Annabel & I were talking the other day about what programs we'd discovered during 2.0/2.1 that it would be good to have on the public PC's.

Two that leapt immediately to mind were:

Firefox (tabbed web browsing)
Picnik (photo editing)

What others?

OpenOffice/google docs instead of Microsoft Office?
Google Chrome, Flock, Safari (web browsers)
Zamzar for file conversion?

What other programs would you like to see on the public pc's?

At the 'gift a book' session @ BL I bought myself 'Reading the OED' a book I'd been wanting to read for a while.

In the leadup to Christmas I'd bought myself the second Stieg Larsson 'The girl who played with fire' - a book I'd been waiting for since January when I read 'the girl with the dragon tattoo'.

For Christmas I scored -

'Sartre's sink: the great writers complete book of DIY' an interesting sort of sequel to 'Kafka's soup'.

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I received two other readable Christmas presents, both of them non-fiction. The next non-fiction one isn't a new title and a bit of a gamble on the part of the giver. However, I didn't own it and hadn't read it. The book was one by local Boroondara author, Inga Clendinne… Continue

This is the second time I am attempting to post this - the last time I had almost finished and lost the whole lot! One bad thing about blog posting on the ning is that it doesn't save automatically.

This post is inspired by Gonty's tweet to us all on Christmas morning in which he… Continue

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Have a look at these blogs set up by Whitehorse Manningham, Eastern Regional and Casey Cardinia Library Services using a creative commons licence. Louise has asked me to develop a similar blog for Boroondara. I would love… Continue