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TrackBack Installed

I installed TrackBack functionality today - maybe I'm overly optimistic if I think it's actually going to get linked to, but it's a cool idea.

TrackBack allows other weblogs to write about something that I wrote about and link their comment to mine by "pinging" the relevant article. Then, by clicking on the "trackback" link just under the article introduction, you can see everyone who pinged this article, and all the people I pinged when I wrote it.

For example - this article should be linked to the TrackBack discussion on the MovableType webpage.

Of course I could have just removed this page and replaced all my code with the (undoubtedly superior) code from MovableType, but enough work went into this that I'm unwilling to let it go (sunk costs, I know, but I'm only human) and I like the fact that I understand exactly how everything here works, so I'm going to hang on to it for now.

MovableType's webpage is here