Blue 2.0 Weeks 7 and 8 (posted during 9 and 10 :) )

So I'm still playing catch up.. even though I've actually done enough of the assignments for weeks 7 and 8 already.

Today I've had some more free time because the servers are so full they went read-only... I hope the guy who fixes this stuff gets his butt in here and does something about it. When the server isn't working... it really halts our production. But since I've got freetime I'm blogging.

So I played around with the avatar stuff a lil. I've never come across an avatar generator that I've been pleased with. Tried the Simpsons one on the blue2.0 blog first. NOT happy at all. Not only do they not have my hair, they also don't have my beard. Doesn't help that the body types don't have anything for someone who is overweight but only a lil so. The homer simpson body is not for me. The LEGO avatar was a lil better... you're already limited by body type so there isn't much you can do on that front. Interestingly though, they have like.. bdsm accessories for the LEGO characters.. I found that mildly amusing. OH and forget the picasso one...

One of the assingments was to edit a wiki. Well truth be told, I edit a wiki everyday at work already it seems like. Especially so today, Zemkat had me look over an activities page on our wiki and I went through it step by step. Its much easier that that stupid PB wiki program... btw.. I'm sick and tired of getting emails from them.. I wish there were more assignments where I didn't have to register to use their programs!!!!! Where was I.. oh yes, editing wikis. So I was watching Absolutely Fabulous over at Digibob's and there was a reference to a female british writer I had never heard of. So I looked her up on wikipedia... on that page there was a "referenced in pop culture" section and low and behold there was no information that she had been referenced on AbFab... so naturally I edited it to be included.

I've also been using Meebo.com, and I have been using it for about the last 3 months. Its alright, I prefer to actually use yahoo.com, but I can't complain to much... I just wish it still had cam features and the send file...

K jumping off this and gonna drive to Lou.
Thom

As I've already posted my lil rant (prolly induced by lack of coffee), I guess this will be about Google Docs.

Blue 2.0 GoogleDocs

In Blue 2.0 I'm on the Google docs stage

I went to the website and created a new page

As the server is down I have the time

To take this post and make it rhyme

Google Docs allows people to group amend

We share our digital ideas, take them, and blend

So Sarah, poke and prod and make an incision

And when your done send it back with your revision

I've enjoyed sharing these words with you

So until the next assignment I bid you adieu

Link I forgot to post in last entry Blue 2.0

http://del.icio.us/thomcub yeah see.. I forgot to post this see..

Blue 2.0 Del.icio.us

So I'm wayyy behind on this Blue 2.0 thing from being sick and then being bogged down in work that needs to be done..

I'm playing catch-up and as the server is down I'm doing this Blue 2.0 thing. Not to knock the system or whatnot.. but this blue 2.0 thing is continually seeming like a drag to me. I feel like I'm creating all these accounts for various programs and website that I'm never going to use again and thus using up space I don't need to. I'm so unplugged now of days when I'm not working and quite frankly, I enjoy it. I would never read, or draw, etc. if I was plugged in all the time.

So today I did the De.icio.us assignment. I can see the point of having this program/website.. there are certain websites I don't have bookmarked on every computer that I use that I have to go hunting for when I need it (pretty much websites I use in my free time). BUT as I'm really only using this computer here at work, I have what I need bookmarked for work and wouldn't need this program. So another example of space I feel I'm taking up that I'm not going to use in the future. I'll remember it though if for some twist of fate I have money and can afford internet at home... I then might need it.

Sigh.. I sound bitchy today. I need more sleep or a starbucks....

Thom