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Thanks to Sandy for pointing out that the save my info checkbox for comments wasn’t working.  I’ve fixed that and also have relaxed my tag stripping in comments.  Bold, Italic, Paragraph, and A (link) tags will now render.

Along with some layout tweaks, I now provide an RSS feed of comments left on my posts. I also realized that you could leave a comment without supplying a valid email address and have fixed that bug.

I finally got my first honest piece of comment spam today and I feel so privileged. It must be some sort of sign that you’ve made it when someone figures out how to spam your very own built-from-scratch blogging scripts. Either that or there are a lot of scum-scking spammers with too much time on

I’ve found some time to add trackback capabilities to my blog. When I post, it sends trackback notices to all links and in theory, any post on my blog can receive a trackback notification and display a link. I’d appreciate any help in testing this, i’ve tested some already but you can never beat more

Two reasons – first, the realization that I’ve had this blog for a a year and five months, and having 45 minutes to kill on my way to and from work – made me wonder why I have this blog in the first place. I’d like to write for more than just my own interests.

Two new things you’ll notice on the left bar of my blog: The list of recent comments now includes the name of the person who made a comment. A form to subscribe to a weekly email of what I have posted to this blog. This is primarily for people who don’t use a syndication feed

Last night I did a pretty major, but mostly unnoticeable, upgrade to my blogging software. The most obvious changes you might notice are the option to save your comment posting info in a cookie and a list of the latest comments in the leftmost column on all pages. Other features which may come online soon

One thing that’ll be easy to implement is saving a user’s name, email, and website to a cookie and prepopulation the comments field if that cookie is there. Do I need the ubiquitous Save-my-info checkbox or is it ok to do this behind the scenes? I’m also thinking of implementing an optional email notification if

I’m getting married this weekend and off to Portugal right afterwards so entries here will be sparse until I return in July.