Ok, you might be thinking what is this techie stuff

doing on the Family Blog???
I just wanted to add a quick note to those that might be reading these to have a little helper. I am not going to go into any great detail about the stuff but just going to make a recommendation and point out some links
(If you need some technical reading on this see here) .
RSS, feeds, blogs are some of the current big news for the past few years and for those of you that aren't taking advantage of Feed Readers / Aggregators, don't let the names distract you, they will make your discovery of new information that matters to you much more easy.
Once you have a reader set up (recommendation below), as you are surfing around various sites that you find interesting look for the subscription link (and no, money is not always, in fact hardly ever, exchanged with these subscriptions...you're not buying a magazine although the article's you read may influence you to buy a magazine, but thats not what I'm talking about). Sometimes it'll point to various websites that feed the information:
Google,
Yahoo, etc (there are dozens...)
The link I usually look for is:

(Some browsers like
Firefox
have this immediately in the address bar to subscribe to the site)
I am currently using Google's:
Google Reader and really like it.
(

Warning tech note: I like the Ajax scrolling to get new articles and how to easily it is post article links to a blog)
So please try one of these out and remember to
add us to your reader to keep up on any new posts.