Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Week Three - Summertime: Thing seven of twenty-three

Music to my ears! Have a look at my sidebar. As my technological feat of the week and technology discussion topic , I've added Sonific SongSpot. http://sonific.com/
It was pretty easy to do. It seems that everything is linked to everything in the Library 2.0 world, and all I had to do was register, choose my song (continuing the jazz theme) and add the URL of my blog. I marked a few quick settings, then clicked a button, and it sent the song right here with a nifty player.
You won't find well known artists on the site(at least I didn't), but you may find a song you like done by an interesting cover band or someone you've never heard of before.
My song choice is "Summertime" from the Gershwin opera "Porgy and Bess" with a Latin Jazz twist. Hope you like it! Thanks to Minerva Shelved for the link.

Also posted my first comment to a fellow 2.0er.

Week Three - Dr. Girlfriend Warholized: Thing six of twenty-three


My creation
Originally uploaded by ex librisdm.
Look! It's Dr. Girlfriend!! For those of you that don't know this character, you'll find her on the Venture Bros. cartoon, which you can catch late at night on the Adult Swim portion of Cartoon Network. She's quite a unique super-villain side-kick, dresses like Jackie O, and has a very masculine voice! She's great fun! Oh! And I think she looks great Warholized! http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/

Monday, February 19, 2007

Week Three - Hot Jazz: Thing five of twenty-three


Jazz
Originally uploaded by Toetap.
Wow! So many photos in Flickr! http://flickr.com/ It took me a little while to figure out how to get them from there to here, but now that I have, I'm pretty sure I'm going to go picture crazy! I really tried to find something unique, and I think this is a good one. If you look closely, it spells out the word 'jazz'....and since I've recently been introduced to the wonderful world of jazz by a very hot and charismatic bass player, what better photo to choose :-)

Wednesday, February 7, 2007

Week Two - Run on words: Thing four of twenty-three

I sort of jumped the gun on registering my blog. I sent the e-mail off in my excitement, and then realized I'd messed up on the name. I made the mistake of running all the words together, and it came out like 'dogearedpagesmakemecrazy'. It didn't look good at all, so I deleted it. I'd already sent the confirmation to the blog masters and then had to retract it. They were very gracious in their reply and told me to take my time.

Week Two - Dogeared: Thing three of twenty-three

Oh man...the hardest thing was coming up with a name for my blog! I wanted to use something really cool having to do with a certain superhero who was also a librarian, but it was already taken by some girl in England :-( I probably spent another day and a half trying to think of something clever and library related. I had a few failed attempts, and then I think I finally I got it right.
The name I chose brought back a memory of how irritated I used to get when people returned books with the pages dogeared, and how I would stand there patiently in the Sorting Room straightening them out. It made me feel better :-)
I had a friend tell me the other day though, that if a personal paperback copy of a book is completely dogeared and tattered, it usually means it's a sure sign that it's a favorite. Hmmmm hadn't thought about it like that before, but I think he's right.
So now...presenting...my blog!

Week One - 7 1/2 Habits: Thing two of twenty-three

I guess I'm going to be much better off if I adopt the 7 1/2 new good habits as opposed to holding on to the 27 1/2 bad ones I've already got. I really like habit #2, the one about taking responsibility for your own learning. That's the easiest one for me because I'm already doing it. I'm currently taking classes after a very long break, and I can't wait to get my degree!
The hardest habit for me to practice is probably #7 Teach/Mentor others. I've been told I'm fairly good at it, but I'm not really comfortable doing it in a
'Hi..I'm your trainer' situation. One on one in my current work situation is fine though.