no more 3rd boar postings

Is Boarking pretentious, always writing in the 3rd person? He's just the bore king not the Queen. And he is me, and I am I, though I'll probably get eye disease now.

Boarking2.0 on Library2.0

Boarking has elements of the old fuddy duddy about him. Fifteen years back he envisioned a career amongst musty tomes, of silence, of whispers, of scholars, of glorious inefficiency.

RIP, my Library1.0 dreaming.

Instead, life out in working-class-battler-surburbia public library1.4, involves problematic technology trouble-shooting, enough teen and pre-teen nutters to make Boarking glad he didn't become a teacher, and more noise, noise, noise, than he ever thought a library was about.

But he tries to be excited about Library2.0beta: interactive library catalogue, no cataloguer, fewer books, more online facilitation, more information, less organisation, everybody everything always.

Very exciting.

Now if I may look into the future... In a century or so, after the droughts and the floods, the ice sheets melting, and the resource wars; library0.01 will be a rare tribal elder who can decipher the word symbols of the Old People. But the tribe won't be listening, too much hunting & gathering to be doing.

Technorati (step #14)

is alright, I suppose.

Swinging Boarking

More election commentary:
Perhaps I was a bit harsh on the Greens. I suggested "loony" but their health policy is the only one that makes sense... Get rid of the bloody subsidised private health and fund decent medicare. When you factor in that global warming is the issue of the century, I guess all must be forgiven.

Unlucky #13... del.icio.us

At Hume, we're pulling our hair out, battling our ridiculously restricted network. I have to warn you Big Sister, anyone here who doesn't have the 'Net at home is not going to be able to complete this course, at least whilst maintaining their sanity.

I've set myself up on del.icio.us but can't add anything until I get home and install the little toolbar thing. Then I'll decide if it's any good.

On tagging: As an old school cataloguer, I have to say these freeform tags give me the sh***! It's the way of the world, though, and my career is for the dinosaurs.

These must get me a pass on level #10, surely?

Courtesy of imagechef

#12 -- rollyo

Rollyo, create your favourite searches, or something. Not sure I really get the point, but did the hard yards anyway...

Select...Australian ElectionSearch The Web

I even created a new searchroll that might be useful, a bit, for the election. In the interest of balance I even included the Libs and Nats, though they are all a shower of sodpots and you should ignore them.

Voting guidelines

How will you vote on Nov24?
il-Liberal (Please leave this blog now)
Labor (Fair enough, but consider giving your 1st preference to a minor party just to keep them on their toes)
Greens (Your heart's in the right place... but is your head?)
Democrats (You'll miss them when they're gone... The advantage of voting for these guys is to say (after it's all gone pear shaped) "Don't blame me, I voted Democrat")
Family First (Boarking last)
Other (Warning, you are probably voting for a nutter)

Boarking07

Just come on the radio that Little Johnny is off to see the Guv and get his death warrant signed. Remember, voting is compulsory, especially in the seat of Boarking, so please be sure to complete the poll on your left.

So, as my Granny would say, "Vote early, vote often!"

Get the teeshirt @ boarking07.com.au

Boarking presents...

Boarking can't say much about it, but after a feverish night of artistic imaginings, he now has a working title for his Youtube production that should complete this experiment. Here it is:

"Guantanamo #3046 : man with Man.Utd underpants pours small glass of beer over his head"

You'll love it!

Another go with the bookshelf

Ok, so we are up on the LibraryThing book cataloguing site. Still shuffling around it but quite liked the attached html widget that shows random works in Boarking's catalogue. Nice!



In case you think this boar rude, he claims that he didn't actually buy the "Playboy" book. Embarrassingly, his library service did, and quickly came to the conclusion that it might be less than suitable material. Not that we'd censor or anything. To save further blushes and red faces amongst the lady staff, it was quietly decreed that Boarking would put the offending item in his pigbag and whisk it away. It is now a part of the Boarking collection that offers some comfort on lonely nights.

What's on the Boarking bookshelf?

Try looking on LibraryThing:

Bloglining leaves me flatlining (lesson #8)

Oh, the palava...

After days of battling blogger (which seems to have had a couple of bad days for crashing & "error on page" messages) and trying to follow bloglines tutorials that are clearly out of date...

Trial & error gets Boarking his own RSS feed.

Is it worth it?

Probably no,

apart from Dilbert

Crap blogger

Testing if post will work when html is buggered

Womble of Hadfield

"Give me a child at seven and I'll give you the man" so said the Jesuits. At seven, Boarking was given to the Wombles of Wimbledon.