comments up and running
it took a bit of tweaking, but the comments are up and running smoothly now, all thanks to JS-Kit. i wanted to do a couple things with the commenting. first, i wanted to allow folks to post comments for the individual entries - all fine. second, i wanted to provide a counter on the home page that showed the number of comments per entry. finally, i wanted to be able to show the same count information for the archive search lists.
well...
turns out the JS-Kit call for comment count is pretty expensive. i understand that, it makes sense. and i'm ok about a couple milli-secs to get my data. but even on the home page (five calls), it was dragging the page down. i didn't even *try* doing for the search lists. if i want that kind of info, i'll need to bust out my own local comment resource and add it to the site here.
anyway, the comment system is up and it seems fine. this will get things rolling while i continue to procrastinate on adding my own comment support.