Feeling brave and being inspired by Coffeeswirls’ nifty new side RSS feed, I decided to go for broke and learn how to install a plugin. Learning to install a plugin taught me a few things:

    1. Read the directions very carefully.
    2. Don’t skip any steps.
    3. Only download plugins where the designer doesn’t speak in code and assume that you know stuff.
    4. Read the “read me” file.
    5. When it doesn’t work, see #1.

I did successfully install two plugins, but a few bugs prevented them from working properly. As it happened, I came across a new-to-me feature at del.icio.us which is a lot easier than installing a plugin. Anyone can do this. Linkrolls are a way for you to have your latest del.icio.us bookmarks displayed as part of your website. I’m tired of being a link miser. If you look under the recent comments in my sidebar, you’ll see “Also Worth Reading,” which are links that I really enjoyed.

With Linkrolls, you can add any link with one click. You don’t have to login to your blog or mess with any HTML. One click of a button, and it’s done. The small black text underneath the link is my two-cents. This is the Dummy Rip Off version of the Challies A La Carte. I’m such a wannabe.

The weird thing about this is that Linkrolls is RSS powered, but if you read this blog by RSS, then you can’t see the updated links unless you pull up the site. I’m sure there’s a way around that, but I don’t know it. Doesn’t matter, a girl can only handle so much change at one time anyway.

As a side note, if you don’t yet use an RSS reader (such as Bloglines or Feedburner) to read blogs, you really should consider it. I finally set up an account several months ago, and I can’t believe I waited so long. Even if you read only three blogs regularly, it is a huge time saver. I thought you’d have to know .php stuff, how to unzip files, and other html-super-code language, but in fact, it’s really easy. Try it out. Your computer won’t self-destruct if you push a wrong button. That’s just in the movies.