Task #4 - RSS

So that's task #4 taken care of too. I think this is one of the harder concepts to get if you don't use rss feeds. What's written here seems clear, but I'm not sure if it will be enough. Maybe could mention that KFPL's site has rss on (and what happened to the new dvd feed? not available anymore?) Could also consider having people look at the "Explore" feature on google reader to get an idea of what's out there.

RSS feeds

I used to be a big fan of rss feeds. I had amphetadesk on my desktop way back when we could actually download programs onto our work machines and back then I read library blogs religiously.... Then I graduated to bloglines which was a much nicer interface and right there on the web. I still have that bloglines account and also use google reader, but for the most part the only rss feeds I see are the small handful I have on my iGoogle page and protopage, and even then I mostly just read the headlines. TOO MUCH INFORMATION! (And not enough time.)

Task #3 - Post a comment

I guess that's taken care of too now.... I don't post comments very often, but have once in awhile.

Task #1 and #2 - set up a blog and personalize it

Ok, that's done. Set it up, edited posts, changed colours. Will try adding links and photos as I progress through the rest of the task list. The instructions seemed fine.

Poetry afternoon

I spent a nice couple of hours sitting at a kitchen table with some wonderful women today, drinking tea and reading out poetry. One woman read her own works, including a strong series about the killing of the women engineering students at the Polytechnic 20 years ago--and then we read poems by Jane Kenyon, Mary Oliver, Robyn Sarah, Erin Moure and Wendell Berry among others. It was an excellent way to spend a damp grey day in late November.

Bread!

Made 4 lovely loaves in the new oven yesterday from Local Breads: Sourdough and Wholegrain Recipes From Europe's Best Artisan Bakers by Daniel Leader--two plain, one with raisins and dried cherries and one with raisins, dried cherries and chocolate!

To begin...

I just finished reading Lorna Crozier's, Small Beneath the Sky, a readable memoir about this likable writer's childhood on the prairie. Also, Denise Mina's Still Midnight. She's a seriously good Scottish mystery writer.

Now I'm onto Margaret Drabble's The Pattern in the Carpet: A Personal History With Jigsaws which looks like it will be a quiet kind of book. I'm listening to the fabulous Stieg Larsson's The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest. I love that Lisbeth Salander!