Tuesday – 26 February 2008
I woke up this morning and there was the sun. The actual, honest-to-goodness sun. And there was hardly any haze obscuring the view of the valley. Win-Win.

Clarity is a good thing.

And, in the interest of clarity, it has come to my attention that I apparently need to make a few points about the upcoming move of commenting from LiveJournal to Random Access:

  • While I like the community of friends and interests on LiveJournal, I wanted to host my blog on my site. To that end, I have been using WordPress as my primary blog tool/repository since August of 2006.
  • After I switched to WP, I found a plug-in that allows my posts to be automatically crossposted to LJ, eliminating a need to cut-and-paste or forget/neglect to make sure that a post made it from Blog A to Blog B.
  • I was also able to use the LJ export function to export older posts into XML and a WordPress function to import the posts into Random Access.
  • Neither the export nor import function transfered the comments for the older posts.
  • The inherent problem that I found was that this split comments between the two sites – if someone posted a comment on LJ, I had to check it there; if it was on Random Access, I had to check it there.

So, that brings us to the past month or two. After some deliberation – and a few chats with as to why he forced comments to his WP blog – I decided to consolidate all commenting to Random Access.

I was recently asked why I assumed that some people ever look at the post on RA, if it is mirrored on LiveJournal. Valid question. My answer: I had not made such an assumption. I just decided that I wanted to have things “in one place.” To that end, I’m moving commenting off of LJ and on to Random Access.

What does this mean?

  • There will no longer be a link for commenting on my posts in LiveJournal.
  • In the “Originally posted at Random Access” banner at the top of each post, there will be a link to the comments page on Random Access.
  • Due to some issues with spam/spambots, I “locked” commenting to authorized users only…. so, the first time (ONLY) that you move to RA to comment, you’ll have to “sign in.” After that, it’s click-and-comment.

If anyone decides to fore go commenting on future posts after 29 February 2008 because of the change, I understand, but I’d like to say “Thank you,” in advance, to those of you who are willing to accommodate my idiosyncrasy.

Namaste.