Thing 7 - Generators are Sucking the Life from Me

I have persevered through 5 frustrating, agonizing, laughing at myself, hair pulling, feet stomping, silent cursing, air punching hours working on Thing 7. I am extremely excited that I finally got what I wanted, mostly. This is the mosaic representing the tools I've used during my time with 23 Things.

I went to BigHugeLabs.com first, saw the Mosaic Maker, and tried doing that. It didn't like any of my photos, so I tried The Generator Blog. I looked around there, tried Collage, but all the pics turned out fuzzy. Although, I did have fun doing my Mormon name and typing on an Absolut Vodka bottle. Image Chef had nothing that caught my eye. My friend did a cartoon of me on Toon Do about my frustrations with the computer (see http://crazycanuck-esj.blogspot.com/) so I didn't want to repeat. I decided to try Mosaic Maker again. After three hours I finally got results.

I made an account with them and with Flickr. I tried every option they give to upload photos. I uploaded all the photos I wanted into Flickr so they'd have a flickr url, no. I tried putting them all in a Flickr set, no. I tried tagging them all, no. Then I broke down and looked for all new photos on Flickr and marked the ones I wanted (not exactly what I wanted) as My Favs. Eureka!! A few pics might need explanation. I wanted NEFLIN's logo, but couldn't find that on Flickr, so I put NEFLIN into Flickr and got pics from a recent meeting. In one of the pics is my friend and NEFLIN people I've met. The girl trying to pull her hair out, is a little glimpse of what I've looked like while doing this Thing.

Even though I was frustrated for most of this, I did learn a lot about these programs and now know more about the things that are out there. I could see using this in advertising programs for the library, but I won't be trying that anytime soon. My knowledge of Web 2.0 has definitely risen, but with it so has my blood pressure. Where are those pills? On to the next Thing.