Has it really been six months?

Well, I decided to get back on a "learning curve" and so with renewed interest, decided to complete the Learning 2.0 tasks. Didn't realise it had been six months since any action here. In that time, I have become a facebook tragic, have had lessons for the members of the library during Adult Learners Week on how to set up their own blog, use Facebook & use Library Thing. I have set up a Wiki to share information with our Children's Services staff in the NE Zone, and have assisted in presenting Web 2.0 info to Year 11 students. So throughout all this, I have been exposed to Delicious, and had actually set up a family Delicious page many moons ago. Have now joined with my Library hat on & hope to try again to get value from what it offers. I haven't found it that useful before, mainly because I tended to use favourites & forgot about Delicious. Will have another go - but realy think the benefit is using pages like the Ask.Now Delicious that has many many clever minds contributing to the overall knowledge. I think that's where the benefits could be. We do too much reinventing of the wheel. I will try get value out of what has already been done.

060708

Couldn't let this one go by. Great patterning in todays date. And, if I had been awake 7 hours earlier than I was, at 5 seconds past 2:34 this morning I could have seen 2:34.5 on 6/7/8. Eveyone at work will be glad it isn't a work day today, so they don't have to hear about this lovely patterning.

98765

I got in the car the other day & the Odometer was reading 98765. I was so pleased to actually see all the numbers in a row. Then I looked at the clock - I was hoping the time would be 4.32. That would have been a bit much to expect I know. It was, however, 6.32, so I was only one number away from 98765432 all in a row on the dashboard. Oh well, better luck next time!

Fantastic Candles

Wow!
I have just come home from a fantastic candle making workshop we held to celebrate Youth Week. What a steep learning curve. Although I boldly declared a few months ago that we would be doing so for Youth Week, my knowledge of candle making was zip! Now, just ask me....
Thanks so much to Alison & Denielle who did so much today - without them it wouldn't have happened.
Thanks also to Lynne at All Australian Candlemaking - who guided me as to what products would be easy to use & the quantities I would need. Her estimates were spot-on!
http://www.candlemaking.com.au/

We made Ice Candles, used Candle Sand in little glass coffee cups, made Flowers in cake moulds & embellished them with beads, and made candles of many other sizes and shapes.

Everyone seemed to enjoy the morning (especially the milk shakes) and as they left, many asked "What will we be doing next year?"
It was lovely to spend the morning with a group of well mannered, happy, inquisitive children.
I will have to start working on what we will do next year......

Happy Birthday Di

Well it was Di's birthday on Saturday 5/4

And --- she turned 54

Which means she was born in 1954!

In Roman numerals Di would be LIV.

If she was an atom her name would be Xenon (Atomic number 54).

Keogh coincidence

Well, - silly patterns of things again... I am organising a reunion for my father's family - the surname being Keogh, so lots of internet searching happening using that surname. So I went to post a comment on a blog just now, and the ending of the "code" that I had to recognise to publish was "jueogh". All it needed was the K in place of the U and there's my maiden name. So.... how are those codes generated??? Are they based on recognition of most frequently used key strokes in the past half hour or something like that???

Jon Sieben - World Record Swim

This was an amazing swim in 1984 Los Angeles Olympics by my cousin Jon Sieben - World Record holder & winner of an Olympic Gold medal at 17 years of age.
Jono recently joined with other former Olympians to greet the team for Beijing 2008. No doubt someone else will come through the ranks & be a world beater this year too.