my final note

This is it. I guess when all is said and done, I've learned that I am still NOT comfortable with the internet. It still frustrates me, and leaves me with the desire to throw the whole thing out the window. I did learn that there are things out there that I currently have no interest in, but that if time permits, I may go and search to see if I change my mind. (downloading some of the different audios.)
Would I take this course again if offered? only if I knew that there was a special groups of people available to help... maybe those of us who have difficulties on a regular basis, could meet at an assigned time, work quietly and then when there was a problem, we could all meet with it together. I couldn't have been the only person who had such a hard time with these assignments.. I hated the feeling that I was interupting someone who was working to get help. Then after being told that we weren't suppose to get help from IT, that it must be an IT problem, check with them...
So that's all I have to say...

gaming

This is yet another assignment that i didn't do on work time. I love playing games on POGO. don't get me started. I won't stop... both yahoo and pogo have a lot of similar games. I have discovered that the chat on Pogo is more entertaining. whether it is between kids or adults, if it gets disgusting I can go to another room, but for the most part its fun. Yahoo, is just kinda there. Also with Pogo the pay plan is different... i get bored easy with one game... downloading yahoo, i get bored after a month of play... playing games, puzzles whatever keeps your mind active, young ect. whether you are young or old... add computer skills, what better way to learn to use the computer, mouse and other tools...

geotagging--mapping

I've had fun with smoe of the different mapping on the computer. I frequently use the computer to get driving instructions... I've also zoomed in on classmates--classmates.com... I didn't actually take the time to do this one at work.. but I knew this one was available, in different formats, and many different uses. there is a site that lets you look at your neighborhood and price the houses -- this seemed more important in a better economy.--

avatars---

Well, i went in and created an avatar on doppelme and used the key to post it on blogger. as you can see, it is not there. big surprise... but ive spent as much time on this one as i dare... I have avatars on pogo and am happy with that. if someone wants me to have an avatar other than that, well they can create it to my specifications, and make it work...

web based apps

Well big surprise. i had problems here too. Google docs weren't a problem. didn't like them because i couldn't get a print preview and am not going to spend a long period of time learning something if i don't have to, or i don't have someone helping me.
the zoho apps wouldn't let me in. and i had a choice between continuing to try & go in and play or writing in the blog. (or just ripping out my hair) no combination of e-mail & passwords would let me in. it did not recognize either my gmail or my yahoo, which my yahoo i've had for several years. close to ten now. I know that password...
I find that alot of these 20 for 2.0 are not really worthwhile, because while i know they are there, I am having too much trouble to spend any time with them. since I am having such a bad experience with them, I would NEVER recommend them to anyone. I would never go back and spend my own time on them, as I see them as a waste of time. At this point, I am so frustrated with all of them, that if it were not expected of me, I wouldn't finish them, as they are, to me, just that. A frustrating waste of time. and that's how if i remember them in the future i'll remember them...

search engines

Well, search engines are something I understand... sorta... I find it interesting that the berkeley article does not recommend using meta-search engines, and yet we are suppose to try dogpile and the like.... I like search engines, anything that will help me find what I am looking for? love it... google and yahoo. are talking about combining something, tho. I think it might just be advertising. Not sure if this will eventually affect the engines themselves...

g-mail, blogger and the rest of it...

6/6/08 Well this was one nasty day... I had trouble with everything i was working on. I finally just gave up. When i was trying to listen to something, it would send me to blogger, and ask me to sign in, but would not recognize my passwords. I shut everything down and it let me sign into blogger, but nothing else. I was done for the day... I had enough. this is why i dislike computers and everything to do with computers...