Sigh.
I am now outvoted (by a 2/3 majority no less!) in support for comments for mod_blog [1]!
This came about because someone else is now using my software! First it was Mark [2] and now it's Gregory (he hasn't finished his templates yet else I would link to his new journal). And now that the majority have spoken, I have responded. I spent a few hours today adding enough support to mod_blog to support comments from an external source (say, Haloscan [3], or an external CGI (Common Gateway Interface) program like the one Spring hacked up [4]). I need to document this and get the code on the server, but it does work on the test blog I have.
Next up is to support a simple comment system natively in mod_blog; it's not what I originally wanted to support, but I had yet to actually figure out how to support what I originally wanted (each comment getting its own URL (Uniform Resource Locator) and the ability to select comments like you can select entries [5] in mod_blog) but it is a start.
[1] https://boston.conman.org/about/
[4] http://www.springdew.com/mimosa/m56.htm