This whole new Movable Type 4 kinckers drawer (ahem… back end) that I’m using to manage this site these days has introduced a whole new business end as far as comments are concerned…  Here’s a little tutorial in case you’ve been a bit stuck on how to do it!!

You can use the ‘sign in’ option.   For the first time you’ll have to select the ‘sign up’ option and put in all your details and basically sign in to be a member on this site.  I’ll approve you as a commenter and next time you come back it should remember you and you won’t need to put details in in future!

If you don’t wish to sign up to this site then you can sign in anonymously, by which you do your usual name, email, and site info, click remember me and comment as you’ve always done…

The other business of OpenID and so on is a bit of a mystery to me… I’ll figure that out in due course and let you know how it works…

Oh, and if when you’ve signed in to comments and you’re good to go and you want your own little photo/avatar to show up next to your comments you need to go to http://en.gravatar.com/ with your pic in your hand and sign up for your globally recognized avatar… THEN… whenever you sign in with the email address you used to sign up to gravatar it will appear in the comments here (or any other gravatar enabled site)… (oh, and if you have a gravatar that isn’t showing up you might want to check which email address you’re using to sign in here…).

So, there you go… Singular Scene Commenting 101! Now that you know how… why not show me some comment love!!!

Well, this flying visit to NZ has been everything I could have hoped for.  Great friends, the odd spot of decent wine, all my favourite nieces and nephews and sibs and all and a whole bunch of friends.  Oh and fabulous presents!!!  I’ll blog with photos when I get home tomorrow evening, in the mean time I’m savouring every last second with my family …  Thanks for all the fabulous birthday wishes on facebook and phone… I’m feeling the love. Thanks!

I’m tip toeing round a big ‘Wheeeeeeee!’ because the changes you’re seeing right about now in this here humble blog are due to my step up to MT4(Movable Type).  And my tiptoeing is because my pain free install has not been shared by ‘our Fi’ over at Kiwifruit.… waaaaaaah.  I know when hers is good and going we’ll both be extolling its virtues… so send lots of positive vibes Fi’s way so that she’s back in top form in very short order!!

Do you like the new me?  In truth the latest incarnation of me probably ought to be more sophisitcated given my maturing years ,but this little lady was just too ‘me’ to leave langushing in my files… the Mac, the sofa, the brunette… sadly the diminutive stature isn’t quite ‘true to form’, ah well, you can’t have it all… I wish I could say I drew her but I suck at drawing and I’d bought her at istock to use in my birthday party invitations… I found something else that suited those better but I couldn’t bear not to use this illo somewhere else… here seemed a fitting place…

There are a few changes that will creep in in the next few days… I’ve got to get my flickr button back in, among other things… but for now relax, enjoy the new atmosphere at SS.  And let me know if having the comments links at the top of the entry is a pain in the proverbial… I’ll move those entry details if they’re inconveniently placed to the general consensus…

 

I’m chuckling.
It has been since long before my trip away that I had seen any comments from my usual contributors so I was thinking this travel blogging was letting the side down and causing a revolt… seemed like the usual contingent was staying away in droves!!!
Now it’s no secret that I’m pretty useless at interpreting Movable Type’s comment/spam mechanism. I can never find the happy medium between moderating everything or allowing everything… So all the commenty goodness that showed up today was because all you lovely commenters have been hiding in my junk folder.
It’s fortuitous that Antipo has such a distinctive signature else I may well have absently deleted the lot… which would have been a scandal…
Needless to say I’m delighted you are all still reading… and commenting…
And tomorrow we shall return to our regularly scheduled travelogue… though I should point out that I’m off to pastures green on Friday with a visit to the bosom of my family (that was for you Antipo) and as such normal transmission may be a little interrupted…