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Hey all. This is just a quick note to say sometime in the week or so I'm going to change my website over to Squarespace 6 (it's currently still running on 5.) That should in theory be seamless but I know theory and I know my friend Murphy and his law. So if you see something weird going on please go ahead and drop me a line. Hopefully at worst there will be a day or so of whatever DNS disruption we need and then maybe some fiddling about as I settle in. (I'm not 100% sold on the theme I'm using, for example.)

Anyway, should be a fairly minor issue and then things should work a little better.

Bring me your comments, yearning to be free!

In the comments thread over on the X-Com post Tony mentioned that there was an annoying CAPTCHA that you had to pass in order to post a comment. I don't see that because I have an account on the site so I'm not considered an anonymous commenter. I can't find a setting to turn off the CAPTCHA but I can have up to 250 accounts on my current plan. I can make accounts that let you login and post comments without hassling about who you are. Tony beta–tested this and it seems to work well. However, what I can't provide on my current plan is a form where you sign up for an account. So. We don't' see a ton of traffic on this blog and I suspect I can keep up with requests for accounts. If you'd like to post a comment drop me a line and I'll get you squared away. If you don't have an email address for me there's a form in the sidebar on the right that you can use to contact me.

I should note that I'm not doing anything to remove the old "anonymous" comment system, so if you're posting a one-off comment and would prefer to use that go ahead. It just turns out that if you're likely to make multiple comments over time that it's a bit friendlier to get an account here and avoid the rigamarole. It's a new option, not a replacement of the old system.

The Move

OK folks. I’ve pulled the trigger on some changes, and they should propagate out in about two hours or so. If things go well than many folks will just redirect to the new site. If things go poorly … well here’s a few good things to know.

The blog should be accessible at /blog If it isn’t it will definitely be at /blog. If you want a RSS feed you can get one there.

The existing blog URL at http://www.hiddenjester.com/~tsanders should work, but I can’t test that until the DNS records propagate.

Hopefully this will all go fairly smoothly.