RSS and double glazing

As I type this there are two men in my bedroom.  As some of you will know this doesn't happen too often ;-) 
We are having new windows fitted, double glazed.  

Mmmm cozy.  But because we're in a conservation area we have to get proper wooden sash windows and each window costs the same as a small tropical island, so this week is just the bedroom and bathroom...then we save like b*ggery to get a few more done in October.

What's all this got to do with 23 Things I hear you cry.  Well, nothing, but it's on my mind so I thought I'd share. Any way, I have set up some RSS feeds to some of the blogs on 23 Things, not to all of them because I noticed that a few are languishing all bare and unloved.  Maybe they need some more encouragement.  If they read my blog they might get the idea that blogs don't all have to be intellectual and high-brow...

I quite like Google reader, but there must be others we can use.  I am a lazy web user though and do still like a nice email alert telling me to look at something.  Can we get Google Reader to alert us via email?  Basically I guess I could set an Outlook reminder to get me to check it.  Then maybe once I'm used to looking it will become second nature.

I am still finding blogging strange though.  My online experiences started with using the very first chat sites back in 1996 whilst I was at Uni... The Rose and Crown Pub... none of you young whipper snappers will remember that.  My bestest mate is someone I met on that site - turned out that after chatting online for 3 years we were by then working round the corner from each other in Leeds.  So I guess for me the web has always been about communicating, chatting, interacting, whereas a blog is about writing and putting it out there with no instant feedback - weird.  You'd think therefore that I would be a big fan of Twitter..... but more about that another time eh?