Sunday mornings are always so pleasantly quiet. If you’re driving to or from work, the roads are empty and the trip is stress-free. I haven’t looked yet to see what happened, if anything, overnight. But I did read that a total of four firefighters died in that high-rise fire in Bangladesh. They were all members of the building’s private fire brigade, not a part of the city FD that you saw standing outside spraying water into the air (HERE). I’ll check that out and report on it later this morning.
This would be a good time for my periodic reminder about Comments that are sometimes delayed in being posted. We are getting new readers all the time, so I like to explain what happens when you post a Comment to one of the articles.
We have an “open comment” policy here that allows anybody to leave one without having to register first. It’s worked out fine so far, and as long as you follow the guidelines that we’ve posted, everything goes well. We have a fine group of serious readers and everyone behaves themselves. But still we have to contend with that horrid spam stuff. Like most websites, we are innundated daily with literally hundreds of spamming messages aimed at our Comments board.
In order to keep them out we have two spam filters along with a couple of internal controls in our publishing program that together make it possible to maintain the open comments feature. But one of the controls has to do with links embedded in the comments themselves. If you have two or more links added within your comment, the filter will set it aside and wait for us to “approve” it before it shows up in the posting. Every once in a while the filter will grab one that has only one link in it, so it may be delayed also.
And that is why sometimes your comment will not show up for a couple of hours, so don’t worry about it. We scan the incoming several times a day to watch for that. But before you write your next one, let’s get this equipment checked out. I’ll see how Cook’s coming along with Sunday breakfast and then start a fresh pot of coffee.
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