Reading Update

While on vacation I finished Run by Anne Patchett. Here is the jacket blurb:

"Since their mother's death, Tip and Teddy Doyle have been raised by their loving, possessive, and ambitious father. As the former mayor of Boston, Bernard Doyle wants to see his sons in politics, a dream the boys have never shared. But when an argument in a blinding New England snowstorm inadvertently causes an accident that involves a stranger and her child, all Bernard Doyle cares about is his ability to keep his children - all his children - safe." "Set over a period of twenty-four hours, Run takes us from the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard to a home for retired Catholic priests in downtown Boston. It shows us how worlds of privilege and poverty can coexist only blocks apart from each other, and how family can include people you've never even met. Ann Patchett illustrates the humanity that connects disparate lives, weaving several stories into one narrative. Run is ultimately a novel about secrets, duty, responsibility, and the lengths we will go to protect our children."--BOOK JACKET.

I really enjoy her writing and the story drew me in with the very real characters. I'd recommend this one to anyone who likes character-driven novels. The plot wasn't as riveting as her previous novel, Bel Canto, but the characters were better.

Week 5: Generators

This is my second attempt to format this post so that it isn't a big mess. My first try put a blank box where the picture should have been because I tried to link to the really long URL. Then I went ahead and saved it in my pictures and it worked on the first post. I can't really figure out how to edit out an image, though, so I'm starting all over and saved the old one as a draft. So let's see how this one looks...

I was also successful at making a picture cube of Wylie which is available for public viewing on my desk. During this exercise I discovered that my gluestick was all dried out but that it could be resurrected by using scissors to cut off the old dried-out glue, uncovering useable glue.

Week 4

I had already set up a Bloglines account back when I attended a workshop about Web 2.0 but I never visited it even though I had feeds I was interested in reading. I added a few feeds to it today and deleted one that I had previously subscribed to and I didn't find it too difficult. I doubt that I will be a real avid user, though. I get plenty of information from all sorts of sources that I don't have time to read, so I don't think I will regularly check out a new source of information that I don't have time to read.

In the second part of this exercise we were familiarizing ourselves with rss feed search tools. I thought it was interesting to know they are out there, but I just glanced at them and am not spending any more time with them right now. I will use the more basic method of looking for feeds when I am really interested in a page. I do use delicious.com already and like that very much for keeping track of sites I want to go back to.

Week 3 wrapped up finally!

I finally got back to the Learning 2.0 exercises this morning after a vacation and plenty of other work that was time sensitive. I put a couple of pics in my Flickr account and will see if I can remember how to put a couple of them on this blog.

We had a wonderful time in Hawaii and even sold a few SURFBOXes, my husband's improved version of a waterproof box. We used them while snorkeling several times and there was never even a drop in mine. I carried my cell phone in it and it continues to work great!

I don't like the way this post displays but I can't figure out how to change it! The edit function doesn't work the way I think it should. I think I need to find a buddy to help me with this stuff.