This site has comments by email. This site also has posts by email, should you be sadistic enough to subscribe to it-hey, a couple of you have, so it’s relevant. Or it did, until approximately 2 hours ago. You see, WordPress released a slightly newish version of their software last month, and one or two of the things that get some fairly regular ( Read more... )

A long long time ago, in a reality far far away, Blogger used to actually be useful. When that came about, so too did a couple snarky bastards with a talent for mockery and making the stupid seem somewhat-well, okay, a lot-more ridiculous than it should. Then, Blogger stuck them the middle finger. Now, these guys are about as alergic to the word no ( Read more... )

I used to have a validation thing for email addresses in place, in order to prevent folks from deciding to use your@mamma.com or some other nonsensical and equally nonexistent email address to comment on the blog. Problem was, it interfered with users with actual, valid email addresses. Oops. My fail. Comments, at least on this blog, now do what ( Read more... )