XML/RSS

Ok - I'm busy trying to make my blog better looking as time goes by. Two things I don't understand are XML and RSS. I pretty much understand what they are, and wanted to put an XML feed from my local news channel website onto mine. I got to the part where it basically said "click on this to put our XML headlines onto your site", but then it said that I have to have an RSS reader, I think? So, now I know that I need some kind of software, right?

If it makes anyone happy, I found a book online called "XML for Dummies" - ROFL! That's appropriate.

(note: Lucy says "RSS and XML are hard to understand! I'm just a little 5-month-old piddy - we need help!")

I'm digging "Blogger Images"! I didn't realize I could play with the placement of the pics. With Hello, I can only (so far, at least) post them and write something at the top. This is much better, I think.

By the way, this pic is from the first day we had Lucy. Isn't she adorable? Her eyes were already turning slightly yellow by then (she was 2 days shy of being 6 weeks old), but in this pic, you can see the blue she had left. She was so tiny!

I just finished watching Miss Evers' Boys. I always thought that was a movie about a mother and her sons, but it's actually about Alfre Woodard as a nurse treating black syphillis patients. Actually, they weren't even being treated. They were being lied to, and not getting any treatment at all. There was one man that sticks out in my mind - Willie Johnson. He was a dancer whose only big dream was to dance at the Cotton Club. Eventually, without the treatment he though he was getting, he became weak, and later could hardly dance at all. At the end, he was dancing with a cane at good as he could on the graves of some of the other men while Miss Evers testified at what I thought was a senate subcommittee? It ended up being such a sad and frustrating story. I didn't know until the end that it was actually a true story.