More Flickr Fun

I've been spending some time playing around with Flickr and seeing what clever things people can do. I particularly like retrievr. It's so nifty! I started by just drawing a black squiggle in the box, and pausing to see what results were retrieved. Then I added some coloured dots and waited. It was interesting to see how the quantity of coloured dots affected the general colour hue of the results. I've looked at Flickr before, but I didn't realise there were all these fun things that you could do.

Here's another Flickr pic that I really liked. It's been taken by Damien Douxchamps

I do love a bit of Loli. I'm looking forward to going to Japan someday.

My experiences with technology

I find technology very difficult to get away from. I used to be really nervous about it. We had one single very basic computer when I was at school - and I broke it. It was an accident, really it was, but it made me nervous around these newfangled things.

In recent years I've got my own laptop, MP3 player, setup my own secured wireless network at home and learnt the intricacies of my mobile phone. I love getting to grips with new technology, as long as there's nobody standing over me telling me what to do. Playing with the wireless network and the laptop, kept me happily occupied for quite some time. The timing was bad though - for a moment I actually felt drowned in new tech. We bought the laptop, router, digital camera and new phones all in the same week. Thankfully it was a moment that passed quickly and has never returned.

I'm now just as happy playing with other people's devices. Mum sends me SMS messages all the time now that I've helped her work it all out.

My job entails a HUGE amount of tech savvy. Such a large proportion of my work relies on it. I purchase such a variety of print and electronic materials. I need to be able to troubleshoot potential access problems, provide management information at short notice, manage a large budget with audit trails, communicate with other staff and with vendors, find quick answers to problematic questions, and think at least 3 steps ahead.

It is a great challenge, but I do like that. That being said, I do prefer my challenges to be realistic, so let's not start pushing the boat out, alright :-)

Flickr fun - "Sweet Tian in the Flowers"

This image was taken by cpanda01 and shown in her photostream on Flickr. I found it when looking at the interesting things that were posted on 10 July 2008. It was a difficult choice, lots of good images were uploaded on that day.

7 & 1/2 habits of successful lifelong learners

As part of the Week 2 'Discover exercises' I need to decide which habits among the 7 & 1/2 are the easiest and the hardest for me.

The easiest habit for me is Habit Number 7 & 1/2 itself - Play
I find the best way for me to learn anything technical is to sit down and play around with it - see what it can do, learn its weaknesses and its wonders. It's the way I've learned how to make my own personal blog the way that it is, update my own website, setup a new PC, use a digital camera and play with the graphics, understand the workings of a new doll I've never seen before. Playing is second nature to me - no comments from the floor please!

The hardest habit for me is Habit Number 3 - View problems as challenges
It has always been one of my failings. All too frequently I see a problem as being a stress, a crisis - something to lose sleep over. I can see that I really need to begin seeing what I can learn from these events rather than just get into a flap over them. On the occasions where I have learnt a lesson as the result of a problem, I've only seen it as the result of a failure on my part to perceive a potential pitfall. Habit Number 3 will be a tough one to learn, but will be very valuable.

Well this is a bit different...

I am writing a non-doll-related post in a blog.

I've created this blog as part of the UniSA 23 Things exercise.

I actually already have a personal blog which I use to share my hobbies with like-minded individuals, but this one will be interesting to maintain for a while as well.