I’ve done a couple of things to my blog, mostly “behind the scenes,” that I want to share with you.

My friend James Brausch has recently closed his comments on his blog. The primary and most important reason is to deal with the plethora of comment spam.

If you wanted to comment on any one of James’ posts, you’d now have to do it on your own blog by posting an article and linking back to his. Since his blog supports it, your link will automatically create a trackback on his post, which will be listed in the comments area.

But the wonderful byproduct of this is that it increases backlinks (i.e., link popularity) to his blog.

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After many months of virtual arm-twisting by my friends Armand Morin, Sherman Hu, Denis de Bernardy and others, I decided to finally dump Movable Type and go completely WordPress. Woohoo!

I love WordPress. But not just for its incredibly usable features, but also because Sylvie (my fiancée) and I have been running a battery of tests in the background with WP and the various plugins it offers.

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