This weekend my husband made the change to Ubuntu on his laptop. We haven't talked much these past few days. . . We are both in our own overwhelmed computer science world. But tonight my husband had me check out Ubuntu-Women and I am suddenly inspired. Maybe it is to much Kuhn, but I feel like, yeah its going to be hard to change to open source, but I think i will feel good about myself at the end of the day, I will have done the right thing. I am not going to do anything just yet, at least not on my school computer.
I do have other avenues to pursue my new found love of freeware. My boss has asked me to "do something online with all of the scrapbooks and village stuff and what about a wiki or a blog or myspace. . ." (we just went to a very good emerging technologies seminar) So, never turning down a fun project I have decided to "do something." As a side note about me, I have some database creation experience, little webpublishing experience and no previous library experience. So, I started off with what I know, Access. Within 15 minutes I had decided to scrap the Access plan and began to search for something. As I left it today, I have three test articles scanned and linked to my desktop in an excel file, a wetpaint account setup and nothing but my determination to "do something" about this interesting village collection. I think tomorrow I am going to call the tech guy. . .
I do have other avenues to pursue my new found love of freeware. My boss has asked me to "do something online with all of the scrapbooks and village stuff and what about a wiki or a blog or myspace. . ." (we just went to a very good emerging technologies seminar) So, never turning down a fun project I have decided to "do something." As a side note about me, I have some database creation experience, little webpublishing experience and no previous library experience. So, I started off with what I know, Access. Within 15 minutes I had decided to scrap the Access plan and began to search for something. As I left it today, I have three test articles scanned and linked to my desktop in an excel file, a wetpaint account setup and nothing but my determination to "do something" about this interesting village collection. I think tomorrow I am going to call the tech guy. . .
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