Finding a Tool that works

Delicious is great!

I am newly returned from Denver, where I attended the School Library Advocacy Institute at the ALA Midwinter Meeting.  It was a great opportunity to meet like-minded people and discuss important topics, and visit the huge hall full of vendors.  When I catch up on e-mails, I'll be sharing some ideas and links.

It's a New Day!

The peaceful transfer of power occurred today in view of the whole world. Technology has brought fulfillment to Shakespeare's proclamation: "

All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts

Barack Obama is playing his part on the
world's stage and the
world is his audience.

This event will no doubt break records and
how could it not,
with the power of his
presence and the power of technology.
Technological advances have been part of a number of
inaugurations.
I found this on the New York Times website:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/18/weekinreview/18spectacle.html
"Mr. Obama will break new technological ground by being the
first to use text-messaging and YouTube as part his festivities.
James Polk plowed a path in 1845 by holding the first
inaugural to be covered by
telegraph, while James Buchanan’s inaugural in 1857
was the first known to be photographed.
Calvin Coolidge’s inaugural in 1925 was the first
covered nationally
by radio, and Harry S. Truman's inaugural in 1949 was the first
to be televised
nationally. (John Adams was the first president to wear
long trousers during a swearing-in,
according to a list of inauguration trivia
kept by the office of the architect
of the Capitol. Apropos of nothing, this
irresistible factoid certainly deserves
its place in these parentheses.)"

My job in on the line, but its redemption is online!

A strange title for my first blog in 5 months, but there it is. I have just spent way too much time writing on this little laptop of mine (on loan from the district, but just try to get it back!!!) but it's sort of like eating potato chips...it's really hard to stop once you get started!
My job as a tech trainer is on the line, because of, what else? , shortage of funds! Therefore, we have just written a grant proposal to maintain it for next year to accomplish some magnificent goals! So, my job redemption is online, in that the grant was successfully uploaded to the state department with 8 minutes and 52 seconds to spare!
4500+ words just made their way through cyberspace to a server in St. Paul, but the end result (yes--job, no--go back to bidding) is still in the hands of humans. Machines are faster; humans, I hope, have lots of empathy (and enough money to go around).
I think I can stop writing now, and go home and put my feet up (under a blanket, because it's still below zero!) I just realized that I include a lot of thoughts inside parentheses. (I wonder why?)