Week 8: online applications, polymer clay, and blue people

I promised my boss I would finish this dang thing! When I began re-reading the different 'things' I realized that in the course of the last six months I had explored far more than I knew - laid up for weeks and now virtually unemployed. There is a pile of polymer clay on the desk next to me that I am itching to play with - an attempt at some faux african turquoise - be patient, lovely clay.

I'm typing this up in zoho writer and will attempt to export it to my blog. I've already used Google docs, I had an MFp or Pdr or whatever it is on Google docs. Blue people? I came across another online collaborative publishing tool this morning called Scribd, while looking for references to the blue people of Troublesome Creek, Kentucky. By the time I'd finished the post, explored Scribd, decided I might try uploading a couple of children's stories I'd written, etc, etc, I'd completely forgotten why I was looking up blue people in the first place!

Back through my browsing history. Turns out I was looking for different formulae to mimic turquoise in polymer clay, found a blog devoted to colour, read a post about blue people, well, couldn't pass that up. Turns out there really is an inbred family in Kentucky who carried a recessive gene that gave their skin a bluish cast. Wow, polymer clay, blue people, human genetics, a new web2 app, all in one morning! Crikey, the morning is almost gone!

Hey! It worked! Here I am in blogger.

Had a look at some other apps that I hadn't seen before, decided to play with Piknik, a photo editing and sharing tool. Fun to play with, I see it as having value for school librarians in particular to share ideas for displays and book week celebrations. Piknik edited photo above.