Fun.

Image generators are fun. The generator blog was especially fun to play at.

Playing

Okay, I think I'm just not ready to settle down with any blogs or RSS's out there. I'm playing the field, having lots of fun, having flings with all kinds of blogs and sites with RSS's. Great. I found lots of celebrity gossip blogs (Joey McIntyre has a new kid on the block!) and sites with the latest news on health and nutrition. I tried both technorati and topix for blogs and news feeds to find this stuff. But am I ready to be serious about reading any of them? Absolutely not. I can always find more like them. Or not, which would be fine.

my bloglines story

Okay, so about a year ago (maybe 2, I can't remember) I started a bloglines account because it was "the 2.o thing to do" and, you know, I'm hip with that. I had about 15 feeds, which I checked religiously for about a week. And then I had't checked them again until this week because, you know, I'm hip with that...again. There were about 6,000 new entries. Luckily you can dump them all with just a couple clicks to tidy up your account. Now I have only 10 feeds. I plan on checking them and dumping all the updates sometime around 2010, or when I need to feel 2.0 hip again.

Calorie Mate Excitement

Chocolate Winner!

Yay! Thanks for the fun contest, fun in the library. I was very determined to win, and smoked the competition...well, I don't know if anyone else participated. But it was fun...in the library. We work with such interesting people!

The image is of the new $25,000 chocolate dessert. I did not win this. But the truffles were quite lovely!

e-audiobooks

So I went to Net-library to download an e-audio book to put on my MP3 player. I decided to do a short one that was supposed to take 10 minutes to download onto my flashdrive. Of course it took longer--the last 23 seconds took 3 minutes! But it eventually got saved.

Later...I copied the file from the flashdrive to a folder on my computer by clicking and dragging. So far so good. WMP automatically opened saying that I need to obtain the license. Got it, no problem!

But then I wanted to syncronize it to my MP3 player. I had to get it onto the sync list. I clicked all over until something worked. Then I hit the start sync button and an error message popped up, saying the file isn't in the correct format. Grr. It is. That's why it took forever to download in the first place. Then I tried it again. And again. Then I restarted the computer. And tried it again. This time when I tried syncing it worked!

I don't know how it worked but I'll take it. I'm not sure how I'll explain that to confused patrons...

Not Much. You?*

I looked at Podcast Directory and I just didn't like the design (or lack) of the website. So yes, there was information but there were also a bunch of ads which blended right in with the rest of the page. Podcast Alley suited my aethetic much better. The search tool was easy to find, navigation was easy and there were some featured podcasts that were interesting. But I wish that the directories had short descriptions of the podcasts.

I was happy to find on the NPR directory, that the Whad Ya Know? Show -All the News that Isn't, which I grew up listening to every Saturday morning, podcasts its shows and has an audio archive of the past year's shows. Good ol' Wisconsin entertainment!

*The answer to the question "Whad ya know?" is "Not much. You?"

U2ba

YouTube time is like restaurant math. It took 5 minutes to watch something that was 1 min and 40 sec. And I'm afraid I'll disturb people if I turn the sound up, so it makes the 5 minutes seem like 6 1/2 minutes.

BUT I learned about CalorieMate :) Have look. Dramatic, eh? There's a series of them. Here is more info on Calorie Mate. Mmm. Everything the body needs...

Oh, and it is searchable through google. Just type in "calorie mate" to find more commercials. Awesome.