Reality is so rarely as interesting as the speculation. Speculation among more veteran Vermont bloggers is that we here on vt.Buzz are unwilling to post links to other sites. The theory is that we have a corporate policy against it.

Well, out here in the newsroom, here's the reality:

Because I am a blogger, some might assume I am a hip, hep-cat, cutting-edge kind of gal who invents urls and does a little ftp and html in her sleep. Ahh, no. I don't really know what those terms are. I am a technological plodder. Not exactly a tyranasaurus rex because, after all, I was willing to take the big step from the print-on-paper world into the ephemeral ideas-in-air blogosphere. But if you liken my tech skills to learning to ride a bike, I am wobbling down the street, just having left my mother's outstretched arms, and, if I am lucky, I will find some grass in time for me to stop so I don't splat onto concrete.

Fear not, though, I eventually learned how to stop a bike without having to fall on the grass. So it is with blogging. Having learned that my cut-and-paste method of adding a link was insufficient -- that real bloggers can't bear to be slowed down by such simplistic 20th-century methods -- I have applied myself.

So here it is, my inaugural attempt at a real link. I don't know if the bike will crash, but here goes. You can read about speculation as to why I am unwilling to put links on our blog by clicking here.

-- Terri Hallenbeck