Final Blog!!

I didn't think I would be able to come up with 12 blog postings but I had. And of course through most of the semester I really could not think of anything to write about and now I could think of a bunch of things to type. Oh well.

The wiki is pretty much done, other than going page by page and correcting mistakes, adding a few more pictures and fixing the people page some more. I didn't think the wiki was going to look very good at all. I don't want to sound negative, but I was so worried, but after it started coming together it started looking much better. I don't know why I love my weather widget I added but I do, it really serves no purpose on the site but I guess if people are looking at the wiki from a different state they can see what the weather is like in Gary :)

I'm still don't know what to think of wikispaces. On one hand it is fairly easy to work and it lets you add a lot of fancy things, however the easy editing tools seem to the ones that are the hardest to work with. Like the stupid tables.

I emailed them and asked about the editing of the tables and they told me the table is very basic and currently there are no spacing features. Doing what I did (add the invisible A's) is a good way to fix my problem. To top it off for some reason I haven't been able to edit my tables. When I right click the table nothing comes up. So I don't know what is going on.

The whole podcast/video thing is not my thing. When I heard we had to do I tried to think of ways where I wouldn't have to do it. But this past weekend I thought I guess I should give it a try so I downloaded Camtasia. After recording my simple simple video many times I realized it was pretty easy to create and edit a video. It was really neat. Unfortunately Camtasia will disappear in about 25 more days and I really have no other use for it, but I made two videos that I think look somewhat decent. I did have a hard time trying to figure out how to add the video the site but I finally did.

So that's it I guess. Thanks for reading my blog in which 90% of the time I complained about technology :)

Blog #11-My boring blog about my non library job

So it's almost to the end of the semester, I'm feeling it, but there is so much more work to be done. I'm just ready for everything to be done in this class and my other class also. I think the weather is also getting to me-I just wish it would stay permanently warm. But in two months you will hear me complaining about it being so hot.

Today at my non-library job the credit cards, debit cards and gift cards were not running through the register, so of course pandemonium ensued. Our manager had to announce our little problem over the intercom to everyone. Now I don't run register so I thought the whole thing was kind of funny (which is bad I know) because everyone was freaking out over the ear pieces we have to wear (which could be a whole other blog itself). It happened before when I first worked there and the manager threatened to bring out the manual credit card machine. I don't know what they are called you like make a copy of the card, but it got fixed before we had to do that. I remember one time I went to Uno's and this happened-they had to shut down the restaurant because they could not figure out how to work this machine. But was fixed in like 10 minutes, something was wrong with ATT.

Even though I don't work the register I have run into other computer system problems there. I stock mostly and what you have to do is take a scanner, scan the item and it will tell you what section and what number the item goes in. Pretty easy to follow. However there are times where the section is about to be changed or the number system is just not working. This leads to very mad stockers who even though they stock the same area every week don't know where things go. I seriously want to know how people stocked before the scanner, because stocking a section of over 3000 pegs of jewelry is impossible without numbers, but maybe I'm just being lazy.