My new rule

I am now committed to adding a Westie photo to every new posting - dog related or not. Will have to remember to put lots on my new BrisEstick, when it arrives. This is Max, one of my beautiful boys - always smiling!

Anyway - video online. Imagine all that online space being devoted to the biggest collection of poorly focused, poorly produced rubbish I've ever seen (except for the Westie ones, of course!) . I would hope if you were to use them in a professional capacity they would be of a better quality. Otherwise they are just a time-waster. Except for the opportunity to present alternate points of view in a direct, visual format, or inhouse presentations, I think it's one of those things that people get excited about just because it's there. You don't want to suspend critical evaluation in all the excitement of someone else's funniest home videos.

First video - Woo Hoo!

My blog is becoming distinctly Westie-flavoured (closest I can come to having them here at work). What else would I do but use a West Highland Terrier video?

Bah Humbug!

Have just found out that my whole wasted morning trying to view Wetpaint videos was something to do with the pc I was using. AAAGH!

Have now successfully viewed them and frankly, I wouldn't have missed much had I just given up altogether.

Desperately in need of another doggie photo. This one's not mine - but I have some just like it. Aaaw, cute!

Wiki whinges

The whole wiki thing is driving me crazy. Have just spent most of the morning trying to see the WetPaint videos, to no avail. Let's just say I get the overall gist of it, and call it a day.

I think I need a doggie photo to calm me down. This one is of the boys at Stumer's Creek, at Coolum - a wonderful off leash beach area.

Some wiki thoughts...

SJPCL subject guide - good way to include documents, categories and links to catalogue from one source – but will the new version of elibcat cover this anyway?

What is the point in most cases? Except for fun stuff, wouldn’t it be better for experts to compile info? (despite german example) Why is user generated info any better?

Heritage wiki – nice way to provide access to digitised info, but why is this better than a website?

Booklovers wiki – nice idea – anyone can contribute reviews - maybe we could do something similar with Summer Reading each year.

I can also see the benefit of wikis for closed groups wanting to co-ordinate information.

Blog practice

Thought I might add a link to the Flickr page of one of my favourite inspirational scrapbookers. Tried to add one of her photos from this page but it didn't work. Clicking on 'add image' does absolutely nothing. What the?? This is exactly what I did not want - wasting time on the internet just because it's there. "Internet dictating my life' is a road I do not want to go down

http://www.flickr.com/photos/aliedwards/

(Nearly) 23 23 things

For about 10 seconds I considered posting 23 images, but the boredom factor set in REALLY soon. First I saved the images and downloaded them from the pc, then I realised I could just have added the URL of the image instead, which would have been a whole lot easier. The really surprising thing is that there were 2,698,186 images found by searching "23".

I have to wonder - one of the selling points of saving images to sites like Flickr is to share them easily, which I guess is fair enough, but if they are hailing it as safe ( and long term) storage for personal images, where would that leave people if they suddenly decided that there would be charges for doing so? Would an external site necessarily be safer than your own off-site storage?

These are the two little boys who make it all worthwhile. Max on the left, with the permanently cute expression - one ear up and one ear down, and Angus on the right with his little teddy-bear face (butter wouldn't melt ... yeah right!). This is at our favourite beachy spot, at Coolum on one of our regular holidays.

Day one

First blogging day - phew!
Took a while to get over the hurdle of choosing a blog address - who'd have thought there would be so many people trying the same names! Being a 'read the manual first' kinda girl, it's hard to just jump in without reading up on the how-to.