i am such a winner!
i wasn't a winner at first, because i thought that handy "who can post a comment? answer: anyone." dialogue box actually meant that anyone could comment. and then i found that blogspot was lying to me. (thanks, nori.)
so i erased all their wanky commenting code and got some from haloscan instead. which fixed the problem. which means that...
i am such a winner!
oh, and also i might have something of substance to say soon, but don't bet the farm on it.