is done from my home computer.

Yes, I am grateful that I learned a few tricks on the road, most notably RSS feeds and blog lines and things of that nature. But as I said in the beginning (in September), I think I need to focus on learning markup language to be able to design my own website and not bank on somebody else's intellectual property.

The copyrights in Flickr is almost non-existent, just like Youtube and the different music downloads.

So if I were a professional photographer, filmmaker or musician, I would be very wary.

Gutenberg project http://www.gutenberg.org is phenomenal but I still like to read in bed, so going to bed with a computer (laptop) is not my thing. Now, if I became bedridden I could see its merit. If I wanted to write my comments on the page of the book, it would be somewhat difficult. I guess the next step which is already out there, but not as popular as thought in the beginning is the electronic book, not unlike the Texas instruments toys from my children's childhood.

The "MySpace" and "FaceBook" and other similar sites are fun, but in the real world
a dangerous thing. Beware, and be aware that your prospective employers look, if you are on there! Too much personal information can be a very dangerous thing for con-people and
governments alike. There is another site for professionals "LinkedIn", but the same warnings pertain to this too, you never know the wolves.

Do not trust anything you read on the Internet highway. Highways have a tendency to have fogs. Fogging or fooling the user leads after all to taking the wrong turn and end up more off the road than you would like to.

Having warnings all over the place and back your research with at least two reliable sources
will give you some security. In olden days when I was doing library science we were told never to give an answer, unless we had two sources with authority behind them.

Yes, we have less illiteracy and there is hope for the 21 century to bring all the emerging lands up to speed but we have to make sure that we can still have communication face to face.
Yes, it is wonderful that we have the ability to talk with each other face to face via the computers - "Skype" is well-known for that. But we are vulnerable if there is a storm with a black-out. We then (horror) have to talk to each other face to face and find something to do with the kids like playing cards or making up word-games.

Having said all the warnings, my favorite site is PubMed, which gives the newest index for the medical advances. If you just type in terms like "Alzheimer's Cure" it may not be too satisfying, but a good indicator of what is out there. I was talking to Jennie again and we were discussing a lot of these ideas typed up here, so since I have three kids who have all taken music it is probably the best thing I have given my children: The art of slow learning, the hard way of building up a skill. 23 things is not enough; it is an appetizer only which can lead to a fulfilling main course and a scrumptious dessert.

Internet sometimes feels like instant gratification, and believe me I like it too I love reading different newspapers in different languages. Anything overdone is worrisome. Just use caution and enjoy the new-found skills of dappling around more computer-savvy on the information highway.

To finish off this evaluation with bungled proverbs:
Highways can lead to off-the-beaten-off-paths. Curiosity is humanity with a twist.

What a wonderful world!

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

Domingo and Halloween

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RdJmqLrsbo

Let's have some fun on Halloween night
an opera megastar so shining bright
listen to him and see for yourself
goblins and werewolfs in a pelt.

Terrible poem good singer!

Gutenberg project, I read about when they started!!
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/19574

What else
The 23 things are done but I am not.

Wikis

Week 7 in week 8 veni vidi wiki
to paraphrase another old song
the wicked witch is dead
ding and dong and ding dong

ambitious

First of all thanks to 23 things for alerting me to the different things out ther on the net and forgive me for being a little bit on the warning side. If you create all your words and spreadsheet out on the ether what about the security???
I explored the http://www.cocktailbuilder.com/ because in olden days I liked to mix these things.
I submitted a cocktail recipe, and hopefully they are going to approve of it.
I did not taste it myself! Ha!

Halloween Horror

1 shot of Gammel Dansk ( a Danish liquor)
1 dash a Angostura Bitter and top it up with
Selzer Water!

Bwadr!

Drowning but playing

Drowning in fanciness and ladidah...
soon it is Christmas falalah..
No clue anymore but leaning towards learning
or is it learning with a leaning to the left - right,
which way - I do not know - except
the name was well-picked - falalah
Am bi va len ti aaaaaa

News from the World

http://www.worlddigitallibrary.org/project/english/index.html

Substance

With all the places I have to know and with all the passwords I have to give out to become a member of this and that to have an awesome looking blog, I am wondering, what happened to substance?

Change

Change is what life is about, therefore I have decided to make this blog more
boring.

Play week

Play girl, toys R us for computers that's what the avatars and these bloggenerators are.
Not that I have anything against playing, but .... are we forgetting to communicate face to face
that is my worry.

Thanks to Jennie

Now I know how to import RSS into a newly created blogline account.
Wow.
Now I know how millions of people spend their time.

More about Mark Up Language

http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Guide/

Here is apparently the link to an easy way to enhance your website.
I will try to study it more in dept.
Back in the early seventies they were trying to teach us how to write in basic at
the library school. I did not care for it then, but maybe I should have paid more attention.

News from today's Washington Post: In general Americans have 2,5 blogs to their name.
I have 2 and 1 entry somewhere else, so I qualify as average Jane.

Markup language

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/html
My search to be continued.

Success

I finally managed to upload a picture from Flickr, by downloading it to my computer and then from there uploading it to the blog, whahoo!

This is my dream village!

Frustration

Tried to cut and paste and also download a picture from flickr from the library's computer. Am told it cannot be done because that feature has been disconnected. Then how are we supposed to apply our newfound skill?

Sunday later

I need to learn a bit more, because I do not like the look of my blog.

Sunday

I have tried to use a new template and a photo, but I am not sure it will work.

Also changed the name from "A little bit of this to a little bit of that to a more latin name,

Ambivalentia

I prefer being obscure.