#12 Roll your own search engine with Rollyo

Rollyo should be useful when I'm putting together bookclub notes as I've created a roll with all the sites I regularly search when I'm looking for book reviews, author interviews & profiles. Being able to do one search instead of multiple searches with the same search terms will be great.

I'm going to attempt to add my searchroll to the blog, but if it doesn't work (I know, it's a bit ambitious), my blogroll is called Bookclub notes and you can find it at

http://www.rollyo.com

#11 All about Library Thing

This is what I've been waiting for! A thing I'm really interested in as it's bookish rather than technological.

I've added a few books to my Library Thing account. A couple I've just read (Knox Brothers, Land of Spices), one I'm reading as part of an online read by instalments (Miss Marjoribanks) & some favourites.

http://www.librarything.com/catalog/lynbaines

It was fun trying to think of titles that very few other people would have in their library, but I think I need to go home and have a look at my shelves & try to find a book that no-one else has in their library.

Unfortunately my photo uploading skills are still very basic because the 2 tiny photos of my bookshelves at home are too small and in the wrong place. But, at least they're there.

#10 Play around with Image Generators

I know it's been 3 months but I've been feeling guilty about not working on L2.o, which is almost as productive as actually doing it.

I found the links to image generators in L2.0 pretty useless, as none of them explained how to do it. So, I googled image generators and found something which spelt it all out simply, which is what I needed,

http://www.famousdefaces.com/

I was disappointed that there weren't more classic images to choose from, but I managed to find something I recognised.

Unfortunately, Maryanne & I couldn't get the hecklers to move down here, so they're happily heckling at the top of the blog.

rss

Yes, I'm having a catchup day with Library 2.0. After my triumph with flickr, I felt compelled to keep going. Mainly so I can get on to LibraryThing next week which is what I'm really interested in.
I do visit quite a few blogs every day though so rss seems like a more efficient way of keeping track of what's new.
I think this is my Bloglines URL,

http://www.bloglines.com/public/lb

It's not really clear how to save it so it may not work.

Flickr

Well, I've chosen a picture. I'm not sure how I got it on here but I have and I just hope I can do it again some day. This is Spike's Bookclub from the Flickr site.

I chose a picture of one of my favourite books and a beautiful cat who obviously has excellent taste. I only wish my Abby was as cultured. She has absorbed a lot of literature though through sitting on my lap in our reading chair as I've read the great works of English Literature - and a lot of murder mysteries as well. We've also watched every adaptation available on DVD of Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre and I have to say Timothy Dalton is a wonderful Rochester but only an average Heathcliff. Maybe my next post will be on the relative merits of all of these?

Much more sedate

Well, after 3 weeks of doing nothing, I've finally got back to it and changed the entire look of the blog. Hated that pink colour but couldn't find a way to change it. I changed every other colour on the page but couldn't find a way to change the background. So, I changed the template and have gone for a minimalist look as you can see.

It wasn't that hard after all...

Well, Paul was right, even I could set up a blog in 10 minutes. Not sure about the colour, purple wasn't an option, but pink will do until I can work out how to change it.
The name of my blog is obvious to anyone who knows me, so if you're a fan of the classics, Austen, Bronte, Dickens, Wharton, Trollope, Hardy, you've come to the right place.