What's new?

I was successful at signing up for an account on Bloglines. I added a few links from the suggestions Bloglines made and I've added a few myself. I can see the usefulness of this service and I believe Google offers a similar service. I would be picky about what I linked through there because one might get too many updates and still be overwhelmed. This would be the case for news feeds. I would rather go the news site or get the info on my phone. But for blogs that I visit only once or twice a month this could be useful. I think I 'll give the service a try and see how it goes.

Just Google it

The first Google product I looked at was Docs. Once I had logged into my account I was amazed to discover there was a document already saved there. It turns out I have used Google Docs before.

Cloud computing is a good idea. Gone are days of using USB/Flash drives and we can forget about floppies (except at the library). What I don't like about cloud computing is that Google has access to my documents. Not that they'll go check and read my documents but they do keep track of them. I would recommend Google docs to customers over emailing their resumes to themselves but I haven't gotten to the point where I would use it myself.

Google is developing more and more products and is becoming suspiciously more and more like Microsoft.

Book of the Face

I have become a fan of Calgary Public Library on Facebook. It is the first time I have become a fan of anything on Facebook. I'm not a big fan of the site and was reluctant to join. I have only been a member for about a year now about two years after most of my friends joined.

I have been reluctant to join social networking sites. I don't like having my name out there too much. Therefore I don't use my name most of the time on these sites. Not using my name has made it difficult for people to find me, which for the most part I'm okay with.

I've used it mainly to keep in touch with family (cousins mostly) and to invite multiple friends for outings. In other words I use it like email. I don't think I'm that interesting of a person and posting status updates even once a day seems like it's too much and would bore my friends.

Live Long and Prosper

I've done it!

I edited an wikipedia article. It was not hard to find an article to edit. The first one I thought of needed some touching up. Leonerd Nimoy is coming to Vulcan, Alberta, the Star Trek Capitol of Canada. So, I checked the Vulcan, Alberta page, noticed there was no mention of the event, and wrote a little blurb about it. I am surprised it was so easy to find an article but I'm also delighted.

I am nervous and a bit shy about writing something for the world to see. Someone from the town might go there and think 'who wrote this.' But then they can just change it. I feel like a rebel.

Umm, that smells Delicious!

Okay, I'm a week late with this posting but I'm going to just get down to it.

The advantages of using Delicious is that you can take your favourite websites with you everywhere. This can be helpful if you use multiple computers that are not networked. You can also see other's websites. You can see what other people have bookmarked and find new and interesting sites.

A disadvantage is openness of it. Everyone knows what sites you visit and how often.

I actually thought we were going to have to set up our own accounts and create a list of our favourite bookmarks. I am disappointed we're not doing that. I guess I'll have to do it on my own now.