Wiki Wiki

I posted to 3 categories on hdplplay2learn. It was interesting to see the diversity in favorites. I’ll have to keep an eye on that favorite restaurant section, yum yum.... maybe I’ll discover some new places that could become additional favorites for myself.

Wikipedia Search

My first search took me to many places and topics from Genealogy to Medicine... and finally to my favorite knitter. Elizabeth Zimmerman a British born knitter who pioneered many innovative methods in knitting. She popularized circular knitting in America, a method that eliminates many seams in garments that are basically knit all in one piece as opposed to knitting all the components of a sweater (front, back, sleeves, collar etc.) and then sewing them together, which in my opinion is the most tedious part of a project. A beautifully knit garment can be ruined by an inexperienced or haphazard way of putting it all together. Elizabeth also advocated "continental knitting" one of the fastest ways to knit, that sadly I have never been able to master. She developed EPS "Elizabeth's Percentage System" which is an ingenuous mathematical formula to predetermine how many stitches to create a particular size garment. Elizabeth died in 1999 at the age of 89, and I believe she probably had needles and yarn in hand at the time. She wrote many helpful books Knitting without Tears, Knitting Workshop and the Opinionated Knitter to name a few. For all the knitters out there, if you ever decide to tackle one of her wonderful patterns, please call me if you get stuck. Her motto that lives on is "Knit on with confidence and hope, through all crises".

I know, I know, Teacher please call on me!

The term wiki refers to either the Web site or the software used to create the site. Wiki wiki means “quick” in Hawaiian. The first wiki was created by Ward Cunnigham in 1995.

The Future of our Libraries

After reading the recommended articles for this week my head is spinning. There are advances being made daily to allow patrons to access from their home computers info that was previously only available to librarians and therefore only accessible through them. It would be very sad indeed if the traditional library (bricks and mortar) as I've known and loved it for my whole life could be outdated or at any rate "downsized." However, I believe there are still plenty of us who want a good ole fashioned "hands on" book to curl up with. Reading a book on the computer monitor just doesn't do it for me, although I do have to admit that I've gone a bit over to the audio books camp... great for in the car, background for doing housework or while clicking along with my knitting projects.

Technorati is getting more appetizing

Well, after I did some more exploring and actually listened to the tutorial... I joined. I did a search for knitting and got LOTS of results so I figured it couldn't be so bad after all. The only problem is I haven't figured out how to surf and knit at the same time. So much yarn... so little time ;o(

Technoralti was not Del.icio.us to me

I spent some time this morning exploring the first part of the week 6 assignment. Technoralti was way over my head, however I successfully created a Del.icio.us user account. Not to sure where my button went but I'll explore that more at home on my own computer. I listened to the 8 minute tutorial and that helped me to understand the mind blowing potential of this site. As Kathleen Gilroy stated in the tutorial we have to find the "magic middle" or the time we spend exploring these sites could be overwhelming. I also found another interesting site that I added to my feeds. Lifehack.org... they had a post "32 Hacks for sticking to your budget" and last but not least #32 stated "Borrow books from your library, don’t purchase them. This puts an imperative on you to actually read your books (how often do the ones your purchase just sit on the bookshelf?) and saves huge amounts of money if you read a decent amount." Never hurts to get a plug in for the library!

Big Huge Labs & Library Thing

I struggled with Big Huge Labs for several days, so I guess I need HELP!! I was actually able to create a mosaic, but couldn't get it to upload to my blog. Joan tried and didn't have any success either. I'm not a quiter so I won't give up, but for now I'll go on to the next segment of our homework.... Library Thing Now I had some fun here. I had known about this in the past but didn't pursue it until now. I'll have to get some of my millions of books posted. I also joined the Early Reviewers... this gives you an opportunity to receive advanced copies (free) in exchange for writing a review. I picked a couple that looked interesting, but it seems there are many more requests than available copies so I'm not sure how that works. The ones I requested were: Food 2.0 Secrets from the Chef who Fed Google and Larryism's... I'll keep you posted they are supposed to let the "winners" know by March 12th.