Week Four

Finally here, this is getting a bit hard with no computer or Internet at home and an overwhelming work load at work.

Searching through Diigo, I found it easy to manouvre through and signed in using  good old Google. I joined up and am now following 1 person who has similar interests, checked out the community and started making a reading list of 4  interesting sites and articles which I added to my library.

As I'm not a real group joiner I did not join any groups..... yet. although I would not discount it for the future.

I also looked over Instapaper and found this to be a useful tool for me reading articles.
I added The Library of Utopia to be read later in a folder I named "work related" and America's Last Prisoner of War in my "general interest" folder.

The one thing that urks me about the web and all the tools we are learning about is the fact that they all seem to be Americanised. I know America has a big user base and companies like Apple and HP are based there but hey how about some Aussie, Pommy, or bright New Zealander coming up with something like these sites..... we do have intelligent people here too, its not a Yanky syndrome.

Week 3 Social awareness

Learning about tweeting and how it has killed the RSS feed to some extrent. But I don't know I prefer to be silent in a lot of cases (except when something gets on my goat) and just read posts and make up my mind on the content with out replying and getting into a conversation about things. I also think that I get too many emails now with work and would like to cut them down, also it bugs the "h" out of me when people say they would like to friends or they have added things to Face book and other sites and I can not view them because of blocks on the computers at work....

Trending topics in twitter sounds a bit more to my sytle ( not following but reading things that are being discussed)..... After having a good look at twitter it does not really interest me at all.

Now for "Pinterest" reading about this sounds a bit more interesting... a pin board about my intersts (boring.... playing and talking with animals ... hey they make more sense than people most of the time).

With Pinterest can read the stream and if you find something you like you request an invite and then comment or find the actual start of the stream (recipe of hint) and add this to your pin board.

This is definately more me but where are the cows??????

I did sign up for pinterest but am awaiting an answer on my invite request...

Well that about does it for the day... have a beer with Red and Doug and I'll see you later.

Week 2: Day 1 Google Reader

Still on the cuppa?

Just finished perusing Google reader and the RSS feeds. I found this an interesting site and although I am already signed up to get some feeds through my email I thought also signing up for the CSIRO feed would help in purchasing for the library.
The recipe feeds look interesting but I try to use only the produce we grow on the farm and it's hard to grow strawberries in the tropics (too hot) except for a couple of months a year.
The google reader and google docs sites were both confusing and hard to navigate at first but with a bit of practice they would become easier.
With the Google Docs I tried to share the recipe for comment with the course coordinator but I don't know if this worked as all the emails I send her keep bouncing back as undelivered mail.
I thought the Google Reader site would have more feeds available but maybe they will add to them in future.

Well I'm off now to do some more work.

Relax til then like my little friend above.

Week 2 Day 1 Google Documents

Searching google docs I had trouble at first as all the system wanted me to do was download to the computer  hard drive. This I can/t do as being a work computer all downloads are blocked until the IT personal actually come down to unblock them as an administrator.
It took me about 30 minutes before I could find my way around this and a way into to actually make a document and save it without downloading......... aaarghhh.
I made a recipe card for my banana bread which I make for the farm visitors a picture of this below.

This would be a good way of keeping my recipes away from the insects and weather here in the bush and also a good way of pulling them "out of the air when my kids want them for their munchies....

Grab a cuppa coffee and some bread and I'll be back soon with more updates.