Thing #29: Googalot

It's Google tools! I have to say, I've been tempted to sign up for GMail for a while, but now I feel like I should have done it a lot sooner. Very nice! I like the calendar feature, although I have a Palm for that, so will probably not use it as much. But, it might be nice for sharing events and appointments with family. I looked at the Labs, but will have to take another look. I didn't find anything I was interested in using upon first perusal. And there were a lot of neat themes. I like the fact that you can choose your own colors too!

I also signed up for a Google alert on slow cooker recipes. It hasn't come back yet with a search result. Let's see... darn! I changed the options to "as it happens" hoping something would pop into my e-mail, but no luck! Maybe that's something I'll have to get back to later.

Thing #28: Already done

I use MyYahoo. I like it. I looked at iGoogle once, and thought it was too plain. I'm sure there are options for spiffing it up. But I like MyYahoo. I have my NetFlix on there, which is awesome. And I check news and some other boring stuff. The best part is the Garfield and other miscellaneous comic strips that I put on. Love that!

My only complaint is that I was so excited when I started off with it, but my excitement dwindled when I had to get it just the way that I wanted. Some of the things that I put on, I decided I didn't like. All the customizing wore me out. But I still use it from time to time.

Thing #27: Froggy likes to tweet

But it would be good to have more people to tweet to... I know it's a cool way to keep in touch etc. I kind of like the idea. It'll take me a while to get into it though. Maybe. So, watched a video, read some tutorial type stuff. I'm now following School Library Journal and More Things along with some friends. I tweeted a couple of times, which you can see on my blog here. Did a search on socks and came up with some interesting tweets, some that I'd rather not read all the way through. Sounds like someone in Marley and Me loves socks... So, done with Thing #27 and will explore more. Already learned something about Mystery Beer night. Hmmm... Later!

Thing #26:Nings

I joined the 23 things Ning during the original 23 things. I didn't do a lot with it besides what I was supposed to for the 23 things. I don't know that I'll do a lot more with it unless the library decides to do more with it. I did join the "Rochester Public Library in the House" group. I'm interested to see if anything happens with that. And I viewed the First Help Desk video, which I think is hilarious. I think I'm done with Thing #26!

Froggy finishes up Thing #25

Thing #25 officially done! I added some fun gadgets to my site. I think that finishes thing #25. Woohoo! What's next?

Froggy is now tired after working on Thing #25

Ah. Widgets and gadgets and gizmos, oh my! I read over the 20 usability tips. Some of them seemed to be common sense, like not giving details about work-related items. Who would do that, anyway? And some of it seemed overwhelming. So, I'm supposed to organize my posts and put them in an archive on the sidebar. I don't think I'm there yet. And since I only have one person (thanks Andy!) who's following my blog, I guess I'm not going to worry about all the commenting items just yet.

Posting by e-mail would be handy on certain occasions, but I don't think I'm that attached to my blog right now. I used to get AvantGo on my old Palm. I've since upgraded and didn't realize it was still out there. That's pretty cool. A friend of mine recommended Gcast instead. Hmmm... more research to do.

Seeing all the gadgets was interesting, yet again overwhelming. I like simplicity. I don't want to muck up my blog too much with unecessary things. But you can see I've already added my Shelfari shelf. So, on to adding more widgets/gadgets. Maybe tomorrow, or another day. I need coffee. Mmmm... Caribou coffee.

Froggy does housekeeping for Thing #24

I'm working on Thing #24. I think I got most of it. Maybe even all of it. I looked at the new templates for my blog. There are lots that weren't there when I started. Some of them are pretty cool! I didn't like any of them better than the one I have now, though. I like my look. I've been playing with some of my digital scrapbooking software and have thought about creating my own look, but it's a bit overwhelming right now. Maybe later.

I've added widgets. You can see my Shelfari widget. I added it before I started up with more things on a stick. I like widgets. I like the way the Shelfari widget displays as a bookshelf.

I added information about myself. I actually don't want to put it out there because I have another blogger blog that I'll be using for work purposes. The info's there now, but will disappear shortly.

I like my display name. I'm not changing it. I can't think of anything else I'd like to change it to. I don't want to put my real name out there, for now. I might at a later date.

I gave my avatar a new look for winter. You can go back in my blog posts and see where I did this. If it ever warms up here, I'll change it to more springy clothes and sites. I plan to put up some pictures of a "froggy" on my other tween blog for work. I just haven't gotten to it yet.

I registered my blog with More Things on a Stick. I keep getting updates by e-mail. Things are a-changin' every day, sometimes every hour. You guys must be busy! And I got the e-mail when my blog was added to the wiki. It's in the right place. Thanks!

Thing #24 DONE!

Anyone ever watch Monster House? I wish I had that big stamp and the echo-y sound when I put that in...