Well, I tried!

I'm not sure how successful I've been but I really did try to do this exercise.....

It's important for me to put this experience into some context and also have a 'product' that makes life easier/better. Learning in a vacuum isn't useful or productive so I've tried to combine this Learning 2.o project with a personal goal.

As you've seen from past posts, I am the President of the Patrick McCahan Clan. With over 400 kinfolk, sharing information is a challenge and costly too if we rely on the old snail mail newsletter. It's difficult to share photos, scanned documents, etc. Since our Webmaster got deployed to Afghanistan, we've had a static site.

So, I used this week's exercise and uploaded a few photos to Flickr to share with the Clan. As an aside, I searched for McCahan on the Flickr site and found two photos of people in Australia and a whole bunch of photos of John McCain....not quite what I hoped to find.

Anyway.....check out the photo set/group I created.....
http://www.flickr.com/photos/13163914@N04/

Feeling old feeling is back again!

Despite having won the Blog Bling Award, that "feeling old" feeling is back again! Or maybe it's the scared feeling that's back. I need to find a comfort level with this whole project and it ain't happening. But, "tomorrow is another day" said Scarlet so it's onward to Flickr....

Thanks so much for the Award......

Uh, oh.....a new game

My BFF at the HPD Library told me about this game called Bookworm. (go to www.pogo.com > word games)

INSTANT ADDICTION!

Don't start playing this game.....
I'm warning you....
don't do it......
stop now......
don't even think about it...

Curious? If you get hooked, I did warn you.....But, is sure it fun :)

Can't get 'nuff of this bloggin' stuff

I like this blog stuff so much that I created another one....check it out...

http://mccahanstalking.blogspot.com/

As the president of the Patrick McCahan Clan, I am always looking for ways to communicate quickly and easily with more than 400 cousins and kin who may or may not own/use a computer. Oh yeah, we still publish a paper newsletter....(sigh)..In addition, I receive e-mails from folks who are researching their family history and want to know "how we are related."

Hopefully the McCahan's Talking blog will allow for information exchange and discussion.

McCahan Clan reunion circ 1910?

Theory of font size

I've looked at all the great blogs....so colorful and each a reflection of the creator. I have this new theory that blog creators under 40 use a smaller font size that those of us over 40. What do you think?

First Day of School

Do you remember your first day of school? Today was my niece Kelsey's first day of kindergarten and she called to tell me "IT WAS THE BEST DAY OF HER LIFE!" (I put this in all caps because she yelled it into the phone...she was so excited) I asked her what she learned today and she said, "Not much, but tomorrow I'm going to learn to read." Her joy is almost a tangible thing so now perhaps I'll feel better about this whole 2.0 opportunity.

Playing Poppit

I did it! I popped all the balloons in a game of Poppit! And, I did it without using the weight or the pin! Life is good!

For those of you who may not know about this game, go to http://www.pogo.com/ Poppit is the best stress reliever....like popping bubble wrap only better....