Week Six, thing 13.

Have been playing around on del.icio.us. I have set up my own account, and have been saving files and tagging away.

For example, this new video by Amy Winehouse (Tears Dry On Their Own) can be tagged Winehouse, video, music, youtube, tears and hair. I wondered if there was a way to tag something as a phrase, so you could use "Amy Winehouse" or "big hair" as a tag, but so far I can only see how to do tagging with one word.

I find it interesting that after you tag something you can select your tagged word and click "popular" and find other sites that share that tag.

I can really see how del.icio.us can be used for research. If I were reading serious articles for a paper I could put them all together under one heading. Most of the sites I am tagging are purely for fun but they are links that I go to quite frequently and it is nice to be able to log in to del.icio.us from any computer and find my list of personal links that I can peruse.

I have several youtube videos saved on my del.icio.us account with tags so I can just type in video and get a list of my favorites.

Then I can post the video here and torture you all with it.

I hope the rest of you have as much fun tagging as I am having!!!

Patrizio Buanne - Il Mondo

This is Patrizio.

He is marvelous.

I just picked up his CD called "The Italian" and I really love it.

My coworker thinks he sounds like Tom Jones, and I guess she is right!

I am off to work on the next of my 23 things. I will leave you to swoon for a bit, and catch up with you on the flip side.

Melanie C - I Want Candy

This is a little ditty that I have been listening to all week. It is the Fab-U-Lous Melanie C (Sporty Spice) who has a great new album available in the UK called This Time. Worth listening to.

I know you all think I have an uncontrollable Spice Girls fetish. I mean, this IS the second post involving one of the Girls, and it is definately starting a trend.

Who should be next? Ginger? Baby? Scary?

Leave a comment and let me know!

Week Five, thing Twelve

Just finished playing with Rollyo.

Made my own little collection of sites called "cruise info".

It seems to work.

I am thinking about putting a search bar onto the sidebar but haven't done that yet. My sidebar is getting quite crowded. The more the merrier.

I have put my "cruise info" search bar over onto the sidebar. Now you all can search and find the cruise of your dreams. I know I will be doing that soon!

So, I guess week 5 is finished. Now, onto week 6. Can't wait to see what I need to learn now.

Week Five: The Avatar

I am busily working on week Five of the 23 things.

As you can see, I have my own avatar on the sidebar. I made him on http://www.meez.com and you can, too! He doesn't really look all that much like me, maybe he is the me that I would like to look like. Anyway, it sure was fun.

I also put a Weather Pixie on my sidebar. You can as well if you go to http://weatherpixie.com/, but it takes a little work to get him or her on your sidebar. Weather Pixie is fun because you can pick your state and zip code and the pixie changes with the weather. In summer he is in shorts but when winter rolls around he will wear winter clothing. I think it is quite nifty.

I have also started putting my books onto Library Thing. Boy, I sure do like mystery novels. But it is a great way to keep track of my favorites. You can also go to http://www.goodreads.com/. Good Reads works just like Library Thing. I knew about that one first, and had a profile there but have also started one on Library Thing. I hope I can keep all my logins and passwords straight!

I hope the rest of you are having fun.

Posh Spice and the Rss Feed Post

Just a quick pic of Posh Spice (AKA Victoria Beckham) looking like a zebra. Does the woman ever eat?

This picture is to highlight my experience with RSS feeds and Bloglines. I DID set up my Bloglines account and one of the things I am supposed to do is share my feeds with my fellow librarians.

But I just can't.

The truth is, the news that I seem to be reading is all about trashy celebrities. If you read my Bloglines feeds, you would think I spend all my time looking at Britney's backside, her awful extensions, Paris crying in the car and the Jessica and John breakup.

And I do.

And I am not that fond of popular culture. I just like celebrities making asses out of themselves. I like to see them looking like dirt. I relish in their misery.

Does this make me a bad person? Maybe so.

But now I have a collection of RSS feeds and all my trash is in one place. Sure saves time!

8 Things Meme

I was tagged by Ellen and now must write eight things about myself. I wonder if you can guess who I am based on my responses.

1. As you can probably tell, I am a mystery lover. I especially love mysteries set in the United Kingdom. If you happen to run into me and ask me for a suggestion of a good book, be rest assured that there will be a dead body involved.

2. I adore pop music. There is nothing better. I think it might be because I grew up on Abba. Incidentally, much of the pop music I like also comes from the United Kingdom. I sense a trend here.

3. I am very fond of creatures that have four legs. I have three four legged creatures for a grand total of twelve legs. Added to the two two legged creatures that also live in the house, that would make it a sixteen leg household.

4. I rarely watch TV. I do like to watch full legnth movies and have a subscription to Netflix, but I do not have cable or a TV antenna. The only shows I watch are the shows I am able to watch online. If I am interested in a show, I wait until it comes out on DVD. Then I rent it, commercial free.

5. I live in a three story townhouse that also has a creepy basement. Does this make it a four story townhouse? I do not like going down into the basement because I have a pathological fear of spiders. Even when I can't see them, I know they are there, lurking. I hope I never need anything that might be in the basement!

6. I am not what you would call a neat person. In fact, I tend to be rather cluttered. I find comfort in my piles of books and music and odd whatnots that live on the coffee table. Like most cluttered folks, I tend to also know just where everything is.

7. I love to go out to eat and will try almost any type of cuisine. My favorite things to eat are Mexican and Indian. I also like sushi but I draw the line at raw fish. I like vegetable sushi. More mushrooms please.

8. I am not a fan of summer and I dislike heat intensely. I would much rather have things be cool and I really love the autumn best as a season. I don't have air conditioning in the living room of my house and it can be unbearable in the summer.

Play along! I am not going to tag anybody because I am not familiar enough with the new blogs in order to tag eight of you. But if you want to have some fun, play along. Just the facts, please!

Sophie Ellis Bextor - Me and My Imagination [HQ]

Here's a song for you!

New Technologies, me and you.

Today I am posting about a new technology that I love. It is called Rhapsody. I am sure you will want to jump on the Rhapsody bandwagon when I tell you all about it.

Rhapsody is a music service that costs only 14.95 a month. It is like a huge lending library of music. You have to get an Mp3 player called the Sansa (others will work but the Sansa works the best) and log on to Rhapsody and go to town.

The gist is that you don't own the music. You borrow it. Full legnth cd's. New music, old music, every type of music. You pick what you want and load it onto the Sansa and play it all you want. You can't burn it to a CD because you don't own it, but you can listen to it all you like.

It is a great way to find new artists that you may not know about. How many times have you purchased a CD because you liked one song, only to find out you hated the rest of them? How many times have you purchased a hot new artist, listened to it for a month and then tired of it and moved on to something else?

With Rhapsody you can borrow the music, listen and delete. Then get more. I love it!

Some of my new favorites are Rihanna's "Umbrella" , Erasure's new CD "Light at the End of the World" and the new Rufus Wainwright. Go get out there and start listening!

Maryland 23, Flickr and me

P1010122, originally uploaded by deweydjbus.

Been playing around with Flickr this morning and have managed to upload some photos I took on a cruise last December. This is a picture of an orchid in a garden in Barbados. I am a little bit familiar with photo sites, I have pictures uploaded on Shutterfly as well, but for the sake of the assignment, I am now also on Flickr.

I have also managed to set up my Flickr account so I can choose a picture and just create my post on Flickr,and it should transfer it right over to my blog. Nifty!

I do have to say that I am not a novice at blogging. I have had a personal blog for over two years and love posting as well as reading other blogs. But I really hope to learn some new things from the 23 items.

Hope everyone else is having fun learning!

Welcome To Mysterious Musings

This is the first post on what will be a wonderful ride. As you can tell, I love reading mysteries. I have posted a list of some of my favorite reads on my sidebar, and all of you will need to read at least one.

Currently, I am reading Progress of a Crime by Julian Symons. Quite good, really. British. Won the award for best novel in 1960 for the Edgar Awards. They don't write em' like that anymore! Of course, I had to interlibrary loan the thing because it is such an old chestnut we don't own it in our system anymore. Some of the best novels are out of print.

In the car I am listening to Sparkling Cyanide by Agatha Christie. Just can't get any better than her! And we have some wonderful audio editions of her titles in our library. I think I have gone through most of them. Probably will have to listen to them all over again.

Definately will keep you posted!