Chinese New Year; Year of Tiger - Feb 14,2010

I wish everyone have a Happy and Healthy New Year! I wish the world with lasting
peace to all the nations.

Both natural and man-made disasters continue to cause pain and suffering to
people. Human life is more important than profit.

The Future of Media #79: Television

  1. I visited Hulu, TV.com, Joost,viewmy.tv and casttv,  I watched some episodes of     "The Office","family Guy", "Dog Whisper" and "CSI", the episode is the most      recent one and each episode including commercials (at least 9 seconds).     I searched my favorites such as Scooby Doo,CSI and Dog Whisper.  They are all     on the list. I am able to watch the full episodes.  Sometime the viewer has     to search by "Air Date" to link the previous episodes.  2. I am unable to watch any TV show on my celler phone, since my cell phone is     quite old. By the way I am not interested in watching TV shows on cell phone     and I prefer the traditional and more relaxed way to watch TV. Watching TV     on a tiny screen is not enjoyable.  3. I watched some puppy show and Cat says show on Ustream. I have not posted any     videos onthe streaming programs.

Text Message

1. I have not sent a text message befroe the iHCPL Training. Thanks to iHCPL
which enforced all staff to keep up with the new knowledge and skill.

2. I read through the basics , practice couple times , send several messages
to my children and they reply to the message immediately. It is fun.
I think I am able to send a message in an emergency.

3. I have not use text Lingo yet and I will try later.

4. Texting while driving spells big troubles. It is dangerous and stupid.
Since you are unable to type and drive at the same time. The article on
New York Times brought to us pay attention to this serious issue.

Spring Cleaning in Cyberspace

I deleted some old messages from my email, the oldest one was back in 2004.
I also deleted some files from the special folders, such as the out-of-date
Library policies and information.

In the meantime, I move some of my favorable pictures and photos to the
permanent storage (USB drive).
Don't clutter up the cyberspace is very important.

It is better organized to check the files as well as to improve the
efficiency of the computer.

The cleaning job should be done regularly.

Week 10 #23

Flickr, Zoho, Podcast, Overdrive, Pixer.us and Bloglines were some of my favorite web programs. I am enjoying learning the technologies about the emotion icons
in Zoho Writer. I am very excited about the image generator. It has been a great
learning experience, and I will look forward to learn more about these technologies.

I wish I had more time to practice using the above programs.

Week 9 #22

I listened to portions of these ebooks / eAudio clips on the LibriVox site : LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection, An Irish Airman Forsees His Death by William Butler Yeats and By The Arno by Oscar Wilde . I would consider downloading any of the above. Also listened to The Ugly Duckling in portion at this site : http://hcpl.lib.overdrive.com. I think the Overdrive site of HCPL is user friendly - more so than the Librivox site.