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COMMENTS UPDATE

Okay you guys should be able to comment again! I deactivated the Disqus commenting system for the time being. I may or may not install the new plugin – still deciding on that. I’d switched to Disqus in the first place because my WordPress comment queue would get so much spam. But the Disqus one eventually begin getting spammed like nuts as well, although not as badly as WordPress… So we’ll see.

Anyway, for now the commenting system is just the regular WordPress one. Since it’s been a year and a half since I’ve used the WordPress system, and since I have it set to prevent comments from automatically posting from people whose comments haven’t previously been approved (to try to catch spam before it posts), if you’ve only been commenting for the past year and a half, your comment may not post right away – I may need to approve it first. But if it’s not spam I will!

Sorry for the inconvenience, you guys, and thank you as always for reading my blog 🙂

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COMMENTS

As everyone who may have tried to post a comment in the past couple of days has probably noticed, something is awry. You can write a comment but then there’s no button to click “post” or “publish” or whatever. I wrote to Disqus and they said they’ve recently upgraded their system and my WordPress plug-in was too old to automatically upgrade. Which means I have to uninstall the old one and reinstall the new edition. Since I’m really busy right now, not to mention technologically inept, this could take me awhile (someone else installed my old plug-in of course). Anyway, I will try to reinstall everything as soon as I can. But in the meantime, if you have a comment, you can always put it on Facebook, where I almost always link to my posts here. That’s where most people have been leaving comments for about the past year now anyway. You can also @ me on Twitter, although I think Facebook is better organized for comments on a particular subject. My Facebook account is here, and Twitter is here. Sorry for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience!

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PLEASE EXCUSE MY POSSESSED BLOG

I’m not sure what exactly is wrong with my blog lately, but it seems to be doing some rather odd things. For one, it’s inexplicably placed the sidebar at the bottom of the main page (though on all other pages it’s normal). So, if you’re on the main page and need to find something on the blogroll or do a search, please scroll all the way down. It’s also doing other crazed things like not allowing me to properly categorize new links (so, all links that I’ve added in the past few weeks are under “Other” all the way down at the bottom, even if they should be under “Dance: ballet,” etc.) It’s also inexplicably publishing posts before I hit the “publish” button, so sorry if something looks half done (it probably is). And, finally, comments are weird — some are going to spam without me sending them there and some are just not posting. Hopefully everything will work out. I apologize for the inconvenience which is hopefully only momentary! Methinks WordPress 2.7 is great in theory but has some real kinks…