Thoughts on comments

1) Please do not post any personal information that does not belong to you in a comment. Someone posted my birth date in a comment recently, and I sincerely prefer to keep such things private on a blog that is publicly accessible. Unfortunately there is no way for me to edit the comment and remove my birth date, so I have deleted it. I apologize to the author and hope that they repost their comment without my birth date in it.

2) Please sign your comments. You are welcome to use initials or a nickname or your location or whatever you think of, but I like to know who is actually writing the comment. Some of the time I can figure it out, but often I can't.