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David Siegel tweets: Looking to make a positive change in your life? Disable comments on your blog. When you want to respond to a blog post, get your own blog and write a blog post there.

Sometimes I have the following ideas about blogging and other writing for the web. The thing is that these ideas will not apply in the same way to other people. I think some of the points can be generalized for other people and applications. Notes These blog posts on this website are written with Vim and a few scripts through a SSH connection to my server. I would like to use Vim to edit my blog posts....

At last my blogging software creates entries with normal, human-readable URLs. It was a simple change; it seems kinda strange that I haven’t changed it earlier.

While I was working on the code that works with my comments, some bot posted a spam comment. I thought that would only work on weblogs that use popular software. Maybe my site uses names that are obvious enough for a bot to find out. As it’s not possible to post html or other markup to my comments, the entry is show as text and isn’t harmful (or useful) to anyone....