Fish’s Bloglines Blog

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I have three bookmarks that I use every day: My Yahoo, Bloglines, and mac.fiveforks.com. My Yahoo is for news, stocks, and some e-mail, like receiving Clark Howard’s e-mail newsletter.

Bloglines is a web-based “Feed Reader” that keeps tabs on several different blogs I read. It’s kind of like a My Yahoo for your favorite blogs. It can also receive e-mail newsletters like Motley Fool’s News. (I should really move my Clark Howard subscription to it… hmmm…) Bloglines is much more efficient than visiting blogs directly, because it keeps track of new postings and puts them all in one place. Very useful for blogs where new posts appear every now and then. It is better than software-based feed-readers in many ways, but mainly because I can access it from any computer at any time (Home or work, IBM or Mac.)

I went ahead and put Ted, Kelly, Carol, Claire’s and other mac.five blogs in Bloglines. So I often don’t make it to mac.fiveforks.com because I read new postings via bloglines first. (Although I like the comments summary on mac.five.)

Bloglines has other features, including the ability to share your bloglines and you can even have your own blog. I don’t use the blog feature, since I use MovableType, but for fun, I tested it and it works.

This is a link to my Bloglines blog:

www.bloglines.com/blog/fishback

This is a link to the public view of my Bloglines feed reader:

www.bloglines.com/public/fishback

If you keep up with more than 5 blogs or other “RSS” feeds (like SlashDot) then I recommend Blogines.

B.C. Bathing

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Betty Claire is interested in setting up a family blog like this one. Without a resident web person or two, I don’t think our set up can work. So I looked at using Blogger (acquired by Google) which can integrate with photo-websites like Flickr.

I set up this test site to show her. It includes a photo of BC on the beach.

Stonegate on Blogspot.

Don’t Use Debit (Check) Cards

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Clark Howard has a collection of tips, most of them against using debit cards (Wachovia called them check cards.) With credti cards there are all kinds of rules and regulations that protect you in case of fraud or merchant error. A simple phone call will typically clear up any problem.

Debit cards do not have the same level of protection. And because they can be used without a PIN number, you can have a lot more hassle with a stolen debit card than a stolen credit card.

Wachovia keeps sending us “Visa Check Cards.” I call them and tell them we do not want them. We just want an ATM card. Clarke’s June 4 post suggest I may not be able to get away with this much longer.

Clark Howard: Tips on Debit cards

Speedygreen 2000

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While the bermuda grass has come in better than ever (w/ something of a late start thanks to a winter weed problem), I’ve been battling outcroppings of crabgrass all summer by spraying with crabgrass killer. This results in yellow spots when the weather is dry. Crabgrass preventer in early spring is the only way to go.

Yesterday I put down 16 lbs of Vigaro Ultra Turf 29-3-4. It had a setting guide that included by Scott’s Speedygreen 2000. I set the little rotating control to 6.75. The bag was supposed to cover 5,000 sq feet. At 6.75, I seemed to have just enough.

Our front yard is a triangle with a whole (pine island) in the middle. I had Danny measure the 3 sides one time using a 100 foot power cord as his ruler. He did the math. I don’t remember what he came up with. Let’s call it 5,000 sq feet.