To My Reader(s):

This blog recently moved to a new platform, WordPress. As a result, commenting is not handled in the same way anymore. You may leave a comment using the text boxes at the bottom of the entry pages. This will get your comment in the system, but will require you to wait until I can manually authorize it before it will be visible. This will also leave your comment open to analysis by the SPAM system.

You may recall from the previous system that you could authenticate with any number of services, OpenID, Facebook, AIM, Yahoo, etc. As of about 5 minutes ago that functionality has been restored, however, because of the modular nature of WordPress that option will NOT appear on the comments section, you must log in to the site first. You may login by clicking on the “Log In” button at the lower left panel of the page. Its a long way down there, but keep scrolling, you will find it. You will click on the icon panel with the service icons, at which point a box will open, you will select your network, and then login with the credentials of that system. Once this is done, your subscriber account will be created on the system and you will be able to comment freely and without censorship. You will at that point comment as normal (you should see your credentialed name and an empty box on each post).

This may all sound complicated, but the hardest part is finding the login button on the bottom of the page. If there is an authentication system somebody wants and it isn’t there, use a standard comment and let me know, I’ll try to get it in the system.