Sniffing around

Just been having a quick sniff around Flickr. Very interesting to see what does and doesn't pop up in my searches (not-with-standing constant interference from the council's firewalls).

The above is a (less than flattering) photo of "Otis Mace" an excellent local singer-songwriter (as mentioned in my blog profile), and friend.

The below is a photo of the ever-delicious "Colin Firth" getting doused with coffee for an Oxfam campaign. Mmmm, Marcona hast mere Mmm!

Dog rolls...

actually I went with more of a TV theme to create my searchroll.
I've saved a "rollyo" search engine - the icon is top right of the blog.
Just tried a search for "Torchwood" (a rather more adult spin-off from "Doctor Who") using the "Cult TV" sites I collected, and it all seems to be working.
Have finished "playing" for now I think ... will take a small breather before moving on to the "Photos & Images" module of Learning 2.0.

The joy of libraries!

Have a look at my LibraryThing catalogue http://www.librarything.com/catalog/ADogsLife
A work in progress as you can see.

It was good to look up some of my favourite authors and see what popped up - I've even placed a couple of holds at my own library http://www.manukau-libraries.govt.nz/ for new books that cunningly crept in without my knowledge.
Also interesting to see how many fellow Library-thingers have selected the same titles ... or not!

Fame at last!

With the help of one of the neat flickr toys at http://bighugelabs.com/flickr I am now a legend ... in my own mind at least.

I also spent some time uploading photos onto Flickr with the intention of using the Mosaic toy ... but it just didn't happen for me. Never mind, I think this poster was more fun anyway, and I will no doubt use the Flickr account in next week's exercises.

Einstein says ...

Or do I mean "(Groucho) Marx says"?

In any case, it was all with a little help from the image generator at http://www.hetemeel.com/

Cloudy day brightens

Not to be put off by my earlier failure with wordle (Dogs are persistent creatures), I googled the words ... create word cloud ... and was led straight to this site http://tagcrowd.com/

The resulting word cloud from the Dog's Life lyrics are below:

bite bone brunette called care case chair chase chicken curled dog dubble easy elvis enough ever faithful feeds fingers fur hair hard heard hole knee lead life lose love lovin mama man muzzle noodle nuzzle pampered paw pet picking pink poodle presley puppy rich rubberduck siree sitting someone steak town

Cloudy day

Wanted to make a pretty word cloud out of the below, but sadly the site http://wordle.net/ wouldn't oblige today.

A Dog's Life (Elvis Presley)

If I had my life to live over
I know just what I'd like to be
A pampered pet of a rich brunette
Sitting on my mama's knee
Someone to love me
Someone to care
Rubberduck dubble little fingers through my hair
I need a dog's life
What a life, that's good enough for me
That's good enough for me

If I had a bone to be picking
A picking chicken or a steak
Curled up there in an easy chair
Man, that won't be hard to take
I'll always be faithful
That's what I'd be
Never bite a hand that feeds me, no siree
Just lead a dog's life
What a life
That's good enough for me
That's good enough for me

I'd find me a pink little poodle
And lose my noodle over her
I chase her 'round all over town
Just to ruffle up her fur
Nuzzle her muzzle
A hole in her paw
Greatest case of puppy lovin' you ever saw
It's called a dog's life
What a life
That's good enough for me
You heard me say it now
That's good enough for me

Feeding time cont.

Hello there

I've been having a little experiment with some of the different ways of finding and adding RSS feeds, but I wouldn't say I'm feeling uber-confident yet. I still find the easiest way is to find a good site and then click the "Sub with Bloglines" link I saved to my favourites earlier. If there is a feed it adds it to my swag, and if there isn't it doesn't. Technocrati seems a fun way of quickly finding communities of blogs that relate to some of my interests, but I'm not really interested in subscribing to too many personal blogs of people I don't know. You'd think a dog would be more sociable :-)

I think maybe it's time I moved on to playtime.

More venting about traffic ...

plus something new I learned.

Last night the truckies finally had their victory. One broke down on the Harbour Bridge around 2pm and, despite it being cleared, the ensuing back-up of traffic meant several hours later it still took me two hours to drive from Manukau to central Auckland. Two hours! I would have much rather been out and about chasing sticks let me tell you.

The lesson I referred to was not actually traffic related, or only in that another venting on this topic was written a while ago but failed to upload. What I didn't realise, as I howled at the moon that fateful fourth of July, was that a draft had been automatically saved! I only noticed this just now when I used my (non-car) dashboard, clicked on manage 'posts' and saw the draft saved there. I was only in there to tidy-up/edit an earlier post where I had neglected to put commas between my post labels. Suffice to say, after clicking on edit, I was able to press 'publish post' successfully and the post was even labelled with its original create date.

So the moral of this tail may be that the trucks will always obstruct you in the end, or that the commuter's lot is a dog's life, or perhaps sometimes things you think are lost lost forever are actually only misplaced! (much like a buried bone)

Feeding time!

Hi there

I have finally gotten 'round to having a fiddle with RSS feeds. I have links to the rest of my pack's (team's) blogs at the bottom of this page, and I have started to accumulate a list of interesting feeds on my new blogline account.

Apparently my blogline is now publicly available at http://www.bloglines.com/blog/ADogsLife
So don't be shy about sniffing out some of the resources that caught my eye, and let me know if you have any recommendations that might tempt my doggie appetites.

Yrs, Dog-tired.

And a special TGIF goes out to Danielle ...

because she has been waiting for some more content to start popping up from people.

Alas it is Friday morning and the most pressing thing on my mind is a sense of victory that I took the South Western motorway into work for a change and managed to avoid the Truckie Go-Slow on the Southern this morning.

(Beware venting ahead) I had bad enough run home last night when I was (mildly) rear-ended by someone who didn't realise that it was the oxymoronically named "rush hour(s)" and everything was now a car park. My car still looks like its crappy self and I didn't wake up to a seized neck and the weekend is fast approaching - so all good.

I shall now leave you with a cheerful dog-related quote from Paul Newman in the 1963 movie 'Hud' - "It happens to everybody, horses, dogs, men. Nobody gets out of life alive.” sourced from a great site for movie quotes http://www.reellifewisdom.com/ Enjoy!

Deep thoughts about blogs as distorted reflections ...

as I licked at fresh puddles.

Meet the dog

Welcome to my doggie world! Come play with me as we fetch smelly sticks and chase colourful balls ... of knowledge. Watch me pull on my leash and charge into this virtual arena half-strangled. Together we will sniff out the fartherest reaches of this Inter-web-thingie and mark our scent, aka pee everywhere. Trust me, it's a compliment.