Okay. Guess what: I've just recovered a section of blog posts from my senior year in college. That's right. 2004. Possibly late 2003 as well. Fun fun fun! Now I can do 'four years ago today' posts! Exciting.

Also, I've been getting a bunch of spam comments lately... they are on really old entries so they're not showing up visibly, but it's still clogging up my comments listings.

I'm considering switching to a new blogging interface (I currently use Movable Type) but I'm so rusty on installing and configuring new programs that I'm scared of losing my formatting/archives. The other alternative is making my comments acceptable only from authenticated users... which means that anyone who comments needs to have a TypeKey account. It's free, but...

I guess my question to my lovely group of readers is... would you be willing to sign up for TypeKey so you can comment? Will it deter you from commenting?

Will it deter you any more than the current strange loading problems on the comments page?

Thoughts? Or... advice on how to maneuver Movable Type?