I may be getting sick or I am simply cranky this week. I really wanted to make a map of pictures that I have taken across the United States and Mexico. However I found that the program I was trying to use was far to difficult for my to figure out while feeling like this. I can only wonder that people who are not as well versed in computers feel this way everyday. I feel like there were way to many steps to simply make a map with photographs. Shouldn't we just be able to open our pictures on flickr and be able to drag and drop them onto a map without already having to to that in flickr before doing the same thing in a mashup website. It does not seem that the steps are worth it. Maybe I am just spoiled with my computer.
I decided to play around and make a playing card of the crazy amount of birds that were in the cemetery across from my apartment two weekends ago. Hitchcock would be proud.
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Abandoned public library
One of my undergraduate majors was Archaeological Studies, so it is safe to say that abandonment or buildings, blocks and even whole towns is fascinating to me.
The most fascinating thing to me about this abandoned library is that it looks as if though the librarian locked the door one night and no one ever came back. I am astonished as to how much information was just left for the building to keep. Many of these books are likely outdated today, but many are still useful and could teach us a great deal.
It's hard to believe that they can leave all this behind, are the books really worth nothing? Or if anything why didn't anyone try to sell the furniture? Really fascinating!
The most fascinating thing to me about this abandoned library is that it looks as if though the librarian locked the door one night and no one ever came back. I am astonished as to how much information was just left for the building to keep. Many of these books are likely outdated today, but many are still useful and could teach us a great deal.
It's hard to believe that they can leave all this behind, are the books really worth nothing? Or if anything why didn't anyone try to sell the furniture? Really fascinating!
Where Technology Fits into My Life
Before I began taking Introduction to Information Technology I thought that I was pretty well versed in technology. I work for a website store, I should know quite a bit from that correct? How wrong I was. After my first class I added our contact sheet into google docs and let everyone I work for have access and permission to edit so that we can all have the most up to date information.
Technology takes a larger part of our life and is a great thing for helping us find information easily and quickly. However it has made people process information in a different way. People quite often do not read or only skim posts. I also do this.
People also believe that everything is instant because of the internet, but this is not the case, things do not happen right away. I do not mean to sound so negative, but I do deal with technology gone wrong everyday.
Technology takes a larger part of our life and is a great thing for helping us find information easily and quickly. However it has made people process information in a different way. People quite often do not read or only skim posts. I also do this.
People also believe that everything is instant because of the internet, but this is not the case, things do not happen right away. I do not mean to sound so negative, but I do deal with technology gone wrong everyday.
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