Not a mouse

Murray & I have had a disagreement. He wanted to post a picture of a mouse, but I had to remind him that he's supposed to be giving them up, so he's gone off for a snooze. Instead, I selected this picture (above left) from flikr of the Coliseum by Pat E. Nation.

I had a bit of trouble getting it onto the blog, so I ended up downloading it to my computer & from there to the blog. That's probably not the proper way to do it, but it's easy.

I think flikr offers a lot of opportunities for libraries to promote services & provide easy access to resources. However, in terms of personal use, I can't see myself using it much. This picture of the Coliseum is OK, but I've taken better ones (my picture of the Moreno Glacier, above right, is just as good quality). I suspect that if I want a professional quality picture, it would be quicker to go straight to the shelves & grab a book, rather than searching through masses of photos on flikr.

The only people who really want to see my own pictures (purely travel related) are the aged relatives, so I normally arrange a slide show on my computer, put it onto a disc, then show it to them on their tvs. It's a bit dangerous offering to show my holiday snaps to friends as they're liable to start pulling out an endless file of pics of their children growing up.

Still, it's early days & this kind of technology has a way of sneaking up on me until I suddenly start to wonder how I ever lived without it. Just so long as I can avoid other people's family photos.