non a res

Sunday being a day of rest, I made another hockey card. Obviously it is important to keep practising the skills I am acquiring.

I did have a look at del.icio.us but my toes proverbially curled up at even the notion of creating another account/username/password so I went out and weeded the garden instead.

Res Numerus Duodecim

Diablo sites were an obvious choice for my first Rollyo searchroll. I was surprised someone hadn't already done them. They had Starcraft and Warcraft, also Blizzard games, but not D2. Until now. Finding enough sites wasn't difficult; I only included the ones I use myself since in my experience quite a few of these sites lapse or become out-of-date. Creating the link to my blog was nice and simple too and it worked first time!

Search source set to 1 (Thing #11)

It started off so simply. Here was something I already knew. I'd joined Library Thing a while ago and though I hadn't got much further than experimenting with a few books my account was still active. I had fun for a while adding all my Nancy Brearys. I even borrowed Mary's camera and took photos of the covers but the files were too big and they wouldn't upload. Then I decided to put one of the widgets on my blog and since most of my books don't have nice photos yet (see above) I decided to use the search widget. And it didn't work. Three times I tried and three times I ended up with the html on my blog instead of the search box. It turned out I was leaving out the last word of the code when copying out of the tiny little text box on the Library Thing site. Problem finally sorted out I decided to try the search function only to discover that it wouldn't search my library but insisted on searching some group library. For anyone else who encounters this problem and doesn't live with a computer programmer (see photo), the code you copy from the tiny little box has a default search source option of 0. You need to change the 0 to a 1 and then it will search your library. I also had to change the width from 238 pixels to 225 to get a tidy fit.

Hockneyed seal

This began as a photo of a seal taken by Mary at the zoo a couple of weeks ago. I used the Hockeyizer Image generator with the no-frames option. The framed "polaroid" option proved to be a bit hit and miss. Thing #10 completed!

Rubik roses

Ohioana ho!

Lois McMaster Bujold has been awarded the 2007 Ohioana Career Award which knowledge came to me via her blog! I have no idea how to pronounce the award but I have successfully established a blogline feed from her site, a little success of my own.

Long may she reign

I've been searching for rss feeds and having some fun. Obviously my preference would have been to look for good, quality library science sites but I'm on holiday at the moment and felt ethically challenged at the idea. Instead I have compromised by finding author sites with rss functionality. The best so far is a feed from Ellen Emerson White's blog which I never knew existed so now I can share her angst about something called The Red Sox. I'm counting down the days until her new book is published - Long may she reign - which comes about twenty years after Long live the queen but who's counting.
I looked for Lois McMaster Bujold too but the Dendarii site doesn't appear to have an rss thingamabob. However my visit was not wasted as I employed the quotation generator to come up with the following gem:
A beautiful lady named Rian
hypnotized a Vor scion.
The little defective
thinks he's a detective,
but instead will be fed to the lion....

Miles gets limerickitus!
(Lois McMaster Bujold, Cetaganda)

I'll look for a Bujold blog next and hope for more luck re the rss thingy. And speaking of things, Thing #9 is now complete. I knew nothing about rss feeds when I started and there are still holes but the feeds from ebay are working brilliantly and I can see them having a life byond the scope of this training exercise.