delicious

I feel a bit foggy what with delicious and clouds,  and creating g mail accounts.  I feel a bit confused with the plethora of user names, passwords and URLs...

On the positive side I found a very interesting site on delicious and I believe I may have tagged it, so hopefully will be able to find it again when I move to another computer terminal.  It is a list of the "100 best science fiction and fantasy novels".  Not sure how this is determined, but presumably the opinion of the "author"  I put this in inverted comma's as by this logic I am an author too as is every pimply kid with a keyboard who manages to put something, however literate or otherwise on twitter.  This is a scary thought - most particularly the idea of being an author myself!  However I found the list  very interesting and am keen to get back to it later.  It contains many old friends who actually live on my bookshelf and also a bunch I have never met - and I am salivating.

I strangely found delicious more difficult to use than I remember, possibly because of the need to create a yahoo account and all the guff that went with that.  I'm really not keen on the conditions.  I normally would print out any contract and go through it with a fine tooth comb.  It all seems a little different on computers - and a bit scary.

I am of course aware of the irony of being a troglodyte who enjoys sci fi!

The other thought I have is that it is amazing that libraries manage to at the same time be so fascinating and also so dry and boring.  I absolutely love working in libraries.  I love books and all the other resources we lend.  I love dealing with the general public an the things that we do such as story time and delivering to home bound borrowers.  And yet I often find studying things to do with libraries deadly dull.  This is fascinating to me because in the past my studies have led to jobs because I was interested in the subject and now I find the reverse is true.  I study things about libraries because I love working in libraries, but find the studies quite dull (with some bright highlights).  As a learning junkie I find this absolutely weird!

XXX
Harry