I've created a new widget for my blog called the "TuneRoll". I should have been able to use the Blogroll manager for this, but I can't use local images as the link in the Blogroll manager. The only other options were to create a custom component within the layout manager or to create a custom template that included the correct HTML. Needless to say, going with a custom component was far easier for my purposes than the only other alternative.
The TuneRoll is an extension of the "FaceRoll" concept (which itself is based on the "BlogRoll" concept). FaceRolls are simply pictures of people that link to their blogs. I thought it would be neat to expand on this idea and give me a relatively simple way to let you know which CDs I'd recently purchased. The links currently take you to Amazon.ca, but I might change this at some point in the future.
If you want the code and an explanation of how I implemented the TuneRoll, please feel free to send me an email.
[Later; I've added a small new feature to the TuneRoll. If you are authenticated, there will be a [?] in the Roll that links to this post. If you aren't authenticated, then there will be no link. I accomplished this using the if/else system variables.]