because not enough websites start with the letter “Z”
Posted in life, nerdliness on Apr 21st, 2008
Zanshin.net is just a speck of lint under a finger nail on the long arm of the Internet. As a weblog it gets few visitors, and even fewer comments. While the domain has existed for over 11 years now, the site has been formatted as a blog only since December 1999. I have no accurate, [...]
Posted in nerdliness on Feb 5th, 2008
There seem to be two schools of thought regarding comments on personal blogs. Prominent sites like Daring Fireball don’t allow comments, and moreover, explain why. Other equally prominent sites have huge comment threads on nearly every post published.
Zanshin.net is by no means prominent. After nearly eight years of having a blog I [...]
Posted in nerdliness on Jan 30th, 2008
It turns out it is possible to configure Wordpress to make leaving comments almost impossible. Without realizing it, I had done just that here at zanshin.net. The configuration has been updated, so any one should now be able to leave a comment or three, if they so choose.
General Options: Membership
On the Options page, [...]
Posted in nerdliness on May 13th, 2006
After nearly six years of having a blog, and close to 900 entries, the one thing I don’t have is many comments. There have been twenty-nine comments total, to be exact, barely three percent in ratio to the postings. I don’t really write here for the comments, and I suppose that most of my postings [...]
