My son is pet sitting a Quaker Parrot; I already own two cockatiels and a lovebird; add in a distressed (you would be too if your family up and abandonded you with strangers) Quaker and things get a little loud. I'm hoping that he quiets down over the next day or so as he gets accustomed to being here. Until then my house is very noisy.
I'm thinking of changing the look of the blog, what do you all think? I'm not happy with the feel the muted green colour gives. I was also thinking of changing the title a bit; tweaking it. But I didn't want to up and change it all without warning you. I also need to go through my last few entries and edit them.
Last night I read a whole book! I was in Chapters while my son was in Kung Fu (three hours of Kung Fu leaves lots of time to kill) and ended up reading an entire book. The book was called BlogWild (by: Andy Wibbles); I picked it up in the first place becuase I had heard it mentioned in an ezine. It really was fascinating. It gave me lots to think about. If you are at all interested in doing more than just babbling (which isn't meant to be an insult - maybe dabbling would be better) with your blog it's a worthwhile read (I wouldn't pay the hardcover price for it though). It is specifically designed for businesses though.
I got lots of great URLs to check out that are designed for bloggers, learnt the history of blogging (I knew it was all about the geeks), and how blogging works to spread the word (or market). But I have a question - does anyone know if the RSS feed for my blog is running? As far as I know I have it turned on but I don't know if anyone uses it or if it actually works (i.e. sends out whenever I post a new entry). Or, maybe you didn't even know you could use RSS on homeschoolblogger. I just want to know if I need to use a different service or if this one is up and running. If you use my RSS and don't mind, post a comment to let me know; thanks.
There is another book on blogging I was looking at. It's called Naked Conversations. It's a little more in depth than BlogWild was, and talks about more than your own blogging - it also goes further into the history and current effects of blogging. Looks fascinating! I'll let you know when I finally read it.