Hooray!

Many of you have been asking about RSS feeds, tags, channels, and the absence of Laelaps from the main Sb page, and if you have I've got some good news for you. It's all been fixed, so you should be able to see this blog listed in the various channels and everyone should now be able to enjoy Laelaps to the full.

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I am woefully behind the time. What, exactly, are RSS feeds? And if I check the site every day, should I even worry about them? It's not like extra content, is it?

Zach, RSS feeds are a way to see everything I've been doing here on Laelaps without having to visit the main page (you can even get updates to your e-mail). It's an easy way to get short snippets of what all your fav blogs are doing without having to actually visit them. I like doing things the old fashioned way myself, so if you're visiting every day you don't have to worry, but it's just a different way to keep track of blogs.