Rollyo - thing 12

I couldn't think of many personal uses for this, but I tried to create a way to expedite online shopping for clothes for Ava (as an example. In reality, I buy most of her stuff at a thrift store). When I linked to the toddler-girl-specific spots on sites like Old Navy and Gap, I couldn't get appropriate results when searching. So I changed the rollyo to the general shopping sites (i.e., plain oldnavy.com). It now works most of the time, but I sometimes have to sort through results for adult clothes as well. And adding the word girl's or toddler's throws it off. And even then, sometimes the links are to sites not found. I don't think rollyo is an efficient way to shop.

http://rollyo.com/juliewilde71/my_clothes_for_ava/

LibraryThing - #11

Someone introduced me to LibraryThing about a year ago, and I use it to enter a book title and find similar titles for customers. It works for reader's advisory in a way that NoveList and Amazon don't.

I added five titles to my account, but I don't see using it personally. I don't own many books outside of cookbooks and knitting books (and the fiction I do own, I never read because I'm saving them for a huge snowstorm or something ridiculous like that - buying a book is like the kiss of death). I could catalog everything I read even if I don't own it, but I still like my pencil and paper list for that. Maybe if we get a laptop where the keyboard and wireless work, I can use the computer more at home and get into something like this.

http://www.librarything.com/catalog/juliewilde71

Avatars - thing 10

I couldn't get the Simpsons avatar generator to work! I made my selections, but the screen was too small to get to the submit button, I guess. Aargh. I hate that. My goth name is Heavenly Demonic. I enjoyed the dumpr sketch tool I found on the generator blog. Here are sketches of my kids. And finally, I used yahoo avatar and created one that I think is pretty close to how I look, actually, as far as avatars go. At least the purse is a lot like my real one. And I have that shirt.