What happened after…

It’s my blogiversary today. One year ago I staffed our library during a public holiday and thought I’d use the quiet patch to look at those RSS feed thingies and those blog whatsits and write the report I’d been ask to do. I thought it was smart to use one piece of software as an aggregator and a blog, so started my first blog, Kathrynarium, that afternoon using bloglines. NEWB!

I’m using this post as a “what happened after”…..providing a chronological list of updates on some things I blogged about in the last year. It was great fun to do, but you’d be a kind person indeed to read the entire list.

• No-one noticed my WTF blunder.
• I still haven’t seen a real exclusive Librarian2.0 job advertised in Australia.
• I still love roller skating and am looking for a pair of size 6 skates right now.
• I’m yet to make a really cool mashup using an actual gen-u-ine API.
• Having set up Libraries interact.info on July 8th, it is still going swimmingly.
• I did manage to record the Co-Pilot’s snoring. We took it in to a specialist who could tell from listening just what bits were blocking where. He did the medical equivalent of “bird calls” when he imitated the snoring sounds made by different shaped palates.
• I never did write Part 2 of the Twists and Turns of blogging called “Why write another post about blogging? “. I think we are all better off.
• Last week I went to my second Perth Bloggers Meetup, 8 months after my first one.
• Regardless of their price I still bought bananas during the great banana shortage.
• I now only use random ideas generators socially, but have since met my dealer, Dave Pattern, in Second Life.
• I’ve managed not to electrocute myself since August, and my library’s remodelling has not included gym equipment near the OPACS.
• I’m still saying “yes” more often and it’s led me to some wonderful places. I’m still trying to spell B-A-L-A-N-C-E.
• I plan to buy Mr4’s birthday cake this year.
• My magic dragon still sits on my desk and I still wave my head from side to side.
• I never did become a more fit librarian.
• YouTube survived.
• At kindy last week my husband heard one of the parents call their kid a “spaz” as a term of abuse. I nicely asked someone three weeks ago not to refer to the malfunctioning automatic doors to the library as “spastic”. SIGH.
• I’ve now tried on Masai Barefoot Sandals three times but still haven’t bought any.
• Aunty Rose still blooms in her 91st year.
• My son did not run off to become the Yellow Wiggle, however two weeks ago google images indexed my blog and everyone keeps hitting the picture of him as the fifth wiggle.
• Last week I started using Remember the Milk, and just love the way it automatically fills in the date if I enter “tomorrow” or “next week” or “two days” or “next Friday”.
• Google Reader and I are still very happy together. I’ve popped in on bloglines to say “hi”, but we are not nearly as close as we used to be.
• My cat no longer has a face pierced with fishing line.
• Library2.0 remains in Wikipedia.
• Peter chose glasses frames number 6.
• My beetroot phobia remains unconquered.
• Four months into the year I have read 3 books on my “To be Read” challenge – Born on a BlueDay, The Tipping Point and Chart Throb.
• Things have settled down in our house since both parents returned from Canberra.
• I did order The Peacefull Pill Handbook for my library after the ethics course controller agreed enthusiastically that it should be in our library.
• I did not come back from Aurora totally enthused and try to be superlibrarian and neglect the rest of my life like I feared. It’s given me space and tools to re-examine the way I’ve been doing my whole life and renegotiate where my priorities are and what I need to do to help them take centre stage.
• My Flying Librarian of Oz slides have been downloaded 3010 times from slideshare.net and I re-used them in a talk at the State Library of Western Australia last Friday.
• The Library2.0 Ning network , which had 150 members join in its first two days, now has 1224 members six weeks later.
• Two months after our first face to face meeting the Western Australian Library Unconference is still waiting for a couple of people to report back about a date and a facilitator. I live in hope.
• CW was discussing at her workplace whether you need permission before taking a photograph in a University Library.
• Twitter just gets better and more useful and more fun.