Facebook About Face

I've been on and off Facebook a couple of times since my last post. After the earthquake in Haiti, I decide to re-up so that I could share the Partners in Health link. And I must admit that during the blizzards of 2010, Facebook was a wonderful way to stay in touch and amuse myself. I'll see what happens now that things have calmed down.

Facebook, Shmacebook

I finally broke down and created a Facebook page. I am now wondering why. I love my friends, but keeping up with all their doings is already wearing this introvert out.

One of these days, months, years, I may really want to have a way to update the universe on my own doings, but that time has not come.

For now, email works for me.

Picasa Puzzlement

In the spirit of Web 2.0, I wanted to find a way for you to be able to go to Google's Picasa and look at my slide show of our kick-off. However, although I made the photos public, they don't show up when I do a Picasa site search. If anyone knows what to do to make the photos searchable, please let me know.

Happy 90th birthday to Pete Seeger!

Where's his Google doodle?

SeniorBlog

My 79 year old activist mother-in-law now has a blog. Intriguingly, the most current entry talks about her next court appearance. No entries since then… Might she be in the clink?

Perfect Storm

IMHO, a perfect storm delivers enough snow to close the library but not enough to close our street. In fact, the snow plow visited our little two blocks of nowhere before noon (a first) and we were able to pack up the skis and investigate the local rail trail. This is my husband. He took one pic of me in which I look like a nesting doll with a blotch where my nose should be, which would preserve the supposed anonymity of this blog but crush my self esteem, so it's not here. Not visible in the pics are the Easy-Gos which happily stopped short of plowing through our half-mile winter wonderland.

iStockphoto

A friend who recently retired from the county school system has developed a longtime hobby into a little retirement income using iStockphoto. Editors, publicists, and designers can search this website for photos loaded and tagged by digital photographers. Prices for use seem to start at about a dollar, but over time a popular photograph can bring in a nice chunk of change.

There are certainly of few of my fellow bloggers who are wonderful photographers and might want to check the site out. And I actually found one of the photos my friend described to me by searching for the words popcorn foot.