I'm not even sure where I am anymore...

I am just sort of bouncing around through these exercises. On Monday (3/12)I started going through the section on RSS feeds. So I have begun exercise #8. But I realized tody that I had not finished with some of the earlier exercises. So just now I went back into exercise #7 and posted a comment to a co-workers blog. It took a while but I was finally able to get it to work. I was beginning to get very frustrated because I kept getting the message that my password was incorrect and I was trying over and over. One of my co-workers came over and we went through it step-by-step and it appears that it was simply that I was using a comma in my user name instead of a period. Isn't that one of the joys of using all of this computer technology...trying to keep all your passwords, PINs, logons, etc all straight.

Also, I thought I had not discussed anything technology related yet, as we are to do in exercise #7...but I realize that I just did that to a certain extent in the paragraph above. I referred to the frustrations of trying to keep everything straight, and how it seems that you try something that you know should work and cannot figure out why it will not , until someone else points out something simple that you may have missed, like a punctuation point. I experience that often in my work in the library since I work with the public quite a bit. Often there is a simple solution to their problems, like using a correct password, checking a URL, etc. Sometimes the technology issues are not so simple, like the patron who decides they want to buy and sell on Ebay , but have never used a computer, have no email address, etc, and want someone to sit down with them and go through it step by step. Those are the challenging moments!

And now I am going to jump back to exercise #6. Early on I discovered the Flickr Colr Pickr by Jim Bumgardner and I have enjoyed playing with that. I like the fact that he says it is basically just a toy, I was trying to figure out if there was a step I was missing in it's use...I just enjoyed the colors and the photos they lead into, but his comment reassured me that my rather useless use of it was just fine!

Here is the Colr Pickr site:


Well, I guess not. I cannot get it to link properly. I can see it in the Edit Html version, but in Preview it is just a blank space. So I am missing a step, and I have to say that the help instructions from Blogger leave something to be desired!!. They are a bit sketchy. There is probably something obvious that I have missed. But at this point I am not going to worry about it because I do not want to get bogged down (or blogged down?) in this one exercise. I will try to attend the drop-in workshop that is being held next week. I started this on Monday and this is Friday afternoon...so I calling it quits for now.

Update on 3/21...I went to the drop-in workshop and Sandra was just looking this over with me. She was able to get the Flickr Colr Pickr URL to load (which is why it is now linked above) and I think she was able to explain what might have gone wrong before. At least it made sense when she explained it...we will see how much I of it I comprehend when I am on my own again.

I have managed to attach a photo from Flickr...I think I was on the right track last week. It is just that everytime I tried to preview this photo to see if it linked I kept getting a dire warning that I had "unsaved changes" and I thought I would lose everything if I continued. Sandra just told me that the warning is not as dire as it appears, to go ahead and exit and see if the link is there...and it is. That is one thing about working with unfamiliar programs..sometimes you get messages that sound like there could be great consequences if you proceed...and actually there are none. I guess it is when you think everything is going fine that you suddenly lose all your information.

But enough of pondering the evil intentions of some technologies (and this could still be considered exercise #7)... The following picture is of a shade of blue that I intend to paint my from door. I love deep blue doors, and I plan to paint mine this summer. I had a new front porch with a roof and columns put on last year and last summer I spent a great of time painting them. It was a very time-consuming and detailed job, but I am very happy with it and now I would like to repaint the entire house (maybe I will get to it after I retire?)
But a little here and a little there. I actually have paint this color already...so far I have painted two benches and an old cement bird bath with it...I am slowly working up to the door.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/81373327@N00/26633286/in/pool-colorfields/