For years I've been using a program called Haloscan for comments on Another Portland Blog. A few weeks ago, it was taken over by a pay service called Echo. Wondering why there haven't been that many posts on the blog over the past few weeks? It's because every time I sit down to write I've found myself trying another system.

So after several evenings of fighting with software, I've decided to shell out a few bucks every year to stick with Echo. This will allow all of the archived comments that have been published on the blog over the years to stay put and will hopefully prevent headaches down the road. Only time will tell...