Convinced that maybe Access just plain isn’t going to support 18 digit blogid’s, I did try a couple of new commenting systems with the new blogger version while I ate my lunch. CGIcomments completely didn’t work. Again, probably it’s handling the blog_id as a number and choking on 18 digits. xcomments worked, sort of. I…
I had a sudden thought this morning in the shower about the comments. The sudden realization that I had put the link to the comments BlogItemNumber in quotes so it would look for a string instead of a number but I hadn’t put the quotes around the second part of the comments code where that…
See Andy’s post here. More details on aspcomments handling of 18 digit blog id’s. I’m going to be messing with the comments for a few, switching the field to text from long integer, you might not want to leave any comments for the moment. 🙂 Update 1: Andy’s permalinks don’t seem to be working, look…
I forgot to mention the other omen that this is going to be a real good week. Later yesterday, after I posted that stuff, I discovered that someone had thrown a rock and broken one of the windows on the second floor of our office building. The window is in an empty office so no…
Oh it’s going to be a good week, I can tell. How? Here’s the omens: I was greeted by a fellow employee’s questions about his home computer first thing this morning. Really, FIRST thing. Before I had even gotten to my office, let alone turned on my computer. Literally while I was walking down the…
See Phil’s post here. If you use comments in Blogger that incorporate javascript, you might want to be aware of this little change that needs to be made to your commenting system when your blog gets switched over to the new version of blogger. I did it with my copy of aspcomments on this blog…