Week Five - The music thing

Free music downloads. They probably are OK for the teenage set but I have to say most of the artists and titles I had never heard of. This is not really a criticism of the sites so much as a reflection of my age!

I choose a couple of sites to look at in closely. One of them seemed easy to navigate round but when I tried to download a track all that happened was I went round in a loop and got nowhere.

The whole process would have been simpler if I had not have had to do it on the Learn.net as MCC had blocked the site I was using without trouble from my MCC computer 10 days before.

All in all, this week was not a happy one.

Thought for the week - no relevance - I just like it.

'Change is a tool used by the inept to create the illusion of progress'

(Attribution unknown and I may not have it quite right as that is from memory)

Week Four - Books and social networking

I visited Goodreads. I may never come out. This is a really good site. I particularly enjoyed the lists of things, even if I violently disagreed with some of them. Who on Earth could not finish Catch 22, one of my all time favourites! It was top of the 'couldn't finish' list.

I have just ( no more than 10 minutes ago) passed on the website address to a borrower who is an ardent SciFi reader and Internet user for bookish things.

As a means of keeping track of my reading I would have to say MPL's own My Info with the reading history turned on is better, it's automatic.

All in all, a good site well worth visiting for inspiration and for recommending to Borrowers.

The inspirational thought for this week.

' Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read'

(Groucho Marx)

Week 3 - Twitter

Twitter. Well named IMHO. I don't know where Twitter began, USA I guess, I also imagine that in the States 'twit' is not another word for 'rather stupid'. I would not use this site. Not being a brash, in ya face type of person I am not convinced that the whole world is waiting breathless for my opinion on something - anything!

As more and more of these 'social networking' sites appear I am beginning to worry if anyone out there actually talks to anyone else face to face with real words.

Enough of my rant. Here is the quote for the week, from the same book as the quote last week.

"If you throw paint on a wall it's vandalism. If you put a frame around the splotch, it's art"