#12 Whistle at war - published via Zoho

Posted via Zoho writer - very clever - just like using the real thing. Opened from USB device (even recognised the highlighter) did some editing and published.

Great if you don't have access to a word processor but do have access to the WWW. But, really where in the world would EVER have a combination like that!!!!

Whistle at war

When Umpires’ Association members in the armed forces corresponded with Lindsay Lancaster during the Second World War inevitably in their letter they made the point that, due to censorship restrictions, they were unable to give much detail about where they were and what they were doing militarily. In fact one letter from Ken Creighton (B) must have crossed the line as a paragraph has been neatly cut out by the censor.What they could convey though was their general conditions and, more particularly their umpiring experiences.

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#11 Three clicks and the randomness of flesh

I love the randomness of the random 'third party Flickr' applications.

Every random selection I tried (that produced more than 1 image per page) I found naked or swim-suit clad flesh after not more than three consecutive clicks - boys and girls so there is something for all tastes :-).

Of course thats not to mention 'Girls on Flickr' which contains many less 'racy' images. It was number 3 on the list of applications so why go further.

Quite clever and obviously using the tagging facilities of Flickr which can lead to some interesting images being retrieved as female.

Better though was the Web 2.0 drinking game that I came across while investigating mash-ups. Check out http://blog.scifi.com/tech/archives/2006/09/28/shift_the_web_2_1.html

Image courtesy Matt Krueger......well not really but hopefully this acknowlegement will assuage any copyright enforcement tendencies.. Thanks Matt

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#10 Disappointed... give it the Flick (r)

Had a look through Flickr... some really great photography and images... managed to locate some material from one of the young goal umpires that might get mailed around to his embarrassment... still, if you put it up you must want people to see it!!!.. particularly your mates!!!!

Speaking of wanting people to see your stuff why would you put up out of focus, poorly composed work, no one wants to see that.

Great!! Found a photograph of my favourite piece of art on Flickr....Not so great, went to post it to my blog using the blogger tool but it seems this is not easily possible using the slvlearning account... oh well... thats OK... more than one way to cook a sausage... found a copy elsewhere and have posted it through the blog software... I like its simplicity, its clean lines and sense of forboding.. having said that it is much better to see it live and perhaps a photograph does not do it justice...

I like the way he took the mick out of art as well.. he was a great satirist... good article about him in NYT on 2003 if you are interested.

Rather than posting to Flickr I have posted some of my more recent photographs on my other blog /web site - click here

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#9 57 channels and nothing on

Popular.... sat in RB with scroller running... 15 mins monitoring.... 2 posts of interest to click on... bad luck for Britney.... still kids can be a drag....

Good to see our blogs are being picked up....

Guessed incorrectly about what WTF meant... thought it might have stood for 'What the [expletive deleted]' but 'where's the fire' is just as nifty I suppose......

Apparently October 4 is International Bloggers Day for Burma.. I was encouraged to vote for a free Burma. Thought that was a good deal so I did... hopefully I will receive mine in the post soon (no pun intended)...

Claimed my blog (well at least I claim it is a blog).... set up some Watchlists... you never know... cast your net wide they say!!!

Added a cute little green button at the bottom for any tragics that want to make me a favourite.

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#8 TAG, you're it

Dear diary,
Visited delicious today...very tasty.....

The more complex your needs or the more sites you visit regularly the more useful it would be.

Would be good resource for Invisible web site organisation rather than sites that are subject to open search engines.

Now that I have an account I will use it for any interesting IWS I come across. Regulation bookmarks and JIT searching will suffice for other needs.

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#7 Getting a meal

News flash... there is an awful lot of cr*p on the WWW version 1.0, version 2.0 or version 3.0 with sprinkles... and a lot of people duplicating text by posting whole articles from news sites on their blogs... why not just make a link, people might be interested on other things at the source site anyway....

Using an RSS feed search tool just gives you a series of possibly interesting articles on blogs etc but an individual blogger may rant and range over multiple topics


What I find more useful is Google Alerts search which runs a specific search each day or week over news, blogs etc and then e-mails me any changes ie new news which I can then link to for my other blogs. I target specific news eg umpires and football, umpires and VFL, digital reference, MFHDs etc. from a huge range of sources.

Topix offers this as well (without the e-mail) and I have set up an RSS feed for digital reference

At the start of the 2006 football season I created an account on Ebsco host and have it do the same thing each week across that database. Saves scanning the papers and journals, easy to get bib. data for citations, great way to summarise the news.

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#6 Pain in the RSS

Prior to this exercise I subscribed to the following feeds

Cricinfo, afl.com.au

Mega sites just to keep up with the sports I am intersted in and possible stories to link to on the blogs/websites I maintain.

Victorian Football Umpires Association and Williamstown CYMS CC

Feed from sites I run so that I know things are working

Australian War Memorial - Employment

I am waiting for that 12 month job at my second favourite research institution

Nevertheless I have subscribed to the Ex-libris RSS feeds to keep right up to date with Voyager news (that's the ILMS not the spacecraft although.......),

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