Assignment #5

Another week... largely blog-less.

Technology's snares and pitfalls continue to haunt me. I managed to register for a del.icio.us account in a disarmingly short space of time. It was, however, the end of the day so I logged out. Today, there seemed to be no way to access my account before responding to a putative confirmation of my email which, the program assured me, had been sent to my email address. Nothing on the sort in my in box. So no way to proceed with the assignment until I recalled my earlier problems with Blogger. There, like Alexander the Great faced with the Gordian knot, the only solution was to rend the darn thing - deleting the account and beginning over.

Then, another snag in installing the buttons. Right-clicking on the 'my delicious' link above the video gave a range of choices which bore no resemblance to that appearing on the video. Fortunately, before pointed toe hit screen, I saw an additional 'my delicious link' just below the toolbar. Mission accomplished.

Now, to quote my nieces and nephews, del.icio.us is 'da bomb! Since I'm often working from locations other than my TRL office, to have access to my list of favourites will be a real boon. I posted a number of the sites I commonly need to consult: provincial and federallegislation, toolkits of the Pay Equity Commission as well as some of those 'I knew I once tracked them down but how did I do it then?' websites I've found invaluable.

Of course, there was the opportunity to post sites of personal interest: Project Gutenberg, other bibliophilic sites as well as those related to food (always a priority) and art.

I can sense that there could be competition in being the first to add a site to the network [as was the case for the Clan Mackenzie in the Americas site]. It was intriguing as well to track others who had posted the site and to review their favourites. It recalls the furtive pleasure I take in scanning the bookshelves of new friends to seek out affinities or points of disaccord.

Just to close out on my paranoic rant at receiving an anonymous comment to my blog. It came from another TPL employee who had not signed on to her Google account when inspiration took her. Fortunately, I had already come to the same conclusion when, in the same circumstances, I commented on the fourth assignment of another 23things student.

And because my 23things mindset requires that I close with a lolcat, here is one which resonates with my mood at the end of this busy week.