by David Lee King on January 31, 2006
Just testing out the Treo. Did you know you can actually reach blogger’s web-based admin area using the Treo Blazer web browser? Of course that also means that I’m hunched over and typing on a thumb keyboard… very slowly. But a successful test, nonetheless.
by David Lee King on January 30, 2006
I’m playing with my new Treo 650 – and discovered that it takes video. So of course, what do I do when I discover that? Immediately play with it… here’s the
result of my experiment.
Ok – very silly test video, I know. Nonetheless:
- I can capture video on the go
- It’s poor quality video, so probably not useful for “professional” consumption
- Great if I want to share an idea, capture a quick interview, or capture an event
- Hmm… show management a particularly successful library event?
Reading all these, I can see a way to sum it up – cheap video is capable of capturing the moment – it will capture the relevant info, so you can use it later as supplementary material (for whatever you’re doing).
Update: Gee, Dave… it helps to actually include the link to the video…
vlog, videoblog
by David Lee King on January 27, 2006
Robin at A Passion for ‘Puters tagged me, so here goes:
4 Jobs I’ve had in my life:
- DJ at my undergrad college radio station
- Consession stand worker at a little league ball park
- Pizza delivery dude
- freelance recording engineer (translation = unpaid coffee-maker / errand boy)
4 Movies I can watch over and over:
- It’s a Wonderful Life
- Hmm… surely there’s another one…
- …somewhere…
- nope. nothing…
4 TV Shows I love to watch:
4 Places I have lived:
- Liberty, MO
- Blue Springs, MO
- Hattiesburg, MS
- Nashville, TN
4 Places I have been on holiday:
Holiday? Not sure about that one, but – four places I have been:
- Denver, CO
- Washington, DC
- Haiti
- Branson, MO
4 of my favorite dishes:
- Anything oriental
- Most any seafood
- Fazoli’s breadsticks…
- Lasagna at Mom’s Italian Villa in Chattanooga, TN – it’s AWESOME.
4 Websites I visit daily:
- Bloglines
- Kansas City Public Library
- KCPL Staff Intranet
- Google
4 Places I would rather be right now:
- Home… in my basement
- .. playing drums
- Or on a hike somewhere
- Or with my family
4 Bloggers I am tagging:
by David Lee King on January 26, 2006
We now have a gaming taskforce at my library! The taskforce’s goal is to create a gaming plan for our library system, and report back to our management group… then the management group will decide where to go from there.
So we now have a gaming taskforce group email account, and I have a couple of email and computer gaming folders… wow.
And I also did some brainstorming on gaming at the library today, and thought I’d share it. It’s not neccessarily what we’ll be doing – just my thoughts. But some of you might be interested in them, nonetheless… so:
David’s Gaming Goals
- console gaming
- set up networked game system at each location
- it should be movable
- create programming around the equipment
- game nights
- parent/kid game challenges/learning
- branch/location challenge tournaments
- how to play types of training
- health DDR programming
- train staff in use
- create web help guides for console gaming
- how to play
- where to play – highlight programming
- cheats and other online pointers
- online gaming
- create web guides for popular games
- i.e., Runescape
- basics of play
- cheats and other online pointers
- create programming around games
- how to play
- introduction to online gaming – what they are
- Little Kid’s gaming
- provide clear pointers to games like Neopets.com
- create web guides for popular games
- how to play
- cheats and other online pointers
- where the games can be found
- circulating games
- buy top 25 games in one format
- same format of equipment we purchase
- some for each branch
- patron gamers
- books on games
- game theory (everything bad is good for you)
- how to play (Dummies guides, etc)
- young adult novels with gaming plots
- movies?
- Magazines
- phase two
- Challenge other libraries
- challenge other library system to a tournament
- see if they can be networked tournaments
- Teen Center in Central
- Take gaming to the community
- Set up mobile gaming unit
- create school programming/learning opportunities
- take it to community groups
- take it to church youth groups in KCPL area?
- have a library component, too
- one idea – to play, you have to have a library card
- or you have to sign up for a library card
by David Lee King on January 26, 2006
Update: In the comments area, Paul provides the actual URL – thanks, Paul! And Paul – for the . hit the 1 key.
Just poking around more on the Opera Mini site – and found an Opera Mini simulator! Pretty cool – I was able to test what Kansas City Public Library’s website looks like using the Opera Mini browser.
What did I discover? Our way cool horizontal menu bar? Doesn’t work. Normal links DO work, though. I was able to click through to an image and an article in one of our subject guides.
Thankfully, we’re working on a redesign – we’ll have to focus on STANDARDS… CSS, XHTML, etc. so the world can browse us. Even those using cell phones!
opera, opera mini
