Week 3, Thing #7 I'm Back!

It is nice to see that my blog has been sitting here patiently waiting for me all these long months that I have been neglecting it. So, that is my thing that I like about technology. It can actually be patient. But that is also one of its downsides. I wonder how many blogs sit around gathering dust, started with the best of intentions, maintained daily for awhile, then every few days, then just petering out. By the time the writer tries to revive it, the audience has lost interest. Look! Over there! A new blog, all new and shiny, whose author is still excited and the posts are still fresh.

For awhile I was reading a dogblog regularly. It was fresh. It was funny. Then the poster stopped posting. I stopped checking back daily, then weekly. Months went by. Then, for old time's sake, I typed in the URL. There was something new. But the humor felt old, worn-out. The dogs all looked the same. I had moved on. To a bikesnobblog.

Another thing I love about technology is craigslist. It is my resource for all things old and out-dated. I'll take some digital photos of my antique typewriter and bicycle found on craigslist and add them to the post once I am back at work.

I also love that I got an e-mail from a physicist in Romania who had a question about a statue I had taken a picture of and posted on my flickr site. And a travel site, schmap.com, asked to use one of my flickr pics as well. It is included in this widget.


Side Note: In order to edit this post, I had to spend quite some time realizing that my widget was not working, figuring out why I was unable to edit my post, and then downloading a new version of Internet Explorer (not my favorite browser!) in order to edit my post. Ah, technology! For every new wonder, we wonder where all our time goes.

I am off to post a comment on someone else's blog now.

Week 3: Thing #5: Flickr

In June I traveled to Barcelona with my family. You can see lots of photos (119 to be precise) of our trip on Flickr with my boys' smiling faces. One of those photos (without boys) was, conveniently for this exercise, of a library. This is the comment I originally wrote for the photo: "This was the local library in Gràcia. I think the two apartment buildings behind it are a really nice example of the contrasts in Barcelona architecture. What I wish I had photographed was the dog-rack next to the entrance. It looked like your typical bike-rack, but had a little metal dog placard and a large bowl of water next to it. " What I also noticed about the libraries in Barcelona was that they were open late into the evenings and were usually located next to other amenities such as parks and public transit. Great city!