muddiest point week 9

I know this was a muddy point for me a few weeks ago, but it still is. All the abbreviations! They are driving me nuts! I am fairly fluent in text language, but this is completely different! The letters are everywhere! And they detail other abbreviations so if you don't know one, you won't know the other! I guess the more you work at it, the better you understand it, but it seems like so much right off the bat.

thoughts on week 9

Sometimes the grass just isn’t greener on the other side. I think last week I had said that it would be interesting to learn HTML. I have changed my mind. After a great deal of thinking (and reading the XML article), I have to laugh. I mean, I took 5 years of Spanish in school and all I can remember is Donde esta el bano? and Me gusta el pollo. (For all non-Spanish takers they are where’s the bathroom and I like chicken) I think I still remember the alphabet as well. What my point is, though, is if I didn’t learn that language in 5 years, what in the world makes me think I would remotely come close to learning this in two weeks!?!?! Once again, I give loads of credit to the tech guys, but I’ll leave them to their jobs and I guess I’ll just keep mine.

Then I got to the next article and I have to wonder…how many things can start with X-something? It kind of reminds me of Google-this and i-that. I still have the same opinion as I did when I read the previous article, though. This isn’t a language I’m understanding anytime soon…

Before you continue you should have a basic understanding of the following: HTML / XHTML, XML and XML Namespaces, and A basic understanding of DTD. Are you kidding? I think I only know what one of those even means! But I will trek on… Yeah…no. I think I am going to have a serious struggle with this next assignment.

comments for week 8

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muddiest point week 8

The muddiest point for this week was trying to figure out how to access the webmonkey website when it continued to produce an error message. I tried almost every possibility of changes and couldn't figure it out. Kudos to Jean for figuring it out! I know it is not possible to keep up with every change that occurs on the Internet, but a little note would be helpful if something is not working.

thoughts on week 8

The tutorial on html was confusing, but in a good way. I always thought that it would be cool to know how to create a website. But I figured it would be kind of hard. The tutorial definitely proved me right! It was interesting to be able to play around with it, though, and see what would happen if you edited and changed things in the format. I guess as long as you had the cheat sheet handy until you learned it better, it would be helpful. I guess it’s like learning any other language; you just have to keep practicing it until you understand it!

CSS is also slightly confusing, and I can see why they warned you that you should be “fluent” in html before trying CSS.

The article helped me a lot with seeing what the tutorial couldn’t show me. I wanted to see an “actual” example of a website with the html language alongside so that I could see what was what. The article was interesting in that aspect because it showed both at the same time.

I think ultimately (and if I had, like, two straight years to devote to it) I would like to learn html. It would definitely be very fulfilling to see a final product after all that hard work!

Assignment 5

here is a link to assignment 5:

http://pitt5.kohawc.liblime.com/cgi-bin/koha/bookshelves/shelves.pl?shelfnumber=12&modifyshelfcontents=1&viewshelf=12&addbarcode=12590&modifyshelfcontents=1&shelfnumber=12

Comments for week 7

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comments on rachel's blog: https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4331968769876525173&postID=6742087653856209860&page=1

Assignment 4

Here is the url for the video: http://www.screencast.com/users/rian75/folders/Jing/media/4c2ceb8a-1990-40ec-a2c2-a3be87951109

Here are the url's for the images:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/30280822@N08/2916913732/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/30280822@N08/2916082531/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/30280822@N08/2916118071/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/30280822@N08/2916127127/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/30280822@N08/2916991552/

muddiest point week 7

Although it seems that every week I understand more and more of what I am reading, there are still a zillion things that I don’t get. For example, I understand that as we evolve, we must change. That is the same for technologies, and as it progresses, things must change. But when will enough be enough? How much does one person really need? I guess it’s not really a muddy point, but it’s still something I am not clear on, nor do I expect to ever be since I seem to be the type of person who is content with what is in front of them and if you tell me I have to change, I will, and I’ll get used to that way too.

thoughts on week 7

I found the “How Stuff Works” article to be interesting. The one part made sense about trying different IPs until it found one that works. I noticed that when my Internet connection is down and I don’t know it, and I type in say google.com, it will show at the bottom of the screen all the different ways it is trying to connect to the site. I have seen it do google.net, google.org, google.gov, and even google.com.com. I never really thought about what it was doing, and kind of found it a little weird that it wouldn’t just connect to the site. But I guess if it couldn’t find a match, it would keep trying until it did. But I still find it fascinating that it can try all of these different connections in a split second.

I can see the frustrations from a librarian’s point of view with different library systems. Yes, at first it is all overwhelming, but you do get used to it. There are so many different aspects of it, though, that you have to wonder if you will ever learn all there is to offer. On the other hand, you think of ways that it could be more useful to you. Then in the back of your mind, you have to think that if something would seem that obvious that it would make something easier, it has to be there somewhere. And that takes you back full circle to not knowing all it has to offer. I could see how a librarian could think they would do better creating their own sometimes..

The Google search earth was really cool. Looking at who was accessing the site, versus who was not links to everything we already really know about the world. Look at the places the lights were going crazy…Europe, USA, China, Japan… These are all places where technology is exploding. We see the same thing with education. The darker places however are all the places with either no power or no advanced technologies. These are the same places where they have no established education and are terribly undeveloped. On a lighter note, I think Google is going to take over the world someday. Haven’t you noticed that everything sounds better coming after Google? It seems like it would be awesome to work there though. I have to agree, the more you enjoy your job, the better at it you want to do.