If you do find any bugs with the comments or other bugs on the site, please let me know by posting here. Right now, the only known bug is that my search results come back with a dark (hard-to-read) format. This will be fixed shortly.
Another test - a friend just emailed me that he got an old error message that he should not be receiving.
testing a comment with no email
My last post was under the name "no email test since Drew reported that he needed to input an email address to post.
It let me post without an email address, but also used "Don Quixote" which I did not enter this time.
I'm trying it again, this time under the name of "Interesting result" - again with no email address nor website.
This time I'm trying from my Opera web browser - there should be no cookie to confound things.
With this attempt, my comment was not accepted until I used a bogus email address.
You wanted tests... it took me a couple of minutes to figure out how to add a comment. Call a Comment button a Comment button, I say! By Jove! But I digress. Here's something that's been on my mind today. Just as Brits don't understand Japanese etiquette, I don't think Americans grasp British satire. When we criticise a leader (often done in satire) it's a form of feedback to them. This is understood by both leader and electorate, and sometimes it manages to humble a wayward leader when (s)he goes too far. Whereas in the USA, the President seems to be regarded as a personification of America rather than a fallible human. You're either with him (ie America) or against him. This is ripe ground for misunderstandings and heated collars.
Anyhow, this site seems to work Quixote, even in Mozilla. I won't use a real email address as I'm still getting spam from the last time I posted a real one here 1-2 years ago (obviously harvested by a spambot)...
John Cleese once said that British humor involved making fun of someone else while American humor involved making fun of yourself.
All,
Thanks for the testing.
Paul,
You were the second person this week to have trouble figuring out how to leave comments. I think this clearly shows that the blogger practice of giving comments clever names is not intuitive to visitors. I've now added "comments" after Windmill Tilts to make this easier for visitors. Thank you.
I'm surprised by the spam comment. My software (MT) is suppose to prevent this. Are you sure the spam came from this vs. another option?
If this works, my email fix is now working. Commenters do not need to input an email address to leave comments.
This comment is only a test. Had this been a real comment there would have been a comment here.
This concludes the Comment Test