Another brief technical update for folks.
I decided to switch RSS readers today. There are a couple reasons for this.

1. I don’t like having to log-in to multiple sites, and seeing as a use gmail when not at my home computer, using google reader seems like an easy step.
2. Google reader has a number of nice features, easy starring, easy sharing and more. This will help me quickly browse the things I’m interested in reading and tag them to read at a later date. Hopefully thus saving time.
3. Because of the sharing feature, I might stop letting list of “items to blog about” from piling up and instead just direct you to my shared items list for insight into the latest things I’m reading about. (Visit here)

Also on a technical note, some folks have been having problems commenting on posts on my site. There are a couple reasons for this.

1. Do to the semi popularity of my blog, and mostly just because it is on the internet, it is susceptible to spam. Becuase of that I’ve implemented a few spam blockers to catch the 3105 and counting spam messages that have shown up on my blog.
2. Some of you have been written off as spam. I’m sorry if that has happened and I’m trying to find a way to “whitelist” people so that we don’t run into that problem, but I haven’t found it yet.
3. The other reason as some have noted for the commenting problems might be an incompatiblity with my new design. Just so everyone knows, I host this blog myself and do the coding and html on my own too (the design is usually borrowed from elsewhere). I’m not an expert and sometimes I don’t know how to make things compatible for everyone. For now your best option would be to: Get Firefox.

Please do me a big favor if you’ve had problems commenting and send me a message through the Contact button up top. I’d really appreciate it. I have visitors coming to this site everyday and I’d like to make it as user friendly as possible.