My first web page!!
It ain't much but it's the first webpage I've ever built. Next up is the CSS page with links and then the portfolio. Now that I have it figured out the rest should be a piece of cake.
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Electric Car
The Kelly Blue Book just added a section for new electric and hybrid cars. Take a look at some of these. These are for getting two people and a shopping bag around. It looks like you're going to have to give up a lot of utility for an environmentally friendly ride. Pay particular attention to the little blue number. I'm 5'7 and my knees would be in my chest.
Thursday, July 24, 2008
zemanta
Image via WikipediaHoly technology!
I just tricked out my firefox with the del.icio.us extension, the zemanta extension, user-agent switcher and foxmarks. It's crazy all the free stuff you can get and how easy they make it to search and discover information all over the web. It makes me feel good that people are so interested in information sharing and retrieval that they work on and then provide free of charge their software. Here's some articles and pictures that Zemanta pulled up for me. The pics come from Flickr.
Here's the internet! It looks like outer space. Attached is an article from Zemanta about Zemanta.
Friday, July 11, 2008
Koha is Done!
Whew! What a list. I put together a good list of helpful books for YA librarians and school librarians as well. Koha is really easy to use. Anyways here's the list of my 25 books about young adult literature.
Young Adult Literature in the 21st Century by Pam Cole
Death, Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Adolescent Literature by Kathryn James
The Ultimate Teen Book Guide
Young Adult Literature in Action by Rosemary Chance
Best New Media, K-12 by Catherine Barr
Gentile Reads by Deanna McDaniel
Best Books for Boys by Matthew D. Zbaracki
Beyond Picture Books by Barbara Barstow
The Official YALSA Awards Guidebook
Booktalking Authentic Multicultural Literature by Sherry York
Serving Young Teens and 'Tweens
Building Literacy Connections With Graphic Novels
The Distant Mirror by Joanne Brown
Connection with Reluctant Teen Readers by Patrick Jones
The Teen-Centered Book Club by Bonnie Kunzel
Naked Reading by Teri S. Lesesne
The Heart Has Its Reasons by Michael Cart
The Big Book of Teen Reading Lists by Nancy J. Keane
Classic Teenplots by John T. Gillespie
The Newbery/Printz Companion by John T. Gillespie
Discovering Their Voices by Marsha M. Sprague
Reading Rants by Jennifer Hubert
Serving Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning Teens by Hillias J. Martin
Women Engaged in War in Literature for Youth by Hilary S. Crew
Thursday, July 10, 2008
Catching up with the Joneses
Oh man did I fall behind. Comcast, my internet provider, took a week and a half getting my internet working because of some cable problems in the area. At this same time I realized that I'm broke and was worried about paying the rent so I'm now working two jobs. I know everyone has it hard every now and then and it's nothing to whine about so I'm going to shut it and get with the technology. Since my internet's been back up I've gotten caught up with the ePrints assignment and I'm a third of the way through Koha. Here's a note about Koha....it's GREAT! This may be the dorkiest thing I've ever said but meta data RULES! The fact that it makes communication between Koha and the LOC so easy blows my mind. All you need is an ISBN and it grabs all the info for you. Cool. I also took a look at the Jing assignment and it looks pretty straight forward so I think I can finish my Koha shelves and the Jing assignment by this evening.
So anyway, just to blog a bit more since my blogs have been seriously lacking, I just took a job as an auto mechanic. I've never worked on a car in my life but my boss is really excited about training me. I've been there two weeks and already I know how to change brakes and rotors, O2 sensors, struts and wheel control arms. Not too shabby for an up and coming librarian. I think now that I'm settled in and not terrified that I might go homeless I should be able to keep up with the blogs and assignments. Time to get a daily planner.
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So anyway, just to blog a bit more since my blogs have been seriously lacking, I just took a job as an auto mechanic. I've never worked on a car in my life but my boss is really excited about training me. I've been there two weeks and already I know how to change brakes and rotors, O2 sensors, struts and wheel control arms. Not too shabby for an up and coming librarian. I think now that I'm settled in and not terrified that I might go homeless I should be able to keep up with the blogs and assignments. Time to get a daily planner.
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