Say… the file for my RSS feed seems to have disappeared. How do I fix this?

[Update: Fixed. Thanks! Blogging to resume shortly.]

Just a note to Fly Bottle readers who do not also read my Happiness and Public Policy blog… In an attempt to promote my coming-in-April Cato happiness paper, I’m revamping the happiness blog, and have resolved to post there at least once a day from now through a month after the release of the paper (in hopes of following up on any Internet discussion it may provoke [some, I hope!]). I don’t want to duplicate all my happiness posts here, or note them every time I write one, so I’ve installed a little sidebar widget that shows new entries on the happiness blog, as you can see to your right.

I have also resolved to post more here as well, on generally non-happiness stuff, though probably not once a day. So let’s see how that goes.

For an ideological capitalist, I’m not extremely enterprising. But that’s about to change, my friends! A little. I’m going to try to hawk a few more books directly in blog posts. I may put in Google ads or Blogads somewhere in the sidebar. I will almost never insert an ugly ad like the one below (which is included as a joke, unless I make money off it!). If this commercial activity is distracting and annoying to you, just let me know. It really is about you, dear reader! But I realize that I get enough traffic to pay for a few book, beers, or lunches here and there, and I guess I shouldn’t leave money laying on the sidewalk if I can help it, since its not like I’m just swimming in money. Yet!

Please bear with me while I get this thing looking right. . .

Because MT 2.3 has considerably better spam controls, I thought I’d experiment in removing the registration barrier for comments.

The new version has a "folder" for comment and trackback spam, and I’m absolutely amazed by the quantity of it. I appear to be getting about one spam comment a minute, but so far, the levee is holding. So we’ll see how it goes.

I’ve been getting drowned in comment spam. So, until I get a better spam solution, I’ve disabled comments for unregistered folk. For the time being, you’ll need to login with TypeKey. (Go here to register, if you haven’t. It’s free). I like to keep my comments as open as possible, so sorry about this. But TypeKey is pretty easy.

I’ve blogged again on the Are libertarians liberal? question over at Crescat. So, there.

I am guest-blogging over at Crescat Sententia this week. When I post novel content to Crescat, I will notify you in this space. I will count notifications as applying toward the Super November quota because you may, after all, follow the link and read what I have written over there.

I believe I fixed the comments glitch. Somehow I had told MT-Blacklist to force into moderation any comment that included the string “tp:”, and that would be basically everything.

Will somebody please try commenting below to make sure it’s working?

I’ve updated the blog to MT 3.1 and installed MT-Blacklist to rid myself of comment and trackback spam. It seems to be working. Good.

Also, you’ll notice that I’m trying out Google ads. They’re over there on the right. You’ll notice that Google has yet to really parse what this blog is about. Dianetics!? But I certainly won’t mind if you click on an ad or two when you come visit, which gives me a few cents. I could conceivably make up to $2.00 a month!

You may have also noticed that I’ve freshened up the Amazon book ads over on the left. If you’re interested in reading what I’m reading, click through, buy a book!

That is all.