Task No. 23

I have finally reached the 23rd 'thing' where I have been asked to comment and give feedback about my experience with 23 Things. I will keep this brief and to the point.

I am more of a 'serious' personality than a 'fun' type although I don't mind having fun now and again - otherwise I would go crazy. I will start with the negative stuff. The Things I found least interesting about this exercise was the Blog itself, Flickr, Facebook + MySpace (by the way, I was given an elephant stamp for 'completing' the Facebook / MySpace task when I didn't even touch it), iGoogle, Delicious and Instant Messaging. Having said that, I can totally understand why a lot of people love these. I am just not a "clubby" type person. To quote Woody Allen, "I would not want to be a member of a club that would have me as a member" if that makes any sense.

On the more positive side, I enjoyed playing around (didn't I just say I was not a 'fun' type of person?) with Image Generators, RSS Feeds, Google Maps, Google Book Search, Google Scholar, YouTube and listening and watching Podcasts.

All in all, although I was tearing my hairs (I don't have that many) out a times, it was a very enjoyable and worthwhile exercise.

Frank

Task No. 22

I read up about Google Talk. I also used Google Talk to communicate with a friend

Task No. 21

I subscribed to a podcast of a radio interview with Patti Smith on to my feed reader.

Task No. 20

I have embedded Barak Obama's Election Night Victory Speech on to my blog.

Barak Obama's Victory Election Speech

Task No. 19

I added a photo of my pet orangutang "Ollie" on to the Wiki page

Task No. 18

I read the Wikipedia article on the Library 2.0 movement.I was not able to view the YouTuble video about Library 2.0).

Task No. 17

I went into the "Delicious" Social Bookmarking and looked at other people's bookmarks.

Task No. 16

I created an iGoogle account. To my iGoogle account, I added "To Do", "Google Maps", "Wikipedia" and "Facebook"

Task No. 15

I did a search in Google Books for "The Missing "Manual" as well as a search for the full text version of the novel "Treasure Island"

I did a search in Google Scholar for the Victoria University E-Book Repository

Task No. 14

I have created a Google Doc document. I also sent it to two friends via email

Task No. 13

Google Maps is very handy. I am presently looking to buy a home. By typing in the address of the property I am able to firstly see where it is located on the map vis a vis community facilities like parks, etc. Secondly I am able to view an overhead photograph of the property to see whether the backyard is big enough.

Task No. 11

I have subscribed to Google Librarian

Task No. 10

I have subscribed to Grist Mill under digg

Task No. 9

I watched the YouTube and Google videos about RSS and I found it very interesting. What this means is I can keep up to date with the latest information on my favourite websites and I don't even have to go searching for it! That's cool!! Ihave also set up a Feed Reader with Google

Task No. 8

Three of my favouritie fiction books:

http://www.librarything.com/catalog/FC1957

Task No. 7

I have completed Task 7

Tasks 5 + 6

I have completed Tasks 5 + 6 i.e Flickr photo + slide show

Frank's van

A New Office for Acquisitions Staff

Hello,

Today I write to you as acquistions staff here at St. Albans Campus Library are getting computer / phone cables and ports installed in the new office. This hopefully will be completed today. Next Monday, the electrician should be here to install power cables and power points. Tuesday September 16th is planned to be the day of the BIG MOVE. On that day the furniture removalists will be here to move our furniture into the new office. We are all looking forward to moving into an "new look" office.