#12 Roll your own search engine with Rollyo

Another really useful site. I love that I can put together a cluster of bookmarks that I use all the time and just search in these. I'm updating a book at present and need to check that all the botanical names are up-to-date. So far I have been checking them in each individual site. Now I can just do one search, so much quicker. The picture is of tree wormwood, one of the plants I have been checking. I even managed to copy the rollyo icon into my blog. I'm sure I'll find ways of using this for all sorts of other regular searches.

#11 All about librarything

At last I have found something that I really feel I could spend a lot of time with. I would love to use this site to catalogue all my gardening books. And all the collections of my favourtite authors. I very much look forward to spending more time on this site.
I've added a few of my books to librarything at librarything
The picture has nothing to do with the text, I just added it because it is so joyous. I took it on a recent trip to Adelaide in the botanic gardens rose garden

#10 Play Around with Image Generators

I have enjoyed looking at different generators, not just the image ones, and can see that a great deal of time could be spent on these. I had fun with the Ya Ya namer generator (http://yayasisterhood.warnerbros.com/cmp/namegen_small.html) where I found that my name should really be Duchess Sweet Flower, I figured I could live with that, not so sure about my son's Ya Ya name, which would be Empress Drunk as a Skunk!

I then found out I could generate my own lava lamp (http://www.jellymuffin.com/generators/lava_lamp/) Wow!

Create a Lava Lamp

And then I found I could also create my own clock

Custom Myspace Clock

At this point I thought I should stop while I was ahead

There are lots more like these at
http://www.jellymuffin.com/generators/textpix2/

#8 and #9 Make life "really simple" with RSS & a newsreader

I had no trouble navigating my way around the ideas of RSS and newsreaders but found the actual setting up much harder. Putting 'Sub with Bloglines' into my bookmarks menu headline made life much easier, because I could then just go onto a site I wanted to add to my Blogline, click on this and it would tell me if it had an RSS feed or not. If it did I would then be straight onto the page that allowed me to select the feed I wanted. My main disappointment was that most of the sites I visit from time to time did not have RSS feeds, even the Bureau of Meteorology site does not have one but they are working on it.
I'm really not sure how useful all this will be to me as I don't really spend that much time on the net, but I'll give it a go. It might be useful. I have added my URL for my blogline, but really doubt that anyone else will find the time to look let alone find it interesting.

http://rpc.bloglines.com/blogroll?id=Herbert

This was definitely the hardest thing I have done in this project so far and as its taken me hours (about 3) I need to add something calming to make me feel better about it all!! Hence the picture above from my garden. Did you know that all parts of the nasturtium are edible. Try adding nasturtium flowers to salads, they not only look great but have a mild peppery flavour which tastes great too.

#6 More Flickr Fun, Multi Boab

Multi Boab, originally uploaded by Herbage8.

I spent some time playing around with mashups and color pikr as well as several other applications. I enjoyed color pikr but would have liked to have been able to select the pictures and arrange them myself. Thought I'd try the Wharhol effect on a boab photo. I really liked the end result.