Thing 3 of 23 Things Oxford

Creating the blog itself was easy.
Coming up with a suitable name for it was the hard part!


I love food, the early modern period, and writing,
so "quince & sippets" seemed to sum up these interests of mine.

Quince: both the sound of the word and beauty of the fruit appeal to me. Whenever I see the word, I think of fresh and pretty Elizabethan gardens. I also like that the fruit transforms itself from a hard, white and bitter substance into a lovely sweet reddish and perfumey mash when cooked.

Sippets are another early modern food item; they're small pieces of toasted or fried bread usually served with soup or stew. The word "sippet" can also refer to any small piece of something, a mere fragment, which, to me, is sort of what blogs are--small sippets or fragments of a person's thoughts.



Uh oh... already too many sippets about sippets and not enough about my hopes for the 23 Things programme!



Without trying much, I've encountered plenty of web 2.0 technologies over the past few years. It's difficult in today's world and workplace not to. I'm certainly more conversant in some of these technologies than others. So, I hope that this programme will help me keep up-to-date and on top of the latest technologies and that, by the end of it, I'll feel fully web 2.0 competent.



Thanks to the organizers for putting this together!