Over and done!

Well, that was fun. The squirrel is now armed with more digital knowledge than ever. Look out, world, because you're no longer safe from being pelted with acorns. But many of them will now be virtual, he, he, he.

Ready, aim, click...

P.S. I'm not sure if there was anything about forums, though. Maybe that's not something that's really needed, but I thought those were a good place for the exchanging of ideas. Oh, well just my two cents worth of pecans worth.

Save a tree. Download a book. Netlibrary shows you how: http://www.netlibrary.com/. Squirrels everywhere will thank you!

Holy Cow! I should have invested in microphone manufacturers' stocks a loooong time ago. Seems like everyone is podcasting these days. The quality runs the gamut from highly professional, slick productions to a couple of guys in their dad's basement, but apparently everyone has something to say. Every topic, too. I wonder who's listening...

My kind of guy...

Web 2.0 award winners: a smorgasbord of new things to mess around with. I gotta get busy.

Find it at http://www.seomoz.org/web2.0 and look around.

Google Labs. I picture some egghead version of Q showing off the newest tool for doing some digital task or another. I have yet to find anything with a built-in laser, though...

Ha! I've been recommending Google Docs to people for a couple of months now, especially if they can't get on one of the Tech center computers. Before, I thought portable applications were cool, but this way, you don't have to carry anything at all.

Nice. Even though a flash drive weighs only as much as a medium walnut these days, for a squirrel, it's an armful...

Hmmm, so there's other search engines than the 800-pound-squirrel of google. Good things to have as a rodent investigator, but the results can be mixed, and at least one of them is currently out of comission.

Keep searching...

Hmm, it looks like there are elements of Library 4.0 already present here at the Salt Lake Main Library. Kind of a gathering place already. Even gaming is OK here (I suppose that's analogous to going into the old-school library and reading a novel. It's just a newer kind of entertainment available. And the coffee and malt and cake is already happening, along with the comfortable furniture. I'm just waiting for version 5.0: Free cashews for everyone!

Mmmmm...cashews...

My Visited US States

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Well, It looks like as far as the U.S. is concerned, the word is: "Go East, Young Squirrel. " But I've been other places than that as well such as:

My Visited Countries

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Plenty of ground still left to cover...

Heh, this thing is still on? Excellent!



Well, the online image thing can be fun to play with, but I've got bigger fish to fry (well, nuts, technically, but it's an expression I like). So I'll just throw this guy in here

to show you what really goes on inside Microsoft office. It's out to get you, whether you like it or not. Just call your friendly neighborhood rodent investigator, and I'll find out what's been reported about you to the upper echelons in Redmond, OK? I work for peanuts. No, literally!

Watch your back, Jill and Jack...

Feed me...

RSS feeds...it's like doing a constant search on things that interest you, but leaving out stuff you've already seen. Only new stuff gets through. If you have a lot of feeds, especially from news stations, that can still become a headache. TMI (Too Much Information) is becoming a reality. But on the other hand, it's like having a bunch of investigators or field agents out there. And you can just ignore stuff you don't need anyway. But enough of this; I'm off to keep track of Pecan prices around the world...

Flickr too...

Well, looks like I don't have to bother with putting photos on anything but the web. Prints on paper waste trees, and everybody that knows this squirrel knows how I feel about arbo-real estate.

Now if I could just go from this

to this

in no time at all, I'd be one happy rodent...

Blogs or how to have your finger on the internet's pulse

I guess that's what you're really doing when you use the technocrati site: getting an idea about what's blogworthy and what's not. Also known as the informal pollsters research lab (when you really need to know about what humans think about any topic you can imagine).
As long as it's keeping the trees standing and the nuts growing, I'm just fine with it.

Your worst nightmare...

A mischievious squirrel with an attitude learning to use the web. Things haven't bee this dire since 'Conker's Bad Fur Day'! To top it off, I realized there are three very sweet words out there: Mail! Order! Nuts!

I'll be in cashew heaven as soon as I sneak some unsupecting human's credit card away...or better yet, sign up for my own. The address might be a problem, though...would a treehole be considered a home or an apartment? Lots to mull over...but anyway, thanks, Library 2.0 for teaching me a new nut-obtaining skill.


SLCPL2.0

Hmmm, those clever human librarypeople...

They're really figuring out how to find all kinds of stuff. This new wiki thingie is interesting: All the info can be revised on the spot if the situation changes. With the old print encyclopedia books, you could only recycle them into nesting materials for the birds and rats when they became outdated. Not that I mind the rats having a nice cozy place to live (they're fellow rodents, after all. Skittish, but brothers in arms...er, teeth), but with all the print books being made from trees...well, lets just say that squirrel real estate has been at a premium. And you humans wonder why we're so mean. All I can tell you is: Support affordable housing for squirrels. Use wikis!

There's a lot you can do with wikis, especially libraryhumans. For one thing, you can set them up for the patronhumans to find out all the necessary things they need to go through life. I mean, squirrel life ain't easy, but I don't need a wiki yet, but you guys definitely do. Also, libraryhumans, set up your own organization wiki to find out fixes to technical problems or other procedures you do everyday. Your traineehumans will thank you.

(Just as an aside, the first time I heard the term 'wiki', I asked:"Mmmm, what kind of nut is that? Is it tasty?")

Sinister

The squirrel is going digital

Yes, sirree, there's a new threat on the horizon: Squirrels with internet access. It's amazing, really, how good the wireless reception is up here in the trees. Plus, it's comical to watch people move about like modern dancers, stretching their arms out and rotating and spinning, trying to get the best cell phone reception. It's the most graceful thing people do nowadays. I'm not very tempted to throw my acorns at them when they do that; it's like watching the Bolshoi Ballet having American Idol-style auditions and every hopeful only uses one arm.
Oh well, maybe I will start throwing some acorns, just at the louder ones...