Message to my reader

I really appreciate comments on my posts, so please don’t hesitate if you’re tempted to respond to something I write. To everyone who has posted - thanks! Unfortunately I’m increasingly being blitzed by comment spam and have received 150+ comments for moderation in the last 24 hours. Flicking through these has become a real chore so I’ve had to enable the option that requires peeps to register before commenting. I guess this is just to ask you to not be put off and to continue (or begin) responding to my posts. Unless you’re a spawn of the devil spammer that is! Thanks for reading. Okay, I’ve finally managed to enable a spam plugin that was giving me problems, so I’m going to hold off the comment registering and see how successful it is.

Whilst writing, I’m pretty much in two minds about having migrated this blog to WordPress from Blogger. I was attracted by the ability to provide a proper search and to be able to categorise my posts. The fact that it’s free is also attractive. However downsides include:

• The whole thing is too complex for my little brain. For example, trying to adapt the visual template is much too complex, hence the dull generic look that’s prevailed for so long here. In fact, most of the adaptations available seem to be only for those with a fair amount of time and energy to work out the not at all clear instructions.
• And the aforementioned comment spam is a real downer. Wordpress offers all sorts of ways to battle against this latter problem, but the one thing it doesn’t offer is a the word verification offered by Blogger that would surely alleviate this.

All in all, I believe I’d return to Blogger if it wasn’t a gigantic pain to manually reimport all my posts since I made the switch.