Widget - Crocheting Week 4 #

Here is my crocheting widget. I started an afghan last fall, got 90% done and left it. I picked it back up and am on the final rows and fringes. I'm looking for some new projects and thought I could find some here.

I created this and a jewelery one last week, but just am now posting. Please look to the right and below for Thing #10 & #11.

Gamer

My Library Thing(s) Week 5, #11

Here's my start on my LibraryThing, but as time permits hopefully it will grow and grow! I love it because it can track all the books I enjoyed reading, suggest similar books to them, and those I may not remember are on the suggested list and remind of what I previously read and liked!

Gamer

Me at the Renaissance Festival, Week 5 #10

I changed from shopping mall girl to Renaissance Girl as the Renaissance Festival is a favorite fall activity for my family.

On the right is me in a pumpkin patch as pumpkins are another fall favorite of mine. I have pumpkins, fall leaves and jack-o'-lanterns all over the living room.

Avatars are right up my alley, changing clothes, hairdos, looks. Very enjoyable. It's great learning about all the stuff out there you can play around with and for free.

Pirate Day 2007

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This is by review of Week # 3. It took awahile, but it's here.

Away by Amy Bloom

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Got a free copy of htis book thorugh Random House's Reader's Circle Newsletter with promise of submitting a review. I did submit a review and they printed it the next month's newslletter!

"Lillian Leyb’s long journey introduced us a colorful and unsavory cast of characters. Being the mother of a daughter you could feel Lillian’s passionate need to see her daughter alive again. ..Bloom provides us incite into the future lives of all these characters including Sophie. Thank you for sharing this book with me." Diane Pont

Week 4: #9 Finding Feeds

I tried out all the search tools and found I liked Feedster to suit my hobbies. It was easy to use and I set up a widget for crocheting and jewelery, but am not sure where to put them. I liked Technorati, but it's updated so fast it hards to keep up. You see two you'd like to read, go to one and when you go to read the second it's been replaced from viewing by many new stories.

I found that Sydic8 was difficult to follow.

In my feedster crocheting searches I saw that on Rachael Ray's website she's wearing a grey cardigan that can be easily crocheted. ON Bloglines I saw my entries with negative comments on Nancy Grace. Bloglines is probably the easiest to follow.

Until next week,

Gamer

My Bloglines Experience Week 4, # 8

I enjoyed watching Rhoda's video on RSS. At first I didn't know what was going on, but then realized bloglines is just a way to sort through numerous websites and select those of interest to you. When your newspaper is delivered there is so much information literately thrown at you at your door. Of course when you look at the index you can find just the section you're looking for. Same with bloglines you can sign up for just the sites you're interested in and forget the rest!

I couldn't for some reason view the CNET video. I kept clicking and clicking, but it never started. I was able to view the video on You Tube.

I just jumped in to Bloglines and set up my account, using an old nickname. I avidly clicked on my interests and many sites and came up with nothing except the 7 already selected. Going back several times I did one by one add a view and can now have easy access to CNN, Urban Legends and "Quotes of the Day" and well as a literature site.

23 Things Everyone Should Know is a learning challenge of discovery. Sometimes there's frustration, but you come out in the end with a great sense of satisfaction and accomplishment. Also you feel like technology is no longer leaving you behind.

As ever,

Gamer