what's the buzz ... tell me what's a happenin' ...

i've tried a number of times, over the last few days, to set it up so that interested parties would be notified when there was a new entry on this blog.

i tried google groups first, since that was suggested by the blog help section. several issues got wrestled with, but ultimately google groups was not the solution.

in the course of trying to use g-groups, i found out that i might be able to accomplish the mail-list thing within ms outlook. i can do it if i get a third e-mail address and i don't know if i want to bother, so i've talked myself into deciding not to let people know when i post -- they can find out if they are interested.

that said, My Younger Son suggested i might want to suggest to people they could do an rss reader thing if they really needed entry-by-entry notification. but i wanted to be a little bit educated if someone asked me about that arena, so i started checking around. after quite a bit of confusion and frustration, i checked with my wonderful computer guru, Greg Kissell, and he suggested i be careful and that if i really wanted to get a reader, that it would be good to check http://sourceforge.net first.

much, much later i have decided i might give Gregarius a try. no sense in not keeping up with the times, so if i dive right in i'll have to swim. rss/atom reader, here i come!

and while i'm at it, i think i'll get a site meter for the blog and see what that's all about, too!

wish me luck with my risks!

i feel -- (intimidated)
but i'll feel better by listening to -- Vilasido - Flow (FrostByte Groove Lounge)