Broken Comments on Blogger blogs

I have finally figured out why I could not post comments on my own blogs.  Bloody Abine/TACO add-in for FireFox was blocking third party cookies on this site.  Unblocking them turned out to be .... complicated due to the totally crap interface in the add-in... but it seems to be working now. 
Finally I can post all those insightful responses to the few people who have considered my rants provocative enough to comment upon... or spam... depends on your point of view...

Blog Spawn

I have decided that rather than trying to manage one blog using tags to sort the posts, its easier to enforce some physical separation and maintain three blogs. (Cause complexity is soooo much better....)  So with that in mind I've created two new blogs, one for all the noise on my work software and one specifically for PointLightLab.  While I like tags and the ability to sort and group, the tools for their use on the blogger platform are not as rich as they need to be...
Anyway we'll see how this plan works out...

Syntax Highlighting in Blogger

http://www.craftyfella.com/2010/01/syntax-highlighting-with-blogger-engine.html

I found this setup quite useful for formatting code snippits in blog posts.  I use the <pre>
tags wrapped around the raw text of the code. (Not sure what the guy is talking about using the <script> tags... as that seems broken) You may also need this tool http://www.opinionatedgeek.com/dotnet/tools/htmlencode/encode.aspx to deal with any angle brakets (such as inline xml....)