Monday, March 31, 2008

The Scanner and I



Well folks, this is a scan of a DVD cover from our movie collection within the Plumsted branch. This is one of my favorite movies because of the fact that it's soooo funny and also because it does have a meaningful story in the background of one young man's journey through the interim period of young adult to full blown adulthood.

This completes Thing #7 of the OCL WebThings challenge and now I am all caught up... :)

Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Finding an RSS to feed on...

For Thing #9 we simply needed to find and explore the different ways to add RSS feeds. I found that the easiest for me was to compy the RSS feed URL and click add in the bloglines website. I would then paste the URL and click add.

Also, merely searching in google is another way to find some pretty useful and informational RSS feeds.

Feeding upon the Great "RSS"

For Thing #8 I was served with the task of exploring and devouring the great buffet called "RSS Feeds". I was able to sign up for a bloglines account fairly easily and within a couple of minutes I was grabbing RSS feeds from all of my favorite websites.

I love RSS feeds for the fact that it simplifies the way you surf the internet. I was used to going to Gizmodo.com to check any new tech news and then from there moving on to Engadget.com and so on and so forth. This way of surfing the web was very tedious and time consuming, but now with RSS feeds I only need to go to one website. All of the information from all the websites I view is all neatly placed in folders and I can peruse them at my own leisure.

I gathered RSS feeds from:

-Engadget.com
-Gizmodo.com
-Asbury Park Press
-OCL WebThings
-EntertainmentWeekly.com
-Upcoming Events at Plumsted
-Techdirt.com
-ExtremeTech.com
-PC Magazine.com
-Wired.com

This technology is very helpful in saving time and libraries benefit highly from this because of the fact that now patrons can receive the information about what is going on in their local library without having to interrupt their normal web surfing routine.

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Teen Zone Surfing


Teen Surfing
Originally uploaded by rukushin

Sr. Library Assistant Brian and I like to keep the teen area alive and kicking. Sometimes we don't have enough tables for all the patrons to surf on so it gets tough, but we seem to manage.

On a serious note, I wanted something outlandish and original for my picture so it was a spur of the moment thing.

Brian and Andrew....who knows what we will do next :)

Thing #6 complete! (^_^) Woohoo!

X-treme Drift Challenge- Kouvola 2007


X-treme Drift Challenge- Kouvola 2007
Originally uploaded by Siippou

This is for Thing #5 of the OCL Web Things challenge.

I chose this photo because of the fact that I absolutely LOVE drifting. It is a very popular sport that came to the USA in 2003 from Japan. To explain it simply, it is merely powersliding the tail end of your car through corners and using the gas pedal and steering input to control just how sideways through a corner your car will go without spinning out.

This car from what I can see seems to be a Silvia S14(Nissan 240SX) with an S15 front end conversion.

I love looking at these types of pictures of cars when they are in mid-drift because they look so graceful yet you see the tires smoking as well which just goes to show you how much power these cars need to put down in order to really get the wheels spinning.

Wednesday, March 5, 2008

A New Start

Well, I'm at it again. I know I have not posted anything in awhile, but new things will be coming soon. I have signed up for the OCL Web Things Challenge and have already completed the Week 1 tasks.

Thing #1 was a great introduction complete with video and an audio clip containing a great explanation of what Web 2.0 consists of and what this Web Challenge was going to entail.

Thing #2 called "Learning vs. Training" was an interesting tutorial explaining what a Lifelong Learner is. I never considered myself to be a Lifelong Learner, but according to this tutorial I am indeed one. As for what habits are, in my opinion, easiest and hardest out of the 7 and a 1/2 Habits for me is:

Easiest - #6) Use technology to your advantage.

I consider myself to be a very tech saavy person and I'm always keeping an eye out for the newest technology.

Hardest - #2) Accept responsibility for your own learning.

This is one of the hardest habits for me and I cannot say why except for the fact that I'm still a fairly young college student. I strongly believe that as time passes this habit will become more and more engrained into me in which, without me knowing, will become an easier and easier habit.

I look foward to the next few weeks of challenges and hope to expand my knowledge in the process.