I would like to set up my journal with a sidebar so that I can link to all my books and useful things like that. (From what I can tell from other people's journals, this would only be noticeable if you went to naomikritzer.livejournal.com, not if you have me popping up on your friends page.)

Is there some relatively simple, non-horribly-technical way to do this?

Not that you can tell if you're seeing this on a friend's page, but I've changed my format so that now I have links galore (to my books! my friends' books! my parents' books! wheeeeee!)

The format I picked has a space for a "blurb," but I can't figure out where I go to type in a blurb that would appear there. Anyone know?

On my link list I decided to include some random useful or bizarre/funny web pages I've stumbled across, and as a result visited the Gadgets for God page for the first time in ages. I highly recommend a visit, but do not browse that page while eating or drinking. I'm almost (almost) tempted to get a set of the Ten Plagues of Egypt finger puppets... but not as much as I am by the entire concept of a Virgin Mary bobblehead....