Made a couple of changes to the blog, neither of which is likely to interest most readers. Feel free to ignore this.
Regarding comments: I launched this blog using IntenseDebate for a comments management system. This was a carryover from my use of ID at the now-shuttered Waveflux. Today I deactivated the IntenseDebate plugin because the system isn’t yet flexible enough for reasonably easy adaptation to my blog layout. I say ‘reasonably’ because I don’t expect any plugin to match my needs right out of the box. Still, I don’t have much time or interest in kludging a plugin into submission. I need comments to match the look and feel of the rest of the site, and I want to give commenters the tools to easily format their messages. Right now – and with the use of WP Ajax Edit Comments and MCEComments – it’s easier to accomplish this without ID, hence the change. I’m keeping my ID account, however, because you never know.
Yes, gravatars in comments are gone for now, but I’ll bring them back when time allows.
Regarding contact: I had decided some time ago to stop using the cformsII plugin to provide contact forms on this and other blogs I run. The plugin provides far more than simple contact functionality and was frankly overkill for my purposes. Still, I likely wouldn’t have acted on my decision for some time had it not been for the GPL/open source melodrama starring cformsII that opened for reviews this weekend. No need to delve into the matter here; things will work out for everyone involved, or they won’t. My concerns are more personal, and now solved thanks to my having replaced cformsII with the Secure and Accessible PHP Contact Form by Mike Jolley and Mike Cherim. Does everything I want it to and nothing I don’t – and all without attendant drama.
