Roll Yer Own

I can see why this is important. If you do a lot of searches, you go into Google and find hundreds or sometimes even tens of thousands of hits. For many of these sites you have no idea what they are or how reliable they might be. With Rollyo you pick your own sources. I can see this being especially useful for searching specialized topics.

The Book Collection That Ate Sheboygan

For many years I've thought about trying to organize our books. I was always daunted by the sheer enormity of the task. (In fact, if our daughter doesn't take her own collection with her when she moves out, we will soon have to rent another place just to live in.) With Library Thing I can organize virtually. No lugging heavy boxes, no risk of being crushed to death under avalanches of old sci-fi paperbacks.

The only drawback is the size limitation (Does anyone actually own fewer than 200 books?). Guess I'll have to get the pay version.

I'm going to try to make a link. It looked a little confusing.

More Feed Stuff

Hmn... I can see that this can become very addictive very fast. The number of topics available are near limitless. After sampling a number of them, I think Technorati is probably easiest to use, with Feedster being a close second. I'll have to ration my use of these in order to remain rational.

Got to go. Technorati told me that all of the Road Runner cartoons are available on UTube.

Feed Me Bloglines Feed me

I had no idea what RSS was till this lesson. It does make keeping track of your blogs quicker and more sane.

I signed up for Bloglines and get feeds from seven sources now. Among them are: one political, one sports, one hobby related and a couple from Flickr friends. I'll probably add a few more from time to time.

My Trading Card

My creation
Originally uploaded by thornsberryrobert

Guaranteed to cause embarassment. Of course, John will be jealous.

jellyfish

jellyfish
Originally uploaded by Gen Kanai

Now let's see if I can get this to work.

Woohoo!

Jelly fishing!

Jelly fishing!

Jelly Fishing!

Getting Faced

Well, I'm in Facebook now. I must say, after a couple of months in MySpace, that I probably should have tried the former earlier. It seems much more my style.