I feel like a gardener who has just thrown a few seeds over a patch. I am vaguely aware of the nature of the seeds I have just sown - RSS - but I do not know what to expect.
With intelligent encouragement from my colleagues, I have asked to be fed.
I pressed the buttons for feed reader and asked for items once a day - Annoyed L and news once a week from Infodoodads. Both are cribs off Dana.
I shall await my feeds and may be I shall get as enthusiastic about the RSS achievement as I am about all the other tasks. I have mentioned before how I am concerned (just a tiny bit) at my lack of knowledge about the technical side of my button pressing. The instructions to try new wizardry are brilliantly simple, well so far, and except for RSS which I had to try several times. But, if I am bombarded somewhere with results/weeds from my feeds that I do not want, I shall just pull them up at the press of a button: simple gardening and no fear of overgrown patches.
I have begun to do a bit more with my LibraryThing. I have started to take a peek at some of the reviews of the books in my library. I have got over my annoyance at the way the user has to re enter data constantly to include 20 or more books by an author, in my case John Le Carre, and the fact that the cataloguing of my authors puts John Le Carre under C and De Bernieres under B. I think I shall be very interested in reviews of books that I have read which are not particularly well known, such as "When she was good" by Philip Roth. This lets me see, in a way, a mirror of myself. I think this may be an internet (psychological) phenomenon which is well known to internet virtuosos.
Tuesday, October 9, 2007
Sunday, October 7, 2007
History and well-behaved women
I read a review on the weekend about a book on well-behaved women .*
The background about the author and the theme of the book were read with interest - I have always loved book reviews as well as reading books. The most intriguing and revealing line in the review for me is "Still, as Ulrich notes again and again, history is'nt simply what happened in the past; it is what later generations choose to remember." **
I have spent many months this year researching our archives for relevant documents/primary sources for the Swinburne Historian, Dr Peter Love. An almost astonishing element to our history, of a Technical School, was the emphasis, from the very beginning, on training and education, for vocational/career purposes for girls and women. Peter has referred to this legagy of George and Ethel Swinburne several times in our first centenary history publication, due for release very soon - early November.
* Well behaved women seldom make history, by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Knopf
** See review by M Dirda in Australian Financial Review, Friday 5 October 2007.)
The background about the author and the theme of the book were read with interest - I have always loved book reviews as well as reading books. The most intriguing and revealing line in the review for me is "Still, as Ulrich notes again and again, history is'nt simply what happened in the past; it is what later generations choose to remember." **
I have spent many months this year researching our archives for relevant documents/primary sources for the Swinburne Historian, Dr Peter Love. An almost astonishing element to our history, of a Technical School, was the emphasis, from the very beginning, on training and education, for vocational/career purposes for girls and women. Peter has referred to this legagy of George and Ethel Swinburne several times in our first centenary history publication, due for release very soon - early November.
* Well behaved women seldom make history, by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Knopf
** See review by M Dirda in Australian Financial Review, Friday 5 October 2007.)
Thursday, October 4, 2007
New esoteric group
Here is my new group in my new account:
http://groups.google.com/group/siegfriedchandler?hl=en
http://groups.google.com/group/siegfriedchandler?hl=en
I love creating logos and I have explored a bit further in my task for week 5, even though I expressed my scepticism in the post before.
Week 5 task ???
I tried for a bit to see how the week 5 task can reveal itself as useful. Each online feeder service did not appeal to me. I realise I am completing a task within the 23 Things program and shall press any number of buttons to achieve this goal, but I think I am experiencing a familiar feeling of knowing nothing (of this technical world) and not wanting to find out. I have created a new account, though I am not sure I shall use it.
Metaphorically speaking, I am in a new car, idly pressing buttons and one of them may open the sunroof, the boot, set off the car alarm which I have no idea how to fix. But one of them could propel me out of my seat or destroy the engine because I pressed self destruct. Now this is of course fanciful. But I have had some anxious moments pressing all the buttons for these new programs even though I know that Swinburne keeps me on trainer wheels and I cannot crash the server.
On the other hand the previous tasks have led me to new knowledge and skill and I have begun to enjoy the possibilities.
I can create (free) logos. Invitations and greetings can now have a special ELECTRONIC flair which will dazzle my circle of family and friends.
I am already planning a whole new focus for my photographs, including the ones in fusty albums from the turn of the century. I shall scan them with a Hewlett Packard scanner, recommended by a professional blogger on my flickr site. I shall include a selection in PictureAustralia Ourtown
I am happy with this blog, which has given me an opportunity to think aloud. I have to do this thinking, sensibly, as I use my name. This concentrates the mind and allows me to distill my thoughts rather than shooting off, which I have a propensity for.
I have found one of Dana's favourite blogs - Annoyed L extremely amusing. It makes me laugh and think: a perfect combination and well worth this blogging business.
Metaphorically speaking, I am in a new car, idly pressing buttons and one of them may open the sunroof, the boot, set off the car alarm which I have no idea how to fix. But one of them could propel me out of my seat or destroy the engine because I pressed self destruct. Now this is of course fanciful. But I have had some anxious moments pressing all the buttons for these new programs even though I know that Swinburne keeps me on trainer wheels and I cannot crash the server.
On the other hand the previous tasks have led me to new knowledge and skill and I have begun to enjoy the possibilities.
I can create (free) logos. Invitations and greetings can now have a special ELECTRONIC flair which will dazzle my circle of family and friends.
I am already planning a whole new focus for my photographs, including the ones in fusty albums from the turn of the century. I shall scan them with a Hewlett Packard scanner, recommended by a professional blogger on my flickr site. I shall include a selection in PictureAustralia Ourtown
I am happy with this blog, which has given me an opportunity to think aloud. I have to do this thinking, sensibly, as I use my name. This concentrates the mind and allows me to distill my thoughts rather than shooting off, which I have a propensity for.
I have found one of Dana's favourite blogs - Annoyed L extremely amusing. It makes me laugh and think: a perfect combination and well worth this blogging business.
Monday, October 1, 2007
Two Tasks in one
Thank you to Chris who encouraged me to enter LibaryThing.
Since I read so much I did not want to enter a new world of books.
I have created my Library: http://www.librarything.com/profile/sara11 It will be interesting for me to see if my curiosity gets me to peep at some of the fans of the books I have selected initially.
Hang of creating a logo
A blogger wondered where my previous attempts at logo making (playing) were going. I went back to the site and created this on the free logo section.
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