my clever cleverness

another thing i have not mentioned about my pal mr. heart lotus, is that he loves my patented phrase, "clever cleverness."

and now without further ado i will give you the solution to this mystery ... it's complex. hold on to your hats ...

if you make a post and simply click "don't allow comments" in the post options section, then when readers see it there is no option at all to comment. readers will have nothing to click on. HOWEVER, if after you publish your post, OR you save it, and go back to edit it later, if you go into post options again there will be a shiny new option which reads "Don't allow, show existing" which will show any comments made but will not allow any new comments. this option is only available after the post has been saved or published. it is not available upon first creating the post. very curious. if this option is chosen when readers go to leave comments the following message appears:

New comments have been disabled for this post by a blog administrator.

so heart lotus, fear not! you are not being censored by the man! as i suspected, if you go into your "post options" on the bottom of the post in question, you will be able to select "allow comments" and this problem will be eradicated.

yet another mystery solved by our devoted neighborhood librarian. no need to thank me. i'll be here all week.

this is only a test

sorry guys, please don't get all excited thinking this is a real post. okay, maybe i'll chat with you a little bit. most of you don't know that i am a blogging guru to my friend heart lotus, aka the vegetarian who feeds me. not only did i convince him to start a blog as a means of recording his month long trip to northern africa, but i also give him advice as needed whenever he comes into any blogging trouble. so the entire purpose of this post is to see why mr. heart lotus is getting this message when people try to comment on his latest post:

New comments have been disabled for this post by a blog administrator.

ominous, no? is he being censored? is he oppressed? or did he just accidentally click something weird. well, i'm on the case and i won't rest until i find out!

warning .... this is only a test.

things you should not do to your expensive new laptop

turns out, you should not spill tea (even very small amounts of tea!) on your laptop. apparently, this messes them up. so poor little miss mary mac (all dressed in white, because the black ones are more expensive) is now in the shop getting a "diagnostic" done. of course, when i explained to the good people at the computer repair shop that all the keys on the right side of the keyboard stopped working, i opted not to mention the tea incident. because my laptop is still covered under warranty, but i bet they have some sort of "tea clause" for people like me.

Sorry Epiphany but your intentions are unclear.

Enter "X".