The second biggest complaint I get about this blog is that you, dear reader, cannot leave comments. I had a heated debate with a friend in irc yesterday evening about this issue. I am in favour of enabling comments, he didn't think they would add to the blog in any way, after some screaming and yelling, he donned a uni-suit and stormed off.
But more seriously, his main point was that most comments are of the type "OMG, that's so funny!! LOL.", which might be true in some cases, yet all the email I get is decidedly more interesting than omg...lol...
I suppose one could argue that enabling comments will make it easier of people to do a quick OMG..LOL but OMG..LOL is still a valid comment in some cases is it not?
The only issues I personally have with comments is that first off this blog isn't set up for them, it is written in bash and would require some server side CGI scripts or an off site comment host like Haloscan. I am not sure I want do do CGI scripts as the blog is hosted on a friends machine and I would worry that its implemented properly and safely so that the script kiddies couldn't compromise his machine. I did try Haloscan a long time ago but found it really slow and dramatically increases the page load time.
Another option is using something like wordpress, this would solve many issues but it too has serious drawbacks, PHP being one of them, and importing my archives being another. Wordpress has a third drawback and that is typing post's in that horrible little browser based form, but I guess I could still write it in emacs and paste it.
comments welcome..