Serendipity

While wrangling with a problem in Scrapblog, I discovered another social site that amused me. It's called Catster. It's for cat owners to share stories and photos about their pets. There is also a companion site called Dogster (ew!). For those of us for whom pets are our children, this would be great fun. They have groups and little gift buttons (to give someone else's pet a virtual treat) and generally they are like Facebooks for pets. Of course, Facebook has some applications that are actual pet Facebooks (I've also registered Yseult and Collage for Catbook), but I get bored with these things quickly and feel the need to move on to fresher meat. The site is highly commercial, unlike Facebook, so it's more like MySpace. MySpace doesn't have a Catspace application that I'm aware of.
I wish I could tell you more about Catster, but actually I ran across it about 2 am and barely had enough energy to fill in profiles on all cats present and past. Now I have this major luggage labeled LV all over under my eyes.
I've added a Catster button for Yseult on this page. Show your pets you love 'em!

Hot Off the Press

Gee, the web can be fun! So is shameless self-promotion!

Gliffy - Glyphs in a Jiffy, I suppose

Look familiar?

You may or may not know that I just love this sort of thing. I've done several of these, for the Children's Room, the Adult Section, and the Children's Workroom (to plan how to move things around). This looked like Gliffy would be prettier than doing it in Publisher, which is what I had been doing. I've even done this with paper, a ruler, and scissors. But, a mini-Cad that's online! Wheeee!
Well, I find it annoying. By "it" I mean the free version. You can't see all of the work surface because there's a ruddy great banner urging you to upgrade to a paid account. And you can't get rid of it. You can do other things with this, such as flow charts (which I don't love quite as much as floor plans), but it's not worth the effort/annoyance if you already have Publisher and are used to working with that. What it has: a grid for layout. What it lacks: nudge. One more annoying thing: I confused my internet toolbar with theirs because both Edits were in the upper left corner. That could confuse a stupid person. Oops.