#34 Geocoding & Geocaching

s many of us did here, we put in the coordiantes for the library. Pretty easy exercise. My husband uses this process just about every day on his job. He uses GIS to spot wells for an oil company. I am always concerned thought when we start to put things out there on the computer like this exercise said to do. Find something that someone had hidden. Don't know if I would want to do this much since as always there are those out there that hack into computers and find out info about users. I think I'll stick to mapquest or perhaps the old reliable map you can get at a store.

#33 Maps: Relocating With Online Maps

This was a very fun exercise to do. I wwnt to HarCon and searched for a new home in the Tomball area. Many came up, so I narrowed it down to a specific mile range. It then let me chose how many rooms, etc you wanted. I have actually used HarCon before when looking for a new home. One of the best features was the virtual tour. I loved looking at all the different rooms and how much space was in every one.

#32 Current Events

This could be a really fun exercise if you could explore all 100 sites. I went to mapmsg.com to send a smoke signal. It was so cool. The smoke signal spelled out I love mapmsg.com. I would encurage others to take some time and really look at all the different links. Technology as come so far, that you don't even have to speak to a person to get hotel reservations or book a flight. I don't know about you, but I like speaking to a personn.http://globalincidentmap.com/home.php Here is the link I went to. What a cool map. It shows you what is going on all over the world. Anything from an accident to a bomb overseas is shown on the map. This would be very cool to have if you were traveling and wanted to know what to expect .

Maps#31: Have Map, Will Travel

I really loved this exercise. I had trouble getting Goggle to open, so I went to Yahoo maps instead. I put in my destination from Tomball to San Marcos. that was so easy, I decided to put in hotels in that area. It also had to the left the written directions of how to get there. My husband works with maps all day, so I am sure that he can tell me so much more to do with a map. I love the idea that I can put in a destination and poof there it is. No more getting lost or having to stop for directions.

Spring Cleaning #30 Take a Load off our Drives

I did go in and look at the P drive and saw one item from 2006 for periodicals that can be deleted. We all seem to put things on computers and then forget about them. I can see how our space can get full if we load things and then leave them forever. Once again I will say how important it is for all of us to do our part and clear some space. Even on my personal computer at home i start to run out of space cause there is so much saved that I forget about. I realize later that I did not really even mean to save it. Just a reminder for all of us to do yearly. When you spring clean, make your computer files one of your cleaning projects.

Spring Cleaning # 29 Email

Everyday, all around us emails are being sent out. Some are very important, others funny and lots are just a big waste of time. What we forget to do is get rid of the old, move whats important and delete the rest. I started several months ago on my personal email to delete unnecessary emails. One day I opened up my email and got this big warning. Yur email box is at capacity and cannot accept anymore at this time. I could not beleive it. What I failed to realize that I needed to start deleting old mail. But, wait there is one more step. After deleting those, I then had to go back and delete from the trash. I have now started deleting as soon as I see one that I don't need. It is so time consuming to have to continue to look at all these emails that will never be needed again. I love this exercise, because it is so important to leave space for those items that are important to come through and get rid of the spam ones that seem to be passed from person to person. It is kinda like a chain letter. I try to never forward sonething that someone else has sent me if I know that it is really kinda silly and not needed to take up space. I encourage all to adopt the habit of cleaning up your emails and not to give out your email to someone that will only abuse it to send spam!!!!

Spring Cleaning # 28 Don't Clog up Expensive Cyberspace

I beleive that this will be a much needed exercise for all of us. I am all about keeping things organizrd and clutter free. GTD had some really good points. One the the important topics was to take action on things and not jsut let them sit there. When I read my emails I make a point to delete the ones I will never need again. Of course I also immediately go into the deleted file and delete that as well. Maybe some of you forget to actually delete the deleted ones. Very important step to cleaning up cyberspace. I went to Google and set up a mock calendar. Very easy to do especially for someone like me who is finally becoming a little more computer savy. The setup is very nice and has lots of extras. How nice to have something pop up to remind you of an important date coming up. I already have a calendar thur my work email and will probably use it more. Thanks for having this exercise for all. It is a must needed and importnt task that we must all do!!