Thing 1 - House of Skidoo is Open to YOU!

Well, I'm finally getting around to starting my 23 Things (hence the name, not in reference to the experimental post-punk band) here at MCPL. I have to say that I am very glad we are taking part in this training regimen, both generally because I feel we'll all benefit from learning about new communication methods (being the information professionals that we are) and personally. See, I grew up in that odd generation that was exposed to computers but very often did not have one at home - I didn't until I reached high school. So even though I'm comfortable using computers and many of their applications, I don't pick this stuff up like those of younger generations. I sure love to mess around with new things, though.

As far as blogs go, I had a Xanga blog back in the late 90s, but it's been a good decade since I've made regular entries. I find Blogger much easier to get up and running, and somewhat more intuitive. I was stumped for a moment when I first tried to put my LibraryThing widget in this blog, because I expected to have to enter the HTML in the blog's code myself. Obviously, I was making things harder than they needed to be, as Blogger lets one simply paste the HTML into the Third Party gadget. It took a bit of experimenting on the LibraryThing website to create a widget that was an appropriate size for my Blogger page, but in the end it was relatively painless, and left me excited to move on to Thing 2.