Jun
27
2008
I’ve been having computer fun recently: I made a wiki. Of course I needed a logo for it. This is where the “fun” starts. Yes, there are other terms for this: wasting time, fooling around, getting bogged down in details…
I searched through all the photos I’ve uploaded to flickr for a picture of books. Of course while I was there I renamed, changed permissions, and added tags to a bunch of other photos and created a new set, called Libraries, for the pictures I take while travelling. My husband collects colleges; I collect libraries.
When I found a suitable picture,
I cropped it with a picnik tool to get what I thought would be a good image across the top of my wiki. I like it. Alas, I didn’t realize at that point that the logo that wikispaces.com wants is a square. And not only a square, but one that is less than 150 x 150 pixels.
Here is my first crack at a logo. Feel free to use it:
Finally, I ended up with this:
It’s very abstract, while hinting of books, and has nice colors, albeit a little dark.
After all this, it seems that my wiki has no title. The only way I’ve figured out how to include on is to put it at the top of each page. Weh.
Jun
25
2008
What I posted to our course blog originally:
Rose Says:
June 15, 2008 at 11:46 pm
I uploaded lots of pictures to flickr and made some of them public. One of them I made into a jigsaw puzzle and then added some text meant to encourage reading. It should be at this site:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/raizel48/2582175821/?addedcomment=1#comment72157605633037636
My flickr account is at http://www.flickr.com/photos/raizel48/
I think. I’m curious to know what other people see since I see many pictures that only I should be able to see.
Rose
Additional musings (June 25, 2008):
I played around with other tools at fd’s Flickr Toys (http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/).
One of them is Sunset (http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/sunset.php). It lets you zoom into any location on earth (down to house size) and then remembers sunrise and sunset times for you on its site. I can’t figure out, however, how to show sunset for today on another site.
Meanwhile I found out about a Mozilla Extension, HCalendar, that shows up on the right side of the bottom toolbar of the Mozilla browser window. Moving a mouse over its current text (the Jewish weekday and date) gives sunrise and sunset times, the secular day and date, and this week’s Torah reading. Right clicking there gives even more cool options.
Normally, I would have read about it on a listserv for Jewish libraries and flagged the message. This course has made me indulge in riskier behavior.
