Tuesday, July 29, 2008


Flickr or twitch? that's what my eye is doing. Did manage to create a Flickr account but no matter what I did I couldn't download photos. So I have resorted to using the generic login and have had some success. I have chosen the following photo of rainbows as it reminds me of my father and my sister each time I see them in the sky http://www.flickr.com/photos/silyld/253993371.jpg .

Monday, July 28, 2008

I think I still prefer the old Rollo (Chocolate covered caramel - yum) but Rollyo does give you a lot of links if you are really into subjects and interest. Having limited graden space I am interested in container plants, especially edibles, so found this website quite informative http://gardening.about.com/library/ ( interested in hypertufa pots) even though plants were mostly American. Best of HGTV.com will also give other gardening or home tips

Monday, July 21, 2008

Well, it certainly pays to look at all the discovery exercises - especially when you think you have finished Week 3. Librarything is quite easy to use, although I could not find a record for one of the new books I am reading and enjoying -"Gravity sucks" - very funny. My reading list is at http://www.librarything.com/catalog/coolcat46

Thursday, July 17, 2008

Here is my bloglines address http://www.bloglines.com/public/coolcat46. (Found out I should have asked earlier for an explanation as I had done it correctly two weeks ago! Just didn't understand to put the URL in my blog instead of trying to link bloglines and Blog together)The news link is good but I find I have already read it that morning in the newspaper. I guess I am one of those people who like to relax and mull over the news in hard copy form with a cup of tea. For those who like doing everything on computer, Bloglines would be great.

Enough said about Lesson Two! Lesson three is quite fun, but the time element is something to be taken into account. There are so many other tasks which have a deadline that must be done first, that lessons have to be pushed down the priority list. Probably may play around with this aspect of Web 2.0 in my own time if I decide to keep my blog at the end. lots of great cat photos at this URL

Sunday, July 13, 2008

I am not sure whether I have completed the Session two exercise - have set up a Bloglines account and have subscrided to 14 newsfeed as well as taken some off. Still didn't find the tutorial helpful, and am still not sure how I managed to do it (who knows, maybe it is wrong?) So I am going to go ahead with session 3 until someone tells me otherwise. Definitely finding this very stressful

Thursday, July 10, 2008

End of second week and still have not managed to finish session two. Bloglines example to follow does not match what appears on screen - getting very frustrated! Also very impressed (and envious) of other blogs set up (where do you find the time?). Will plod and blog along - email seems so much easier!

Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Trying to remember all the different email adresses, account numbers, passwords etc can be quite confusing especially if you only wrote them down and didn't label each one. One lesson learnt! AStill, the help site was good and and instant email from the blog to tell you how to do if you were using the wrong password.