Rules by Cynthia Lord

Twelve-year-old Catherine works hard trying to help her autistic brother, David, get along and remember how to act normal. Her main strategy is making lists of rules: rules for how to act, what to wear, how to eat, what to do, what not to do, and more. It's summertime and Catherine wishes she could have an ordinary life and that everything at home didn't seem to revolve around David. She wants to make friends with the new girl next door and then there's that guy she met at David's therapist's office, who liked her drawings. Find out more about Catherine in Rules, Cynthia Lord's Newbery Honor winning book.

Princess of Tofu!

Bunnies!!!

These are not my bunnies but they are cute!

Quest 12: Tech Trek Finale

I am a big Youtube nut. Youtube is now owned by Google and just like Blogger, users can log in to their Youtube accounts with their Gmail addresses. It makes the passwords easy to remember. I have recently discovered "book trailers", advertisements and films about books, on Youtube. Some are in English and some are in other languages and I just enjoy them for their video. Here is the Youtube book trailer for Neil Gaiman's book, Coraline.



Podcasting is interesting. I have not gotten hooked on any particular podcasts yet. I had a Podcast experience this weekend while messing around on Second Life. I was on Info Island and I wandered into Mystery Manor and I was "interacting" with stuff and ended up listening to someone reading a podcast of a mystery story courtesy of Second Lifer, Max Batra.

Zoho part 2: Follow the Script

Quest 11: Zoho Tricks

I wrote my post on Zoho and have been unsucessfully trying to transfer it to Blogger. I gave up and cut and pasted and that didn't really work. . I just could not get Zoho and Blogger to connect. The little green Zoho wheel just kept spinning...and spinning....and spinning...

I ended up using another Zoho feature. I selected "Publish" and then selected "Make Public" from the drop-down menu and then clicked on the "Publish" button in the command box that popped up. Another box popped up with a script aka a bracketed chunk of html that I copied and pasted into the above blog post (using the html tab). If you don't select "HTML" mode and past it on Blogger in the "Compose" mode, you just see the script text without the brackets instead of your post.

I will have to play with it some more to figure out how to make full use of Zoho. I also want to look at using Google Docs because Blogger is a Google app and I hope they mesh better than Zoho and Google.

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