Thing 17

Library 2.0. What do I think of these ideas? I'm not sure of where this is going. I just don't think all of this online stuff will produce a higher quality of humanity. I think we need to go back to talking to each other face to face, meeting in each others' homes, or at least using the telephone to hear each other's voices. I believe there is too much anonymity online. We don't have to be who we are; we can be whoever or whatever we want to be to whomever is reading our blog, tags, technoratis, bloglines, etc. I guess I am getting more old-fashioned as I grow older, learning to value the things that really matter in life like family, friends, happiness. Does being online 40 hours a week perpetuate truly important relationships and quality of life? There's something to ponder.

Thing 16

Technorati: It sounds like something Italian like food! Everything makes me think of food! Another Thing that I would need to spend lots of time on to understand. I guess I'm just not getting the "tags" idea. I can't imagine I need Technorati to improve my life. I think I'll just stick to yoga. Thanks for the experience, though. I subscribed to gingerlemongirl.blogspot.com in bloglines. I'll get more yummy gluten-free recipes--just what I need!

Thing 15

Yes, I explored del.icio.us and read the instructions on us.ef.ul. Somehow, I still don't get it. I think this will be something I'll need to spend a lot of time looking at if I'm going to really use it. I did create an account, but now I have so many accounts with different logins and passwords, I'll have to start a database just to keep track of them. Where will I find the time? This was the most difficult Thing yet! Do they just keep getting more difficult? I'm running out of time. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Precious Grandsons

New pictures of two of the boys. Aren't they adorable?

Thing 14

I created an account in Ning and joined the PPLD site. Looks like a person could do a lot of things in Ning--weird name, but I'm not sure why I'd want to or what makes it different from the other sites or a blog. I doubt I would use it. The blog's enough for me.

Thing 13

I just joined Facebook and the PPLD group! Cool!

Thing 12

Well, Rollyo is another way to save lists. I am getting so many lists, I don't know if I'll ever be able to keep them straight. I will have to do a lot more exploring about how Rollyo works before I could count on it to find web sites. I am a list maker, however, I was unable in a short exploration to figure out how you actually get to the sites by clicking in Rollyo. I created a great searchroll so I probably will go back in and try to figure it out.

Classical Music Concert

If you like classical music--Mozart and other beautiful choral music with handbells, you might want to consider attending a concert at First United Methodist Church on May 3 at 7:30 p.m. Here is the link to the web site. http://www.solideogloriacs.org/concerts.htm

Thing 10

I just joined LinkedIn.com. Now I'm waiting for someone to say they know me. Does anyone out there know me? I'm not sure I really know myself. Is anyone really reading this? If you are reading my blog at all, please make a comment. I enjoy my own blog and all of yours, but it would be great to know if anyone is really reading this. HELLO OUT THERE!

Caricature

Thanks to Tim Blevins, I have posted a caricature of myself in my profile. I'm really not sure about the hair color though. If anyone has a suggestion about how to improve it, please let me know. The available colors do not really look like hair colors. Besides I have some highlighting and some "natural highlighting" that makes my hair multi-color. Wow! That was fun. :) Maybe I'll have to go back to that site and make caricatures of all of my family members.

Here are some more turtle/tortoise/terrapin photos from our new database International Wildlife Online. I love this database already. It is available in Electronic Reference under Reference Shelf, Kids Web, and Teen Zone.