A word or two about Learn & Play

Or as I like to kiddingly call it Toil & Frustration. Don't get me wrong there were a couple of fun and useful bits. I do recall enjoying embedding photos and youtube crap. I thought stumbleupon on the power tools was amusing. And Delicious would have been neat if our darn PCs didn't remove it from the toolbar everytime I signed out! I never did figure out RSS nor do I really find news articles that much fun. Twitter was just dumb. The online word processing could be useful in a pinch. I never got MOLDI to work on a staff PC. The Web 2.0 articles made me cringe. This whole believe that everything old school is bad just makes me feel OLD. Heck the whole Learn & Play made me feel like an out of touch fuddy duddy at 35. I would like to make a shout out to Connie Kleaver, the only person who was usually ahead of me, for helping out with the tricky spots!

MOLDI

I played with MOLDI three times and everytime I go to download I get the same Error message. I assume this is to keep me from downloading stuff to the staff PCs. I get the gist of the idea though so that's going to have to be good enough. If I didn't have such slow internet access at home I might try it there but I am 3 1/2 months pregnant and just getting through a day right now is E-NUF.

Ralphie all growed up!

This is the guy that was Ralphie in Christmas Story. He kinda grew up into a looker didn't he? Love those light blue eyes!

What if a Willie Nelson were a fox?

ZOHO Again

Ok so I finally got around to trying Zoho again. It worked better this time. Last time I would only get vertical lines when I would type or it would take forever for the letters to show up on the screen. Must have been a one time glitch.

http://hogwartsradio.com/hogradio.xml

Podcasts are for Pod People!

Ok I am bewildered by podcasts. I guess if I had an MP3 player and money to play with it might be interesting. What I could find out there for free was not too impressive. So I added Hogwarts radio to Bloglines and my blog. I had a heck of a time with podfeed.net . I had a much easier time finding a feed on podcastalley to enter into bloglines. I still haven't figured out if bloglines should some how conect to my blog? I am so confused and frustrated with the lack of training provided on the Learn & Play website! Ok the cute little videos with the cut outs are fun but really not very practical. They explain what things are but not how to manipulate them. I am officially giving up my sci fi geek status to be a mom instead. I am sure when I was 19 or 20 and a total Star Trek fan I woulda loved this crap.