As you probably know already (if you have read any of the posted comments in the last couple of months), the company that provides my comment box (JS-kit) is changing its business strategy and will be discontinuing this feature effective October 1, 2012 (about a week from now). I don't know what will happen at that time.
Obviously I haven't been posting lately (lacking both time and inspiration), so I have not even decided about what to do with this whole blog. I have toyed with the idea of deleting it entirely. Or, if I decide to keep it going, there may be a template change or two coming (the comment feature is embedded in the HTML code of the template) as I attempt to delete the old JS-kit/Echo/Haloscan comment feature from my current template and install a new comment widget (either using one from Blogger or obtaining one from another third-party source). I may have to dump my old template entirely and adopt a new one (that I may modify again over time). That's the part that I'm most unsure about.
As for all the comments currently posted that have accumulated over the years, they may all be deleted during the change-over process, or there is a possibility that they may be saved into the new system. I'm not sure what will happen. Of course I'd like to keep them all (many of them are quite interesting), but they may simply get lost in the process, and I am very sorry about that! I'm doing what I can, but I have forgotten nearly all of what little I ever knew about blogging and HTML code (template design/modification, etc.) because I haven't been using it of late. There is so much that I don't understand!
At present I am feverishly attempting to save (via copy&paste method) the entire blog, including all the comments, to Word.doc format so at least I will have a permanent archive of my own to keep. (Who knows, I may even publish an edited version sometime in the distant future in some format or other, either printed or electronic. Stranger things have happened!)
So I guess I'll see you in the future ....
