I’ve Been Tagged…
- DJ at my undergrad college radio station
- Concession 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:
- The Red Green Show
- Rare Visions Roadside Revelations
- Austin City Limits
- Other stuff on PBS…
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
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:
- Queequeg’s Content Saloon (’cause she’s been in the “post about her life” mood lately)
- LibrarianInBlack (’cause she likes to post)
- blyberg.net (’cause I’m curious)
- Stephen’s Lighthouse (’cause I don’t think he’ll do it… but it’s fun to ask anyway)
One Year Blogging Anniversary
I’m celebrating the (approximate) one year anniversary of my blog. Woo hoo, party party! So bear with me a sec as I reflect upon my year of being online, and think a little about the next year.
Last August, I started to blog about library technology types of things semi-regularly. One year later, I’m still blogging, I’m still having fun, I’m meeting new people, and… well… just take a peek at some of what’s gone on with my blog-ish stuff in the last year:
Blog: I started blogging with Blogger in 2003, but really truly started this blog in August of 2004. Some stats:
- First real post – August 2004 (had a few posts before that, but mainly “just testing” types of posts)
- First two comments on my posts: http://daweed.blogspot.com/2004/11/free-range-librarian-is-bugged-by.html, in November (both by people I know, both bloggers. But hey, they’re comments nonetheless!)
- Post with the most comments: http://daweed.blogspot.com/2005/05/15-things-you-can-do-with-rss.html – 8 comments and counting!
- Longest post – http://daweed.blogspot.com/2005/06/email-about-sirsi-thats-creating-lots.html – the post about the SirsiDynix merger, mostly just a copy of the email we received. Sheesh!
- Shortest post– http://daweed.blogspot.com/2004/04/just-testing.html – a skimpy 4-word test post. Why haven’t I deleted that? Double sheesh!
- How many posts? 163 to date. That’s a lot of typing!
- How many people read this blog? Honestly, I have no idea. There are 141 Bloglines subscribers to date. But total RSS subscribers or even total readers? Let’s just say “more than 141.” But even 141 is amazing! Thanks for reading my dandy little blog.
Furl: Around the same time, I started using Furl for bookmarking. I now have:
- Number of links: 334
- Number of Topics (Furl’s name for tagging / folksonomies): 78
- Most viewed links: Yahoo! Webmessenger (116), followed by Men’s Business Attire (77)
Flickr – I also use Flickr for my blog (whenever you see an image in a post of mine, it’s most likely coming from my Flickr account).
- Number of images: 118 photos
- Most viewed images: http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidking/13591400/ – It’s a slightly funny Google Maps image (166 views)
- Number of images marked as Favorites: 6 images marked as favorites…
- Number of tags: 160
Future plans for this blog: Once I get around to it, I’m going to purchase a domain name, get a web hoster, etc – so I can have my own “place.” Still finalizing domain names in my head… I’ll probably go with some version of my name – much easier than creating some wonderful “blankety blank Librarian” type of name (although “blankety blank librarian” would be kinda funny… ). Plus, there’s that whole self promotion thing… (which, of course, highly rules out the name “blankety blank librarian” … bummer 🙂
So, all you fine readers who have actually dropped my RSS feed into your aggregator – stay tuned! When/If I actually do this, I’ll send plenty of warning, along with the new domain/feed URL.
And that’s all for now – it’s been a fun year, and I’m looking forward to even greater fun this year!
Tagged…
Marianne (Skagirlie blog) tagged me, so here goes:
Total volume of music on my PC:
– 2-3 Gbs worth… at home
Total volume of music on my pda/flash player:
– Fountains of Wayne CD and a couple of U2 songs (PDA storage card)
– 14 songs on my flash player
Last CD I bought:
– Adoration: The Worship Album, by the Newsboys
– …honestly I don’t actually “buy” too many CDs these days…
Last song bought on itunes:
– a freebie – Belly, Feed the Tree
Song playing right now:
– playing in my head… – Mexican Wine, by Fountains of Wayne
Five songs/CDs I listen to a lot:
- Mr. Buechner’s Dream, by Daniel Amos (the whole CD) – the most awesome band in the known world
- Emphasiser, by Garage a Trois – Stanton Moore is one amazing drummer
- Ten Summoner’s Tales, by Sting – one amazing CD
- Ruby Vroom, by Soul Coughing – I dig the woody, organic sound of the drums and bass
- Vinnie Colaiuta, by Vinnie Colaiuta – another awe-inspiring drummer
Five songs that mean a lot to me:
- Peter Gabriel, Shaking the Tree – when the drums kick in halfway through the song… it’s just so “right”
- The Police, King of Pain – one to be experienced. At a loud volume. (Actually, you should crank everything. Just sayin.)
- Casey Corum/Vineyard, Dwell – brings me closer to God
- Rush, Ceiling Unlimited – a very hopeful song
- Freshman Senators… my band from college. What can I say?
First concert I ever attended:
– Silverwind, maybe 1982? A church youth group outing
Tag three people (we’ll see if they actually respond):
– Greg at Open Stacks
– Steven at Library Stuff
– Karen at Library Web Chic
Google Maps and Changing Weather
Just found this funny. I was using Google Maps to map out a meeting I’m attending tomorrow. I clicked on the Sattelite option (cause it’s cool) and started browsing around, to see if I recognized anything (I did – even found a branch library of ours). But in the process, I discovered two … ahem … different seasons, smacked up against each other! In the upper half of the image, you can see that it’s clearly spring or summer – lots of green things. But in the lower half, winter has hit – lots of browns, and the lake is frozen over (well, the lower half is).
I knew Kansas City had odd weather sometimes, but this odd? Hmm… Obviously, the sattelite images are taken at different times of the year.