Adding that screen shot ...

Can I manage to add a screen shot of my Google webpage???


OK, there it is. It looks minute ...

Not sure what to do about that, and no more time for playing ...

The excitingly named second post ...

Setting up my Google page ... Well, I now know how to do it, and will try to find time to add a few more personal things to it. I wish that Google would present one with more of a blank canvas. It's somewhat daunting to see a screenful already there when first using the page, hard to see what to put on, and where, when so many things are already there. From a personal point of view, I've always found my list of favourites on my internet program perfectly adequate (and simpler) for finding the sites that I regularly use, and I also find that my computer already has programs providing tools such as calculators and calendars (the latter in my email program). However, that would obviously not apply to a library page, where users would expect links to relevant information, tools or other sites to be set up for them.

There are lots of things that I use that I could add, and some still there that I could remove. At the moment I don't have time to do so.

I could spend endless time playing games, rather than working ... There is a mind-boggling array of screen gimmicks, puzzles, etc. on offer!

I wonder when I am going to have time to visit and comment on other people's blogs ... Or read some of the feeds which I currently don't have time to add.

I still need to find a photo-editing program on my computer, so that I can display screen shots in the described manner ... Perhaps on Monday. It's all very well offering links to free programs, but I can't download software to my work computer, due to the security installed by our Computer Office.

My first post

I am completely new to blogging, tweeting, twittering, and the like. I must confess that I am a little sceptical about it all. I am pretty computer literate in some ways, to the extent of customising library software and learning a kind of programming language to do so. I handle email and all the usual office programs (Word, Excel, etc.), internet searching, etc. without trouble. I appreciate that computers can in many ways make life easier (when they are working properly - they certainly make life much harder when they go wrong, as we grow dependent), but I don't have one at home (and am glad not to), and I've never had much desire to send out 140 character news bites about myself to anyone. I don't even text - I don't own a mobile phone. I don't much like the ever-increasing instant availability culture. So ... I guess that I'm going to look at the 23 Things Cambridge from a professional point of view, to see how what it contains might increase the profile of a library. Perhaps I'll be convinced to tweet and twitter on my own account by the end of the program. We'll see.