Ugh, I didn't want to get up this morning.

It's cold, and I'm tired, there's nothing to eat, and I'm just not interested.

Anyway, I got up, and started going through my emails.

I had received an email from a guy I used to chat to all the time, but then he just disappeared.

He said he found my blog, and asked if I could put a comment system in so that he could make sarcastic comments on my life. Hey, that sounds really cool!

So I googled around, and I found a couple of blogger comment systems, since commenting was not something blogger offered natively when I started this blog, I didn't really think anyone would read it anyway, so I never bothered to spend the time finding and setting up a comment system, at the start.

I came across "CommentThis" at http://commentthis.com/, which looked ok, but the comments are hosted on some guys server, not mine, and I don't like things like that. Back when I used to actually do something with my other website (which I won't go into detail about, you can find it if you look hard enough), I spent too much time working out what files had disappeared, when GeoShitties or xoom would decided to delete me for no reason, and then, while I hadn't actually lost anything, it was a pain to find my backups of everything, upload them all again, and change the links in about 100 pages.

In this case, if the guy disappears, then I'll probably lose all my comments, which I really wouldn't care for.

I kept looking, and I found "blogkomm", at http://www.blogkomm.com/. It looks really good.

It's a php4 script, that doesn't really require anything special (except a web server with php4 on it).

I started looking at installing this.

While I was reading through this, before I went and spent a lot of time installing it, I had also found "Quodlibet's Blogger Commenting Service", at (silly long url, so it gets its own line):

http://comment.quodlibet.be/v2/index.php?page=&sub=&forum=&stats=&books=

I noticed in the news items there, that blogger.com now provides its own comment system. It must be part of the new interface they launched a few days ago, that I first noticed on Tuesday.

I went over to blogger.com, and I browsed around. I found a page about "get feedback", where they talked about allowing viewers to post comments.

I went into the settings of my blog, and found a new comment section that I hadn't noticed before.

I changed some settings, and enabled it.

It's currently enabled to allow anyone to post a comment, since I know what a pain in the bum it is, when you come across something on the web, where you want to put a quick useful comment about whatever is being discussed, perhaps a URL or somethuing that's relevent, but then you are forced to sign up to something in order to do it.

I rarely go through with that, since I only wanted to put a quick comment there, and I can't be bothered waiting for some form to load, filling it in, waiting for an email back, clicking on something, and then hoping my email address isn't going to get sold to spammers.

Anyway.. so, my blog is now configured for anyone to be able to comment. I don't know how you comment, you can work that out.

I will be closely monitoring the comments, and if there's anything dumb that turns up, it will be deleted, and if there's more than a handful, then commenting will get changed to blogger.com users only, and you'll have to sign up, or I'll disable it altogether.

Have fun.