del.icio.us

I have made a start with Delicious. I am not really sure if I was using this in the correct way but I found it to be kind of similar to Bloglines. I initially had trouble working out how to add the new urls however "Help!" on the website was very
helpful (ha ha). It really is just the tagging that I am struggling to come to terms with. From looking at others blogs I think that I am quite unique in this. I think it is because cataloguing is quite rigid, and tagging really isn't rigid at all. It really is quite grand in fact, once I got my peabrain around it. Anyway I enjoyed this task. I was able to find some really excellent websites - I like the quotations webpage and I especially added the Thomas Huxley quotation page. A friend drew my attention to this wonderful quote:

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.
Thomas H. Huxley
English biologist (1825 - 1895)

I see that one can add a del.icio.us tag to the sidebar of the blog and I am currently trying to work that one out. Oh it is so confusing!!! My brain hurts now. Thursday feels like Friday.

The Librarians -
I have been watching this television show since it began, as I am sure that most library staff workers have been. What started off as being mildly disappointing has really launched itself into grand comedy territory. Last nights episode which culminated with Frances doing a face plant into Christine's clevage was, in my books, comedy gold! I can't wait to see how it all unfolds next week!

Books I've been reading lately.

Recently I have had the pleasure of reading some fantastic books. Fly away Peter by David Malouf was definately the highlight. There is a wonderful passage in it toward the end which I will add later on when I have the book handy. But it was wonderful and I cried - not something that happens that often. Either because the books I read aren't particularly sad or because I am an ice maiden with a heart of steel. I also read Naked by David Sedaris - this was laugh out loud funny. It reminded me a lot of Augusten Burroughs - another favourite of mine. I love him, David Sedaris and knowing he exists in this world makes me very, very, very happy. Oh there are others but really these were the highlights.

rollyo

I have had a quick look at Rollyo. The reference search which was already set up looked good. I would like to have a go at setting up my own search roll but as I am already so far behind I am not going to do that right now. I can see how such a tool could be useful, for example in the tourist information centre we have here in the library, it could be handy to have all relevant sights grouped together under appropriate headings but then some important information isn't available on the internet so what do we do about that. Rollyo, rollyo, rollyo, I am still unsure what I think about it all. I would like to muse about it all or perhaps even write a haiku to help come to terms with it all.
Actually I want to add the link to my blog but am at my wits end! Finally I have asked "Curious" for a hand with that and await her response eagerly.

Anyway here's a haiku composed by the man in this image...

I found Rollyo
The whole world lay itself bare
I know everything

Play week

I have looked at the image generators and library thing, haven't got to Rollyo yet. I am sure they are fun things if you are indeed that way inclined. Here are the results of my "playing".