A frosty New Year's eve

We aren't the only ones to feel winter's icy grip

These are pictures taken today on Bromyard Downs (UK)

Very Narnia like..

Harlequin in the snow

At least Harley doesn't mind the snow -we definitely have more than our share this Christmas!

Twitter Explained by Commoncraft

For those of you who want to know more about Twitter and "tweets" (short updates)

Still havin' fun..

Just because the "24 things" are finished doesn't mean you have to stop playing...

This was made with Lolcat Generator

(with kind premission from Harlequin & Tiberius)

NVDPL Playground - Final Exercise

Congratulations to everyone who has completed all the exercises, and I encourage all those still working at them to persevere.

I'm still really enjoying reading your blogs and seeing your creative input. I know some have really enjoyed playing with some of the tools.. I think Flickr and LibraryThing are a couple of the favourites. I think over time we will be using more of these tools as part of our everyday routines as you will probably notice when our new website is up and running. It will be much more interactive and will contain RSS feeds and places for patron feedback. Exciting innovations are happening in the library field check out Bibliocommons which probably won't be too far into our future (or something like it). Libraries can be dynamic.

"This present moment used to be the unimaginable future"

(Stewart Brand)

We are we always learning something new, and are constantly reinterpreting what we thought we knew in new ways. What we learn today is tomorrow's history. I hope that these 24 “Things” will prove to be building blocks to continued learning.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN

I'm not too sure Harley's impressed with it all - but she's a good sport!

Phishing

I hate Phishing! I have recently had several fraudulent email's supposedly from CIBC wishing for information to protect my account..(the fact I don't have a CIBC account seems irrelevant). These look very official- CIBC logo etc - but are scams. NEVER respond to email's from a banking agency unless you verify that it has been sent legitimately and never put account PIN's or other information online - no bank would ever ask for this unless it's on their own secure site. Here are some E-mail Fraud Examples

Hereford - my home town

Hereford Cathedral, located at Hereford in England, dates from 1079. Its most famous treasure is Mappa Mundi, a mediæval map of the world dating from the 13th century. The Cathedral also has a wonderful chained library

Chained Library & Mappa Mundi

Old House, Hereford

Originally part of Butchers Row, and now a museum, this tudor building stands in the middle of Hereford.

I was here last week visiting "home". Some things never change I'm glad to say!

Add to the NVDPL Sandbox Wiki

Click here to visit the NVDPL Sandbox Wiki

Add your Favourite North Shore Restaurant, Movie, Book Title or add to Our Travels or create a new entry - it's your Sandbox to play in...

"Arthur" the Library Orphan

If you were wondering how "Arthur" is doing - "he" is now producing tomatoes and seems very happy now we have some sun back!

Arunal from Nayara

Arunal from Nayara
Originally uploaded by jjonescox

Wishing I was here again... while playing with Big Huge Labs, a Flickr toy

Podcasts

Have been looking at Podcasts in both podcastalley and podcastpickle. Listened to a few library Podcasts but the ones I found were pretty boring, so decided to add the BBC Radio NewsPod to my Blog and Google Reader as an RSS feed. At least I can keep up to date on some International News.

Harley & Tibs

Harley & Tibs
Originally uploaded by jjonescox

Playing with Flickr Mashups - Magazine Creator

Playing with FlickrSLiDR

Created with Admarket's flickrSLiDR.

Halfmoon Bay

This is where I escape to on weekends or whenever I can..

The Vancouver Sun, 14 Jul 2008. Page 1

Bears in today's Sun

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The Vancouver Sun
14 Jul 2008
Discovered that the Sun links a feed to a blog - they also have an RSS feed but it has to be to a RSS reader on your personal computer - it didn't like Google Reader on our work computers. Loved the picture of the bears this morning.

Desk Set

Just looking at the "Desk Set" social networking group.. didn't join as I don't fit the social networking profile - well not the "single" bit..

Desk Set's Details
Status: Single
Here for: Friends
Body type: 0cm
Zodiac Sign:
Education: Grad / professional school
Occupation: librarians, archivists, people who like books

Quick link to: Desk Set

But it's a good way to connect to people with the same interests working in the book world. Great for Networking...maybe something to think of as we set up our new Webpage - a link to an NVDPL Social Networking Group - would have to come up with a cool name for it.. any suggestions?

Advantages of Facebook

If your kids never communicate with you (unless they want something).. then a good way to keep track of their goings on is to see their latest postings on Facebook. My son Hale's latest posting is of him petting tigers in Thailand. Cute kitty!

Summer at the Library

The place is buzzing! Only a week into school holidays and already we have over 3,000 signed up for the Summer Reading Club. What a literate bunch of kids we have on the North Shore!

Click here to find more about the SRC

RSS Feeds

Have added some Interesting, Newsy, Work related RSS feeds to my Google Reader - but the link to Unshelved is definitely my favourite!

http://www.unshelved.com/

If you want to add it to yours click on the link above and click on the orange RSS button on the left hand site of their webpage.

Unique Lives

Maya Angelou

Tonight I went to hear Maya Angelou speak at the Orpheum. Quite a remarkable lady.

A Brave and Startling Truth

We, this people, on a small and lonely planet

Traveling through casual space

Past aloof stars, across the way of indifferent suns

To a destination where all signs tell us

It is possible and imperative that we learn

A brave and startling truth

And when we come to it

To the day of peacemaking

When we release our fingers

From fists of hostility

And allow the pure air to cool our palms

When we come to it

When the curtain falls on the minstrel show of hate

And faces sooted with scorn are scrubbed clean

When battlefields and coliseum

No longer rake our unique and particular sons and daughters

Up with the bruised and bloody grass

To lie in identical plots in foreign soil

When the rapacious storming of the churches

The screaming racket in the temples have ceased

When the pennants are waving gaily

When the banners of the world tremble

Stoutly in the good, clean breeze

When we come to it

When we let the rifles fall from our shoulders

And children dress their dolls in flags of truce

When land mines of death have been removed

And the aged can walk into evenings of peace

When religious ritual is not perfumed

By the incense of burning flesh

And childhood dreams are not kicked awake

By nightmares of abuse

When we come to it

Then we will confess that not the Pyramids

With their stones set in mysterious perfection

Nor the Gardens of Babylon

Hanging as eternal beauty

In our collective memory

Not the Grand Canyon Kindled into delicious color

By Western sunsets

Nor the Danube, flowing its blue soul into Europe

Not the sacred peak of Mount Fuji

Stretching to the Rising Sun

Neither Father Amazon nor Mother Mississippi who, without favor,

Nurture all creatures in the depths and on the shores

These are not the only wonders of the world

When we come to it

We, this people, on this minuscule and kithless globe

Who reach daily for the bomb, the blade and the dagger

Yet who petition in the dark for tokens of peace

We, this people on this mote of matter

In whose mouths abide cankerous words

Which challenge our very existence

Yet out of those same mouths

Come songs of such exquisite sweetness

That the heart falters in its labor

And the body is quieted into awe

We, this people, on this small and drifting planet

Whose hands can strike with such abandon

That in a twinkling, life is sapped from the living

Yet those same hands can touch with such healing, irresistible tenderness

That the haughty neck is happy to bow

And the proud back is glad to bend

Out of such chaos, of such contradiction

We learn that we are neither devils nor divines

When we come to it

We, this people, on this wayward, floating body

Created on this earth, of this earth

Have the power to fashion for this earth

A climate where every man and every woman

Can live freely without sanctimonious piety

Without crippling fear

When we come to it

We must confess that we are the possible

We are the miraculous, the true wonder of this world

That is when, and only when

We come to it.

This poem was written and delivered in honor of the 50th anniversary of the United Nations.

Technorati

Interesting that all I could find when looking for the tag NVDPL was this - when I know there are a lot more tags with that name out there!

Will have to refine my search methinks..

Del.icio.us

I have been using del.icio.us for some time using Askaway's del.icio.us site.
It's a fabulous information resource. The link to my list is:
http://del.icio.us/JacquiJC

I have added Askaway's site to my network, so everytime a librarian adds a new great site I have it on my list - how cool is that!

Del.icio.us (pronounced "delicious") is a social bookmarking web service for storing, sharing, and discovering web bookmarks. The site was founded by Joshua Schachter in late 2003 and acquired by Yahoo! in 2005. It has more than three million users and 100 million bookmarked URLs

Capturing an image with Flickr

Was having problems capturing an image to post on the blog . On the image you want to download click alt and press the Print Screen button (top row). Open Paint - under edit click paste. Once it's captured save it as a photo - which you can download...

Facebook

Amazing who you find when you are playing on the web.. These two "playing hooky"! The perils of Facebook :)

Card made with Flickr's Trading Card maker...

Enjoying the Sunshine Coast

Image Generators

Here's the Coat of Arms I made using Image Generators - playing nicely!

A Day at the Library - You Tubes Take..

My LibraryThing Books

Green Bug

Using Flickr Color Picker I found this green bug.. must be a "Lord" bug as a "Lady" would be red..

Life can be tough!

Amazing and beautiful plants in Costa Rica

Some Wildlife of Costa Rica

Quetzal

Coati




Iguana

The colours of Costa Rica

Arenal Volcano

Interesting tree

Costa Rica

Okay - we had enough snow.. Costa Rica seemed like a good spot to get warm. This is Arenal Volcano, puffing away.

Winter in North Vancouver

Sometimes Snow is good.. when it's on the mountains, the sun is shining and the sky is blue. These are the Lions in winter above Cleveland Dam.