No Facebook for you……almost

I am unimpressed, underwhelmed, and just plain old frustrated with my Facebook experience so far. Here’s my sad story; no names have been changed to protect the innocent. Sunday I tried to sign up for a Facebook account using my sailsinc e-mail addie. The screen told me that a confirmation e-mail [...]

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Life’s a cartoon!

Meet Mona my newly developed alter ego. I created her over at Toonlet.
I found Toonlet through the RSS blog feed for Stephen’s Lighthouse.
Here’s Mona lamenting on the problems of Geekdom in her very first Geek Beat comic strip.

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Cool flickr tool

Just found this cool little app on Lifehacker while reviewing my RSS feed updates. It’s called Sendto Flickr and it’s a little download that adds flickr as one of the choices in the “Send to” menu in Windows. You authorize it once then anytime you have a photo you want to send [...]

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One down, hopefully more to come

Ok, I’ll admit this wasn’t a hard sell but I’m proud to say another TPL staff member has created a WordPess blog! Kate, our intrepid Supervisor of Children’s Services, set up her blog yesterday afternoon and has already blogged twice. Kate is a member of the “comfortable with computers generation” so, as I [...]

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We’re off to see the Wiki

The story of Taunton’s Policies and Procedures Manual is the story that ends with a wiki. Our original policies manual was a three-ringed binder; each staff member had their own personal copy and there were copies at the circulation desks and in reference. For a very long time the manual was stagnant [...]

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I want to be like Jessamyn West when I grow up!

Librarian.net was the very first library related blog I came across when I suddenly discovered there was a whole world of library blogging out there. I don’t exactly remember how I found her, I think from a reference in some article I read, but I sure am glad I did! Her blog is [...]

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A day to play

In a reply to one of my posts Kathy mentioned that SEMLS is putting together a technology sandbox to bring around to libraries. I’m working on the assumption that this sandbox will be a collection of tech toys, the Kindle being at the top of their shopping list leads me to this assumption, [...]

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Is there anything in this cage?

RatatouilleOriginally uploaded by MissDaisy1
This question is totally non tech related but something that always mystifies me and since I’m also looking to solve life’s mysteries with this blog it fits.
For as long as I’ve been at this library the Children’s Room has been the home to a number of small fuzzes. We’ve [...]

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Liking this

I just sent a lengthy, enthusiastic, e-mail to someone with a link to this blog that made me suddenly realize I really am liking this blog. I keep finding myself coming back in and doing little tweaks to it here and there and wanting to post to it. I don’t know if it’s [...]

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