Podcasts of Note

Here are some I like...

http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=37&agg=1
From National Public Radio... lots of good music news.

http://www.newyorker.com/online/2007/10/08/071008on_audio_ross
From the New Yorker ... a synopsis of the weekly magazine and what is new in the New Yorker.

Heck, there are even knitting podcasts...here is one on empowering "Sock Knitters..."
http://knitpicks.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=317468#

I am going on a trip to London, England tomorrow and plan to take my National Gallery Podcast that I have downloaded to my ipod to the gallery. Apparently they will give me a map of the paintings that are highlighted in the walk...

http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/podcast/beinspired.htm

The Be Inspired Tour leads you to some of the best-loved paintings in the National Gallery, as well as many lesser-known and often overlooked masterpieces.

Paintings have inspired poets, cartoonists, photographers and even chefs - you can listen to them talking about their favourite National Gallery paintings.

Cheerio!

Measuring out my life in sent emails

Today I created my Google Mail account and posted a link to our 23 things blog as requested.

I found Google Docs to be an intriguing concept but less exciting when I went to use it. I used the "Block Quote" section to get a bit creative, I thought. I put one of my favorite quotes in that area, T.S. Eliot's' "I have measured out my life in coffee spoons" because this is how I feel most of the time -- so much of my day seems to be spent dealing with niggly little "coffee spoon" things to do with emails -- re-sending emails, looking for lost emails, deleting emails, putting draft documents together with people's email comments and feedback, looking at pictures in emails and reading forwarded emails with jokes and warnings.

Of course all of this isn't a really a bad thing! Email is a way to share information with people and keep in touch with so many people at once. AND, I like the promise of Google Docs -- that you can now do a lot of communal work on a single document on the Internet, avoiding the hassle of keeping track of a variety of drafts.

This leads me to a bit of a rant (again)... Why does Google Docs not have all the fonts that MS-Word does? I didn't see a "Times New Roman" and that is what I like to write in...it seems to have a lot less options than MS-Word. Or perhaps I just didn't understand how to use it... I will try some more things on it and I might try posting a video as well as that would be useful for my upcoming parent's workshop. There are a few good videos instructing children how to read on the Reading Rockets website and it would be great to show them....

That's all for now. I guess the jury is still out on Google Docs.