Thing 1
This was to create a google ID. which was simple enough. I already had a gmail account, although have been slightly frustrated by gmail making itself googlemail and then converting back again. One use of an unusual name is that I get exactly the login that I want. I know it helps fight spam if we have less common / obvious user names, but I'll deal with the risk. I'm not sure I want a personalised dashboard, and I suspect it'll work better as a home thing with my Mac than with my PC. It's going to be interesting to see how the different 'things' work on the two different computers and operating systems.
Thing 2
Customise your google ID and add at least 5 gadgets. Do I have to? Isn't that just going to give me far too many different things to look at eventually? My concentration is already bad enough, do I really have to fragment it any further? Humph. I'm not a technophobe, and I am sure I can make a lot of all of this, but my heckles are rising as I feel that streamlining the world into one page is handing over control of a narrow channel into my brain to a set of computer codes, when the whole browsing experience is one I enjoy. Will it save me time or waste it as I play with all the silly things I can embed (Latin games and soforth)? Technologically, I wish the computer wouldn't try to second guess me. Sometimes linked suggestions are good, but they assume that my tastes fit into a predictable pattern, which almost makes me determined to go against the grain and be as eclectic as possible. I don't want people to tie me down. That and when I did say 'show me things like this' it just brought up the popular items page again. Bug in the system or just laziness? I'll keep playing.
Thing 3
Create a blog. I already had this one, so am trying adding a page to it instead. I didn't do much with it last year, as I tinkered with limericks in notebooks and never posted them. I'll try to hunt more out. It was an interesting experiment. A blog is definitely not an online diary. I don't feel I have enough to say to the world to feel it's a good idea from me. As a record of this kind of process, or a way to fight a cause, maybe. I don't write well enough or have any kind of spur to make this worth reading for its own sake! Maybe I should try to learn?
I was supposed to add this as a separate post but I'm not sure I can do that as a separate page. Hmmm. That and tagging doesn't seem to work. Looks like I have plenty to learn.
