blog roll updates

The blog list that updates itself is a terrific tool, but also really frustrates me because it does not update everybody on it. There is no logical reason for this. There are some very good reads that do not seem able to catch the ring that lets readers know they wrote something new: [Darlene's Hodgepdge; Here in the Hills; and Blaugustine]. They always show up at the bottom and although they regularly update, blogger cannot recognize it.

Irritating though it was, I had resigned myself to this problem before I added Bumps Stump. At first it looked like it had worked but then I realized his listing had one topic, it kept going down the list, but he had written more. Is this a setting that some have on their blogs, and if so, what?

Anyway, check out Dixon's regular blog, Bumps Stump and don't assume he hasn't been updating because he probably has.

Dixon and I often do not agree on politics, but he has a strong, articulate viewpoint on many things. When he does write about politics, I do not see it as hate-filled or angry as it can so easily be. This is also the case of another conservative blog which I have on my blog list, Ingineer's Ramblings.

To be honest, I don't read a lot of right wing blogs. It's hard to write about these things and stick to the issues without them becoming filled with venom (on either side). I am always grateful for those who stick with me despite that disagreement-- especially if they comment here with some logic on why they differ. It's a hard time to be open minded, but I think it's important that we listen to each other.

AND if anybody has a clue as to why some blogs can't update, I'd love to hear it.

(Farm from the gravel road between storms.)