I tried to reinstall this here blog due to malefactors and also sadness. My export omitted everything from October 2009 until now. It’s all in my old database, yo, but I’m an idiot, so who knows when the last two years will be restored?

The inaugural address will be liveblogged in this space.

Temporary non-boring header courtesy of Ben Domenech. Probably a little too cute for me.

You might notice I’ve been making some long-needed changes. I’m not done customizing the template, which will probably include adding some color, and so I don’t think it will look so NYTimesy — unless you like that. So please tell me what you think. I’m open to recommendations. Sadly, I don’t think I have permission to use the nice picture of me that’s in the sidebar, but the guy who took it for Forbes lives just up the street and says he’ll give me an Kerry a good deal, and so whatever much more hideous thing I put up in the meantime shouldn’t have to last long. You’ll notice there are now tabs with links to my Marketplace commentaries and Bloggingheads appearances, as well as a Media tab that will have links to other stuff, like podcasts and public events for which there’s audio and or video. O’ vanity!

Say… the file for my RSS feed seems to have disappeared. How do I fix this?

[Update: Fixed. Thanks! Blogging to resume shortly.]

For an ideological capitalist, I’m not extremely enterprising. But that’s about to change, my friends! A little. I’m going to try to hawk a few more books directly in blog posts. I may put in Google ads or Blogads somewhere in the sidebar. I will almost never insert an ugly ad like the one below (which is included as a joke, unless I make money off it!). If this commercial activity is distracting and annoying to you, just let me know. It really is about you, dear reader! But I realize that I get enough traffic to pay for a few book, beers, or lunches here and there, and I guess I shouldn’t leave money laying on the sidewalk if I can help it, since its not like I’m just swimming in money. Yet!

Please bear with me while I get this thing looking right. . .

Because MT 2.3 has considerably better spam controls, I thought I’d experiment in removing the registration barrier for comments.

The new version has a "folder" for comment and trackback spam, and I’m absolutely amazed by the quantity of it. I appear to be getting about one spam comment a minute, but so far, the levee is holding. So we’ll see how it goes.

I’ve been getting drowned in comment spam. So, until I get a better spam solution, I’ve disabled comments for unregistered folk. For the time being, you’ll need to login with TypeKey. (Go here to register, if you haven’t. It’s free). I like to keep my comments as open as possible, so sorry about this. But TypeKey is pretty easy.

I’ve blogged again on the Are libertarians liberal? question over at Crescat. So, there.

I am guest-blogging over at Crescat Sententia this week. When I post novel content to Crescat, I will notify you in this space. I will count notifications as applying toward the Super November quota because you may, after all, follow the link and read what I have written over there.

I believe I fixed the comments glitch. Somehow I had told MT-Blacklist to force into moderation any comment that included the string “tp:”, and that would be basically everything.

Will somebody please try commenting below to make sure it’s working?

I’ve updated the blog to MT 3.1 and installed MT-Blacklist to rid myself of comment and trackback spam. It seems to be working. Good.

Also, you’ll notice that I’m trying out Google ads. They’re over there on the right. You’ll notice that Google has yet to really parse what this blog is about. Dianetics!? But I certainly won’t mind if you click on an ad or two when you come visit, which gives me a few cents. I could conceivably make up to $2.00 a month!

You may have also noticed that I’ve freshened up the Amazon book ads over on the left. If you’re interested in reading what I’m reading, click through, buy a book!

That is all.