Michael J here: Minor comment: Can you change the background color so it's not black? It looks good, but is hard to read. I'm not sure if you can use another comment system with Blogger. An upgrade would be to use the basic TypePad? account (http://www.typepad.com) which is $5 a month and is a very good service. Not free, however.
Yummy! I like the right-aligned blogroll too.
blogrolling and comments
you can use comments at http://www.haloscan.com. also a case of generating the text and pasting it into the code of your template page. the comments code goes WITHIN the bounds of the code for the individual posts. otherwise, it same as what you've already done to add the blogrolling.com roll to your sidebar.
once you do that, or alter the template in any customizing way, you'll lose those customizations if you choose another template from the blogger.com selections offered. i keep a backup copy of my template code on my hard drive locally.
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