I'm Down With OPP

I love using Flickr to connect with OPP (Other People's Pets). Some of my faves are Chmurka, a Polish hamster, who appears in the Flickr badge on my sidebar, Ah Dat, the Hong Kong pug, Fukusuke-Pon, the Japanese rabbit, and Leo, the Austrian kitty, whose photos appear in the katzenzungen (cat's tongues) pool. I think these pets are so cute and so much fun to look at and I never have to clean up virtual poo!

The Day the Music Died

I have been working on my MySpace page getting it all nice and festive for Halloween. Ms. Jennifer from WA (Thank you!!!!) told me about this cool music/social networking site, Project Playlist, and I tried it and I REALLY liked it. I went to town and made a really nice spooky playlist so I could get my Halloween groove on and BAM! I go to my MySpace page (9/27/07) and my Project Playlist tunes won't play. MELTDOWN!! cause I Googled "MySpace and Project Playlist" and found out that MySpace had blocked Project Playlist....in the past. Apparently the problem on 9/27/07 was something unrelated to MySpace. The problem has been fixed and my tunes are playing today (9/28/07).

The serendipitous fallout of my overheated Google search for answers led me to Mashable , a social networking site that allows you to organize your other social networking sites, your sites where you organize your social networking sites, blogs, etc, and more. Mashable calls it The Grid.

Interestingly enough when I first went to Mashable around 7 AM, after discovering that I was tuneless, I found a post dated April 07 that talked about the MySpace/Project Playlist blocking issue and advised Project Playlist fans to protest the blocking because when MySpace blocked YouTube, MySpacers complained and YouTube was no longer blocked. When I looked for this post again at work when I started drafting this post to rant about Big Bad MySpace blocking my music, the 4/07 Mashable post was gone and my broken Project Playlist widget was displaying a new message that the MySpace music would be back on soon! I must not have been the only one blaming MySpace for the problem.

Things happen fast on the web. So the end of my long and winding rant is that I ended up setting up a Mashable account and now have yet another social networking account! I also discovered Dizzler, another music widget site that I found on another librarian's MySpace, and am playing with that. Nice to be able to put my musical eggs in more than one basket!

Blogging for A Cause

On October 15th, 2007, I plan to blog about the environment as part of Blog Action Day. Feel free to click the link above for more info and join me if you like!

Make Friends With Your Library!

We have a MySpace for STA! Woohoo!

I used a couple of sites to make the layout. I used Whatever Life 's layout generator, with a picture I uploaded from my computer to my Photobucket image hosting account. I used a UK site, My Gen to generate the contact table, which is malfunctioning and not showing the text. (I see that alot on MySpace; wordless contact tables, which are the boxes that say "Add Me", etc). I also used an image of a CCPL library card that I uploaded onto photobucket. So if you are in the "neighborhood" , add us, if you can figure out where the button is! (Upper middle left side of the library card). Just click around, you'll find it!

A Tisket, A Tasket

I accidently deleted my blog. Ah the 7 Habits come into play. After much muttering and G Rated cursing, I got back on the horse and rebuilt it. I like my metaphors shaken and stirred!

Aychteehemmell

No it's not Elvish or Klingon. It's the dreaded code! I am trying to work on my professional Myspace page, which has long lain dormant, in preparation for setting up one for the branch where I work.


I wanted to add some pictures with links so I set up a free Photobucket account. I loaded some pictures. So far so good. Then I copied the html link from picture in my Photobucket album that I wanted to use on my Myspace page and here is the glitch. Because I used a "free" Photobucket account. They put their own html into the code so that clicking on the picture would take the viewer to the Photobucket site. Well I wanted the viewer to click on the picture and go to Jon Scieszka's Guysread site sooooo I had to fix the picture link. Much trial and error and mental cussin' was involved. The upshot is that I had to remove the "href" Photobucket code and add my own.

Great Blogs O' Fire: Know the Code

I have completed Mission Four (Set up RSS Feeds) (I think!) Gotta to reread the instructions to be certain! Click here to entangle yourself in my Bloglines.

I thought I would have to use some html code or something. I am trying to overcome my fear of code and increase my fluency. I want to make jokes in html. My current favorite phrase is "href". I think it means "let's go"; the html equivalent of vamos or allez. Well, das ist alles so I am going to make like a banana and href on out of here.

My big tip: Bloglines has a public blog address and a public blogroll address. Apparently they are separate entities and you must post both links if you want them to be seen. The address that will show your blog or blogroll has "public" in the url.

http://www.bloglines.com/public/mybookhouse - the blogroll section

http://www.bloglines.com/blog/mybookhouse - the blog section