I now know why...

only a few people's blogs are showing up as updated in my blogroll. It's because the people in question are not enrolled in Weblogs.com. how do you get enrolled, you ask? well, follow the link...i found the bit to sign up all the way at the bottom right corner of the F.A.Q. page. now, it seems you're supposed to ping them to let them know you've updated (so that's what that was about!) and blogspot blogs don't have that feature automatically...can you find a way around it? yes. you go here and do it manually. yeah, it's a little bit of extra work, but if you want it to be known that your blog is updated, you'll suffer through it. go on and do it, i dare ya.

a real post shall follow later.