Dim dim-dim sum?

I'm sorry, I couldn't resist the cheesy title for this post. Because I was sick on Thursday I was actually able to participate in the evening's open classroom chat as normally I wouldn't be able to as I have a class that night from 6-9 pm. I do think "attending" was worthwhile although when the mics opened up, it was a little creepy hearing some of my classmates' voices within my apartment... Not to say they sounded creepy, but just how incredible technology really is sometimes. I found it somewhat helpful, although knock on wood it seems I have not been having nearly as many problems access wise as some other people have, so I am extremely glad for that.

I'm a little bit tired here from my rather full day, but I would like to comment a little bit on Linux/Unix (for the longest time I apparently was mispronouncing Linux). I guess you have to be an "inster" to know the jargon. I think the purpose? (for lack of a better word) of operating systems like linux and unix are really neat and innovative. My time in the program thus far is that the positives of open source anything far outweight the negatives. Although I don't understand every layer there is to the free and open source collaboration, the fact that it can be used & modified & redistrubited by anyone is just awesome and truly the wave of the future. I am so sick of these multibillion dollar greedy businesses/companies/corpotations where everything is under lock and key. Not to mention that Tux the penguin is an incredibly cool looking mascot.

So I completed assignment #3 the other day and while I was starting to descend into freak out mode when I couldn't get the RIS feature to work properly, I was most relieved when I found out I could export my worldcat items on my list I had created using CQV? instead. It was cool for me to then see everything just like that put into an excel spreadsheet.

Although I have a little time before assignment #4 is due, I see this one as being a bit more invovled so my aim is to get started sometime this week to allow for frustration mode. Wishful thinking, I would love to get as many assignments for this class done as possible in advance, as in my other classes I am truly feeling overwhelmed.

Hope everyone's having a good weekend-disfrutelo!