Yahoo! Flickr

So, since I had to have a Yahoo! email account to use Flickr, I looked around at Yahoo! email. I've had an account for years that I don't use, and was finally able to delete it, along with an old MSN email account I don't use. What a relief. It's not that people email me on those accounts, they don't. I set them up for specific events long since over and done with. But I didn't really like the email address out there hanging around. Every once in a while I'd start thinking "Don't I have a Yahoo! email account? What was it again?" I found it... mildly annoying. So now I have a bright, shiny, new Yahoo! email account, set up for a specific event. Oh, well.

Cursor you, City of Heroes!

With Richard Garriot's Tabula Rasa heading to the MMORPG graveyard, NCSoft gave me free time on a couple of its other games. One of them is City of Heroes, a superhero game my Seattle brother plays and that I've played a little at his place. I have Windows Vista at home, which gives the option to use programs in a way compatible with previous versions of Windows. I decided to give it a shot with CoH, just to see what would happen. With most previous versions of Windows, the cursor was invisible -- not a superpower it's supposed to have. With one (either XP or ME/2000, I forget which), it changed shape and color, making it easier to see than invisible mode but harder than Vista mode. The cursor -- it's technology, and it interests me.

Satanic Hostages

Ah, the joys of "high risk" items. The patron didn't have ID on her, so I took her jacket hostage while she uses the Satanic Bible. Reminds me of the kid who used to leave his sweatshirt with us when he looked at The Anarchist's Cookbook.

7 1/2 Habits

So, the most difficult (for me) of the 7 1/2 Habits of Highly Successful Learners? That's a firm "It depends."
Let's say I wanted to learn how to rebuild an engine so I don't have to pay someone to do it for me. My end goal would be pretty straight forward -- be able to rebuild an engine. My confidence in myself as a competent, effective learner, though, would be practically nil. Good thing I know a good engine guy.

Habit 1 -- beginning with the end in mind -- is the most difficult with this Learning 2.0 project. Which end? The personal satisfaction? The ability to help customers when they have problems with 2.0ish stuff? Bragging rights? The cool prize? The easiest is Habit 4 -- have confidence in yourself as a comptetent, effective learner. I'm confident that I can learn this stuff. I've already learned to blog!

Getting Started

Wow! I've set up a blog. Is that cool, or what? I'm on my way with Learning 2.0 and looking forward to a great time.