Rollyo Week 5 #12

Successfully registered with Rollyo and created a searchroll titled Travelmania. Travelmania has a list of urls for last minute accomodation - standby rates

Library thing Week 5 #11

From what I have seen with 'Library thing' looks like a great way for people who collect books to catalogue their personal collections, or for groups to keep reading lists. Also to meet other people interested in the same reading material.
Wow just added 9 items to 'My Library' - How cool

http://www.librarything.com/catalog/juliehowieson

Image generators Week 5 #10

Having fun playing around with Image generators.
I like the Text Collage Generator ' Linguasso'.
http://www.imagegenerator.net/ is a good image generator site.

Custom picture generator www.jellymuffin.com/generators/textprix2 isn't too bad.

RSS and Newsreaders- CALL ME OLD FASHIONED Week 4

Well I muddled my way and created a Blogline. It seems to me that you need to be on a personal computer alot to make good use of this stuff. I certainly wouldn't have time to use it at work and after being on a computer all day I don't think I would want to come home from work and log onto another computer - my family is more important - I think I am more likely to stay in touch with the world via the old fashiond newspaper , TV and radio news. However I can see that it would be good to keep up with your favourite sites so easily.

O.F

chchchchchanges Techno Blog Week 3

WOW - too many chchchchchanges to record. But here are a few that really stand out.
I remember when :-

• Milk was delivered to the door, it came in glass bottles and delivered by the Milky by horse and cart - Now that makes me feel really old. I loved the cream at the top of the bottle - not homogenised then.

• Bread was also delivered daily by the bread man- he delivered by van - I loved the thick crusts.


• Fruit and vegggies didn't come from the supermarket but from the back of a van - The veggie man delivered weekly.


• Non food related changes - THE OUTDOOR DUNNY - I thought we had a very up market dunny when our old one burn't down after a spark from the incinerator set it alight - what excitment when the firebrigade can to put our dunny fire out. Anyway the new dunny had a concrete floor and a nice timber seat. I liked the dunny man in his singlet and short shorts, for those who are way too young to know about the dunny man - he came weekly to collect the dunny pan ( full of !!!!) and swap it for a nice empty pan. I remember you had to keep the lid of the dunny down because the flies loved the content - and the smell wasn't that great either.

• MAIL TECHNOLOGY - Snail mail hasn't changed a great deal but we did know our local postie and if he delivered letters he would blow his whistle. I loved to run out and say Hi if I was home when he delivered. the postie walkd or rode a bike then.



• PAPER DELIVERY - came delivered by the local paperboy, he rode a bike not like the paperman today who delivers by car.



• PHONE TECHNOLOGY - well the telephone was a big black phone with a dial - later we traded this big black monster in for a sleek red one - still with a dial but very modern.


• TV TECHNOLOGY - the old black and white tube television was much loved. It broke down often but Mr Casey the local TV repair man had a booming business - charging a fortune to change the tube which often blew like a light bulb.



• CLOCK TECHNOLOGY - I loved the wind up clock we had perched on the obligatory mantle piece. It Chimed every hour according to what the hour was ie 12 times for midnight and midday ( not so good during the nice though)




• HEATING TECHNOLOGY- I do miss the open fire, I loved sitting in front of that fire gazing at he flames. I do remember nearly chopping my finger off trying to chop the wood whilst playing mothers and fathers -I was the father - bit of a tom boy - I still bear the scar today. Next came the MODERN oil fire, then the gas fire, then the gas furnace, now the ducted heating.



• HOT WATER TECHNOLOGY - The old wood furnance water heater was a beauty. I loved chucking the briquettes and wood in that little furnance hole



• WASHING TECHNOLOGY - The old wringer WOW can you imagine that- you hand washed in a modern concrete tub and perched on the tubs side was a hand ringer - it has two rollers and you wrang the water out of the clothes by feeding them between the two wringers and squashing the water out = then hanging the clothes on the good old hills hoist - which I loved to swing on - 360 whizzy burnouts.

Oh, The Places you'll go! Week 2

Life has it's Ups and Downs as reported by Dr Seuss

You have brains in your head. You have feet in you're shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose...
Out there things can happen and frequently do to people as brainy and footsy as you. And when things start to happen, don't worry. Don't stew. Just go right along. You'll start happening too. Oh the places you'll go.
You will come to a place where the streets are not marked. Some windows are lighted. But mostly they're darked. A place you could sprain both your elbow and chin! Do you dare to stay out? Do you dare to stay in? How much can you lose? How much can you win? And If you go in, should you turn left or right.... or right-and-three-quarters? Or, maybe, not quite? Or go around the back and sneak in from behind? Simple it's not, I'm afraid you will find, for mind-maker-upper to make up his mind.

Oh, the places you'll go! There is fun to be done!
You'll get mixed up, of course, as you already know. You'll get mixed up with many strange birds as you go. So be sure when you step. Step with care and great tact and remember that Lifes' a Great Balancing Act. Just never forget to be dexterous and deft. And never mix up your right foot with your left.

And will you succeed? Yes! You will, indeed! ( 98 and 3/4 per cent guaranteed)

So
Be your name Buxbaum or Bixby or Bray or Mordecai Ali Van Allen O'Shea you're off to Great Places! Your mountain is waiting. so....get on your way!

Did I ever tell you How Lucky You Are?

When you are feeling a bit down on your luck - Look to Dr Seuss for some down to earth advice.
Suitable for ages 0-100+.

Just tell yourself, Duckie, you're really quite lucky! Some people are much more....oh, ever so much more... oh, muchly much-much more unlucky than you!

It's a troublesome world. All the people who're in it, are troubled with troubles almost every minute. You ought to be thankful, a whole heaping lot, for the places and people you're lucky you're not!

Think they work you too hard...? Think of poor Ali Sard! He has to mow grass in his uncles backyard and it's quick growing grass and it grows as he mows it. The faster he mows it the faster he grows it. And all that his stingy old uncle will pay for shoving that mower around in the hay is the piffulous pay of two Dooklas a day. And Ali can't live on such piffulous pay!
So....
He has to paint flagpoles on Sundays in Grooz. How luck you are you don't live in his shoes!

And poor Mr. Potter, T crosser, I-dotter. He has to cross t's and he has to dot i's in an I and T factory out in Van Nuys!

And you're so, so, So lucky you're not a left sock, left behind by mistake in the Kaverns of Krock!

Thank goodness for all of the things you are not! Thank goodness you're not something someone forgot, and left all alone in some punkerish place like a rusty tin coat hanger in space
That's why I say, "Duckie! Don't grumble! Don't stew! Some critters are much -much, oh, ever so much-much, so muchly much-much more unlucky than you!"