thing 29

I ALMOST DELETED MY BLOG!!!! it was scary.

anyhow, for this thing i set up google alerts for my email. this is actually pretty great because you will be notified whenever something new happens in whatever topic you specify. so, instead of searching the web for the latest news on stimulus packages and what not, you will have the latest news delivered right to your email account. i like this service and it was really easy to set up.

i also set up a google calander, which i'm not sure if i'll actually use. i can see how this would be very useful to individuals or businesses , but to me personally it seems like too much work to have to log into my google account to see what i'm supposed to do that day. i will at least try to use it though, and we'll see if it lasts.

thing 28

i created my homepage with my yahoo, since i already had a yahoo email account. i don't know if i have the energy to use this sort of thing everyday, but if i did it would be quite useful. there are lots of fun things you can do with it, many ways to personalize it. i like the idea of being able to consolidate all of the things we have done so far, but have not been able to figure out how to add my delicious account or any other outside link yet. i don't know if this is just how yahoo is set up or if i just need to play around a bit more. perhaps i will check out google or some of the other homepage service providers since i didn't really shop around before setting mine up. in any case i would like some way of combining every thing i have done so far in one place, so i will be working on that...

thing 27

TWITTER IS AMAZING!!!!!!! i am in love with twitter and i will probably use it on my own time regularly. this is by far my favorite thing so far. i really didn't see what use it could possibly be at first but then i found that i could follow newspapers, politicians, authors, artists, etc. very fun. EVERYBODY SHOULD BE ON TWITTER!!!

thing 26

i joined the more things groups on ning last week. it seems to be similar to other social networkign sites, so it should be easy enough to use. it is probably the most useful thing thus far because it will allow us all to communicate with other people participating in the program. i joined a group too! comfort zone - for people being forced out of their comfort zone by the many things on a stick. although i think my comfort zone is rapidly expanding.

thing 15

so i did some playing around last week so now there are some new fancy additions to my little blog. I wasn't very excited about any of the options, but i did add the news feed to the side, which is neat i suppose. i also added the blogger badge and a little button just in case anyone comes across the blog and wants to subscribe to it...

i don't like to capitalize when i type

Thing 24

Ha! Well I have a blog!