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Facebook backtracks on its latest privacy invasion tactic. After more than 50,000 Facebook users signed a petition blasting Facebook’s latest changes, Facebook has changed its new advertising and marketing strategy using Beacon to gather and distribute information about purchases Facebook users were making through over 40 popular online shopping sites. Facebook said it provided 2 opportunities to opt out of having your information shared, but many people… Continue reading

I’ve been thinking about how to locate various things, specifically, my luggage when I travel, especially when cruising. If you’ve ever taken a cruise, you know that they give you a tag color such as red and then you have to go to the ‘red’ section and hunt through hundreds of bags to find yours. I wanted something that I could attach to my bags that would make a loud… Continue reading | 3 Comments

Have you tried Picnik? It’s a great online tool for editing your pictures from various online services such as Flickr. It should definitely go on your list of Web 2.0 tools in your toolkit. And best of all, it is free for the basic services (which are plenty) and is only $24.95/year for the premium services. Here are a couple of posts about Picnik that I’d written previously, that… Continue reading

I was looking through My Yahoo news and found an interesting article about a robot that the japanese were developing called Twendy-One.

Twendy-One, named as a 21st century edition of a previous robot, Wendy, has soft hands and fingers that gently grip, enough strength to support humans as they sit up and stand, and supple movements that respond to human touch.

It can pick up a loaf… Continue reading

and all through our house, everyone was stirring (Ubi played with her mouse).

Well, all of our family has arrived and we have a houseful! We have my mom, Sean’s mom, Sean’s brothers Tane’, Julian, Crispin, Nat and his girlfriend Lily, Sean’s sister Celestine, Tane’s mom, her husband Guy and Tane’s sister Cornelia.

Barbara and Julian arrived last Wednesday and the last of everyone came in at 6:30… Continue reading | 1 Comment

I have been working on getting Veteran’s Administration benefits for my dad who is 86 and does not have a lot of money and needs to go into a care facility.

The very first item that was required before I could do anything to start the process was his DD214. The DD214 is also known as the Report of Separation. Here is more information on that document… Continue reading

Are you ready for Black Friday? Black Friday is the day after Thanksgiving, traditionally the day for the biggest sales, especially the Early Bird specials. People line up at 3 or 4 in the morning, or sometimes overnight, to get the best, limited deals. Last year we got a Hitachi 51″ rear projection TV with true high-def. We could have gotten a very nice b RCA 52″ rear projection… Continue reading | 2 Comments

In Blog Tip: Adding Pages to Enhance your Blog – Part 1 I talked about adding pages like “About Me” or “Our Location” (or whatever you want) to your blog. Now let’s look at adding sub-pages and a few widgets to enhance your Wordpress.org (self-hosted wordpress) blog.

But before that, Christopher was kind enough to leave a comment on Part 1 explaining how to simulate multiple link list… Continue reading | 1 Comment

I was just catching up on reading the weekend newspaper so I could throw it away and I saw an article in “On the Scene” in the Journal-Gazette Weekender about one of my very favorite activities at our local library.

It is called Paws to Read and is one of the many programs the ACPL provides for kids. Quoting from the article in the Journal-Gazette:

“Good ol’… Continue reading

First of all, I’d like to give a huge shout-out the Grabill Library Branch of the ACPL who were featured in a talk that Jessamyn West  gave on 11/8/07 called What Works: More My Library, Less MySpace. If you look on slide #32, you will see a screen capture of their Grabill Branch Library blog, that shows how they successfully use the Twitter stream to promote their… Continue reading

Why would you want to add pages to your blog? Well, maybe you want to add an “About Me” page, or a “Books I’m Reading” page or a “Our Travels” page. Or maybe you are a business, like a library and you want to add an “Events” page or a “Location” page or “Help” or “Our Schedule” or any number of things.

If you add them to your blog… Continue reading | 2 Comments

My husband Sean Robinson and Kay Gregg from the Allen County Public Library presented at IOLUG 2007 (Indiana Online Users Group) down at Indianapolis last Friday. Kay did a poster session on YouTube and Sean did a really fun talk on Learning 2.0 – Transforming Your Organization Through Learning. He is a really exciting and fun speaker (if I do say so myself) and everyone really enjoyed his presentation… Continue reading | 1 Comment

Sean Robinson, Head of IT at the Allen County Public Library and defender of Truth, Justice and the American Way, obliterates the bad guys (and a few innocent victims) in his pursuit of… something.

Brought to you by JibJab (Starring You!), I present: Unnecessary Force, starring Sean Robinson. Supporting roles by Nat Robinson as the Chief, Susan Mellott as Victim #1, Julian Casserley as Victim #2 and Dorothy Lubbes… Continue reading

Not too long ago, I wrote a post about Picnik – A Cool Free Tool to Edit Your Online Pictures. At the time, Picnik was allowing users to try out their premium tools for free. I just got an update from Picnik and they have officially launched their premium tools so they are not free anymore, but they are reasonable for the features you get and very much in… Continue reading | 1 Comment