Well I didn't seem to have any trouble working out how to use LibraryThing. But I was rather alarmed to find out that some Limey called Chadler had written all these books about me! How the hell did he find out all this stuff. There's also a book about my good friend Sam Spade, he works down in San Francisco, does a good job but I don't think he could stand it on the mean streets of LA.  Anyway I have made a list of these books here, so the guys at the Sheriff's office can look at it.

Sometimes I will be overwhelmed with a craving for a particular dish (e.g. chocolate soufflé). This will lead to me looking through copious cook books and websites searching for the ideal recipe. To aid me in my search I have added a search box to my blog, which is capable of metesearches.


To add the box I needed to use the draft version of Blogger.


First select the layout link from the dash board, then "add a gadget", then select the links option. Once it has opened you can select what web sites you would like to search. In my case I chose my favourite cooking sites. Once you have saved these you need to select "add a gadget" again. Now select "search box", and make sure the "linked from here" box is ticked.


Once you have saved all of this a search box and a list of links will appear on you blog. When you conduct a search in the new box it will provide you with results in a tabbed format. The first tab will be for results within your blog, the next for results within the pages you have linked to, and the final one is for results on the world wide web.

I found setting up my bloglines account and subscribing to rss feeds to be rather easy. Once set up they certainly save time when you want to be up to date with all your favourite websites. Setting up the bloglines blog was no more difficult, once I realised I hadn't validated my email address that is.
I am currently using the draft version of blogger which has this great new tool which allows you to a My Blogs List where you can add your RSS feeds to your blog (they're on the right).