Regarding Thing 12

I had trouble getting this to work for me. I tried to set up a search tool for travel to South Africa. It never actually functioned, and after several tries I thought to myself that in this time I could have done a traditional Google or Ask or AltaVista search with satisfactory results. Perhaps the appalling sluggishness of the pcs here has something to do with my poor result. I get the idea, though.

Regarding Thing 11

Library Thing has real potential to help with my increasingly unreliable middle-aged memory for titles. I thought so a couple of years ago when we learned about it at an RA training. I set up a Thing then, as a post-assignment, but it has disappeared because of my neglect of it. So, clearly there's a question: can I establish a routine of listing the titles I've read and want to remember? Rather than standing in the stacks scratching my head in frustration, I can turn to my Library Thing. The tags are a quick and dirty kind of "read alike" subject assistance.

This has been a rather plodding and uninspired post. Distracted by the first snowfall??