Last night, I thought I would switch my commenting over to HaloScan. When I saw that they had a tool to automatically install on Blogger powered Blogs I ASSumed that they would migrate my existing comments as well. It didn’t . It also put trackback on. I decided that is was unlikely I would ever get trackbacked and it looked cluttered, so I ran the tool again this time with track back unchecked. It installed the code again but did not remove the old code. It also put extra spaces between all the lines of code. So by the time I ran it again, you know to see if it would work better this time. I couldn’t even look at my code because there was only about 2 lines visible on the page at a time. I went through and deleted the empty spaces and removed the HaloScan code, all of it, and republished. To my horror, my template was broken. It wasn’t picking up the blog data. It looked something like this:

[meta blog]
[blog title]
[blog post]

Not cool. A few hours later, I had it back to exactly how it was before I started messing with it.
Hey, I’m not too bright sometimes.

So, I’m not impressed with HaloScan for comments, but I want something besides blogger comments. I can’t stand it that you have comment anonymously if you don’t have a blogger account. If anyone has a suggestion let me know.

On the Linux front, I’ve pretty much decided on slackware but I’m going to have to look at gentoo before I make a final decision.