Thing 23

Phew, made it!
So, to evaluate.
Some of the things are great gadgets and I'm glad I've found out about them - Doodle's really good. Zotero and Delicious seem to have a lot to offer. My iGoogle page is useful and now I know what to do with RSS feeds.
Seeing the social networking stuff has been interesting, too. There has been discussion about the Darwin Correspondence Project having a presence in this area; but it seems to me that if you want to do this you have to do it properly. Running a Facebook page is a commitment - nobody's interested if you haven't posted anything for three months.
So - definite possibilities, but like most things it takes hard work to be really successful.

Things 1 & 2

After what seemed like a lot of effort, I managed to create the iGoogle page. I'm sure the instructions were really simple, but obviously not simple enough for me. Sigh. Anyway, mine looks like this.
I'm sure I've done this before . . . well, after several false starts, here we are. Our own website, a countdown to my holiday, the time in our other office in Harvard, the weather here just in case I can't be bothered to look out of the window, my favourite blog, the Victorian clerk's diary I'm following (although the RSS feed on this seems to have come unplugged). The COPAC box is on a tab, too. It will probably be some time before I can decide whether I will find this more useful than my present arrangements. Some of the boxes seem rather larger than their usefulness - like the clocks box.