This recent problem I have was due to a storm.  We don’t get them often but they are very dramatic when they do occur.  Road or building work also seem to cause problems and then there are times when no explanation can be found.  There isn’t much we can do about this, other than be patient.

Knowing that anything I do in this part of the world takes twice as long as it would if I was at home, I thought I’d make an early start on gathering images for my digital artefact.  The plan was to store them in my Flickr account with the idea of using photostream.  And here I encountered my first problem.  Whilst waiting for the images to upload I prepared dinner, cooked it and ate it and still the ‘wheel’ was spinning. I abandoned the task with Flickr and gave Picasa a try. It didn’t prove to be any better.

My next problem was with Delicious. Although I tried updating my account I noticed that bookmarks made were not showing up in my Lifestream.  I spent some time trying to resolve the problem, unsuccessfuly.  In the meantime I reinstated my Diigo account. I need  to figure out how fix it.

I feel that my Lifestream is boring and lacking in content compared to those of my colleagues. Thought it may help if I added a couple of RSS feeds. One of the sites I chose was like a weed, it grew so quickly and crowded out any real content.  I quickly deleted it. I now know to be more selective.

So far I’ve tried Tumblr, Glogster and YouTube for my digital artefact but abandoned attempts when it took so long.  The only thing I have to show for time spent is my responses to the digital artefacts of my colleagues.  Now it’s Friday and I’m still having problems.  Insh’allah, I’ll be able to complete my task tomorrow.