Well, here it is meeting night and as usual, I'm not ready (completely). If this is your first time reading posts here, you'll of course notice that these are sort of in "reverse" order... in other words, the latest (newest) words and pictures are here at the top. You can scroll down to see the previous posts or use the handy "previous posts' links... they just take you down the page.

Let's see. With Blogspot you can...

* Easily post some words to your own website. It's got a very easy intuitive interface, and if you know something about coding web pages you can do almost anything you could do with a regular web host and some web page making tool like Frontpage or Dreamweaver.

* You can now add images. You can't place them... they come in as a separate post, but I'd bet you could do some cool stuff if you knew how to change the code.

* You can also easily create hotlinks for your readers to click on to go to other place in your blog or anywhere on the Net.

* You can open the blog to comments from anyone, or just "members" and you can completely lock out all users except the ones you want (providing they know the password and are members of blogspot themselves)

There's much more, but I won't blather about it here... you could read all about it on the instruction pages and in the Help feature here. Like about any other computer related endeavor, you learn this stuff by doing and making mistakes. Remember, this is not in stone, you can get back in and easily change your posts and even delete them or the entire blog and start all over again.

This particular Blogging tool was originally recommended by TechTV (sad to say they've now been 'absorbed' by a big Gaming TV network, and it's not nearly as handy as it used to be. That's from a non-gamer's point of view, but you have to be Windows and hardware saavy to play games effectively, so I don't know what they're thinking taking off great shows like 'Call for Help' and reducing the play time of Screen Savers to one show a day.

I was going to try and put some handy links here in the box off to the right (currently, depends on what template you're running), but perhaps we'll try that and some more picture posts tonight at the meeting.

I will also have an external hard drive and show you how easy it is to back up your system nowdays. See you over there.