# 7 How my friendship with technology began

It was a dark and stormy night when I first began my relationship with technology. Well, actually I don't remember what the weather was like but I do remember that I was very scared to use my first personal computer in 1987. I never really understood DOS and therefore the computer was a very expensive word processor and I was never even comfortable with that (I remember handing in a 5000 word essay with everything underlined except for the bibliographic references).
Fortunately I didn't let my fear paralyse me and gradually, thanks to an updated p.c. and Microsoft Windows, I became familiar with the rapidly evolving technology. I was able to re-enter the library workforce after a lengthy break and embrace the technological changes that were happening.
Every year seems to bring new resources - a myriad of databases, ABS on-line, etc - and for me, 2007 will be the year of the blog.

# 6 Flickr fun

Yes, it is fun to learn a new skill and to play with the options Flickr offers us! I created a trading card (with an internal view of my current library branch) - click on my Flickr link to see it.

# 5 My friend Flickr

Click on the link to see my photos

http://www.flickr.com/photos/13914918@N07/

# 4 Feel the fear and do it anyway

"We are built to conquer environments, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve" - Maxwell Maltz

"Fear defeats more people than any one thing in the world" - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiousity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed" - Joseph Addison

"To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong" - Joseph Chilton Pierce

"Fear is something to be moved through, not something to be turned from" - Peter Mc Williams

# 3 In the beginning

My mantra for this week -

TECHNOLOGY IS MY FRIEND
TECHNOLOGY IS MY FRIEND
TECHNOLOGY IS MY FRIEND ......

(If I say it often enough, it might come true!)