Midnight Post

It is 45 minutes to 12 midnight and I am up checking to see if there is any new information on Courseweb, my first peek at Bb today. Of course, there is plenty more to read, write and listen to.

Anyhow... I was thinking, if I can adjust myself to the rigorous demands of this first semester with all that I am active in, there is a 99.9% chance that I will be able to manage the upcoming semester.

Off to add the new tasks to my already "full to capacity" calendar. It is 12 midnight now ... Good Morning.

Laborious Tasks + Hesitation = Acquiring RSS

As a newbie to all the high-end technology that I am exposed to in this class, I am excited to know that I was able to set up my RSS feed this evening after a long exhausted day at work. Now, the task of getting a RSS feed set up might be a no-brainer to many but it required some laborious reading and rereading on my part. The lengthy steps include: listening to all the basement tapes on RSS feeds, searching the term via wikipedia, undergoing trials over trials with Google Reader and Bloglines Subscription Process. Somehow, I hesitated to click on tabs with my mouse. After getting some grip on my reluctance, I venture on ... Success.
I will know to able to post my RSS feed to Bb URL Posting Section ... Phew!

OCLC 1 - 250?

At this point of the Memorial Day weekend, I am still a little dazzled by configuring a RSS feed, even though, at this posting I do understand what a RSS feed is and why it would be essential to keep up-to-date with news, sports and the media interests of mines.

I am hoping that someone browsing the discussion board would help me with this task.

After I post this log I am going to click on the orange radio signal in the right high corner of a web page. It just might be able to shed some light and get on the step-by-step process of starting a RSS.

The OCLC report is 250 pages! This is lengthy printing. Hope it is an interesting read like the text, Computer 2008.

Still reading the text,

High-five to Kim

Based on my readings this week, I realized that I need to work on getting some type of anti-virus software installed ASAP. I tried looking at UPitt software site, but could not download the anti-software package for Vista. Hopefully, someone will lead me in the right direction when I post my inquiry on the Bb discussion board.

An enormous high-5 is extended to Kim for getting me on track this week with her patient process for helping me install connetea and del.ico.us. I had no idea what an add-on was! She was clear and right on target!

At this point, I am creeping in to understanking how useful these add-ons can be in organizing your search while online. I was even brave enought to take the time out to look at the RSS feed for the BBC News.

Back to more readings ...

The Stagnant Breeze

This week I received my first shipment of books from Amazon. It contained Understanding Computer 2008 and Leonardo's Laptop. These books are one week late, so I have to attempt to organize my reading time to fit in last week's and this week's readings; another challenge to add to the hectic schedule that I have already been bundle down with.

Anyhow, I was attracted to the UC2008 book because I am in dire need of learning all that there is to know about computer equipment, and specifications based on my needs as a user and graduate student. Organizing myself is still a stagnant challenge ... absolutely no light seen yet at the end of the tunnel, so I know I have a long journey to keep trodding on. I am still positive about the entire process. Learning a lot and breathing deeply.

Revamping Modern Content and Containers

I thoroughly enjoyed reading the article, "Content and Containers" because it was indeed the reality of the vast changes with libraries and dissemination of information. Truthfully,I am amazed at the high speed that the "technology paradigm" is changing the way people search and organize content. As such, I now know that there is tremendous amount of information and sites that I need to manipulate with in order to know what is exactly hanging around in cyberspace and the blogsphere. Truthfully, the role of gathering information has changed and the reality is that librarians must adjust to those changes as they store, update and organize past and present data.

My First Blog Attempt

This is my first attempt at creating a blog. Signing up was rather easy. Curious about step 2.