Monday, December 29, 2008

How time passes

Well, I see I have let many months pass and not added anything to my blog. I never did master the whole web 2.0 thing or finish the online course that got me started off doing a blog. After failing completely to upload the photo of our City Museum referred to in that long ago posting, I abandoned the whole thing but did mean it to be temporary - meant to come on back and finish the course and learn all about UTube and Flickr and RSS feeds etc.
But... how time passes when one is busy with work and play.
In the time that has passed someone actually added a comment to my blog...having viewed my profile, he wanted to know if Aquarians had garnered any great wisdom or self-knowledge now that the Age of Aquarius has passed! He also remaked that Aquarians are "messed up". (He did admit he was an Aquarian.) I don't know about us being messed up but we are a bit vague - concerned as we are with the past and the future rather than the present. Hence all that sc-fi and history stuff in my profile.
My idea of Internet fun is trawling for information...just following link after link particularly to any page concerned with history or science or my favourite hobbies. Lovely sites like Nature, NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Being a Librarian means that I know how to find all the best and most trustworthy sites - and that I have easy access to great online databases from Gale and Ebsco and Proquest and Facts On File.
I don't really get the social networking thing anymore than I get the obsessive need to constantly be on the mobile phone. We've all had that experience..."I'm on the train, just coming into Bankstown (or wherever), I'll be there soon...I'll ring you from the station etc. etc." Why the modern person feels the need to share and relate every trivial detail of their daily life is just beyond me. I am definately turning into one of those grumpy old women!