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I need to find a better way to manage comments. Right now the blog software is set to wait for comments to be approved before they show up.

I wish I could just set it to “approve everyone but the dweebs who dick around with comment spam”. There’s gotta be a checkbox. I might just take the training wheels off of Movable Type’s back tire and see what it’s like.

Apart from that there’s the issue of replying to comments — when it comes to blogging, and this is where the difference of a consonant makes OH so much difference, I’m a noobie. The Movable Type interface needs a “Reply to this comment” button. I’m sure it exists. It has to. I can’t be the first “oh, I’m so smart” technogumby to think this up. I think it’s about time to go spelunking in the innards of Movable Type plugins.

Thanks to y’all that dropped me a note about the page load time (and thanks to BlogExplosion – Thomas who gave me a suggestion on fixing it).

I’ve updated the background image to a 150px x 150px image (vs the 2px x 1px image). Instead of waiting for your computer to draw little 2 pixel squares all over your screen, it’ll tack it up 22500 floozengrats at a time.

PLEASE drop me a note or a comment if you have issues with the page load.

I’m still pre-coffee. I’m definitely pre-beer. It’s too early for really spicey Thai food. I’m not in the mood for donuts. And, I don’t smoke. Any users coming near my desk for technical assistance, or Zucchini help them, emotional support, are in for a bumpy ride.

*cues spooky shark movie music*

I’m still waiting for SOMEONE’S husband in a cage.

If it hurries up the putting of husband in cage for She Who Runs Things Over At Cybervassals, my 10 words for Bono are:

husband, caged, cheese, pomegranate, rugburn, koala, mystery, wahoo, Wichita, and, of course, zucchini

…for I have sinned, it’s been more than a week since my last blog. Feh.

I’ve spent the last week nitpicking ways to make MT3.1 do what I want it to do. I think I’m close. I have it driving the bloggy pages and the not so bloggy pages.

Yet to do:

- Start blogging in earnest.
- Make the sidebar a bit more elegant in function.
- Add more content.

Simple enough.

This weekend is Thanksgiving weekend. I’ve just gorged myself on turkey. Can’t think. Gobble gobble zzzzz.

ANYWAY, I think I have the background and banner the way I want them. The little stars in the headers are crap. There’s something about the text (content, sidebar, etc…) that’s making my teeth itch. Or, perhaps, that could be the excess fowl. Stay tuned — as it wears off, I’ll either get it fixed or go out and buy a journal to practice all the things I want to practice the old fashioned way. Screw that, I’d have to learn how to write by hand again.

I’m feeling a prisoner to technology right at the moment, as well as a victim of Verdana.

…but here is one just the same. Testing the pingage.

I use too many smileys. They suck too. In fact, since I can’t seem to communicate in any electronic forum without aptly seasoning whatever text I happen to type with a barrage of colons and brackets, I suck too.

So, there I was… sitting innocently at my desk when I came to the sudden realization that I had turned into an addicted blog whore.

Reload.
Reload.
Reload.
<sigh>
Reload.
Reload.
Reload.
<sigh>

Hi, my name’s Troy. I’m addicted to blogs. There. I’ve said it.

I figure this can be a new project — something to keep me sane while I continue to hate the world of IT.

ANYWAY, things seem sane with the exception of the odd, minor link. The site is probably going to change daily as I fall out of and in love with different ways of laying it out.