Today I spent a large part of the day working on the blog. So it now does less than yesterday.

I thought I'd start by adding a plugin to allow people to comment using openid (which includes LJ ids). There are three of them. One is v0.1 beta and doesn't work. Another one is a fairly high version number and it did. Except that I'd seen another one in operation elsewhere and I liked it better.

The last one didn't work for a long time no matter what I did. Eventually (and I do mean eventually) I had no choice but to go back to the one that worked. Except that now it didn't. And then I had a mess of the template, which I eventually discovered was caused by the plugin that allows you to subscribe to comments.

It's just as well it's that well, though, because I discovered yesterday that all it's done is pick up spam subscriptions, so I was wondering whether to get rid of it.

I have, though, added my most recent books at LibraryThing down the left, and my most recent photos from flickr beneath it.

So now, I just have to decide what other plugins I want and then spend hours wrestling with them to get them to work. The crazy part is, I think this is quite fun...

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