Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Widgets and Gadgets

It's now nearly one o' clock in the afternoon and my morning has been basically fruitless. Let me explain..... You see there is this digital Camera that I want. It's not just any digital camera. No, it is a Nikon digital SLR with two lenses, a camera case and a few bells and whistles. Now let me remind you, this is something I have been waiting for for over five years. The first time I realized someone made a digital SLR I knew I had to have one, but at the time they cost over two thousand dollars. Well, I have been a patient girl and have happily used my film loaded SLR since then. But film is getting harder and harder to find (even at walmart) and I know that it will soon be going the way of the VCR and assume the status of technoligical relic. So I find myself with the happy excuse to buy my precious D-SLR. This has been the conversation in my head for quite some time, "I sure need to get a camera but I don't have much money to spend, how should I go about this?"

Which brings me back to the title of this post. Widgets and Gadgets. I had the brilliant idea to track the amount of money I was saving in a post on my blog. I thought surely there would be a Gadget for this to simply add as a sidebar to my blog. I could update it as I saved more money and as time went on I could watch the bar slide up and grow my excitement along with it. Well, I checked the gadgets that are available in the layout section of this blog and found nothing. I did however see that there is a place to add your own. Yay! Right? I could just make my own. After three hours of searching, updating, and downloading I finally found a widget to track my saved money......but wait a minute, we're talking about a widget here. For some reason a widget is different than a gadget? What tha? Now after wasting an entire morning on something that at the time seemed simple and mundane I have a widget on my desktop, no gadget on my blog and a computer system that has been completley updated in the process. Widgets and Gadgets....whatever!

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