Sunday, October 7, 2007

#8 and #9 Make life "really simple" with RSS & a newsreader



I had no trouble navigating my way around the ideas of RSS and newsreaders but found the actual setting up much harder. Putting 'Sub with Bloglines' into my bookmarks menu headline made life much easier, because I could then just go onto a site I wanted to add to my Blogline, click on this and it would tell me if it had an RSS feed or not. If it did I would then be straight onto the page that allowed me to select the feed I wanted. My main disappointment was that most of the sites I visit from time to time did not have RSS feeds, even the Bureau of Meteorology site does not have one but they are working on it.
I'm really not sure how useful all this will be to me as I don't really spend that much time on the net, but I'll give it a go. It might be useful. I have added my URL for my blogline, but really doubt that anyone else will find the time to look let alone find it interesting.

http://rpc.bloglines.com/blogroll?id=Herbert

This was definitely the hardest thing I have done in this project so far and as its taken me hours (about 3) I need to add something calming to make me feel better about it all!! Hence the picture above from my garden. Did you know that all parts of the nasturtium are edible. Try adding nasturtium flowers to salads, they not only look great but have a mild peppery flavour which tastes great too.

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