As many of you know, escoles, the administrator of this site, disabled anonymous posting a couple months ago due to an onslaught of comment-spam that literally crashed the site. Only those who register as users can currently post. That has solved the spam problem. However, itâ??s been rather quiet around here since any registered users havenâ??t been writing comments to blog posts recently.

Iâ??ve been blogging over a year now, not every day, but at least on a fairly regular basis. Right now Iâ??m experiencing a busy time offline, but I still like to post when I can. I feel that even a little feedback is important to a blogger to get a feel for reader sentiment, offering similar or differing views on a given subject. I realize that many of you have no way to directly comment outside of posting as registered users. Therefore, Iâ??ve added a signature appearing at the end of my posts, which offers an e-mail address in case anyone wishes to contact me directly. (Letâ??s see if the automatic feature works. Otherwise, Iâ??ll type it manually.) I welcome comments on posts, and Iâ??ll even copy and paste the body of your e-mail message onto a blog comment for you, if you wish, with or without your preferred ID mentioned.

Now, itâ??s time to take a break. Iâ??m headed for a swim in the pool, the only outdoor activity Iâ??m interested in this evening, considering the sweltering heat outside.

UPDATE: Iâ??ve been informed by a reliable source that it is not a good idea to publish a clear-text email address on the web due to proliferation of e-mail harvester 'bots. So, until an encoded e-mail address can be used here, Iâ??ll be removing my signature at this time.