August 13, 2008 9:33 AM
Your Two Yuan (About $.29)
If you've been a semi-frequent reader of the blog, you've probably noticed one unusual thing: in the six weeks we've been at it here on the blog, despite a collective effort of nearly 150 entries, we'd yet to receive a single comment. Which, for a blog of this size and -- dare I say -- magnitude has to be some sort of blogging world record.
But thanks to the tireless work of a few faithful blog readers, we discovered that people were trying to comment, but our computers -- which, naturally, were built in China -- apparently didn't want to receive them.
So the Rocky's staff went into our wayback machine (secret access key: an ink-stained thumbprint) and found the glitch: the blog was inadvertently set to "receive trusted comments only."
Which meant none of you.
Basically, the commenting section here was accidentally set to "Revoke Joey Cheek's visa" for no apparent reason. Our sincerest apologies for this.
But on this glorious Wednesday in Beijing, the smog is thick and the commenting is open and free. With registration first, of course. (We'll keep your information stateside, though. I think.)
Enjoy.
August 13, 2008
2:37 PM
Flip Washington writes:
It might be too late for some . . . the frustration of trying to use the comment section was so extreme that people freaked and started tearing their hair out. It's hard to come back after something like that. I'm here though . . . with a couple of bald spots.