To comment, or not to comment?

This is a ‘newbie’ blogging question. While I’ve been blogging in one form or another for years, I am still confused about commenting etiquette.

I notice that some bloggers reply directly to a comment that I’ve left them by sending me an email. Other bloggers will have a sort of message board system going, where they reply by commenting on their own post.

There are times where I’ve wanted to reply to a comment on my blog, but haven’t been able to find the commenter's email address. I’ve considered leaving a comment on their comment…. then wonder if they’ll ever see it, so what’s the point?

If you blog, how do you reply to comments on your blog?

If you leave comments, do you subscribe to or go back to blog posts to check for replies?

This is all leaving me feeling like a puppy chasing it’s tail. I think I’ll go have a cuppa.

Another day…

Even Chumby is impatient with this baby.

Staying cool

Mr RG and I have had our first real down time today. We have spent all day inside, as the second day above 40 degrees set in. I have busied myself by making spreadsheet for our home which includes jobs to do (fix the leaky laundry sink) and a wishlist (new curtains). I also went through both Gmail and my phone and checked all my contacts, then made ‘baby news’ groups ready to send to. All I need now is some news!

I’ve also sorted out our home contents insurance, which needed updating, emailed payroll to double check my leave has all been approved (bit late for that, probably), and checked my mobile phone and internet plans to see if we’re getting all that we can for our money.

Last night I stayed up late playing with the blog layout. I have new wallpaper, wiped out a lot of clutter in the widgets toolbar and categories, and at the moment I have no header. I can’t decide on what kind of header to have, so that will give me something else to do.

I tried for ages to get my blogger template to change to a three column wonder, but failed using three different internet tutorials. If anyone knows how to do this successfully please let me know! I’d like to investigate wordpress, but tried once before and ended up in a world of pain.

How nice it is to have time to even think about all these things!

Techie sadness

My laptop is on the fritz! I am quite distressed about the potential loss of photos and work, but am trying to hold it together until we can do some more investigating. Mr RG has a few ideas, he is quite clever with these things. However we may need to take it to the professionals.

For now, at least, I have Mr RG's laptop to use - even if it is running Google Chrome and doesn't have Windows Live Writer or Picasa (or the MANY other gadgets I have on my laptop).

Keep your fingers crossed for me that all will be saved!