Set up for Auckland City Libraries's web 2.0 training package, this blog will chronicle my experiences week by week as I complete various assigned tasks.
Thus unless you are another library employee, or an administrator of the Web 2.0 course, you will find my posts almost infinitely boring. However, I will attempt to liven things up each post by including an insight from the greatest intellectual the world has seen - the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer.
Here's the first one.
It is not possible that the universe has existed for an infinite time. If it had we would not be here; by definition 'infinite' has no end and therefore at no point could the earth have come into existence.
Back to training matters. My first task is to reflect on my experiences in creating a gmail account, and a blogger account, in this first week of the program.
I am already familiar with gmail and I far prefer it to my other webmail account at hotmail. Hotmail is clunky, confusingly displayed, slow and prone to spam: gmail is sleek, clear, fast, and not nearly so vulnerable (it appears) to the predations of bulk-mailers.
I have not use Blogger before, although I have a pre-existing blog at another server. As is typical of google products Blogger is both easy to use and attractive. I like it. However permit me to gnash my teeth at one small point. As I write this, my eyes fall upon the tabs displayed at the top of the page; and in particular the one labeled (I can barely bring myself to write it!) 'monetize'.
Of all the grim inventions of American English, I think 'monetize' the most abberant. 'Incentivize' was bad enough - but 'monetize' is like incentivize's twisted and evil master.
Please, oh purveyors of American English, leave our adjectives alone!
