Kaptain Keil – Ponderer Extraordinaire
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Forgotten program …
Sadly I have negleted the 2.0 program. I have been following the discovery releases and quickly glancing at them but I must admit thats all I’ve been doing lately. I did fully participate in all discoveries doing alot in each until #11 Online collaboration. After that I only glanced at the releases saying that I already do those or I’ll get back to that and post a blog about it later. But truth be told I have learnt too much from this program with twitter, RSS, blogs and I am fully using them with my Mo-brarian efforts. (Shameless plug: visit mobrarians.wordpress.com to see what i’m talking about)
So I guess I am saying that I have admitted defeat and unless a miracle occurs I will not be posting a happy blog update saying that I have fully researched all discoveries.
I have enjoyed my time in this program and it was good to meet Michael Stephens and talk to him about his efforts in getting 2.0 out there in libraries etc. I am looking forward to seeing the results of programs like this and I hope we get to be part of the finished product in some way.
Well that all I have to say for now. I am going to switch over to my other blog now and sit and stare at the screen until something to say comes to mind …… I suck at blog posts.
Mo-fully yours,
KaptainKeil.
What I’ve learnt …
First off I’d llike to note that in my last post days 4,5,6 should have been 5,6,7. I blame lingering effects from the weekend festivities.
Diary Summary:
* This diary highlighted that I do not use many internet functions in my day to day work. So far my 2.0 journey has been about what I can use in my spare time and what I may use in the future. I like the idea of 2.0 and I plan to continue to explore it. Hopefully I will discover some more useful tools and applications during this journey.
* I can make goals.
* I can not always meet goals.
* I can not commit to daily entries. No mortal can. It is beyond the realms of possibility. The idea of a daily diary entry is a myth made up to lull gullible fools like me into beleiving that they can commit to something. Its a vicious system – I get the idea into my head that I can do something – my many fans get excited about me doing something each day – I fail to do it because I am only human – my fans then get dejected and are left with this lonely, empty place in their hearts that my commitment would have filled.
* I rant. I go off on tangents. I start a point, my mind wanders, I think about something else, I start to type about that instead and then I am completely off track and away from where I started and I do not even seem to notice and I lose track of where I was going with my thoughts. I think it is because my own thoughts are so interested in the new direction that they then forget themselves and what they were trying to tell me. I really only have myself to blame, I am so awesome that my own thoughts are in awe. Now, where was I ….
One entry a day plan …. ha!
Well it was a bold ambition. One diary entry each day for a week … who could ever commit to that kind of pressure? So here I am on a Tuesday morning about to give a 3 day wrap up of events.
Day 4
Dear Diary,
Friday started with the usual morning routine, twitter & RSS. Again work meant that I could not do much throughout the day so I had intentions of going home that night and working on some mashups for Amelia, and to get some practice and ideas using mashups for Movember. But, like all of my good plans, that fell by the wayside. Late in the afternoon I found out that Amelia had had a bit too much to drink during her corporate golf day and that she had made plans to continue her festivities with her work buddies late into the night. Well, I said, that leaves me open to get up to mischief. And mischief I did get up to. I will not bore you all will the details as I think you will lose a little respect for me.
Day 5
Dear Diary,
Well after last nights efforts I awoke feeling rather unimpressed. I had not intentions of sitting at a computer. I then found out that today was the races, the races that we had tent tickets for. Oh dear, God is punishing me. More drinking and mayham. But wait, there’s more! After the races we had box tickets to the Fury game! more drinking! I did not even look at a computer this day!
Day 6
Dear Diary,
Sunday dawned and I grudgingly got myself out of bed to drag my sorry behind to the bookshop to work. I get to work only to discover that my boss was there already and had opened the shop. Strange, I thought. only 1 person normaly works on a sunday. Well true enough, only one person was working. My boss. I was not rostered on to work that day. So I dragged myself back home to the couch where I watched movies and did nothing, nothing, all day long. My nothing carried on into the night as I did nothing with the computer except send a quick email to my father explaing why I couldn’t be bothering answering his call earlier that morning.
Well I have now run out of time and must start work. Later tonight I will give my final entry and I may decide to add it all up and give my opinion on events so far.
Flickr-ed
Well some people were having trouble finding my Flickr page. Turns out I didn’t sign up correctly.
There are 3 steps to complete when you sign up, I skipped #1 completed #2 and just plain ignored #3. But its ok everyone, I’ve just fixed it. Found a stupid photo of me to use as my profile pick, finished entering in my details and added a couple of people as contacts. Now that I finished I don’t know if I’ll ever really use Flickr again. Not as cool as some of the other discoveries that we’ve been doing in this program.
Anyway, if any one would like to check out my silly photo’s of me up to no good then do a Flickr search for KaptainKeil :Þ
Kaptain Keil - Ponderer Extraordinaire 