Functional age..

So my functional age is 29.25. I'm only 24. It's not too bad, but I'd be happier if my functional age was 18. I think I should start running. Yea nah wow right, I see that one happening never.

Technology related rant.. #11... what the...?

Pretty much everything I've blogged about so far has been technology related. I pretty much thought that was the point..

My favourite technological thing at the moment (and for the last year) has been my cell phone. When I started at Manukau Libraries my car stereo got ripped off in the car park (nah wow thanks guys - it was a good one too) so now I have nothing to listen to music on when I drive. My cell phone has taken up the challenge, and it plays music to me while I drive. I can download any of the songs I want, I can even hook it up to the radio in my house and hear them really loudly if I want, but it's just great. My first cell phone was about the size of a hole punch and had buttons on it like frisbees, and all you could do was ring from it. Now i have this tiny wee thing that does everything but bath the baby! It also takes really good photos. That's technology for you!

I'm off to get my wellness check done now. Wooha.

10 down, 13 to go...

Well I've developed a love for the colour picker.. the link is http://www.krazydad.com/colrpickr/. It's really amazing what photos you can get of different coloured things. My favourite ones are the natural things that are these amazing colours, some of the green shades bring up great photos of trees, ferns etc. and the bright pinks, reds and yellows find photos of flowers and heaps of other cool stuff. It's just so great that these bright colours occur naturally in the world around us. Nah wow, and I mean wow.

The montager one is cool too, but I couldn't make it work properly, and I just got mad in the end and did something else. I wanted to do it with one of my photos, but it wouldn't let me and it took ages to load. Dumb, that's what that is.

I was going to create a trading card, but then i didn't know what to put on it, then I was going to create a movie poster, but the same problem came up, plus I already went crazy in week 3 with the whole ID card etc. so I figured that I'd cracked this one. If I ever need to do this again I'm fairly sure I'll be able to find it.

Flickr photo Thursday madness!!

So it's the Thursday of week 4 already and I've only just started the activities, jeepers, I'd better get my act together. Darn actual work getting in the way of my blogging!!!!!!

I don't know if we have a digital camera here, I'm sure we do but I can't be bothered looking for it, plus there's not too much exciting stuff to photograph here, plus I'm slightly tied to my desk, SO I've decided to choose a photo on Flicker and blog about it. The link to the photo is http://www.flickr.com/photos/23231538@N06/2553534575/in/photostream/ and it's a photo of my main man Stevie Wonder which belongs to someone called slitobac and was uploaded in June this year.

I've chosen this photo because I booked my tickets for the stevie concert this morning, well, my sister booked them and I'm paying her back in interest free installments aaaahahaha, the bank of Elizabeth is open for business! It's on Thursday October 30th at Vector and, as you may have noticed, I'm more than a little excited. Look at all his band gear in the photo, one day I'm going to own a mean set up like that. Well I hope to anywho.

Check out my sweet Rollyo

Wow, nah wow, I love learning.

I'm so glad I've finally reached the end of week 3. I know that week 2 is meant to be harder than the rest, but I found week 3 really quite time consuming, not difficult as such, but harder to get through on the time management front.

Also, Rollyo confused the heck out of me so I'm glad that's over with. I'm still not entirely sure that I've conquered it, and I can't work out how to use my rollyo from the actual rollyo site, but I did manage to get it onto my blog and it seems to work ok from there. It's quite a neat tool though, even though I can't work it properly, you don't have to search using my searchrolls, you can just search for anything on the web, you just have to choose the right option in the drop down box.


Cheeeoice, all done by Thursday.

Library thing...

I don't have much to say about Library Thing other than I need to learn to read. I struggled to think of 5 books I've read recently so I used some texts from uni that I love more than life itself. Actually, I'm not a fan of the History of Western Music, but the Blatter orchestration book is amazing. Here's a link to my library http://www.librarything.com/catalog.php?view=raggamuffin83 I hope it works. Also it annoyed me slightly because it's quite american but that's to be expected I guess. Like the Harry Potter book 1, the sorcerers stone? I'm sorry...what? Last time I read it, it was the philosophers stone. Although that was rather a long time ago now, maybe I'm just going insane...

Just randomly, we had a good computer game when I was a child called the sorcerer, at least I think that's what it was called. It had something to do with sorcerers anyway.

ID cards...

The ID card generator thing is really awesome too hahaha. You can do lots of fun stuff with it. http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/badge.php is the link.

I really wanted to try the word one on the generator blog but it wouldn't work on my dumb computer. I didn't try and work out why, I thought it was just easier to give up and try something else. That's the attitude!!

Like how I combined the magnigraph picture and the ID badge generators? Nah wow, that's ace.

This is ACE.

This one I like... the magnigraph one. It's Chris Martin from Coldplay if any of you were wondering... This is such a neat effect for photos of yourself to. I can't get enough of it. Go, do your own, here's the link http://www.magnigraph.com/. The only thing to note is that it will just say 'Rendering' for ages but you need to click on a colour (red, blue or black) on the top left of the page or you just end up waiting for ages and nothing happens.

Week 2 continues.....choice.

"Week 2" is tough, yet that sense of achievement you get at the end of it makes it all worth while.. truly. I've heard (well I read it on the learning thing like everyone else probably has) that it's the most difficult of all of the training weeks so now it should be smooth sailing... Yay!!!

#5 took me a few goes, after conquering #4 I couldn't bear to look at #5 until today. I've found that it really does pay to read all of the things on the learning page and not just pretend you're already a Web 2.0 champion who knows what they're doing. Once I did that, my complex about the difficulty of it all left me and I raced through... well I got there anyway. Raced is probably not the correct term.

As search tools go, I didn't mind Topix, it was relatively user friendly. Syndic8 was more budget than a whole bag of budget, it looked like I created it, basically is was a joke, not great at all. Technorati was choice, i even 'claimed' my blog on there, there was some sort of link I could apparently put here to add it to your technorati favourites but that all got too technical for me and I need some lunch as my brain is starting to stop. I may follow that up at a later date.

hmmm, what's for lunch today....

RSS - yea nah, wow.

Well it's been a learning curve alright, but I still love it, almost more than life itself. I have loads of bloglines set up.... check out all my choice feeds... is that the correct terminology??? You probably get the idea anyway.

http://www.bloglines.com/public/raggamuffin83

It took me about a hundred hours to find out how to get that link so you all better be looking at it! When I say a hundred... I mean a hundred. Turns out you need to make sure your profile allows sharing as is stipulated in the first paragraph of the Blogroll Wizard, it even has a handy link to your profile. But if you have the reading comprehension levels of an 8 year old, as I appear to, then you too will spend a hundred hours thinking over how there must be some easy way to find it... It's like I'm a genius.

Now that I've worked it out I feel like I imagine Sir Ed might have felt after he "knocked the bastard off" - It's like I've "knocked the blogroll off" - what a sense of achievement.

I'm not doing this again until next week - as much as I love it, I think I'm blogged out for the next few days...