My New Island Hut

Afternoon snack w/ a view
Originally uploaded by redheaded_pirate

My original island hut photo disappeared from Flickr, so I've chosen a new home. Ah, what a vista!

The Things got boggy in the middle, but here I am at the end and I MADE IT! This exercise really opened my eyes as to what the web has to offer. I'm surprised that I like blogging - I didn't think I would. I found a lot of good productivity tools and useful websites, care of Things 18 and 19. I love You Tube, and I'm going to download an audio book once I get my MP3 player. Ta ta for now and it's been fun!

Audio Check

Get a Net Library account. Check. Try some searches. Check. Note to self: Use this like Google Book Search for quotes and samples in books. Look at the audio books available on our website. Check. Anticipate downloading an audio book when I have my MP3 player. Check. Blog about said anticipation. Check. One more thing to go!

Tropicast

I went looking for tropical podcasts to give my island a little ambiance. I had mixed results using the three search sites listed in the instructions, so I also searched for library podcasts. Yahoo Podcasts had the most listings and I thought their site was easy to use. I did the same searches on Podcast Alley and Podcast.net but was underwhelmed by the number returned and the selection. My best find was the TropiCast Radio Network: Offical Soundtrack of Your Tropical Dreams. Cool.

Tanagrian Wildlife

This is a glimpse of the rare dancing elephant native to our island, which was captured by stealthy videographers and posted on You Tube. You Tube is more than the narcissistic clips that I expected. I see the potential that anything ever captured on film or video could one day be online. It's a video library!

A Tree Grows in Tanagra

The Web 2.0 Awards site was great! I found a tree widget at www.springwidgets.com that should change with the seasons. Fall colors in paradise! I looked at Google docs, similar to Zoho Writer, and several of the others. I'll remember this site for patron referrals since I know all of the choices are award winners.

Zoho Cheeseburger

Cheeseburger in Paradise
Heaven on earth with an onion slice
Not too particular, not too precise
I'm just a cheeseburger in paradise...

Thanks to Jimmy Buffett for providing an unofficial theme song for Tanagra and a chance to practice with Zoho Writer. Easy to use and totally Internet based to boot!