Just playing around

playing around with Thunderbird's RSS news aggregator.

What's an RSS news aggregator, you say? Why not ask the Wikipedia? Stunningly not all that informative on why you'd want to use a news aggregator.

Say you're like me and you're interested in what goes on in the VFP community. There are sites you can check out to see what's new. And there are many foxpro gurus who post to their own blogs. Only, as with most blogs, they post irregularly. And the only way to know if there's a new post is to go and look at all those sites.

Wouldn't it be nice if you had a program that kept track of all the blog entries you'd seen and would let you know when a new one came along? Well, yeah, they have stuff like that. They call them News Aggregators.

Take that, Wikipedia!

This was a pretty senseless post. But i just want to see how Thunderbird handles me posting a new entry to my blog.

(Also, I like the wikipedia. But it is a little lacking in detail on this subject.)