The snowflake link worked better on the second try. One can create a swirling snowflake.

Here I tried again to paste the snowflake image from the snowflake generator.
http://www.zefrank.com/snowflake/.

snow snow snow

This generator makes snowflakes that turn in the wind. https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioES4t6dJMwFQVlLEhSdBXWeaar5EhWaQe7RtsS330eWFIKI2n9O3YBqp4skOPvs_3K544_sIw2rDr6uhP73H1cFub4bjdFpUml-_4a8wY0dt0yQzJoI52NniBLyGCSXljj31magTs8e9XobGK/s1600-h/snowflake.jpg.

Mappr in flickr looks a lot like the photos that come with google earth. An interesting way to preview a trip.

Here's the last post from the original blog. Posts one and two are out of order, but nothing seems to be lost.

Wednesday, January 9, 2008


My first blog, that really did take fewer than five minutes to set up, was lost in space. Hope this one sticks.Jean

Here's another old post. The cut and paste seems to work.

It's time to finish lesson two.The hardest habit for me will be number 7 & 1/2.Play! I do not associate "play" with sitting inside in front of a screen. "Play" means ski trails, meadows full of flowers in the mountains, pre-dawn walks with the dog, long conversations on the porch. I will have to work to re-define "play".So, the other seven habits will all be easier. I expect the easiest will be teaching this to others. The "keeping up with technology" habit brings up a question. How long does a partially completed blog sit before it times out? I've stopped three times so far in this posting to help customers- now four times-.

Can i cut and paste from one blog to another?

Here I tried to cut from the one blog to another- to put all posis in one place. Will it work?

http://jeanbluejean.blogspot.com/2008/01/great-building.html

Here I will try to put in a photo(again).

The photos I chose do not show up in the blog. Try this again.

Here I will try to place a photo in the blog. it is supposed to be easy.

That last bit did not work the way I thought it might. I expected the link to the photo on the desktop. I got just the general link. I'll have to think about this and try it again.

I just chose a photo of the Bodlein Library at Oxford to put on the staff computer desktop. Anyone remember Dorothy Sayer's character Harriet Vane in that library? http://www.flickr.com/groups/irishlibraries/

I enjoyed looking at the photos of Irish libraries. A friend from Ireland often talks about her childhood home. I also tried to visualize the country when I read Bartholomew Gill's mysteries. This site p://www.flickr.com/groups/irishlibraries/ was fun to explore.

Flickr certainly has a variety of pictures. How do people spend so much time behind a camera?
I finished the tutorial. Now on to the action.

There's more to RSS than at first meets the eye.
I've been checking for more blogs to add to my list, and every time I find one, need to open up bloglines to ADD. There's been lots of opening and closing. Now I decided to keep bloglines open for the day, to speed up the ADD process.

I found the RSS button on the Reading Rants site - ONLY 24 hours after I first looked for it.

In checking my blog, I saw two posts listed until I signed in. Then all of the posts showed up. Why does this happen?

The other day I tried to add a blog to my list with a little icon CSS, that looked very similar to RSS. (It didn't work. I received an intimidating error message.) I wondered what CSS was, and went out today to look for an answer. CSS is Cascading Style Sheets. This is a set of rules for web page displays - colors and designs and fonts. I'm still sorrry I could not attach that website to my blog.

Another question. I attached an RSS feed for Stephen Abrams. It has posts from 2005 and 2006, but nothing newer. Where is his current stuff?

RSS again

This will post #5. Now the second post has disappeared from the blog archive, and the third has re-appeared. ??

But, on to thoughts about RSS. I chose 11 feeds. This morning only two of them had any updates. Maybe the weekends are quiet times for blog postings - maybe I chose some relatively inactive blogs. I did spend lots of time looking at websites yesterday. One that I really enjoyed was for my "first" library, the Saint Paul Public.

Back to RSS. This would probably be popular with book club members, who could tease each other with comments about their current book.
Our library board members email each other regularly. They might find a blog as useful.
Library users could use a blog to let staff and other card holders know about all sorts of things. It could serve as a community suggestion box. It could be the place people request new materials, not personally, as in ILL, but in general, for the whole library.

I just looked at my posts. My second blog post has disappeared. Why does this happen?

Lesson Three RSS was really easy. The hard part was finding something on the web that I want to look at again that has an RSS tab.
One of my favorite sites is Reading Rants - YA reviews that make me want to read every book. This site had a CSS tab. It looked like it might work like an RSS, but didn't.
What is CSS?

Here's my first post. This really did take about five minutes to set up.