Our band of merry bloggers increases again! As of today, you won’t have to put up with just Scott, Gene and I, but Kate will have good things to say as well. 
Welcome, Kate (who is getting used to my sense of ‘humour’). I shall leave it to her to introduce herself further………
Welcome on board, Kate.
I would like to offer one small (hopefully helpful) suggestion to the moderators. It would be useful if there was a link to basic html (or xhtml) commands that commenters can use on this site, such as block quotes, bold, italics, etc.
Apart from that, keep up the excellent work.
Welcome, Kate. We all look forward to putting up with you!
I wouldn’t put humour in quotes, Peter. The power of understatement is generally understated, after all…..
Welcome aboard, now which post did I answer last?
Warren check:
http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/06/08/allowed-html-tags/
remember the thingies around the commands and to turn them off. (and I know as soon as I post this the system will delete the pointy thingies.) Suggestion keep it simple till you get a grip on what they do. What you mentioned should be sufficient, for now…
PW, thank you for the helpful suggestion. I personally know enough about html to be dangerous (I moderate a forum at work and do basic maintenance on a couple of web pages), but I was thinking of the many visitors here who may have never even heard of html. Perhaps the link you provided could be added to this blog site?