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No, not current events, for those are unfinished and thus unreportable. I, of course, had some stuff to say that I promptly forgot, so take what you get I suppose School started in full force for me today — Daniel and Dad got back on saturday — Daniel did not, in fact, have a cavity. He has calcium deficiency on (or off) his teeth, causing the extreme pain. He's living on painkillers and brushing with special toothpaste for now.

We finally got to watching Pirates of the Carribean on Saturday night — muchos kewl, much more funny! Defiantely a very hilarious (and most clean!) movie

© 2006-2008 Stephen Paul Weber. Some Rights Reserved.

Johan of Ecmanaut has pointed out on a couple occasions that Blogger's 'default' comment permalink URL was POSTURL#cCOMMENTID. I had never found much proof of this claim, except for some default code in the blogger templates — but some of them (like the one mine is based off of) actually have the anchor that works set to the above, and the links themselves set to #COMMENID with no 'c'… confusing that.

In some recent work I did on the XOXO Blog and in the creation of the Commentosphere Userscript I found out something very disturbing — this discrepancy extends beyond the template codes! Johan's claim stems from the fact that the anchors on comment pages (those ugly things I partly avoid by my inline comments form) use the #cCOMMENTID format, and hence his commentblogging script (and my commentosphere script) both pull in this format when passing data to del.icio.us or commentosphere, respectively.

There is, however, a Blogger template tag (<$BlogCommentPermalinkURL$>) that is meant to output the entire permalink of a comment (including posturl), something I've been looking for for awhile to alleiviate the need for the ugly JavaScript hackery I have in my blog template to facilitate the same. This template tag, however, outputs using the #COMENTID format! If this isn't confusing I don't know what is — which one is standard, Blogger?

For now, I would reccomend using both. How? Change your comment anchor to read something like <a id="c<$BlogCommentNumber$>" name="<$BlogCommentNumber$>"> </a>.

© 2006-2008 Stephen Paul Weber. Some Rights Reserved.

After much trouble and headaches with the speed of the Ning backend, the Commentosphere Delicious Importer is working! Numerous recent updates and optimizations to Ning seem to have greatly increased the speed of the backend, which was what was dragging down the original. I created a test app clone of Commentosphere and successfully imported 70 comments from some test data Johan sent me awhile back to make sure that it really was working this time.

There is also now a Greasemonkey userscript for posting to Commentosphere! Based off of Johan's commentblogging userscript, it adds a link to all comment post pages on Blogger blogs that links to the Add a Comment form on Commentosphere, already filled in with the necessary information for your new comment. One thing I would like to add to the script is the ability to select parent comments from the comment page, instead of having to get that data manually if you want it. It is still recommended to run with both the userscript and the bookmarklet — for posting comments from non-Blogger blogs.

© 2006-2008 Stephen Paul Weber. Some Rights Reserved.