librarything

I've used librarything in the past. This cover came from a book I added about 2 years ago when I listed a few. I only did a few because I don't have a book truck at home. It would make it soooo much easier.

geeksugar

On the list of 27 things, I found a reference to geeksugar (and 2 other sites). The name was interesting enough that I checked it out first. What a cool site! The entire "onsugar" family of sites looks like it's mostly for grrrls. Lots of fashion & beauty blogs and techie stuff too. You can start and maintain a blog and/or website too. Think savvysugar, petsugar, etc., etc.



In geeksugar itself, there's a list of tech stuff to consider when planning a wedding, a rundown of being a green techie and 10 reasons to subscribe to RSS feeds. ...and that's just for today.



For us grrrls, this is one to follow.

New Software Makes Its Debut

We recently rolled out new software to manage the public access computers. It's pretty slick. The computers are more available and easier to manage. ...at least staff thinks so. The public isn't so sure, since it's very different from our previous system. For one thing, it requires a PIN, which most of the computer users haven't needed until now.

For me, the big problem is how the public perceives computer availability. Previously, when all the computers were in use, the system read "booked." Now if there is a short time slot available between reservations the software will offer that to the user. Instead of getting no time, the user may get 15 or 20 minutes. I guess our users haven't yet figured this out.

iphones ....

This week the assignment was to write about matters technical. The trouble is the only thing I can think about for the moment is my son's new iphone. Frankly, I'm jealous.