16 Aug 05 Housekeeping Details

Today’s blog is dedicated to some “housekeeping details.”

First, I want to thank those of you who read and take the time to comment. I truly enjoy reading your thoughts and observations. On so many occasions your comments make the daily blog worth reading.

Second, If you haven’t registered, so as to comment, please consider doing so. It’s free and simple to set up. Yes, you have to actually setup your own blog page but you do not have to update it or maintain it. It would be keen if you did. The more people writing and sharing thoughts the stronger community we build.

Third, I try to be diligent in preventing spam comments. For those of you who are new to this genre, blog pages can be spammed just like e-mail. These are the comments that say something like “nice blog, good content, I enjoyed reading.” Then something like “hey check out my web page for this that or the other” with a hyperlink will appear. DON’T CLICK ON THE HYPERLINKS These comments often appear as anonymous but just last night I had three such comments from fictitious registered users. These type of comments are simply unsolicited offers to purchase or enlarge (and we are not talking about Jabez here). I think in the long run if blogger does not find a way to stop this practice it will eventually bring an end to the blogging for everyone.

Those of you who have your own blogs and find these comments on your site just log in to blogger (with your username and password) click to view your blog - click to view the comments - next to each comment you will see a trash can - click on the trash can and a prompt will appear - select the option that says permanently delete this comment (it may include something about this blocks the user from commenting) which is what we want. In fact, there’s a couple of you out there that had better straighten up or I’m going to block you as well! (I’m just kidding).

I’ve been enjoying this blog experiment and hope you have as well. Let’s end with one of those questions designed to troll for comments. If we came to visit you, in your town, where would we have to go eat?