I decided to give a try to this SezWho thing, Entrecard’s latest innovation. After registering, I duly went to the download page only to find a few plug-ins, naturally for the popular blogging scripts only. Probably being the only person using an obscure yet simple script, I decided to download the developer’s edition, hoping I could manage to make it work by editing a few files (One thing Slackware teaches you is you learn to edit all sorts of configuration files without being a programmer. I even managed to configure a working sendmail once, go figure. That incident did not repeat, though).

I skimmed through the code for a few hours with a 100% Zen attitude (vodka-martini also helped). Apparently comments had to be stored in database tables (my understanding, I could be wrong) and my script was just appending them to the post in pure text. Now that I knew the problem, I could solve it, could I not? There was a minor glitch, though: not only I did not write a single line of code in my life including the notorious Hello World!, I had zero knowledge of MySql. The solution? Easy! I immediately downloaded one of Juliet’s (in order not to offend anyone) Teach Yourself MySql in 10 Minutes type of books, the dummy’s edition.

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