Rather than search out a WordPress plugin to display your RSS Feed icon in your sidebar this video shows how to simply use a Text Widget to allow your visitors to access your RSS feed via your sidebar.

You are going to need the following:

1) A RSS Icon – do a search in Google for “free RSS feed icon” – you’ll find plenty to choose from. Check any licencing requirements before use.

2) The url of the RSS feed for your site (the video shows how to find this.

3) You can write the required HTML yourself or simply use my EasyHyperLinks site.

4) You may want to use Feedburner to improve the quality of your RSS feed.

Here we go – this is how to add your RSS feed icon to a widget in your sidebar:

What has really upset me to the core is two things:

First, I lived in Tottenham as a young boy (our house was no more than 50 yards from the scene of the riots). If you are getting pictures on your news channels wherever you are in the world, you may have seen the burnt out building that was previously a carpet store. I walked past that building everyday for about 10 years. It used to be a department store – the Co-Op I think – and I can clearly remember buying my first set of darts there. Of course, Tottenham has changed dramatically since then and although it is very different it always brings back happy memories when I walk down Tottenham High Road to Spurs games. But now those memories are tainted with those scenes of violence and wanton destruction. What was a happy place for me is now full of hatred and desperation.

What depths of despair can people sink to that motivates them to go to such extremes? Yes, there’s a bit of the herd mentality where people act out of character because they get fired up by the crowd. But deep down everybody has a “regulator” mechanism. Why is it that some people can’t or won’t listen to it?

Second, and far, far more important than my childhood memories is the impact this has had on local business people. These are guys who are trying their hardest in a very deprived area to do something to make a better life for themselves and their families. Most are just making ends meet but their lives have been destroyed.

Their businesses have been looted, they have been violated and left with nothing but burnt our rubble where their business and possibly their dreams once stood. The insurance companies probably won’t pay out – riots and acts of God are omitted. How can anyone get over this?

If the rioters have a reason for their actions – supposedly a response to an act of the local police – then why oh why do they have to “hurt” the business people in their own communities? Whatever the grievance – these are not the people to blame nor are they the people who can change anything for these guys.

It is a very sad world we live in at times and my heart goes out to the innocent people who have had their lives shattered by these events.

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