#41 Bongiorno

live Mocha: Learning other languages is something I have put off many times, I studied French at school (ovre la finetre ?? ferme la bouch ) needs work I know . I studied a bit of Italian at La Universta per Stranieri in Perugia but that was molti anni fa. It was the immersion method where only the language being learnt was spoken and the idea was that at about week four it all started to make sense. To some extent it worked but my sense of the correct grammar was lost in the experience. I never really used it and now most of it is lost. When I saw this site I thought great now I can tidy up all the loose ends, but at this point they do not have Italian I shall have to settle for French I do not have the will power at this stage to tackle a new script such as Mandarin.
If the site stays free it would be a draw card for some people to the library if they do not have their own computer or want to do a half hour class during their lunch break.

#40 Going backwards

Retroland a little wander through our Americo centric past worrying really how many things one recognised. Many are related to the USA television experience, not much of interest here but I can see how it would become a useful historical record a bit further down the track if you looked back a hundred years this would be an important record of social priorities .
Me I remember the Afro hair the Afro comb in the back pocket, the men's fitted shirts, the clogs the caftans.
The relevance to the library could be that it could be used as a template for a site that encourages people in the local area to reminisce and thus create a safe community place for personal stories etc about the area to unfold.

#39 animoto

#38 Comic relief

For your viewing pleasure ( you will need flash its more amusing to just scroll across)




A lot can be said with pictures may be we can channel this into something on the library web page to EG: to promote special events like the click goes the library series of events.
However below is my creation.

#37 Music

Streaming music is blocked in the work place and on the public PCs download limits etc make it difficult to get around this one . It is a natural progression joining radio and Internet and making them interactive . Users can select own music and listen while working with the inevitable invitation to buy. Groups grow up around the liking for a similar style of music similar to those that grow up around the books in " library thing" this to me is a more comfortable use of the idea of Internet community not just chattering aimlessly. Tried creating a quilt of covers but it leads away from the page promoting the album and with intrusive advertising.
How could this be incorporated into the library? Perhaps at the beginning of a special Internet training program with a theme, Chinese music? not for a while yet I suspect. For my radio widget I chose Fela Kuti a famous african protest singer his son now sings in a similar style but I like the old master and his highlife jazz

#36 before and after curious

Image editing , is something I have never done, was curious but I suffer from the modern disease of impatience waiting at some of these sites to get from point a to point b stifles the creative imagination I wanted to try the one with more features like adobe photoshop however Fauxto has changed hands to Splashup and logging in takes for ever (several seconds over and over) maximum pool size had been reached (how many thousands were fiddling with their pictures at the same time it's scary) Much easier to get the software and get on with it. I turned to Picnik no registration now required and so much quicker to get into. Curious one exposed to the world before and after.

#35 What a twit

This reminds me of the men you see in supermarkets who have to ring home to their wife to find out which aisle the potatoes are in. A constant need to be in touch has got to be unhealthy. It is like text messaging but on a PC, instant messaging has been around for a while. I had an Aunt once who had to tell me in minute detail what she had been doing all day ( she was my Aunt so I listened) For many others I would have to say a big ( talk to the hand)