A NEW YEAR 2009- 8 MONTHS OLD

A long walk in Ridley Creek State Park. I ran with my sister full speed. I played with my friend Sadie and I am tired. I drank cold water out of creek and saw many dogs, people and bikers. I saw a great Dane that was the size of a small pony. I don't want to meet up with him on a dark night. He was one big scary dude!

EAUDIOBOOKS ,OVERDRIVE AND MORE

I am playing on my moms’ laptop again and found out I could listen to books and watch videos. I read through the Overdrive PDF files and downloaded the Overdrive Media Console. I used her library card to download a couple of books to listen to and also downloaded a video to watch. I listened to Marley and Me by John Grogan and watched a video "King of Ants" about football. I also practiced downloading my eaudiobook to an MP3 using Windows Media Player.

I WILL BE A HAPPY DOG IN 2009 USING THIS LIBRARY SERVICE!!


I love to explore, discover and play.

MY OLD MOM'S THOUGHTS ON THE "23 THINGS PROJECT" AND MINE TOO!

The entire purpose behind the "23 Things Project" was to Explore, Discover and Play.
I enjoyed blogging and using the online image generators the most. I used my web html skills to add gadgets to my blogspot blog.

My family and co-workers enjoyed reading my blog which was the “diary of a pit bull puppy” and we laughed together about the photos on it. I enjoyed being creative in making “Ace, the puppy” do the 23 Things and his comments as a puppy were sometimes funny.

I noticed that some items on the “23 Things Project” took more than 15 minutes to review and wondered how every staff person was going to find the time in their work day to complete.

I also wondered how all the people on Facebook and MySpace find time to keep their pages up to date. Are they staying home working on the computer rather than meeting with their friends “face to face”. Maybe that is why some individuals never make eye contact, are not "people friendly" and are so impatient doing such things as “waiting in lines” and “don’t know how to react to problems such as “ the cable going out" or "no electricity”.

Can you imagine if every day – you felt compelled to make an entry into your blog, check your e-mail accounts, update your facebook or myspace, check your voicemail, do twitter, put pictures on snapfish, search the internet and search you tube and do some online chatting? When would you find time to “visit with friends”, “shop”, “walk the dog”, “workout”, “read” and “work”?

It is all about choices – what do you want to do with your time?

Overall I learned many new skills but life is too short to be tethered to my computer or phone.
I want to Explore, Discover and Play Untethered.

A LIFE ON A TETHER IS NO LIFE AT ALL!

POCONOS TRIP

Enjoyed the snow and wallking in Hickory Run Park with my moms.

Here are some other pictures of me at the Poconos house.
I am carrying a 5 lb weight in my mouth.
Sleeping is my favorite thing to do next to eating and chewing.
Above I am sleeping on my leather recliner with mom
and to the left - sleeping in the car on the way home.

Good night to all - pleasant dreams.

Happy Holidays from Ace

The vet tied a ribbon to my collar and I look cute. Check out my photos.
When I am hungry- I carry my bowl to my moms to remind them.

Shouldn't they just feed me twice a day????

PODCASTS

I am learning about podcasts using PodcastAlley and Odeo websites. I searched for my old mom on the words "library" and "web design" and found more hits with PodcastAlley. I didn't find Odeo helpful- I would rather go on an "Oreo Cookie Search" than a "Odeo" search anyday. Maybe instead "a Rodeo" would be fun. The podcasts that interest my mom were: PALINET Technology Updates and News for Web Designers. I didnot include the web addresses because you need to be on PodcastAlley site to read their content. I put the podcast that interests me on my sidebar "The Puppy Blog".

WELCOME HOME MICHELE!

Michele, my sister from California will be Home for the Holidays Tonight! Woof!
My 2 moms, sisters and brother will be happy to see her! I have to remember not to jump on her or I will be sprayed with cold water.

She has only seen me as a puppy so she will be impressed with me just like the "pupparazzi" are!
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Here are my Internet links to see more of me and tell your friends.
A Day in the Life of Ace: http://ace213.blogspot.com
Twitter site: http://twitter.com/ace213
YouTube site:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hwzVeU2Yf4
Slide show:http://tinyurl.com/5rkxrg
Dogster Page:http://www.dogster.com/dogs/931978

YOU TUBE IS FUN!

I explored You Tube and there are some really funny pet videos. I also watched a tutorial video on "how to convert a Powerpoint slide show to a video with special software". I tried it and  here is the my YouTube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8iWaBKXBfw

Revised version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hwzVeU2Yf4

I like the variety of videos- you can find on Youtube. You can find a video on any topic, just do a search and see what pops up. I dislike it when you start watching a video and you think it is going to be an interesting and instead it turns out to be gross and raunchy. Sometimes you wonder why people make such videos. The library could use Youtube for publicity and as a learning tool.

My Youtube video still needs some work. WOOF to that!

MY SPACE, FACEBOOK AND MICROBLOGGING

Doing some sniffing around and exploring MySpace Library Pages for Teens.
My favorite was Scott County. It was easy to read and the colors were not dark and wild. It was informative about books, movies, calendar events and it contained a link to catalog. Other features - that I would like to see are "Ask a Librarian" online chat, link to website and photos of library buildings in system or teen events presented in slide show with effects.
West Chester Public Library has an attractive and informative My Space and Facebook page. I was impressed with both.

Microblogging could be used as a publicity tool for library events. Since most sites restrict the # of characters per blog. You can use this utility "tiny url" to shorten the web link. Monroe County Library System had a good Twitter site. I set up a Twitter site for myself. http://twitter.com/ace213. Look in the sidebar to see my last 2 Twitter updates or Visit my Twitter site.

MY FIRST CHRISTMAS

I helped with putting the tree and lights up last night. I have a stocking hung on the fireplace. I tried to eat tree decorations but my "young mom" and my sister removed them from my mouth. I also had fun chewing on the trees' branches - it is an artificial tree so it doesn't taste very good but my chewing really got my "young mom" and sister stirred up. Yelling and jumping around.... Fun to watch! Check out my collage of photos. I included photos of the darn cats!!! I know their hiding spots.